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[quote=Anonymous]I too am highly educated (BA Harvard, PHD economics, top ten school).  I wouldn't be that confident of my own ability to get a job in London/Paris. Specific experience will matter more than education.  Companies usually send people abroad to manage/set up a project that they have already set up/managed in the US.

A couple of things to ask:

What will your wife do?  Is her career portable? Will she be stuck at home with two small kids, with no social support network?  It is difficult to make friends in Europe.  people live within 100 miles of where they grew up and went to school, so their social networks are established.

London is expensive.  A 2 BR apartment in a decent neighborhood with a reasonable commute is $2500-3000 per month.  They have school choice there, and if you aren't resident to enter the lottery the March before school starts, your kid ends up in a school 10 miles from home.  Your other option would be private schools, which are a bit less than school in the US, so figure 20K per year per kid.[/quote]

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