#2: Montevideo, Uruguay

Uruguay, too, is home to top international education options, in both Montevideo and Punta del Este, on the coast. Choices in the capital include the British Schools; the Uruguayan American School; the Lycée Français Jules Supervielle (a French/Spanish school); and the Escuela Integral Hebreo Uruguaya (a Hebrew school). In Punta del Este, your child could attend St. Clare’s College for bilingual primary and secondary education.

If Lief and I didn’t have the doing-business agenda that we have at this point in our lives, we could consider Uruguay as an option ourselves right now, as I believe it would be a top choice for Jack. Friends who’ve relocated to this country with their families report that life here is like life in the United States in the 1950s. There’s a peace and an innocence about Uruguay that make it a great place to raise children. Certainly it’s one of the safest places on the planet, far and happily removed from global tensions and strife.