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or death in the family. We have a wedding in November that we are waffling about going to.... Wouldn't have been an issue before.
As for the plan B. it never hurts to have options. If you can do your research and see if there are other expat people you can find out the lay of the land from. We just jumped and made a few financial mistakes. One thing I would advise is getting some of your assets into cash or liquid assets that won't trigger taxation when you draw on them. European tax rates on income are higher. (Although our tax lawyer here has managed to convince the finanzamt (think IRS) that our money from IRA accounts are the same as pensions. Remember that the US taxes on world wide income.

I hope you don't have to jump for political or safety reasons.