Moving Overseas...?

thethinker42 · Mar 21, 2007

If you got a bug up your ass and decided to move overseas, where would you go? What would you do? Or did you/have you?

I'm having a particularly bad "I hate living in Virginia" day, and was browsing some expat websites that I stumbled across. If I were to move overseas, I don't think I'd even know where to start...LOL

Anyway, just curious.

If you had the opportunity, where would you want to go?

Bravo · Mar 21, 2007

turkey or spain.

Akuma · Mar 21, 2007

Ireland, no question.

Little Red Barn · Mar 21, 2007

Ireland to live I guess-- to visit, Scotland

tourdeforce · Mar 21, 2007

France

RumpleTumbler · Mar 21, 2007

Ireland. A pub and a bunk. "No patty-fingers, please!"

expatbrat · Mar 21, 2007

Wooo hooo - someone else wants to be an expat. COOL!

Thailand is an easy place to live. You can get all your western foods and things and life is nice. What are you going to do as an expat?

Hairdressing, Personal Training (and swim coaching as I've recently discovered), Teaching and Engineering are probably the top four expatting jobs. But there are tonnes of others. A number of my friends are journalists so if you write that kind of stuff you could get a posting somewhere.

maestrowork · Mar 21, 2007

Southern France or Switzerland. Tuscany would be nice, too.

thethinker42 · Mar 21, 2007

expatbrat said:
Wooo hooo - someone else wants to be an expat. COOL!

Thailand is an easy place to live. You can get all your western foods and things and life is nice. What are you going to do as an expat?

Hairdressing, Personal Training (and swim coaching as I've recently discovered), Teaching and Engineering are probably the top four expatting jobs. But there are tonnes of others. A number of my friends are journalists so if you write that kind of stuff you could get a posting somewhere.

Oh, it's just a thought right now. My husband's enlistment is up later this year, and we're trying to decide where to go from here. If he re-enlists, we're in for another 12 years so that he can retire at 20 years.

I don't know what I'd be doing. It's just something that has been bouncing around in my brain. And it WOULD get us farther away from his parents...

Lyra Jean · Mar 21, 2007

Philippines. I have family there now. I also know the pastor of church there. Um the city is Cebu City.

expatbrat · Mar 21, 2007

Lonely Planet have a "long haul" branch on their thorn tree. This is a great place for expatting advice. http://thorntree.lonelyplanet.com/categories.cfm?catid=30

thethinker42 · Mar 21, 2007

expatbrat said:
Lonely Planet have a "long haul" branch on their thorn tree. This is a great place for expatting advice. http://thorntree.lonelyplanet.com/categories.cfm?catid=30

Cool, I'll check it out. Thanks!

Course, nothing's going to be decided til my husband gets home....I figure I should at least let him get home and put his feet up for a few minutes before we start talking about picking up roots and moving. LOL Then again, we moved from Washington to Virginia (3,000+ miles) 3 months after his last deployment, so he could probably live with it. LOL

We'll see. It's just an idea right now.

expatbrat · Mar 21, 2007

Do you work full time?

Lots and lots of people who work off-shore base themselves in Thailand (and other parts of Asia). Cost of living here is really cheap. Ooooh - and you could get a maid!

maestrowork · Mar 21, 2007

I would love to expat. My friend, who grew up in Hong Kong, ended up expat'ing back in Hong Kong as an American. Lucky bastard... Another friend of mine expat'ed in Copenhagen. Nice.

BenPanced · Mar 21, 2007

London. NQA

trumancoyote · Mar 21, 2007

France or Italy while I'm young, Japan when I'm old.

Bmwhtly · Mar 22, 2007

Hmmm...

I'd start off in the channel islands. Because it's still Britain but with nicer weather.
Then, when I get used to this "Abroad" Malarkey. Relocate to Switzerland or somewhere in Eastern Europe, Probably Bratislava (As pretty as prague but half the cost and half the tourists).
And then, if I wanted to go the whole hog. Either Qatar or Belize.

Not that I've given it a lot of thought or anything...

aruna · Mar 22, 2007

expatbrat said:
Wooo hooo - someone else wants to be an expat. COOL!

Thailand is an easy place to live. You can get all your western foods and things and life is nice. What are you going to do as an expat?

My son and I were discussing Thailand as a place to live (for him) just yesterday. He says it's extremely difficult for foreigners to get a work permit for Thailand. Is this true?

aruna · Mar 22, 2007

I am already an ex-pat, in fact I've ex-patted form being an ex-pat and I no longer know exactly what my status is. At present I have one foot in England and one in Germany. Don't ask.

I know for a fact that I want to end up in India. No question. I'd go tomorrow if I could. But I have dependents. Most of all, my husband's needs have to be taken into account.

Places I have considered are Tobago, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand.

I want somewhere tropical, gladly third world. He couldn't take that. A good compromise would be the tropics in winter, a temperate climate in summer.

aadams73 · Mar 22, 2007

I'm already an Aussie ex-pat. But if I had to chose, I'd go with Italy or Greece.

thethinker42 · Mar 22, 2007

expatbrat said:
Do you work full time?

Lots and lots of people who work off-shore base themselves in Thailand (and other parts of Asia). Cost of living here is really cheap. Ooooh - and you could get a maid!

Yes, I do work full time. Would dearly love to write full time, but that'll take a while. How would one go about finding expat jobs? Do most require four year degrees? (I have a two year)

scarletpeaches · Mar 22, 2007

Italy if I was fluent in the language, or Australia.

Pagey's_Girl · Mar 22, 2007

London or Greece...

SpookyWriter · Mar 22, 2007

I had a bug up my ass and moved to Holland in 2006. But then ol'bush decided he wanted to start a war and the whole EU economy went to shit and I was out of work for several months. So, I had to return and find work here in the USofA. I still want to go back and live in Holland or Ireland after my current contract is up.

Adam Israel · Mar 22, 2007

The southern island of New Zealand.

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