Yes, and my wife and I are currently amid the plan.
My wife is a teacher and we always wanted to live abroad and eventually settle in Europe. As a teacher there’s plenty of opportunities to teach abroad, but they’re not without competition.
With little to no experience one can easily teach ESL at say a Korean hagwon. With some experience one can be a subject teacher at an international school in a less developed area of the world (SE Asia, LatAm, Middle East, rural China, etc.), and with international experience one may be able to break into the European international schools.
That being said though, the European international schools are some of the best schools in the world. So, to start off my wife got her first international teaching job in Peru at one of the best schools in the country to obtain international experience. We’re on year 2/4 in this country. The hope is that after 4 years she will be able to get a job somewhere in Europe that’s less competitive, like Spain or Italy. But the big goal is the Netherlands after either 4 years here or a couple more years elsewhere in Europe.
So, would we pursue a multi-year globe-trotting plan to achieve our pipe dreams of living in Europe? Absolutely.
And, for what it’s worth, my background is public policy and I seriously considered trying to join the US State Dept Foreign Service or UN for us to live abroad, but we decided that going through her career and the choice of where to live was a better option— so I feel you with the struggle of trying to join a service where they may place you, as an American diplomat once told me she was, “in a shipping container in Afghanistan”. It’s a real roll of the dice, and single people I’ve been told get the shittier posts until they get some seniority. It’s by no means an easy decision to make.
I hail married with my girlfriend, not abroad but across the United States for our first big move in our twenties.
Moved to another state right after getting my inheritance from my grandmother, cashed in all my bonds, used the money for a security deposit, first months rent, a cross-country u-haul, and a down-payment on a car since mine was totaled several months prior.
My girlfriend was a grad student who made like no money at all. We had one months worth of rent money (after paying the first) and then we would be flat ass broke. I got a job in about a month.
Tbh, I was inspired by Mark Twain. If he could move across the country with essentially no skills and get a job, I could do it with a bachelors degree.
To move abroad my, now wife, secured a job and through the job we have the ability to live (visas) in our current country. I’m honestly not sure how one would even get a job in another country while there on a tourist visa- generally tourists aren’t allowed to be employed lest it’s under the table. But also, I live in Peru and the amount of Venezuelan refugees living in Lima that just showed up hoping to make things work is staggering, but that’s the life a refugee. Likewise there are countless immigrants who arrive in the US on Hail Marys and make it work.