Right, european businesses may be requiring degrees for most IT jobs. This is also a good point that education is less expensive on the other side of the Atlant

Right, european businesses may be requiring degrees for most IT jobs. This is also a good point that education is less expensive on the other side of the Atlantic, so that could be a possibility. There are many state-financed languages courses out there by the way - and they're really not expensive as they are designed also from people coming from poorer countries than the US. Also, it's Hacker News here, for advanced web companies using English is absolutely no problem (well probably less in Holland than in Spain, but you get my point...). Finally I understand that going to a far country is not an easy step, so at the end your choice. I just wanted to show the possibility :)