r/AmerExit

I recently posted on this sub asking which career path would be best for moving abroad as I’m about to be applying to colleges(in the usa), and now im back asking which is the better country to live in between France and Japan. After I graduate I plan on moving to a new country. Since I’ll be outside of the country as a freshly 21/22 year old I’ll need a support system and since my parents were in the military and were frequently stationed abroad they have very close friends in both countries who were basically my uncles and aunts growing up. Which is why those are my two options, along with the fact that I genuinely am very interested in both of the countries cultures.

I’ll need to decide soon even though I’m not planning on leaving for a few years because I’m fluent in neither French nor Japanese so I’ll be starting from scratch(well not completely from scratch with Japanese since I roughly know kanji, hiragana, and katakana from a phase in middle school).

I’ll be in my early twenties and will hopefully have a degree in environmental engineering so im wondering which country will have better opportunities in those industries. Im fairly extroverted so ive never struggled with socializing in unfamiliar places though I’m sure it’ll be different in a whole new country. But on that note I am a biracial woman but honestly as bad as it sounds I can deal with racism. As long as it’s not an actual hate crime I have thick skin growing up in a small southern town where getting called the hard r or having neighbors with confederate flags wasn’t uncommon.

Another very important thing for me is that while I absolutely love rain i also love sunshine and greenery. I want to escape the blazing heat of the south while living somewhere very sunny and with a lot of nature to enjoy. I would also love living in a place with very little violence or crime.

I’m currently picking majors as im heading off to college soon and I’m trapped between environmental engineering and biology for eventual an eventual pa degree.

Overall salary and career wise I really want to be a physicians assistant but I don’t know if it fits around the life I want. Ive always been sure on leaving the USA. I don’t really have any vehement hatred for it here but I know this isnt where im going to grow old and raise a family in. I plan on moving to either Japan or France and should have it narrowed down to one before going to college.

I know engineering is the more transferable of the two careers but is there really no way to put a pa degree go use in these countries?

The sheriff only does live scan for employer-sponsored applicants, and the banks either stopped offering prints or wanted an appointment code I didn't have. DC mobile notary finally did it and handled the apostille too, which saved me another round of running around. If you're in DC, VA, or MD and applying for residency abroad, call first and say it's for personal use, not a job, and you can either go to their office or have them come to you.