Anyone move without new job providing relocation costs?

[marjean]

That's it really. We have the opportunity to move to Sweden in the summer. Dh job (a profit-making but non-fee paying state school) is refusing to pay relocation costs. We've worked out it would cost about £4000 to ship our stuff and fly or drive over (we have 3 small children too). We could afford this but don't think we should be out of pocket at all but don't know if we're being naive.

So, is this a deal-breaker?

We've done it twice. Once from Bangkok to Switzerland and once from Switzerland to Belgium.
Same situation but with only one child.

We got 1k for a family of 6 to relocate, UK government, it cost us alot more, would still have done it for nothing.

Interesting. But was it worth it in the end? What swung it for you? Dh job doesn't mean we'll be able to live particularly differently to how we do here. My heart is telling us to go but my head disagrees!

Kreecher - are you in the teaching profession too? Many of the private schools seem to offer some relocation costs. Whatever we were offered would probably leave us short but to shoulder the entire cost ourselves seems like a risk too far.

In the university sector most moves are now done without relocation costs.

We moved 15 years ago to a UK University and our rent was paid for 6 months, relocation costs up to 2-3k and it was fantastic - there was even talk they would help us pay our old mortgage if our house didn't sell just so we would move.

Things are so different now - for our last move 2 yrs ago we were given an interest-free loan of up to 3k but it was taken back from salary in installments starting with first pay cheque.

As with others it hasn't stopped us moving but we struggled financially and had to borrow money elsewhere - 7k - to tide us over and couldn't repay it for 12-18 months.