Which one would you choose for your child? Any amendments - i.e. place X but in the coiuntryside, or place X if had XYZ? If you were me, and you had a husband and a 2 year old, which would you choose: Place A Sunny and bright Live next to beautiful beaches There are lots of things to do There are lots of children's activities Schools are good Healthcare is good but expensive Uncharacteristic place to live, urban sprall Highly dependant on having a car Neputistic - very hard to get a job unless you know "someone" Very hard for me to get a job, easpecially part-time On the other side of the world to all your family and friends Culture different from own Better paid job but no work for wife who studied for 5 years at uni and 5 years professionally Here cannot afford to buy a house (which I need as love decorating) unless we live somewhere very isolated and husband has 1-1.5 hr travel to work and may be isolated Childcare is very poor Having to live in a rental in one of worst areas of a good suburb, which means that it is quite small and dark and there is distrubance from.. drunk people, parties outside someimes and some drug related crime, etc The world's most dangerous creatures liver here! Very high cost of living and finding it hard to save enough to fly to see family Place B Historic country Lots of lush green areas Nearer to family and friends Mild climate but rains a lot Much easier to get a job part-time and continue wife's career Childcare is usually a great standard Possibilty of living and working in a town that is mainly travelled by bicycles and public transport which is prefered by us as environmentalists and healthy! Food is much more affordable, and easier to eat healthy and have own allotment Here we could probably buy our own house in a good area Highly muticultural population means you get to meet lots of interesting people Shopping is great - clothes etc Too many immigrants means that country is full to bursting and the welfare system is much abused so that people who do work are supporting a whole plethora of people who don't It's colder and there aren't as many nice beaches - if any It may be very difficult for us to get jobs due to the recession Place B has 4 seasons, very sunny in Summer, Autumn beings fall, Winter ofetn means sharp frosty mornings but still sunny soedays but FREEZING! And sometimes snow Spring is sharp again but snowbless and dafodils come up everywhere and the leaves start to change colour.