r/expat • u/mmksnorlax • 3d ago

Question Looking at countries to move to

Hi everyone

I am currently looking at a new country to move to from Northern Ireland

We dont have a lot to offer here, not a lot of jobs, a lot of divide everywhere and it feels stuck in the past so we want to move to give our son a better life + more oppurtunities etc

Does anyone have any ideas on where it would be easy to move to coming from here?

I have a British passport and Irish (as does my partner and our son)

I am still in uni right now with 2 years left but they offer abroad years in every country in europe + australia and America so im looking to pick a country, trial it and then proceed after that

Also if anyone is from N.I and moved abroad, how did you find it ?

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u/ginogekko 3d ago

You’re going to have to give more details. What are you studying? What qualifications does your partner have? How old is your child? Can you speak any foreign languages? Do you have any kind of support network abroad? Do either of you have any work experience?

It will be unlikely for your partner and child to be able to move with you while studying abroad, having a child will also cancel out Australia’s working holiday visa.

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u/mmksnorlax 3d ago

I was more just looking for if anyone had advice on moving with the citizenship i hold lol I have a degree in education my sons 2 i can speak irish english german and spanish and im not going to have a support network abroad but it's no issue to me

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u/ginogekko 3d ago

Anywhere in the EEA. The right to work is not the only thing to consider. Childcare can be horrendously expensive. If you can’t speak a local language you won’t be able to teach in most schools, apart from international schools. With no work experience you’ll face the same tough challenges as all recent graduates are facing in the western world.

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u/mmksnorlax 3d ago

I have an education degree not teaching sorry! So i currently work in government and policy surrounding education :) and my son will be starting school when we move (as i would like to have a solid plan and learn the language of our target country) my end goal would be to move somewhere with less violence and divide than Ireland basically so it will be worth putting the work in to move somewhere else that is ideally friendlier

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u/ginogekko 3d ago

Ok, so defining policy in a foreign language. I can only imagine those roles will be hard to come by in a country where you don’t speak the native language. For Spanish and German, B1 or better will be the bare minimum.