Moving to London can be challenging

I moved to London last October with the objective of staying here for a couple of years to study and work. [Hay! Welcome!]

Before this time, I came to London once as a tourist and stayed for 5 days and [or "but"] the experience now is totally different. It is interesting because at that time it was cold and raining every day just like it is now (LOL - well, compared to Brazil, maybe but it has been a mild winter and it is quite warm and even occasionally sunny), but I believe that when you get to a place for the first time, with a different culture and just for leisure [or "and no need to work"] it seems the cold and rain does not have the same effect as it does now, living here, even for just a few months.

Besides the weather conditions, that I do not like much, I also think it is really challenging to deal with personal finance, because the cost of living is so high.

Despite all these negative things, I am enjoying the experience here with my wife and I hope that really soon I will feel more at home.

As an immigrant I wonder how long does it take [or "I wonder how long it takes"] to feel at home, or even if that feeling will ever come.

Cheers!

Well done! Living here has obviously done wonders for your language skills. I definitely agree with you about the price of property in the capital. It is a serious issue for the mayoral election in a few weeks. If you had chosen a smaller town it would have been a lot cheaper, but I can't imagine living anywhere but here now. You'll start to feel more at home after a while. London is a very cosmopolitan, ethnically diverse city now, with people from all over the world (in my case, only from the North of England!), so in a sense, there are a lot of us who feel like visitors, but after a while, that shared sense brings us all together. 

Parabéns! Claro que vivendo aqui melhorou as tuas habilidades em inglês. Com certeza, concordei contigo sobre os preços de imóveis no capital. É um problema serio para o eleição do prefeito do Londres em poucas semanas. Se tivesses escolhido uma cidade mais pequena, estaria mais barato, mas já não posso imaginar viver em qualquer outro lugar. Vai se sentir mais em casa depois dum tempo. Londres é uma cidade mais cosmopolita e muito etnicamente diverso agora, com gentes de tudo o mundo (no meu caso, apenas do norte da Inglaterra!) e por isso, em muitos maneiras, há muitos de nós que sintamo-nos estrangeiros, mas depois do tempo, este sentimento comum nos une a todos.