[gedc]

Thanks! Your experience there is very encouraging.

Lots of moving parts, but when I was thinking about this, I arrived at a similar conclusion to what you recommend - have the conversation with my current employer, and also to timebox it. The latter part works because I'm nearly certain my wife doesn't want to be gone for more than a year or two. We'll see on the former. School's already started for the year, so I'm thinking I can have this conversation with plenty of lead time and do the relocation next summer.

Could I ask the time difference that you were working with, and if it was a particular challenge? I'd be 6 hours ahead of eastern time and I'm not sure yet whether I would want to commit to working EST from abroad - it's certainly doable, but I'm not sure that I want to work until 10-11pm each night.

[ccleary00]

I'm one hour behind my team so it's pretty easy.

We do have some offshore contractors who work from India which is about 10 hours difference I think. We only have about 2-3 hours overlap with them in the morning, but I find that more than adequate for communication between us.

Working that late doesn't sound enjoyable - you could try proposing 'core hours' that would overlap with EST so you wouldn't have to work that late. Something like 4 hours overlap is what I usually see remote companies requiring.

Best of luck and let me know how it goes, hope it works out for you. Working remotely is great.