In recent years, due to the UK's BNO policy against Hong Kong people, many Hong Kong people have become keen on immigration to the UK.
Because according to this policy, as long as you stay in the UK for 6 years, you can officially obtain British nationality and become a British person. For this goal, I don’t care even if I endure some hardships in the previous few years.
Some Hong Kong people go to the UK to change their working environment and reduce work pressure. After all, they always feel that working abroad will be much less stressful than in China.
Some people choose to immigrate in order to provide their children with a better educational environment.
Will you really be as good as they think after immigrating to the UK? Let’s take a look at the experience of Jeffery Koo’s family of four after immigrating to the UK, and may give us different answers.
1. Famous desserts immigrants for life
In Hong Kong, most people who like to eat chocolate . Most of the people who have heard of the name Jeffery Koo (Xiao Gu).
Xiao Gu once worked at Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Hong Kong. He is a disciple of the famous French dessert master Yves Matthay. He also went to France to learn from famous chef Pierre Gargnaire.
After some study, Xiao Gu has excellent dessert making skills, especially at the art of chocolate dessert shaping. He has won many international dessert competition awards and has conducted dessert production demonstrations around the world.
When she was in Hong Kong, Xiao Gu also hosted related TV programs.
In his hands, ordinary cakes have also become exquisite crafts. Some Hong Kong celebrities will ask him to make some distinctive memorial desserts on some special programs or anniversary and celebrations.
Xiao Gu opened his own store in Tsim Sha Tsui called " Patisserie Jeffery Koo". He became the boss, hired employees, founded his own dessert brand, and made a great reputation in the Hong Kong dessert industry.
In the eyes of many people, Xiao Gu is considered a successful person.
Not only has a successful career, but also has a virtuous wife, beautiful daughter and lovely son. Because he has done a good career, he can provide a relatively affordable living environment for his wife and children in Hong Kong.
But as we often say, successful people often have their own hardships behind them.
For Xiao Gu, this career brought him a lot of income, but also brought him great work pressure. In his own words, it is "living in the tunnel every day and cannot be withdrawn."
In addition, Xiao Gu felt that the two children were under great pressure to study in Hong Kong, which made the child breathless.
Based on the above two considerations, coupled with the BNO immigration policy implemented by the UK, Xiao Gu resolutely decided to immigrate to the UK with his family.
Before going to the UK, He felt that after he arrived in the UK, his work pressure would not be so great; his children would also become easier to study.
But is the fact really what he thought?
2. Hard life after arriving in the UK
At the end of 2021, Xiao Gu and his family came to the UK Manchester life.
As an adult, the first thing he faces when he lives in a foreign country is naturally to make money to support his family.
In fact, with Xiao Gu's reputation, it is not difficult for him to find a dessert abroad to work as a division. Many dessert-related companies in many countries have given him an offer, but due to the influence of Y love, these jobs are full of variables, so he finally chose to come to the UK.
He was used to starting a business by himself in Hong Kong and did not want to work for others anymore. So after coming to the UK, he also decided to return to his old business and opened a dessert shop called "A Little Sweet".
From Hong Kong to the UK, the brand new living environment, no matter who you are, requires a certain amount of adaptation time, and the same is true for Xiao Gu.
He felt that he felt like "escape" when he just arrived in the UK, because it takes a lot of tools to make desserts, but because it is impossible for immigrants to carry too many things, many hand-held tools that have been used for many years can only give up. The store of
has been opened, because it takes a lot of money to immigrate to re-live. Although Xiao Gu’s income in Hong Kong is good, he has a lot of expenses to come to the UK and has to start calculating his life carefully.
You can hire employees to work in Hong Kong. It costs too much to hire an employee after arriving in the UK, so Xiaogu chose to give up hiring employees. The four of them all started to be busy with this small shop.
In China, the youngest son just needs to stay at home and study hard. When he came to the UK, he also started to go to the store to help his father with his work and learned to make simple desserts.
while his daughter mainly learns to make drinks.
Before coming to the UK, Xiao Gu felt that the work pressure would be much easier than that in Hong Kong, but in fact, the family of four was busy making a living in a small shop. He began to feel that the pressure of working in the UK was not much smaller than that in Hong Kong, and even more so.
In addition to the changes in the living environment, the work rhythm has not changed at all. The easy work I once thought about can only stay in the fantasy stage.
Xiaogu's dessert shop is opened, which allows many Hong Kong people to eat pineapple bread , egg japonica , butterfly crisp and other hometown flavors, which really makes Hong Kong people in the UK very happy.
But after all, it is in the UK, so there are naturally much more British people than Hong Kong people. If the store only does business for Hong Kong people, the scope is too small and not enough to support the operation of the store.
In terms of taste, Hong Kong people like to eat desserts with less sugar, while British people like to have a heavier taste. This requires Xiao Gu to adjust it according to some situations to meet the needs of different people.
In order to increase income, Xiaogu’s dessert shop also matches some Chinese food, using a variety of varieties to achieve the purpose of increasing income.
has a certain popularity in Hong Kong, and everything has to start over when you arrive in the UK.
This is undoubtedly a brand new challenge for Xiao Gu.
Once he described his work in Hong Kong as if it was in a tunnel, very depressing, but now he feels that he is still in the tunnel.
However, with Xiao Gu's efforts, the store business gradually improved and he also had some loyal customers. He felt that light began to appear in the distance of the tunnel at this time.
3. Start working hard again with your own abilities
In May 2022, in order to expand his popularity in the UK and strive for a better future in a foreign country, Xiao Gu signed up to participate in the largest baking competition in the UK, The Great British Bake Off, and successfully ranked with his outstanding skills.
In the first game, I had to use chocolate to prepare a platform within 150 minutes. The designated taxi beer dessert for 24 years was very tight. Fortunately, Xiaogu completed it successfully with his ability and was promoted to the second game.
The content of the second game is similar to the first game. I made 24 tower cakes and desserts I designed. Xiao Gu made a chocolate teapot. Not only did it look like a real teapot, but it could really pour tea out of it, which amazed the judges and successfully advanced.
The third game was to make a sports-themed game within 3.5 hours, using 240 pills of puff to make a candy-pulling platform, and add 24 desserts.
Xiaogu was inspired by the Olympic gold medal in Hong Kong fujian and made a 1.5-meter-high candy platform with chocolate decoration, which once again won unanimous praise from the judges.
The fourth game will be based on historical figures as the theme. Xiao Gudu is ready to participate in the competition with Guan Gong as the prototype, , but unexpectedly unexpectedly comes.
His son was diagnosed, and Xiao Gu, who was taking care of his son, was naturally infected. For safety reasons, the organizer had to let Xiao Gu withdraw from the competition and invited him to participate in next year's competition.
Xiao Gu, who had already made full preparations for the finals, had to accept this reality and withdrew from the competition. Although there were regrets, it also gave him a certain popularity in the British dessert industry.
And my children who are pampered abroad also experience the hard work of making money by helping their father run a store, and can understand the difficulty of their parents and become more sensible. This may be another gain.
Review of life in the UK, Xiao Gu sighed that life is not easy anywhere.
If you want to live in the UK, you must be mentally prepared to endure hardships , because UK is not the dream paradise you imagine. Don’t think that you will be able to live a comfortable life when you come to the UK.
But as long as you are not afraid of hard work and are willing to work hard, your future will naturally be bright.
4. Insight
Xiao Gu can be said to be an elite in the industry. With his own ability, he found a development path suitable for him in the UK, but this path is obviously very difficult to walk.
We should also note that Xiao Gu himself has a superb craft, and how much learning, hard work and dedication are behind this craft.
It is this craft that allows him to find a career path that suits him quickly in the UK than most.
It can be said that he is lucky, but such a lucky person is still under a lot of pressure in his work in the UK. It is not as many people imagine. Going abroad is like going to heaven. You can eat the pie that falls from the sky by lying down.
Once I saw a documentary of Singapore describes the experience of another family in Hong Kong to the UK. His wife is a teacher in Hong Kong, with a monthly salary of 40,000 yuan, and her husband is a bus driver with a monthly salary of 30,000 yuan. After the two immigrated to the UK with their children, they could not find a job.
My wife went to the factory to work and became an assembly line worker. Her husband could only occasionally help people deliver takeout to make some money.
In half a year, all the savings of the couple were almost spent. The pressure of life made them breathless, and even had problems with their relationship.
There is also a 47-year-old Hong Kong male teacher who immigrated to the UK with his wife who was about to be born. He could not find a teacher job and had to work on the construction site and started to learn carpenter skills again.
Life abroad is not as beautiful as many people think. Maybe it takes more effort than domestic to take root.
But we should also pay attention to one thing. No matter when, we should have a specialty, which is the foundation for us to gain a foothold no matter where we go.
has never been recommended for young people to do the most ordinary front desk reception or administrative clerk job after graduation, because there is not much difference between doing such a job for 1 year and doing 5 years, and your own abilities will not increase too much, which will erode people's will.
It is better to learn a real craft and master a key technology, so that your ability will grow in proportion with time, and it is also the foundation for your foothold.
