In all sincerity, how do you get out and find work and should you? I’m 40F and have barely left this country. I don’t know how to make a better life for me and my children and I’m not even sure that this isn’t still the ‘safest place’ as the saying has always been. Are all governments corrupt? Are they all at risk of war? Are rich people and corporations given legal passes and tax breaks everywhere? Is there gang violence, racism and sexism everywhere? I want to live without fear that my kids could be killed by some idiot with guns, I want our family to live a life free from servitude just to to pay for car+home+health insurance and not worry we could die simply because we couldn’t afford to pay the highest price for medical care in the world, and I want to know the government or a corporation won’t be allowed to harm people and places with toxic chemicals or skipping safety measures. I want to be more than fuel for capitalism. This is a serious question. I’ve intentionally left my home country out but I’m sure you have guessed.
I didn’t leave for better or worse. I left to discover and learn.
Changing country is an adventure. Learning a new language isn’t easy, adapting to a new culture either, unless that is a big part of your goal then it becomes the end itself, the project itself.
The paperwork is going to eat a whole lot of your time unless you already have citizenship in your new country or unless you’re in Europe and traveling as a Schengen ctitizen to a Schengen country.
People always asked me but you’re moving there before even visiting it, what if you don’t like it, well then I had an adventure and came back home.
As a foreigner in a new country, stability isn’t a good keyword. You are in the position of an outsider. You are the least stable person there. It may change eventually but count the time in years. Until you have at least permanent residency somewhere, you are never really stable. You are going renewal to renewal hoping they accept you again and again.