Emigration

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DH and I have decided we'd like to emigrate. Just feels so bleak in UK and do not see it improving in our generation. Life is too short to stay. He has EU passport I don't. Work would need to be done in English. He's finance I'm healthcare. 2 kids, primary age.

Hit me with your recommendations!

What languages do you speak? Go there.

What makes you think things are better elsewhere? Spanish weather is great, but economically we're as fucked as the UK and women's rights are going backwards.

I'd be in the French Pyrenees raising goats if I had the chance!

Only English:-( not sure things will be better but they have less tax!

I would have thought that only speaking English would restrict where you can live and work unless you can work remotely.

We're planning on retiring early and emigrate because we're also fed up with this country but are giving ourselves 5 years to get to a reasonable standard with the language.

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We will learn language once plan in place/ there for integrating socially, but often can find English speaking in business environment- eg most finance jobs in English, healthcare could be military hospital or done in english etc. So looking for inspiration.

Does weather matter to you OP?? We came back in May from Copenhagen- Denmark and Sweden are nice lifestyles but not cheap , however pay and standards are better- the downside is that whilst there are jobs where you don't need to speak Danish/Swedish - they are sought after and are usually the results of internal transfers from other countries

If weather doesn't matter Germany has a lot going for it. (And below cologne/Bonn etc the weather is better in summer anyway than Uk- summer seems to come earlier). German is also easier to learn than Danish or Swedish. Netherlands good too- we particularly liked Utrecht

I love my life in spain. Literally everything is better (except for the beurocracy when trying to get anything done. !)
Great weather, healthcare, cafe lifestyle

Good luck with most European countries they have made it really hard since we left the EU (Sweden is a nightmare)

Your Dh will find it easier as he has an EU passport but you May struggle even as a dependent

When you say finance, what do you mean? Is your husband currently working for a large global firm or organisation (Big4 or similar) that may have offices elsewhere, or do you mean totally upping sticks and starting again in a new role?

With regard to working in healthcare, I think you'd really struggle to find a position in another country that didn't have some requirement for another language at a fairly advanced level.

Would your qualifications transfer, too? Most countries will have their own requirements for working in healthcare and you'd want to check if yours are transferable or if you would need to sit additional certifications.

You might be better to consider a majority English-speaking location such as Canada or Australia, or somewhere with a large ex-pat population such as Singapore or the UAE.

Nurse in an English-speaking clinic? Lots of demand for them in cities with British/ American etc expats.

There's always Ireland, do tour research on costs first though...

I am in Sweden and although English is widely spoken you will be hard pressed to get a job without Swedish out of the big cites. Accomodation is hard to come by and expensive in Stockholm. Rurally property is cheap but there is little to do and not much choice with the schools. Price rises here are grim and we just received an electric bill for last month (-5 to -18) ONE MONTH and it was 24,000 sek about £1,880