Where shoul I move

Hey guys, I am a 28 years old female,(us citizen). I have few years work experience and now I think it's time for me to move. I live in NYC right now....I have been thinking of Spain, but I don't speak Spanish, not sure about Londo....it could be any islands(my friend moved to Malta, she says she loves it there)., but whatever I choose it has to keep my career growing......please help.....many thanks

Mongolia is lovely.

OK, now the real answer.

For a start, what's your career? Where could you get a visa for? Could you get an overseas transfer with your company? Are you prepared to learn any foreign languages or would you really only be happy somewhere English-speaking?

Do you seriously expect a load of complete strangers to give you life-changing advice whilst knowing next to nothing about you?

Visas will be your biggest issue. Legally, to work in another country, you're going to need to prove that you can performa job that no local can. On top of that, to work in the EU you have to prove that you can do a job no other EU citizen can do. It's not easy. Sure there are people working illegally, but it's hardly a way to advance a "career"

Yep, i agree..... what is your career?

Teacher?, receptionist? Stripper? (Paint stripper, before you all jump on me!!!)

So which do you want? A spotless myopic tail chasing "every Friday is pink slip bingo" Career.
Or a well rounded, free, adventurous, happier life?

Be willing top wait tables, when that's what there ius.
Most waiters are stalling and waiting for their brake, into a chosen field.
Its called opportunity.

My friends back in Texas, all said,"Moving to Seville? Why? Ya never been there b4, have ya? Ya don't know anybody there."

Ha. I send picture post cards of all my trips outside "Sevilla maravilla."

Should they pay off, life insurance if the deceased has never really lived?

What do you do "for a living?"

And nobody ever says, "Who are you with, to see if we measure up to five minutes of their life.

There are language schools all over the place.

A Norwegian expat friend, said he's lived in many parts of the world. He says of all the different nationalities of expats, yanks hang out with each other, the least.

Other nationalities have other ways of expressing cliches. Come check it out.

Duh... yer career wood beeeeeee?

So do you want to be a wage slave, in thew same rut for 50 years?
How do you like your job now????????

The guy who got me to stop here in Seville
had gotten laid off, after 14 years with Apple.
In Silicone valley.

He was obsolete.

What does "equity" really mean?

Do you realy want to experience the world? Or just a cubicle in a concrete jungle?

I think we scared off the OP.

It is safe to come back. We just need to know more about you before we can offer any advice.

I think they're just living up to their handle. Andantin0 would perhaps have been a better choice.

Well, i have had a suspicion for a while, that LP employ people to start "discussion topics" in the forums, then leave everyone else to discuss the issue.

It could be true, because it is typical of how the BBC operates, in their local radio, talk shows etc etc.

ricky - If LP or BBS was going to do that, don't you think they would suggest better thought out questions that would reveal the benefits of the website? I think this is just what it appears to be, a 28 yo female NYC resident who is tired of living in 'the city' and wants to see something of the world. One day at work she was bored, so she posted something on the TT and then forgot about it.

Typical American, she probably never thought it necessary to give enough information to be helpful, never considered that she needs permission to live and work in other countries and probably has no travel experience except getting from Brooklyn to Manhattan by subway.

Ruth

Yeah. I did sound like an "I wanna go if she's goin' "

Poor saps. They don't know how easy it is. Most expats (I think) move on or go home in two years.

Other saps hastily buy a house, in the first place they give a chance to. Without knowing the iffy parts of it.

Well, if the OP isn't going to respond with necessary details, I'll hijack - Aus citizen, 23, registered high school English teacher in NSW - holder of Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts (Children's Literature), and Bachelor of Teaching (post-grad entry, thank god I didn't have to do the whole damn thing!) Is there anything I can do in an exciting, exotic location without going bankrupt? (No marrying solely for money, thanks). Primarily English-speaking with smattering of bad Italian (better at reading and writing it, everyone talks too quickly), and excellent non-verbal communication including frantic hand gesturing.

jayepony - yes. You can become an international school teacher. There are tons of international schools looking for teachers in all sorts of exotic locations. Some pay better than others. Most provide housing and insurance and a variety of other benefits. Look for posts on this branch by purpletreefrog who has been teaching for some years now, first in China and now in Japan.

There are Australian schools all over Asia and there are American and British curriculum schools all over the world.

Ruth

I wonder how many of these 'I want to move to Europe' posts were started by reading 'Eat, Pray, Love'... I know at least 3 American females in their mid-30s who's desire/attempts to move to Europe can be blamed on this book.

MTL,
Good point. So we should form a lobbying group to pressure Hollywood into devoting 1/3 of the film to visa hassles if the film deals with foreign work or living. And to compensate, make an alternate reality film where the protagonist must stay home because the visa was denied. So Julia Roberts must go home after 90 days in Schengen and stays home, period.

Alexander LOL ;-)

actually, the sequel, called 'Committed', deals with this to some extent, albeit in the US:
> In the year following their meeting, Felipe and Gilbert cobbled together a long-distance relationship; he would stay with her in the U.S. for 90-day jaunts, and the rest of the time they'd live apart or travel the world. One day in the spring of 2006, they returned to the Dallas Airport and Felipe was detained at the border. An Immigration agent said he could not enter the country again unless he married Gilbert.Gilbert spent the next year in exile with Felipe—straining the relationship.

But I guess most people never made it to the sequel ;-)

The only one I know moved back home.

Gawkabout: is your pal in Spain "Bill from Seville", by chance? I know him myself, if it's the same guy (sounds like it). He's a blast!

Stayed away from this forum for over a year of more after BBC bought controlling share and changed the original format but I agree with the above about any post being someone's only post is highly suspicious and could be to be done for private interrests. Tripadvisor and Virtualtourist include many reviews with the same questionable character.

Our daughter's heading for Europe and eventually Spain also in the fall this year to immerse herself in the language so she can gain fluency. Careers are nearly impossible to continue or allowed to grow or improve one's resume when one chooses "life on the road" less traveled. Open minded faith is required and a good eye for opportunity and being socially charismatic helps more than almost anything. Being able to meet others, listen learn and ready to share and be spontaneous will aid you more than your past work record.

Stayed away from this forum for over a year of more after BBC bought controlling share and changed the original format

Bill, i totally agree with you on this.

The BBC buying a controlling share was a recipe for disaster for LP

Stayed away from this forum for over a year of more after BBC bought controlling share and changed the original format

sorry, but what are you blabbing on about? can you point to some concrete changes and then demonstrate that these have anything to do with who owns LP's shares? LP has always been a commercial enterprise- not some kind of not-for profit NGO.

I agree with the above about any post being someone's only post is highly suspicious and could be to be done for private interrests.

well, yes, I presume the person who posted this did i for his own private interests. No for anybody else's.

Uhh, for one, the BBC is a not for profit entity.

You have to realise that a lot of people are upset right now with the BBC, because they make all these investments like this and NOBODY knows where the profits go.

uhh, for one, LP is owned by BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Worldwide

Yep, i don't need wikipedia to tell me that.

But, BBC is a non profit making organisation.

Nobody knows how the profits from it's commercial arm are used or where they go to.

BBC worldwide sell rights to programmes produced by the BBC.

UK television licence holders pay for those programmes to be produced.

Then the BBC sell the rights to those programmes to other countries etc.

But still, nobody knows how the original funders of those programmes ( the general public paying license payers) benefits from the sale of those rights.

Funded by the public, sold for profit.

That seems to be the general synposis and belief of most people who pay their tv licenses.