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orangiey · Joined: 30 Jan 2005 Posts: 217 Location: UK

Okay
Currently in China, leaving at the end of Jan and want to go to Europe.
Both of us are UK citizens with a CELTA but my wife is also now pregnant (due June 2007).
We DON'T want to stay in China and have the baby (too complicated, lack of trust in system) and as we have an EU passport each going to Europe is the best option.
We don't want to go the the UK (too expensive) so any suggestions of an affordable EU destination with decent healthcare?
Our first choice is/was Madrid but the Spanish forum is not recommending it?
Look forward to your suggesstions.........
(oh yeah, for those who know me I haven't told the school/colleages I'm currently at so please 'can you keep a secret?!!!'

redsoxfan · Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 178 Location: Dystopia

Poland. Best country in Europe to teach in, but you'll have to do a bit of research to find a good hospital. Stay far away from public hospitals. The private clinics are comparitively cheap, and from my experience, quite fine.

orangiey · Joined: 30 Jan 2005 Posts: 217 Location: UK

Thanks, Poland is our second choice but we were concerned about the healthcare. Thanks we will look there too!
Cheers

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

Try Turkey Very Happy

but I would go private.

oh you mentioned the EU.

Deicide

TheLongWayHome · Joined: 07 Jun 2006 Posts: 1016 Location: San Luis Piojosi

France? Best private and public healthcare in Europe... so they say.

MELEE · Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 4:10 pm Post subject:

Are you set on Europe, or you are just thinking that because you are EU citizens? Heck if I were an EU citizen, I'd definately be looking at jobs there too. Or are there other advantages, like being closer to the future grandparents?

Are you both going to work or is she going to take some time off to be a full time mom?

Do you have BA's as well as CELTAs?

If you are at all interested in Mexico, you can pm me, I'd be happy to tell you about my experience having babies (I have twins!) in Mexico. And maybe could give you some job leads...

Justin Trullinger · Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 4:13 pm Post subject:

Absolutely not Ecuador.

DainaJ · Joined: 26 Jul 2006 Posts: 62

If you would like info about having a baby in Germany, PM me. I had my first child there. The hospital was fine, but I also spoke fluent German. Larger cities would undoubtedly have places with at least a few English-speaking staff.

In general, a medium-sized city in Germany is a fine place to live, but in my opinion it's expensive to set up house there. As for work, my husband was a freelance English teacher, but we decided that he would stay home and I would continue to work after 3 mos., because I had the steadier 9-5 job, plus I was on the state health insurance plan, which covered our baby, too. Also, at least in the late 1990s in Frankfurt, the pay freelance English teachers got would have made it hard for me to stay at home. You can apply for Kindergeld (child subsidy), though. Another factor was that my husband would have had to work split hours - morning and evening - in his job, which wasn't ideal.

Deicide · Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 5:23 pm Post subject:

Procreation is such an odd thing; to this day I cannot understand why the propagation of my DNA interests me not one bit... Wink

Calories · Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 361 Location: Chinese Food Hell

Diecide, it is odd. I could tell you a list of reasons why procreation makes me want more to vomit and rip out my uterus than anything else then, I take my partner's DNA into the equation and though I love him dearly I'm certain our child would be the antichrist. That, and I think babies are creepy like spiders or a trail of dead kittens. There must be some reasons for you too!

orangiey · Joined: 30 Jan 2005 Posts: 217 Location: UK

Neither of us have BA's!! Sorry. Yes we thought the EU because we are EU citizens and yes it's close to home.....
Thanks for your advice so far..as for procreation......don't knock it until you try it!!!