Easiest European nation to move to?

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I've got three days for my student loan to come through before I have to drop all my classes or be stuck paying for them one way or another, and I don't think it's looking good.

Should it come down to dropping out, I'm going to give up for now. I'm already a couple of years behind and not really moving forward. If I'm going nowhere, I might as well being going nowhere someplace that I don't hate.

For an English-only speaker (but willing to learn the language), what's the best/easiest European nation to find work (high school grad, some college, I guess reasonably intelligent and personable) paying enough to survive? Is that even possible, or am I blinded by '20s and '50s bohemian LIES? England is definitely a possibility (and first choice), but I've heard it's tough to get a work permit/visa and find a job.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Moldova

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd like to move to Spain, so info would be appreciated.

― hstencil, Monday, 18 August 2003 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Apparently, the rain falls gently on the plain there.

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Or mainly on the plain, rather.

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't want to live on the plain but rather on the coast by Barcelona or something.

― hstencil, Monday, 18 August 2003 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

what's the best/easiest European nation to find work (high school grad, some college, I guess reasonably intelligent and personable) paying enough to survive?

I hear it's very easy for foreign academics to find work in Germany, but since you aren't one, don't come here if you hate cleaning toilets.

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

On second thought you might try to find work around here as an assembly worker in the automobile industry (and get massively overpaid due to strong union backing) or as baggage handler at an airport (and get massively overpaid for security reasons).

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Monday, 18 August 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Transdniestria

have fun!

― daria g (daria g), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:57 (twenty-two years ago)

i would imagine that the czech republic would be easiest to find work. though their english-language skills aren't very good -- you should brush up on yer german, at the very least.

poland likes americans, but their english-language skills ain't so hot either.

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:00 (twenty-two years ago)

(actually i read the header as EASTERN european nation. easiest? i dunno -- i don't think that any of them are all that easy to emigrate to, esp. if you have no tie to whatever country you want to move to.)

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I find it easiest to move to Spain. It's their rhythms, I guess.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Spanish rocks.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Milo, I'm in a similar position. Tearing my hair out over the student loans being approved, and I damn well can't afford to pay all that cash out of pocket, nor can my parents. Have you considered just moving somewhere else in the States? I've been entertaining Minneapolis or Portland as possibilities. That's definitely less of a learning curve than moving to Europe, which I imagine, with the EU getting its shit together, is going to be harder for Americans without college degrees or clear job prospects to relocate to. Yeah, it's still America, but at least it's not fucking home, which is the last place I personally could imagine being if the loans don't go through.

― justin s., Tuesday, 19 August 2003 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

you could teach English in the orient.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

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