Should I move from Greece to San Francisco and How?
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February 16th, 2011
I am a 21 year old mechanical engineer from Greece and desperately want to move to San Francisco.I am thinking of taking a visitor visa and go to the US to try find a job that will also sponsor me for green card.Do you think I could do something like that?I have 30.000 dollars.Any guy here that moved to SF from Greece?
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You also may want to apply to business (in that field)/visit…..before you move there….just to get the ball rolling… though I’ve never moved to another country before….But I have moved from one province to another….and always had a job waiting for me before I moved…and some helped pay for the move
San Francisco (heck, California in general) is an expensive place to live; you might try someplace else.
I suggest that you follow the job. If they’re in SFO, then so be it. If not, well, we’re pretty sure that it won’t ever fall into the ocean; you can try again later.
SF is an amazing place, but so is Greece. The job market in the US is really bad now. Americans aren’t finding jobs, so it will definitely not be easy for an immigrant to find a job. In addition, rent is very expensive in SF. I agree that you might want to try somewhere else first, and seek work or connections before you come.
Man this is my problem.Greece is not an amazing place to live.You can not find all the things you want to buy.You can’t find anything but in SF you do.Alameda discount store has all the things I want to buy but I just can’t get my hand to this things cause I live in Greece and they don’t ship it.Secondly,Greece is about to declare bankropsy. No jobs for a mechanical engineer and It was my dream to live in SF since the age of 15.
@flatro1 have you thought about Australia or New Zealand? It could be a good idea.
No not really.My main reason for going to SF is being able to buy some pretty strange stuff.I don’t want australia because of the floods.
@flatro1 The floods aren’t a problem if you live in a city. Best I can recall, that’s mostly an inland phenomenon. San Francisco sits on the San Andreas Fault. It’s pretty tame most of the time – in the 12 or so years that I lived there, we only had a handful of earthquakes, and only one – the 1989 Loma Prieta quake – did more than rattle the china.
Personally, I think that you’d be better off living within day-trip range of San Francisco rather than the city itself. Cities are notoriously more expensive.
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