Fucking economy.

Ausfag here. My girlfriend is losing her visa soon, she fucked up big time by staying on student visas for 14 years instead of being a permanent resident and getting her citizenship.

Anyway, the plan was to go 'Working Holiday' mode across Europe, seeing as we need to 'live together' for 12 months to get a de facto / spouse visa. AFAIK hostels are out of the question for our eligibility.

Anyway, last couple of months has fucked us over quite royally as the dollar has fallen dramatically. but assuming it recovers, we need to know which countries will be least affected by the recession (employment wise.)

We speak english, french and cantonese between us, can work any shitty burger-flipping jobs or teaching english or whatever we can get our hands on.

tl;dr, need a list of the most survivable cities for two 19 year olds that need entry-level employment.

bonus points: cities where rent and cost of living is manageable and we wont die for a lack of knowledge of the language.

(i realise im probably going to end up somewhere shitty like country france or whatever.)