JFF Would You Move Out of the Country?

Nope. Love New York, I'm a city girl, don't drive, and like you MzKitty, am a homebody of sorts. I do love to travel, hate making the plans for it and get all cranky, but when I get wherever, I'm good and glad I did it. Tons of of countries I'd love to visit, but not live in.

I love to travel. I've lived in London (last year of college) and Germany (we were stationed there for 3 years). I would love to live overseas again--but not for any political reason!

Oh yes, I would and I have......
There are many, many beautiful and safe countries to live in, you just have to travel, learn and enjoy!

I love to travel. I love seeing how other peoples live and what they do.

When my mom married my dad she had never been out of the state of California. Then traveled all over the world with him and loved it.

My wife had never been out of the State of California when we got married and now she has been to 46 or 47 states, Europe, Africa, Austrailia, North America, and South America. I've been to all 50 states, 47 countries and all the continents except Antartica. I've enjoyed 18 cruises and had a wonderful time.

I've lived in Japan (3 years) and Germany (4 years). I have never found a country as wonderful as America, but I'd go and live in another country for a short period of time (1 to 4 years) in a heart beat.

There are a lot of really nice people in this great and wonderful world we live in and I love to meet them.

Good luck to you and yours.

Heck yeah...I'd move out of the country.

Now, I hate being cold, so normally I would think of some tropical place. What I didn't realize, until recently, is that there is some pretty great stuff about certain places in Canada.

A) Eastern Canada gets much warmer than where I currently live.
B) A woman I deal with there for work purposes not only gets THEIR holidays off with pay, she gets all U.S. holidays off with pay as well. Our Thanksgiving? She gets 4 days off. With pay. Their benefit structure is very different than ours.

I work with a woman who lived in Thailand for seven years. She says they were the happiest years of her life. She LOVED it there. Yes, they have funky creatures, but it was worth it to her. She moved back to the U.S. after her attorney husband had a stroke and they needed to be closer to family.
She longs to go back and I bet she will, someday.

There are lots of beautiful places in this world. I enjoy watching House Hunters International. I think it would be so exciting to live abroad for a while. There are places in Mexico that have 258 days of sun per year, right near the ocean.

I could be happy with that.

I have lived in three different countries and for the most part loved it. My husband's job has us moving every 3-5 years and that includes living overseas. I can't say I have totally loved it but it has been an amazing adventure that we are not done with yet. My kids are young right now and my oldest won't remember living in one of those countries because she was so young but I think it will be a great experience for them to see different cultures, people, countries etc. And to actually live in these places not just for a visit. Living in another country is a totally different experience than visiting one. I like to travel but I hate going through TSA LOL.

I'm not a traveler either. Actually, I'm not a plane traveler. I love to travel by car and train. Kind of hard to cross the ocean that way :)

I would, MOVE to another country. I've always wanted, even if for a short time. Staying there for a week doing the touristy stuff on vacation, no. Moving to a foreign country and being immersed in the culture, totally.

Absolutely!

We only live once!

Dawn

I would hit up Europe in a heartbeat. :) Primarily Italy, but given the chance, I'd visit tons of places in Europe.

My husband would be just like you! We went to Amsterdam 12 years ago, and he was awful. Couldn't adjust, hated the food, blah, blah, blah. He found a Hard Rock Cafe there, and we ended up eating there every night because he couldn't adapt. <sigh>

Now, I on the other hand, would not move permanently outside of the USA, but I'd love to travel abroad. I loved going overseas and experiencing the different cultures and food. I would not want to be gone for any great length of time. Just a couple weeks.

Fun question!

Depending on how the presidential election goes I might do just that. I've never traveled to another country however I am not at all opposed to moving to a new one. I would do all the research regarding things such as government and schooling prior to doing so of course but I'm not permanently attached to the US.

Depends on the country, the experience, etc. Friends have been overseas for military deployments or for job opportunities or to experience a culture (like going to Israel for a year) more than you can on a vacation. I would want to be able to come home for visits periodically and I personally wouldn't want to be somewhere open ended. But if the right opportunity came up, and it was good for DD, too, I'd go and I think DH would, too. He says if he won the lottery he'd buy one of those old small castles/manor houses in Scotland and retire there.

We have friends who live in London but are stateside at least once a year around Christmas.

I love to travel and do the non-tourist thing. DD is only 4 and has been to Bermuda, the UK and Ireland. When money permits, there are many other places I'd love to go.

I would not like to fully move out of the country, but I would like to save enough money to travel everywhere I want to for 5 years. Mind you I want to see 5 countries in Africa, 3 in Asia, almost all of Europe, Russia is a main one, and of course every state, Canada mexico Brazil, Australia, ok I am done for now...

I would totally move out of the country. DH and I talk all the time about picking up and moving to Uraguay, Italy, or India. It would be such an adventure! I lived in Paris for almost two years in my 20s and it was a great experience. I met people that were so different from me, and made some lifelong friends.

YES!! I would and I have!!!

I have lived in Taiwan, Belgium and Germany - while I don't remember a lot of Taiwan - I have AWESOME memories of Belgium and Germany...

I got to see Les Miserable's in London...Stonehenge, Pickadilly Square, shopped at Harrod's and sooo much more...

I got to ski in Switzerland and Austria...I got to walk the grape wine fields in Italy...Berlin - got to see the Wall come down - Check Point Charlie...the Louvre, the Eiffel tower....the tulip fields in Holland, the red light district in Amsterdam (how utterly fascinating!!! seriously!!), Neuschwanstein, Liechtenstein - ohhh man...the pictures I have!!!

SOOOO much!! YES!! YES!! YES!!!! I know it would not be like it was when we left.

I've been to most of the states...still need to get to Alaska...and will do what I can to get to each and every state....

LOVE LOVE LOVE to travel!! i need to win the lottery!!!

I would absolutely move out of the country! I love Asia and could easily live there. Thailand would be my first choice, but do you know what my major hang up is? Snakes! I can't deal with snakes, especially the thought of poisonous snakes. I didn't encounter any snakes in Thailand, but I prayed fervently every day that I wouldn't see any, and that if I got bit by one that I would drop dead before seeing it. :) I'm weird, I know!

I have been to several countries and almost all of our states, so I love to travel, but there is nothing like HOME! :)

I did. Move out of my country. And we made the decision because we thought it was the best for our future, from the big picture PoV.
I didn't like it in the beginning. Now, am more used to it. Realized life is still the same, in the logical sense. Actually, it has made our visits back home, an even bigger cause for celebration and something to look fwd to.

I would definitely move out of the country! ...if I didn't have family here. That's about the only thing holding me back from moving to The Netherlands.

Depends on the country. Any of the countries where women need their male relatives permission to LEAVE ... yeah ... not moving there :)

But most of Europe , a larger portion of Asia, Some parts of Africa, Australia ... oh yeah ... I'd live there for at least a year.

One of my goals in life is to visit the capital city of every country on the planet :) Doubt it'll ever happen ... but hey it's a goal :)

Yep! Have before, and would again. :)

I LOVE travel. Spent half my childhood overseas. Not enough of my adulthood. Personal mission is to have stacks of totally full passports.

There are a short list if places I would never go, and places I reeeeally don't like. Mexico is on my ick list. You couldn't pay me to go to Mexico again. I lived in so cal, so have a lot of first gen mex-American friends, its not the people, but the place... Because I really loathe the country itself (there are other Latin American countries I adore). If that had been, I might feel the same way you do.

I've spent most of my time in the pacific rim, Mediterranean (southern EU & northern Africa). A little time in N EU, and mesoamerics

I've never been out of the US either, but would love to travel. We have some very dear friends who moved to Amsterdam with their little girl. They sold everything - cars, house, ATV's, dogs, toys, everything. They arrived with nothing but the clothes on their backs and in their bags. The man has two teen aged kids and they live here with their mom but spent the entire Summer in Amsterdam. I wouldn't be able to leave my kids in this country for 3/4 of the year! It is interesting to see their posts on FB, though. :)

I would live temporarily in a place or seasonally, but not move in it or to it completely permanently.
I've lived in other places.
Sometimes, the images of a place is very different from the actual living in it and what the people are actually like.

I'm like that, MzKitty. I don't mind visiting places, but I'm not itching to do so. I hate packing and unpacking. We stayed at a hotel following a wedding over Labor Day weekend, and I have yet to unpack my bag.

Yes, but on a finite basis and a limited number of places. We already did it once for 3-1/2 years for hubby's job and I would consider doing it again but never permanently.

It is funny that you ask this question... I actually just moved to Holland last week from California. I do love to travel, but moving is always harder and very different. I have lived here before and I do like it, but this is my first time living here with my baby. It is tough, but it could be a LOT worse =)

There are a few places in the world I'd consider moving to.
UK (England, Wales, Scotland - I'd visit Ireland but would not want to live there).
New Zealand (any place that has more sheep than people can't be bad)
Canada
Australia I'd like to visit but I wouldn't want to live there.
I'm not interested in anywhere in South America although I've heard Argentina is nice.

Yeah I'd move out of the country if I had he means to do so. I use to get shipped off to the UK to visit with my aunts for 3 weeks. Was nice. I could live there. I'd love to visit Austraia and Italy. But I want the means to do it though. Back packing around Europe is not for me. Though I wouldnt need a 5 star penthouse either. Just the means to leave the states for a year and just travel to oher countries without having to worry bout money.

The Netherlands is a beautiful country and the people there are wonderful. If I felt I would be having a better life I might be able to do it.

Problem is, at this moment in time, there are not many places that could provide a better life than the U.S.A!

Well it depends on what country but YES! What an experience that would be. I love, love, love to travel. Even just traveling to different parts of the US can give you such a different perspective.
We have friends who moved for Italy for a year, when their kids were 8 and 11. They knew no one, spoke no Italian, just kind of threw themselves into it. Their girls went to an Italian school (no English) and LOVED it, especially the boys lol!
After visiting Paris last year my husband and I are looking forward to doing London sometime next year. I can't wait to soak up all that history and culture :)

Yes, I definitely would move!!! I had my heart set on moving to Canada. I was able to visit there once..and loved it there! Well, I married the hubby and he was like you ... didn't want to leave the U.S. Ugh!

Yes, absolutely. Temporarily, though. I have lived overseas and loved it but was always happy to move back home to the U.S.

Oh I love to travel! I can't understand why you don;t want to. If you lived in a awesome place then maybe. But all I heard about AZ is how hot and dry it is.
I have been to lot of states in the US , and intend to go to all. I will go to a different country for sure. There is so much to experience and I personally feel travelling to different countries and experiencing different cultures makes you a better person as well. It's not all about the place but you see how life is elsewhere , you will interact with lot of people and learn about things which you have never heard before. It will make you happy and humble for all that you have in life.
I would not move to Mexico though, but anywhere in Europe YES! Holland sounds great!!

If I didn't have kids I would consider it. My husband and I have traveled to Europe a couple times and our dream is to take extended "living" trips in the future where we stay in one place for a couple months and really get to know it.

I've lived in 4 countries and I am proud citizens of 2. What do I love about living abroad? Perspective. The world and people aren't "us vs. them", we're all just people, with the same needs and desires.

Of course, you don't need to travel to experience this perspective. I equally love to live vicariously through various characters in novels, historical fiction and biographies. I think the more you experience, the more humble and welcoming you are...whether that experience is personal or books.

I have traveled to Mexico City. I would never live there! I would NEVER move out of the country. My family and friends are here. I think our country is pretty amazing.
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I would love to get a chance to travel around the world. It is exciting for me and my family learning about other cultures and meeting new and different people. Would I live anywhere else other than the U.S.? I don't think so. I love the U.S. and love my home. I wouldn't mind visiting a country for a couple of months and temporarily live there (like France, Italy, Holland etc.) but my home is the good old USA.

I have travelled to many other countries and lived in a few long term. It makes me sad when people have no curiosity about the rest of the world. Nothing helps you develop as a person and understand your own culture as exploring other cultures. We will start traveling internationally with the children next year.

Yeah.. when I was looking up Holland facts I was like, "Hell, I wanna go!!"

I love to travel and have been all over the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, Europe, and Asia. We travel to Costa Rica yearly and have a small house there. My husband would love to live in Costa Rica after he retires, but I am not that fond of year round hot weather. I love meeting people from other countries, learning about how much we are the same and different.

I love where I live so I don't think I would want to make a permanent move, but I hope to continue to travel and experience new places, new people, and new experiences as well as keep visiting my wonderful Costa Rican friends!

I would love to move to another country for a couple of years, I think it would be a great experience for my kids and for myself.

i am a traveller somewhat, and i've always dreamed of going to other countries.

i dream about moving out of the country occasionally too...but it would only happen if i had no family here.