My husband was recently made redundant and is struggling to find another job in his field. There are roles available in the US that he is qualified for and has the relevant experience. He is now utterly focused on us moving out there.
The job he’s looking at is in Dallas, Texas although there are posts in most states. It pays $370 a day, working 5 days a week. The company sort visa’s but everything else would be down to us to sort. It’s a one year contract but he thinks we’re going to love it and never want to come back! He has a childhood friend living a 5 hour drive from Dallas and I’m sure he thinks we’ll be hanging out with them every weekend. We have a 4yr old starting school in September.
My husband has used a comparison site to work out what it would cost to cover bills at home and live in Dallas and says we could ‘just about manage’. He’s looking at renting a 2 bed apartment not houses, hasn’t included a car or thought about possibly having to pay for our sons schooling. He’s no idea if he’d have to pay tax out there or what tax implications there’d be back home. He’d be contracting so needs to set up a company.
I don’t want to disrupt our lives and the start of our sons education to ‘just about manage’. Is it worth scrimping and scraping in order to have the ‘experience’ of spending a year in another country? I can’t imagine going from a house with a large garden to an apartment. I’ve visited the US many times and love it for a holiday but I’m struggling to see how we’d even manage without a car.
I don’t want to be so negative to the idea but I’m worried about being stuck out there, with little spare money to go out and explore in our spare time and being thousands of miles from our support network. I really feel for him because he’s never been out of work and he’s starting to panic about not finding anything but I feel he’s jumping into this without proper thought and research.
Can anyone recommend good websites I could use to look at cost of living, schooling, medical insurance etc and the implications of moving overseas.
Thank you for reading and I’d be grateful of any advice or to hear about your positive experiences of relocating to the US.
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LeeHarper5 · 20/06/2018 22:13
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