I was wondering if any of you have made the move to lateral overseas? I've always wanted to move out of the USA and was wondering if anyone had experience with Europe or Asia? If so, how did it compare to the USA? What was comp, culture, personal life etc like? Or would it be better to wait until retirement to move abroad?
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Speaking on just Asia IBD - For the most part you must be able to speak the local language or mandarin at minimum, When its not a stated requirement the roles still go to people with at least a basic conversational level of speaking. If you only speak English then choices are Singapore (having a hard time recruiting mandarin speakers), HK, 3rd world SE, or roles equivalent to head of office. Obviously not a hard rule but its not the 90s where being an American was all you needed.
As far as general long term living depends what you want, but you shouldn't seriously think of moving to a country until you've spent some real time there (either a few months or multiple visits). Japan is an example of somewhere that is great to visit but terrible to live even if you speak the language.
Thanks for the reply. I do not speak other languages unfortunately, so I was thinking Singapore might be my best option, however many roles I looked at there want mandarin or at least "prefer" it.
I only mentioned Singapore because they're having a hard time right now getting mandarin speakers qualified to work in IB period, you could theoretically get by with just English. In nearly all countries it's preferred to speak the common language, Asia more so than Europe. The few Americans in Asia with only English that I know are either S&T or building out an office/desk and had to be convinced to relocate there.
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