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and then China for the foreseeabl
What's wrong with Hadrian's wall? It was built for a similar purpose as the Great Wall, i.e. to keep out marauding tribes from the North, but much closer to home and easier to walk. I"d imagine.
Anyway, Good Luck

Gfplux, I'm off to Switzerland for 6 months and then China for the foreseeable. The pollution in China puts me off a bit but I have very good friends there so...

Gagajo, have you thought closer to home like Luxembourg.
The salaries a quite high here. However accomadation is very expensive.

TM is no better.

I'd aspire to be a Jezza-alike but he is a far better person than I'll ever be.

You enjoy your Shiraz. I'm damp with toddler spit.

Wash your mouth out Rufus2!
Gaga; At this very minute I'm washing it with a drop of quality Shiraz but I won't be spitting it out! Will that suffice?
Sorry about the Maggie ref. I had no idea of what you allege; shows how out-of-touch I've been. Would you prefer me to substitute Theresa in my tongue-in-cheek remark or perhaps forget the whole thing? After all , Ive only got 2 female PMs to work with! I wonder why?

You appear to me to be another Maggie and you'd have no trouble putting those pesky MPs to the sword. grin and helping rescue the Brits from the mess they've created!

Wash your mouth out Rufus2! Comparing me to the decimator of the lives of millions of NE British children! I once taught in the UK's largest ex mining village. Generation after generation of children with no prospects.

My niece has just moved from Dubai to Japan.
Finds teaching is more challenging in Japan, not a problem for her, and the life is more enjoyable.
Would your DGS go to the school you are teaching in?
Hope you enjoy it when you have made up your mind.

I am with Optimist definitely the Netherlands. I lived there for 18 years and the life style is second to none. You would probably have to get a job in an International School eg Bergen or the British School in the Hague but I can thoroughly recommend the country.

It's still what I love best but impossible in the UK now if you're expensive/experienced
Gaga; Thinking outside the square and putting aside your love of money for a moment, have you considered entering politics? By your own admission, Bossy and clever with it!
You appear to me to be another Maggie and you'd have no trouble putting those pesky MPs to the sword. and helping rescue the Brits from the mess they've created!
They'd welcome you with open arms. The pay is probably not much to write home about , but think of the accolades.!
OoRoo

Not sure Razzy. It was a possibility about 10 years ago and I decided to stay in the classroom. It's still what I love best but impossible in the UK now if you're expensive/experienced.

Would you get more pay in the higher education sector in the UK? Senior Lecturer/ Head of School?

My daughter started teaching abroad about 17 years ago. She began in Sardinia, which she loved, then onto South Korea, which she liked but wasn't mad about, next to Thailand, which she adored and stayed there for 6 years, then to Dubai where she remained for 5 years and now Kuala Lumpur and she has three years there so far. She is head of an English Department for an international school. We have visited everywhere she has been, we love KL She plans to go to Singapore next.

In Switzerland, you could not teach in a State school- but only in private schools. Unless you can get them to accept your qualification and experience, which is rare - and you speak the local language to C1 level.

As N America and Australia are continents, they will vary tremendously depending on where you choose to live, Gagajo

Sorry, sorry, sorry!

Yes, once bitten, always careful.

You'd find very few snakes or crocs but the spiders may find you
Callistemon; I'm being run ragged here trying to support our tourist trade; we don't mention spiders here in VIC., especially redbacks; a bit of a turn-off for prospective visitors, although we still have the time-honoured defensive weapon; namely a stick in the pan to be rattled around before squatting. Especially useful in unlit latrines at night.
As they say, once bitten, twice shy!
Worse than sitting on a hedgehog I'd imagine, but we don't have them. OoRoo

He'd talk your ear off, leaving no fear of unwanted, incoming, ingress from a bossy teacher
GagaJo Phew! At first glance I thought you said your "bloke*, (!?) would take my ear off! Must check with Specsavers! Very nice to 'meet' you; where do you hail from? And who's the bossy teacher?
Whatever, there's no such thing as "unwanted, incoming ingress"regardless of its source, so please keep on ingressing.
Cheers! OoRoo
Btw; Please put the chaperone bit on hold for now!

Rufus I meant that Gagajo may find Australia more appealing if she comes and meets you.

No need to worry Rufus2, my bloke could act as chaperone. He'd talk your ear off, leaving no fear of unwanted, incoming, ingress from a bossy teacher.

Then again, she hasn't met you
*Callistemon^; Now what mischief are you up to?
With all due respect to Gaga, I'm not too sure I wish to meet her either; faced with all that talent and with me being a shy, unassuming chap, I'd soon be reduced to a gibbering mess of inferiority complex! Unless, of course, I can entice a suitable chaperone! Any takers?
OoRoo

China I can teach up to 60 and possibly beyond if I'm counted as a foreign expert, which I was last time. South Korea later. Switzerland, no limit.

I only intend to work up to 60 anyway so hopefully shouldn't be a problem. I don't have the pick of jobs I would have 10 years ago though unfortunately. Probably due to age.

Some if not all of the countries you are applying to have a retirement age of 60 for teachers (do check). You might be even less likely to secure a job if you have to come back to UK at 60.

Hi tigertooth welcome back on the forum ( I thought that I recognised that sarcastic style of writing.)?

DD3 has taught in various places so I asked her opinion.
For country? Italy
For the job? Thailand
Home life? Nigeria
UAE was 'ok' but didn't approve of it's politics!

Now with two young children , and living in England, she teaches English on line to Chinese children which fits in with her domestic arrangements.

This might interest you, GagaJo:

www.theguardian.com/education/2019/nov/13/why-british-teachers-fleeing-overseas-international-schools