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Fucking economy.

Ausfag here. My girlfriend is losing her visa soon, she fucked up big time by staying on student visas for 14 years instead of being a permanent resident and getting her citizenship.

Anyway, the plan was to go 'Working Holiday' mode across Europe, seeing as we need to 'live together' for 12 months to get a de facto / spouse visa. AFAIK hostels are out of the question for our eligibility.

Anyway, last couple of months has fucked us over quite royally as the dollar has fallen dramatically. but assuming it recovers, we need to know which countries will be least affected by the recession (employment wise.)

We speak english, french and cantonese between us, can work any shitty burger-flipping jobs or teaching english or whatever we can get our hands on.

tl;dr, need a list of the most survivable cities for two 19 year olds that need entry-level employment.

bonus points: cities where rent and cost of living is manageable and we wont die for a lack of knowledge of the language.

(i realise im probably going to end up somewhere shitty like country france or whatever.)
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>> Anonymous
lolol i love that cat
'do you has a flavor?'
>> Anonymous
isn't the dollar recovering? on xe.com it lists it at 1.37 to teh euro when just a month ago it was like 1.55
>> Anonymous
op, maybe you actually SHOULD try france. obviously not a city like paris, but maybe even a small town near a city like paris where tha cost of living is moar manageable. and as bad as it sounds, perhaps you should get a burger-flipping job, at least to start out. or maybe a pizza hut or something (or 'pizza u' as they would say...haha, i shit you not, they actually say 'pizza u', as the 'h' and 't' are not pronounced).
>> Anonymous
Your girlfriend is a fucking idiot.
>> Anonymous
OP here, anyone got experience with country french?
(not the chicken tonight sauce)

anyone been to sweden or denmark either? is there a market for english teaching?
>> Anonymous
>>68851

Sweden and Denmark are super expensive, but the people there speak English. Try going east or south, countries like Croatia or Slovenia are nice and cheap.
>> Anonymous
Montreal or Chicago.
>> Anonymous
>>68811
>cantonese
Go to Guangzhou and teach there. I would say Hong Kong but they are super strict about "qualifications", whatever those are.
>> Anonymous
>>68851

No market for english teachers, the Swedes become that themselves. Almost all Swedes know english enough to have a conversation.
>> Anonymous
If you're going to France, I would recommend Montpellier.

It's a smaller city, easy to get around (excellent transport network) and very cosmopolitan thanks to having three universities which make up a large chuck of the population.

Because of the student population, it's well set up for student living, so you should be able to get by on the cheap. It's also quite popular with tourists, so you might be able to find English speaking jobs or perhaps do private tutoring for students, there's lots of retail too.

If you want to consider places outside of Europe, Thailand is good for super cheap living and is pretty much off the radar from all this economy stuff. Again, tourism and English teaching could help with jobs (stay away from Bangkok though), wages won't be good though compared to Europe.
>> Anonymous
>>68876
True dat. I fucking crapped myself when I got shouted at by a Swedish kid in a French swimming pool.
>> Anonymous
>>68892
OP here. thanks, iv been looking into it and it looks like a gorgeous place...

to the person who suggested montreal, canada is turning into our main target (although whether she can get a Working Holiday Program visa as a HK citizen will take a couple weeks to work out.)
although i will almost definitely end up flipping burgers :'(

u can get by with english in quebec though, right? cos i speak french, she doesnt...
>> Anonymous
>>68920
Yes. Montreal is very bilingual - you could live there without ever needing to learn French, though it would certainly help.