[zerr]

Not at all. Germany is one of the most tech/dev friendly country, especially if you are outside web dev. I see a lot of C++ engineering opportunities there. If only it was an English speaking country, and they had a sun... (It's a shame that we don't have a good English speaking country in whole Europe...) ;)

[dav-id]

I hear the English can speak English quite well

[T-A]

Yes, but then there is the "sun" part...

[dmoo]

Us Irish also have some ability.

[noir_lord]

As an Englishman perhaps not as well as you would think.

[zerr]

Yes, when I watch some British TV shows I hear a lot of pronunciations I was taught was wrong in school.

[imtringued]

But it's not the same old english that mama used to speak...

[Natanael_L]

We Swedes too, for that matter.

[astrange]

I had the strangest problem with Swedes where they'd seem to speak perfect English, but repeatedly mishear me as saying something offensive and never stop to make sure.

Actually I think I mentioned "cutting myself shaving" to someone and they apparently to this day believe I'm suicidal.

[Natanael_L]

Haven't seen it myself, but I'm guessing it's a bit Dunning-Kruger effect + unwillingness to ask outright (the average Swede don't want to look silly, etc). While we have a significant exposure to English, few of us regularly have casual conversations with native English speakers, so our vocabularies aren't as good as we tend to think.

[jventura]

Lisbon fulfills both your criteria: lots of sun and even kids learn English on the first year at school. I can surely bet that we speak better english than British people will ever speak Portuguese! :)

[zerr]

There is another strange thing in Europe: more sun ==> less salary ;)

[defen]

Most Dutch people I've met speak better English than a good percentage of Americans...

[zerr]

Actually, they have quite an American accent. Because they watch a lot of American shows in original language, as they explain.

[gwildor]

This is true. Because we're such a small country, dubbing isn't viable (adding subtitles is cheaper). And I'm glad for it, because I can't stand dubbed things, but that might just be because I'm not so used to it.

[hawski]

English is one of the two official languages of Malta. I was thinking about this evergreen island myself, but it seems that they have mainly jobs with web dev and C#.

I am now in Germany on C++ job and I don't now German that much.

[zerr]

> about this evergreen island

I'd say it is somewhat ever-yellow/red-ish :)