Well, actually, both the King of the Hill and I have always *dreamed* of taking our kids to live abroad for a while.  Once upon a time, we even had an offer to go live in Germany for a couple of years, but it fell through, and pretty much at the last minute. It still stings.   

So, to give me a chance to jump out of my winter doldrums and dream for a bit, let’s figure out which countries we homeschoolers should go to live in Europe!

Here's how it shakes out on homeschooling over the big pond:

• Legal in Switzerland, England and Wales (easy, even easier than here), the Netherlands (with a religious exemption), Ireland, Italy, Austria (they re-evaluate after 1 year), Spain, Finland, Belgium.
• Legal, but pain in the rear in France (annual testing, and hello, we don't speak French), Sweden.
• Impossible:  Germany

The king would really prefer a German-speaking country to work in, which rules out all but Strasbourg in France. I’d prefer to have the option of homeschooling, which rules out Germany.  But still, we’d want to be centrally located on the continent for easy hopping to other countries for some solid homeschool field trips (and good career opportunities).  We’d need a good airport with lots of non-stop flights to everywhere.  How about Switzerland?  It would have to be the German-speaking part to meet everyone’s needs.  How about Bern?  The kids would be exposed to 4 languages there:  French, German, Italian, and Romansch.  And it is pretty... and relatively small, although densely populated for its area.  If not Bern, then somewhere else in German-speaking Switzerland, I think.

If no work were involved, I'd pick somewhere around Florence, Italy, or maybe the Amalfi Coast (where Tristan once got car sick and I had no choice but to have him barf into a clean diaper...)

So, that's my pick.  If you were suddenly asked to relocate to Europe, but told that you could pick anywhere at all with the caveat that you had to be able to do work similar to what you [or your spouse] was doing currently, where would you go?

This is the Amalfi Coast -- the roads are really similar to "the Dragon" of Hwy. 129 fame, except they are about the width of one lane with nothing but sheer cliffs on one side and enormous tour buses driving straight down the middle.