The time to sign up for universities is coming again and I'm thinking about trying to get out of this hellhole by studying abroad that's not Slovakia or the surrounding countries (Hungary, Czech republic, Poland,...) seeing as my sister studied in UK and went to US to finish her degree. There are several huge problems though. I don't really have a good job, which only nets around 400 Eur a month after taxes, and every other country has different standards for living. (The reason why not Slovakian unis is because they treat their students as bags of money, since one student equals money from the state)
Ireland has expensive as fuck housing (300 Eur a week)
Norway has around 3800 NOK a month rent for a room in a student accomodation, but there is a massive language barrier because I don't know Norwegian and wouldn't get a part time job to afford the rent
US and Canada requires student visa that takes ages to get and is also expensive as shit
UK is even more expensive than Ireland somehow and the whole brexit thing doesn't really make things easier
Australia is on the same boat as Ireland and UK with living expenses and requires visa
NZ is same as Australia but even more expensive with living expenses
Czech republic is literally just Slovakia with funny accents
Any other countries pose a large language barrier and won't be able to live or study there because of not knowing the language
Am I just destined to be stuck in this living nightmare of a country? It is finally time to give up and just work a deadbeat job without a degree in a country I hate until I die?
You are probably eligible for free education in Scotland as a EU citizen (but be aware this may end soon due to Brexit; that being said the Student Awards Agency of Scotland will fund you for your full degree if you apply within the next academic year regardless).
Personally I am studying my second degree in the Netherlands (on a extended break for work) and I can recommend them. Tuition is not too high and if you work a certain amount of hours you can apply for student financing too.
I'm in the U.S. and never got the chance to study abroad because of my program's structure (classes offered once a year, miss a semester = extra year to get a degree) and because of the enormous amount of student debt I'm in. The only times I could study abroad was in the summer but because of my finances I took internships instead.
Although I didn't leave the country, I've been to California, Washington DC, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, Florida, and North Carolina entirely on someone else's money because of undergraduate research conferences, job interviews, and internships. My best advice to you is try to get into undergraduate research at your university (even if you don't get paid or its in a slightly different field from what you're studying) and use that research as a stepping stone to get into conferences or apply to internships. You should get paid to travel to conferences and internships, and even if you don't you'll make connections that will help you travel back in the future.
I'm in the engineering discipline so your circumstances may be different, but I still recommend applying to everything until you hear back from someone. Every year I apply to ~15-20 different jobs/internships and only one ends up accepting me.
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