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Well there's a lot of good software work being done here in Romania and getting a permit to work here is relatively easy/possible.  Becoming a citizen is next to impossible however.

Bucharest is a big modern city with anything you and your wife could ever possible want, and hordes of well-trained computer programmers looking for work.  You could do a lot worse!

Pax

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by soj on Tue Jun 28th, 2005 at 11:45:39 AM EST
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The possibility of citzenship is important, if my goal is for my sons to avoid the draft.  I suspect that by the time the soon-to-be 13-year old is close to 18, the all-draft army will be in full swing, and small countries  like Romania or Canada will have difficulty resisting US pressure to surrender US citzens for conscription.
by guleblanc on Tue Jun 28th, 2005 at 01:49:36 PM EST
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Well five years is a long time from now... and the draft is something pretty remote.  What is Romania or Canada or wherever going to do, deport your son?

Let me tell you a little secret about being American and living abroad - the US gov't has no idea where you live.  The only gov't who cares is the host country.  And being a permanent resident is ten thousand times easier than becoming a citizen.

If you really feel that paranoid, look at the Vienna Agreements and the mutual extradiction treaties.  I promise you nobody has ever been deported solely to obey some kind of draft requirement.  Secondly, the draft gets its list from the Social Services board and with your son being 13 I don't think he's registered yet.

You need to fly that family of yours to Europe for a while and let your wife and kids see what it's like here.

Pax

Night and day you can find me Flogging the Simian

by soj on Tue Jun 28th, 2005 at 02:00:31 PM EST
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