So, hi to anyone reading this and thank you for your time. My name is Miles and i am an electrician living in Norwich UK. For a while i have been planning to move myself and my family to another country (don't worry, they are aware). As im sure most of you will understand the transition of making the idea (the dream, if you like) into practical reality throws up a whole load of complicated and difficult barriers in which to pass, what a challenge hey! Basically without a timescale we are looking to emmerse ourselves totally into another culture and situation as far as possible from what it is we live in at the moment. We are serious about what we are looking for and i endeavor to succeed in finding it but we are right at the start of what i understand to be a very long process. Any research ideas, experience, advice would be greatly appreciated. I am 25, my partner is 22 and our children are 3 and 18 months. Being realistic i know that my eldest will be at school age by the time this project really gets going so again any advice on moving very young children, education etc would be much appreciated. My research so far has drawn me towards india, but i'm very keen not to follow the beaten track so very hard to know where to go. We have a 3 week trip planned for feb 2010 so hopefully this will open some doors (or close them as the case may be), but in the mean time anyone with absolutely any info please leave a note. Thanks and kind regards, Miles.

My husband and I were expats for some 40 years and lived /worked in many countries, including India where we spent almost 3 years. If you are planning to work as an electrician in India you will find it virtually impossible to get work. There are tens if not hundreds of thousands of Indians seeking work and unless you have a particularly specialist skill you will not succeed. Many of these job seekers are highly qualified and skilled and even for them, finding work is not always easy. Indeed, why should you take work from Indians who are themselves struggling to survive. Are you of Indian descent? This will obviously make it slightly easier for you but if by some remote chance you find work you will be paid very low wages and will not have a good or easy life style. We were fortunate in that my husbands employer posted us abroad to various countries so we enjoyed the expat lifestyle without having to make the difficult decision to emigrate. You say you don't want to follow the herd but if you have consideration for your children I would advise Australia, Canada or New Zealand which is where we would have emigrated to when we were younger and sometimes wish we had!

Unfortunately most countries off the beaten track have dirt cheap labor for electricians. I would definitely go visit India before making the move... it's eiher a love it or hate it kind of country.

Might be able to find some work in expat locations where they care about quality.

Not INDIA.Brits are not wanted here. Not even for a holiday, it`s a shithole.