PP is a weird way of looking at things imo.

I can probably save twice what a South African working in my profession earns. I can go anywhere, do anything. I’m not limited to Switzerland forever.

Europe isn’t a monolith. Are you seriously telling me that you are richer in ZA than CH?

The European answer is Ticino

If it makes you feel better after I got divorced at the grand old age of 28, and taking 18 months to get my head straight, I found someone, got engaged, had a baby got married and emigrated in about 18 months.

Granted that’s speedy, but it’s absolutely not too late for you.

As you are female you need to get your skates on a bit if you want a family but you haven’t missed the boat yet.

Yes. We are talking twice as much after tax.

Switzerland is a totally different prospect than NL from a financial and QoL perspective though.

I would stay in TX all day long as a European.

Your quality of life will take a massive dive, and you’ll be living in a tiny house not able to save much.

They can move to Ireland as of right with a British passport

Nope

There’s loads of places you can get by without speaking the local language well.

Here in Switzerland in the cities you can get by with just English comfortably. I do speak a bit, but I’m not great.

I imagine (possibly incorrectly) that South Tyrol would be better on those points.

You can cash cheques on apps up to £500 iirc on apps