POLL - Would you move out of the US?

[Brad and Vika 129]

I would move to Germany if I had the TOEFL requirements so I could teach there. Not hard to get and certainly we'd have time to plan for it. As Wacken mentioned, we'd need to apply to keep P's German citizenship before we could apply for him to have USC and I doubt we'd move to Germany without that.

My oldest son is already fluent in German and my daughter wants to learn. If P and I have any babies, we'd want ALL our kids to experience both countries. But I insist on being at least conversational before a move, since I am a language teacher and it's unacceptable, to me, to move to another country without having the basics of the language. In the part of Germany where P is from most people do speak English, and his entire family speaks English (except his Oma), but that just makes me lazy! I need to learn to honor my husband's heritage too.

We'll see what the future holds. For now it will have to be saving up and visiting for long vacations. I love his family and I don't think we'd be able to handle more than a couple of years without a visit (and even that is pushing it, but once a year may prove to be too costly).

I have been very impressed by the tendency of many Germans to be multilingual. The last time I was iin Germany, even the bus drivers spoke English. Puts us to shame.