Originally Posted by elcrusoe
And the dream of controlling in an exotic destination not known to you could possibly come true.......
Ahhh, this old chestnut.
Not a dig at you mate, but I've seen this one before. Let's play pretendsies for a bit and us controllers now have the opportunity to apply worldwide for ATC positions. If everyone here made a list of their top 5 places they want to work, I'll bet there would be a quite a few similarities, probably involving medium traffic, sun, beaches and reasonable cost of living (St. Maarten anyone?). You then run into the problem of the local nationals all bidding to get into those places, and I'm sure we can all think of a unit or two in our respective countries that are hyper short staffed but many folk wouldn't readily stick their hand up and say "Yeah, I'll go there"
When I did my interviews to come here to Canada, the question was tentatively asked "So, where would you like to work.......other than Vancouver?".