Hi there! Are you planning to study somewhere else than your country? Or, maybe you finished your studies and want to work in a foreign country? If you don’t know what to choose, you just found out one of my problems.
I am currently a Bachelor student and I am planning to go to study in a foreign country. Definitely I would also want to work there. But… where?
Being in Europe and also in the EU things are clear. The easiest way is to go in one of the EU28 countries because of the benefits, and here we are speaking about the free borders and easy visa (among other indirect ones).
I had a lot of thinking on the subject combined with serious research (I am a planner, what can I say :D). The features that I was careful were, firstly, education options (including education costs and living costs), life quality, economy, people and also air quality and personal preferences.
Why education…?
Obviously because I want to continue my studies (meaning Master degree), so, I had to find out where are the universities that provides me the desired program.
Unfortunately, because of that reason there were not that many choices (actually, only 5 in the whole Europe this being the reason for going to study abroad). I also wanted the program to be taught in English so the options were limited to only 3. And so we have in order: France, Germany and U.K., France being the best of what I want but also the second most expensive after U.K.
The life quality it is great in those countries, the most preferred choices being U.K. and Germany because I like the people from those countries (and the weather from U.K. …. I know, I am a weirdo), so now we head to economy. The best being U.K., then Germany and then France (being arranged like this because things are quite expensive in all of the countries, but the salaries are good, France being the hardest to live in followed by Germany).
However, the final choice being Germany because of the small University taxes, personal favourite and good air quality.
Being constrained to choose from only 3 countries because of the education programme which I want so much to follow, regarding the working countries and counting the features I was careful about, Germany is only the third one, the first two being Netherlands and then Sweden. For the moment I do not know where I shall work, but I definitely know that I’ll do my Masters in Germany.
Hope this article will help you choose the country you want to move in by taking into consideration some features, such as the ones I used, and also living costs and more, depending on what do you want to do. I would gladly wait to see which country do you choose to move and why. Hit me in the comments and bis spater, aligator!