USC, Would You Move to Your SO's Country One Day in the Future?

[*JG* 2]

no....n---o.....NO.....Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[Lili 3]

Me and my hubby plan to move there by July 1rst, 2012 if all goes well.

However, i have been here for almost six years and i read on how hard it is to come back after such a long time (find a job with a US degree etc...). But my hubby is set on living in my country.

[tom&tata 2]

If we can manage financially & residency, he would not mind moving. He does not like the humidity in Indonesia (who does) but he can deal with everything else. Well, he got me to deal with everything else so it would be okay for him.

If not, probably waiting until retirement.

[Nasturtium 500]

Yes, we are actually moving back in 2-4 years. We would have stayed except he had an educational goal that needed to be met outside the country somewhere (they didn't offer his PhD subject, may as well come here and do it) and we wanted to pay off my student loans.

[Dr. A ♥ O 203]

In less than a year I'm about to.

[Asante Maroon 0]

no....n---o.....NO.....Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

OH WOW!!!!

Why not?

[Asante Maroon 0]

Yes, we are actually moving back in 2-4 years. We would have stayed except he had an educational goal that needed to be met outside the country somewhere (they didn't offer his PhD subject, may as well come here and do it) and we wanted to pay off my student loans.

you guys sound like my hubby and me My student loans....his completing school and getting some experience b4 moving sounds just about right

In less than a year I'm about to.

Seriously, Olivia?

WOW!

[peejay 327]

I'm in my 50's and have thought about retiring to Belarus when I finally decide to quit working. I'm not ready to quit working yet though, but I could retire over there a lot sooner than I could in the USA. Working in Belarus would not be practical because the prevailing wage scale is so much lower than in the USA. Better to work in the USA for more $$$. It would be much cheaper to live there than in the USA, but the falling US dollar has made that option less attractive in recent years. Who knows how the US dollar will fare in the future? In the near term the US dollar will remain weak.

Unfortunately my Russian language skills are rather poor, so that would definitely be a problem. My wife nags me to learn more Russian, but learning another language is 10 times more difficult at my age than it is for a younger person. I have no incentive to learn while living in the USA and not enough time to invest in learning because of my work schedule. I had more luck learning when I had to. Usually when I was over there and immersed in that country. You learn a lot quicker when you have to. However, I think it would take me many, many years of immersion to become fluent. I think that would make my life in Belarus very limited until I could somewhat speak the language.

It's really not such a stretch to imagine myself living in Belarus. My grandparents (my mom's parents) were born there and I have Belarusian relatives that I maintain a relationship with that live there. My wife is a citizen of Belarus even though she was originally born in Russia. I have visited there many, many times since the breakup of the USSR. I visited my relatives there even before I met my wife. Unfortunately the Belarusian government is repressive and hostile to the USA. Being an American, it might make living there uncomfortable.

[S and S 12]

Uh, well, that would be nice and all, but I don't see my husband's country getting stable anytime soon. I voted no, but if Iraq gains decent stability within my lifetime and I'm not too old, I might consider it. There wasn't an option for that though.

[Ms. Squirrel 11]

I woud not want to live in the States, so no.

[GabachaYucateca 0]

Yep, would definitely move back there. But this time, I'd make sure that I had a plan for making $ that didn't include teaching English with no hope for any sort of movement up the career ladder.

I would like to wait a few years because I really like my job and am at a time in my life where I want to thrive professionally rather than stagnate.

But I think I'd go cuckoo living in his village again and things in Cancun aren't too pretty right now, so we'll have to see!

[panamania79 2]

Ever since my first trip to Ghana, I have been struck by the bug . I felt an overwhelming sense of belonging...Like I had been there before. When I left Ghana after my first trip, I developed a sense of "home sickness". I guess it was pretty easy for me because many parts of Ghana strongly resembles Jamaica (where my family is from)....Not to mention there is a strong love out there for Jamaica and its culture music!

But, strange enough Ghana has had the greatest impact on me, than any other place I have been, here or abroad. I say: "strange enough" because I knew Ghana is where I wanted to be almost immediately.

Many SO's have asked their USC SO's if they would ever consider moving to their home country....or they have simply made the statement that they would eventually like to return "back home" once they have made some sort of financial accomplishment, etc.... here in the US

....I guess I was a little strange in that, I told my SO when we were just getting to know each other, that I would LOVE to live in Ghana...he never had to ask me.

I can already envision my home and have ideas of what I would like to do when I am there. I think about it all the time!!! It makes me feel good, happy, and gives me something to work towards...

So, obviously my answer is YES YES YES :yes: I would ABSOLUTELY love to live in my SO's home country...I feel like it already home to me

What about you? How do you feel and why??? Don't forget to vote too!

I'm there,considering financial stability.

[Asante Maroon 0]

Thanks for contributing guys!

[Damian P 92]

Thanks for contributing guys!

Bit late on this one (again!) but fwiw, I can't wait to get out of Blighty. And that's just as well, because 'er indoors has told me on more than one occasion that she's too much of a "spoiled ### American" to live anywhere else.

Seriously though, it's about getting "bang for yer buck." I mean, let's take housing: for US$150,000, I can get a brick, ranch-style, 3 or 4 bedroom home on a couple of acres in her part of rural Southern Illinois. Kincaid Lake and the Shawnee National Forest are just a few miles away, too. Conversely, the UK equivalent amount (about £80,000 at the current exchange rate) buys me NOTHING in the South of the country, a 1 bed apartment in a half-decent area of the Midlands or up North, or maybe a small terraced house in an absolute fleapit of a place. I #### you not.

Nope, once I've left the UK I aint never going back (except to visit, of course).

[Gemmie 142]

We would live in the UK if it was financially possible...alas, we are not made of money...

But it could always happen in the future...

Same here.

I would be starting a new life anyway because I'm graduating from school and moving out of my house (can't afford to stay in Bath - way too expensive!) I might as well be the one to move to the US where things are cheaper in general.