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My reason for moving was almost an accident.

I had been looking for a job but not having much luck. Eventually I found a job ad in a magazine. It had no address or phone number, only a email address. It sounded interesting so I applied.

Imagine my surprise when I found out the job was in Holland and they were offering to pay for my flights to the interview. It took the risk that it might have been a scam to steal my kidneys and went.

I got the job and I've been here for five years now. I don't regret it at all.

I fell in love.  Then he was offered a job in Kazakhstan.  On a trip home (USA), he gave me a beautifull ring.  On his next visit home, we got married.  I took a leave of absent from my job and now here I am.  I am now pregnant and planning on going back to the US to have the baby and put in an official notice of leaving my job (industial electriton) to be a house wife.  Isn't love great!  So far so good, in the city of Almaty.   Kristal

I moved from England to Argentina, across an entire ocean and into a different hemisphere, just to escape from a crazy ex-girlfriend!

But then I decided to stay in Argentina, because I fell in love with a *good* type of crazy girl here, who is now my lovely fiance

For "Other" reasons, since it was not possible to put several reasons :p
I moved for professional reasons, but that's because I wanted it, I proposed myself for the position.
I like to travel and discover new cultures. If my job offers me such an opportunity, I grasp it with great pleasure

My husband's career.  We did our homework and monitored the job scene carefully before we emigrated over.  At that time, we were expatriates in Shenzhen, China when we decided we had enough of the crazy hours my husband worked.  We made a recce trip which finally nailed down our decision.  During the recce, my husband made contact with a couple of recruitment agencies.  After we came over, he had secured a job within 2 weeks.  And after, his career has sort of taken off which is nice, although, now that we've been away for so long from SG, that we tend to get bouts of homesickness every now and then.

I met my wife in Paris and we moved to her native Spain.

My husband's family was from here and he moved away when he was a child.  We had an opportunity to come over, and the kids were a good age, so here we are.  Exploration I suppose would be the best answer.

I'm still in love! We had a house in West London , good jobs and friends. We just didn't fancy waiting to die in the suburbs..not without first doing something to tell the Grandchildren. So we rented the house and moved to NY. My husband is a US citizen , I find it hard some days as I can't work yet , but I don't regret being here.

I moved to Sweden as a "love immigrant" about a year and a half ago.

My husband and I are from the US. He is a scientist.  He was offered and chose a post-doctoral position here in Germany.  He was very picky in looking for the perfect post-doc, and this is where he found it.  I had veto power if I didn't want to come here so I wasn't just dragged along   I found some things I could do here too (go to grad school for a teensy fraction of what I would have paid in the US!) so it has all worked out very well.

I see love prevails here as a reason to move...

My husband is an american soldier for the Army and I come back to the States with him, cause his term in Germany is over...
We move to Texas...

I fell in love

Well, i think i have 2x reasons - 1stly, my then boyfriend got a job here (Switzerland) & he asked me to come along & i did - so we married & came. So it's both professional (thot not for my own profession) & love.

Hi,

I answered "I fell in love" and because of that I'm in UK now, but I wouldn't stay in my country anyway, I did not see my future there... that is why I went to work on the ships in the Caribbean.... and I loved it, I mean Caribbean not the ships

Margot

I am born in Kuwait. In the middle east, even if you are born here your 'expatriate' status doesn't change!

So for us it's a mix.
I met my wife in France a couple of years ago (she's russian), we began a peaceful life there (finishing another round of studies, buying a flat, having both a job).
But we were thinking it would be great to go abroad before having child just to see how cool is it.
Western Europe, or USA was for us a natural choice and I heard that french engineers are searched in thoses country, but it was too simple :-)
We decided to try to move to Russia for a while now, but we waited for her to finish her master degree, then she got an offer for being a PR manager in Moscow.
It was the occasion to go abroad so we took it.
So for my wfe it's for work, for me it's for love and for fun. I don't expect much of my job in Russia just enough to have some  fun (as usual) and money to a have a descent life there. And there are little risk for us so "better have remorse that regrets"

Good question. Really and truly because I got made redundant and wanted to spend the money re-living a mis-spent youth as a ski bum. I soon realised, however, that I was unable to keep up with the new, fresh faces, especially when I started falling asleep in nightclubs while they danced merrily on tables.

Luckily, I met a local girl, got married at Graceland (naturally), had a baby (well, my wife did - as she frequently reminded me), got a 9-5, a mortgage, a pipe and a pair of slippers.

The pure adventure of it.

Funny, I've moved for all of those reasons! (Not all at the same time..)
- Professional reason
- Because I wanted, I moved without a job
- Student
- I fell in love
- Other

I moved to the UK for a number of reasons.

I fell in love with the country. I have always wanted to live in another country. I am studying here and very happy about it because I had wanted to do this for so long. Everyone in my family likes the UK. So I guess that, in some way, I inherited that as well. I have Scottish ancestry and now don't live to far away from Scotland. I love the language. I love the food. People are much friendlier than in the country that I grew up in. I love the food. And there are so many traditions that are so unique to this country and so many things you just don't have anywhere else. Most of the people that I admire are British.

I am an italian girl and actually I still didn't move, but after I felt in love with a lebanese guy (who came to study in Italy and now is my boyfriend) I've started considering the idea of moving for good... I've already been 4 times in Lebanon, it's an amazing country, but actually we still don't know where our future will develop... and so far, it's a distance relashionship. Not easy but very stimulating: 2 years of responsibilities and big challenges, it definitely made me grow and become more serious. And each time we meet again, it's really as the first time. That's great

I'd been saying for years that I wanted to find a way to live abroad for a while.  Then I met my fiance, and he was both perfect and wanted to move me to Denmark.  I'm not a fatalist, but it felt like fate anyway.

Julien wrote:

The first poll of the expat forum!

It is associated to this post: /forum/viewtopic.php?id=27

Did you move for professional reasons, for your studies, because you really wanted to (you move without a job), or for any other reason?

I moved to Jordan first because I fell in love with my husband..we lived in the States for a time,but I couldn't wait to get back here because I had also fell in love with his family and missed them.

I always wanted to live abroad, so off I went at first chance. I have wanderlust and wish to see the world. I am very thankful that my spouse felt the same (when I casually mentioned I had wanted to live in Ireland he went and looked up jobs!).

Being on the road is normal for me. I feel weird when I am not able to travel, but I am also happy to have a home in Japan now.

The opportunity to work in Hong Kong came up and I jumped on it.  What could be more adventurous than living on the other side of the world?