Ehmergerd, you have no idea how excited I am! I get to visit in 4.5 weeks, but only for a week :( Then I get to move out there in June/July. Those four months will be soooooo long (especially since there is like, a 50/50 chance that we shall elope when I visit), and my guy has already told me that he doesn't know how…

So...my situation is...more tricky, and I come off as the bad guy. There was some significant, erm, overlap, shall we say? I had an affair with my guy while still with my ex-fiance (who had refused to marry me before my +3 month international work trip). We thought it was a one-off, but it turns out that we couldn't…

Oh my god, do it! Honestly, I've thought about this specific international situation so much in the last couple of months, and marriage as a benefit so much in the last couple of years (I'm a recovering academic). Also (full disclaimer), I just got out of a 9 year relationship in which we kept talking about getting…

I feel like a dick for turning my nose up at all my military friends who got married really fast in the 4 years or so after high school, since I'm basically doing the same thing. You obviously understand :) Can I pick your brain if you're a US citizen and your partner is EU, and you guys decided to stay in Europe?

Edit: my work is not elopement related...but it is certainly being derailed!

Thanks! I'm glad I'm not the only crazy person who thinks it's a good idea to secretly elope!

In my experience people who are native speakers get used as conversational teachers rather than primary teachers. You should get a TEFL certification (Teaching English as Foreign Language), which you can find with a websearch. I did mine online, but I would really suggest doing one in person if you can. I think that…

I'm like, basically the best/worst person to talk to. All I want to do is get my butt to Europe and move in with my guy too. I was in a 9 year relationship that dawdled more than you would think is possible, and I kind of woke up and was like, "I'm a grownup. I'm tired of logicking everything to death. I am going to…

On a more useful note, I have a college friend who has been working with these people: http://www.epik.go.kr/ So, there you go! A reputable company :)

DO IT. Find a way. My ex and I wanted to move to Europe for a year after we graduated, and we settled on Hungary. The only way we could figure it out was to teach English since the EU makes it tricky to get a work visa as a non-EU citizen. It was one of the best decisions I've ever made :)

That is super lame, and I am an (absurdly? we'll find out soon) impatient human. I hope you get to move in sooooooooooon :)

Um, guys? I think I'm eloping to Gibraltar in a month. I have so much work to do, but I am so twitter-pated that I just....I just can't do anything. Whaaaaaat. My life is insane, I swear to god. Sis is the only one who can know for a while. I thought I'd turn to you guys, just so that I can TELL someone!

He isn't saying that in as many words, but I think that he's suggesting that even being an Orthodox Jew means that you're still not as Orthodox as you would like to think you are. For example, your ass will be arrested when you try to stone someone else according to Levitical law, since that is something that legally…

It seems that in the EU there is a right to work for spouses of EU citizens, so I don't have to worry about getting citizenship in order to work, thank god! Unfortunately, school is not an option right now, so I can't use that as a springboard. Mostly the laws just seem really confusing because they often address…

We are both archaeologists, and it's just not a highly paid field anywhere in the world :( I don't think either of of us would clear even the reduced amount. I know that because of the development boom, they're in such need that they're even hiring unskilled labor for some projects.

Oh sweet Jesus, that is really not what I was hoping to hear :/ It seems that there are EU limits on how long some processes involving spouses are allowed to take, but I haven't seen anything specifically about spouse work permits. There are lots of phrases on these official websites about spouses receiving similar…

Oh me, oh my, are there any fresh-ish US expats in Europe here tonight? Short story: fell in love with an EU citizen about 6 months ago. He lives in Germany, but is from Eastern Europe; I want to go to Germany to be with him and to work in our common field. I am a US citizen.

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaym, he's even hotter than last time I noticed. Whew!

Yes, it makes me want to die of sadness also :( Tony is often such a heartless sociopath, but there are a few scenes in those series that really humanize him. This is the most important one, I think.

Nooooooooo, I'm sure that friend is accurately quoted. There is a lot of conflation in W Europe between Romani ("gypsies") and Romanians/Bulgarians. Since these countries joined the EU in 2007, there have been high rates of immigration, especially among impoverished Romani to countries like the UK, Germany, France,…