Have you ever thought of leaving your country?

Yes, we share the same sentiment. Teachers here are really underpaid. Had it not been the fact that I have learned to love my job (with the meager earnings attached to it), I would have flown long time ago in a foreign land. Nevertheless, the thought of working in a greener pasture never left my mind especially in our current condition here in the Philippines. I think most of us here are underpaid workers except for those who are rooted already in the bureaucracy..those who are overly earning hundreds of thousands per year just to be a puppet. Anyway, if only majority of the Filipino working class has the enough resources for processing fees, placement fees, etc., maybe we all have long been gone now.

I DO FEEL THE SAME WAY! Whatever profession we do have... there is a little compensation here (Philippines) that WE DON'T DESERVE! I am planning to go out and work anywhere other than OUR OWN COUNTRY for me to be able to help my parents more before settling down myself!

I thought about it and actually ended up doing it 5 yrs ago...I was living in Canada with my kids and ended up moving to the U.S with my husband....To many it doesnt seem like that big of a difference but believe me it really is...The U.S is dramatically different to back home actually BUT it was a needed move for a few reasons...

go, by all means go, there is nothing left for us down here. - lol!

Well, a lot of people in my country (India) have left or already leaving for better jobs/education overseas. I want to study abroad and then come back home. After all, there is no place like home.

I think I will leave my country at some time....But it's my hometown and I'll surely miss it.