My husband has the option of moving from his senior finance role in the City or moving to Zurich.
We are unsure what to do. He could probably fairly easily move jobs within London to a different company. His current office is threatening to move to the other side of London which would double his commute time so I don't know if that would see him able to be made redundant which would actually be better for us.
The thing is, the company he works for is pretty easy going and the job is ok, if he moved to Zurich it would be a bigger promotion than if he moved in London.
But I have no idea about Zurich. We have a 4 yo who is due to go back to her private school which she has already attended for a year and being an academic school it was effectively like she's already done a year at school (reads, writes etc) she's 5 next year.
I am not too fussed about moving abroad, more that I'm unsure about Zurich. Dd school would definitely take her back if it was all a disaster so that's sorted here. We have a mortgage but again can work around keeping house here plus relocation package to Zurich.
Has anyone done this? Dh doesn't speak German but I have a basic command and understand it being spoken. (Obviously not required for his work)
We are expected to make the decision fairly quickly and can effectively move asap if we said yes. If it wasn't for dd I'd probably go and see what it's like but with her I have to consider uprooting our family and her current education and don't want to do it on a whim. I intend to come back to uk in a few years if it works out so that dd is back in uk private education at 7yo if I still think that's best but may find Swiss schools are better etc.
Sorry this is long but ahhhhhh!
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cornettoqueen · 04/08/2017 11:32
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