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by rich_sasha 486 days ago
"Europe" is far too general to say much. Even within the EU, you will find CoL differences in the order of 2-3+x, very, very different cultures, developer pay, developer jobs (do you want a high-octane unicorn job or work for a small outsourced IT service?).

Maybe you don't know and fair enough, but it feels like a good start to make it more firm. You mention somewhere you want to stick to English, I certainly don't recommend moving to the UK right now. I don't know much about Ireland, but it's worth expanding your search. English is the lingua franca of software anyway and for the job it will be sufficient anyway. But you would really need to learn some local language elsewhere. It's also not as hard as it sound, people in Europe (mostly...) are very supportive and patient with foreigners trying to learn the language.

FWIW, Poland is worth looking at and not mentioned much on this thread. So long as you don't mind living 300km from Russia+Belarus.