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naturegirl321 · Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home

First, I want to thank everyone for the PMs and advice taht I've gotten. I'm trying to get together as much info as I can by reading through old posts and PMing people.

Basically, my husband and I realise that we have to leave Peru, and South America, because of the money situation here. We would like to go some place where we can save money, but are also concerned about the quality of life.

Since we're both used to working two jobs and keeping busy, I can't imagine what my husband would do if he had to stay at home all day. He's Peruvian and speaks Spanish, and has basic English. He's a DBA, a Database Administrator with knowledge of CISCO, JAVA and Oracle.

From what I've gathered, it would be hard for him to get a job in the ME. Others have said that there might be possibilities in Korea, Taiwan, or Japan that he could teach Spanish.

Any other possibilities out there for either teaching Spanish or working with his career, computers? He's also had a notion of setting up a restuarant. How feasible is this? Is it difficult to get permission to open one?

Tiger Beer · Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Posts: 778 Location: Hong Kong

I'm in Korea now, and I do know of a Peruvian community here in Seoul. They are mostly involved in import/export though.

There doesn't seem to be much of any interest whatsoever in Spanish here. Its mostly an obsession with English.. and there are possibilities for Chinese or Japanese teachers.

There are companies here however.. and there are always possibilities he could go to work for one of them, particularly with his computer knowledge (I would think). It would be a higher possibility than teaching Spanish here anyways.