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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]21:48, and a flood prevention system is not a family cost?

10:08, I bet you'd be complaining if OP clammed up.

[b]OP, why must you have the 20% differential? Are there no jobs in Canada/Western Europe, or are they all WAY more competitive? [/b]

I will say (as a guy) that comparing her to your mother didn't help with the (mostly female) jury here.

It may be she is tired of the foreign service lifestyle. You may have to come back Stateside.

It may suck that she can't/won't handle it, but such is life. Not all women are able or willing to put up with it, year-in, year-out, for 20+ years. [/quote]

They are generally oversubscribed in terms of bidders with preference given to AIP graduates. So, yes they are competitive.   They are generally useless when it comes to promotion - seen as less challenging. By the way, there are perfectly non-differential posts in Asia, such as Japan, but that means 18 months of language training.  Again, a drag on promotion potential.

Kiev, in my book, is a perfectly acceptable 20 percent differential post. Moscow is 10 percent St. Petersburg 15.  I'm not considering Almaty.

Brussels and Rome will be on the next list, as potentially Dusseldorf, where I have an "in" with post management.  However, you are never guaranteed. You must put 8 bids and possibly may not avoid having to put a "sh*thole on your list depending on bid requirements.  I am not required to bid on any hardship posts this go around - thank you for serving in Russia - but there at be slim pickings for non-hardships.  That being said, I have expressed to my CDO my need for a good high school, and he advised bidding on either language designated positions or hardship posts to ensure I get that. There are actually hardship posts with excellent schools and spousal employment opportunities - New Delhi, for example, or Nairobi.  Although, on the latter, I won't go there with teen DD for safety concerns.  So, there are plenty of choices. The question is which choices do you want to make?

As to domestic tours, just did one. And frankly, why join the Foreign Service to be a desk jockey in Washington?.  Those assignments are only 2 years in any case.  [/quote]

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