[IWantOut] 31m USA->Netherlands, Germany, Austria

I previously lived in austria for 4 years with my wife. After she divorced me i moved back, lost my residency, and realized I hate living in the USA.

I only speak b1 german, but it was enough to get by while I was there.

I have a PhD in chemical engineering. My wife was doing a YT channel that was making significant money (more than I could've working any job) and I went all in on it with her to try and make it big. Editing, writing, etc. It was a great idea and we did amazing, but it's turned out horrible now that she's divorced me now that i have a 4 year resume gap and she gets to keep the channel and income.

I have no real "professional" experience outside of my PhD because of working on her channel. My specialty was computational fluid dynamics/multi-phase flow and I published 3 papers/did 7 conferences. My former PhD advisor told me I was a great student and despite the gap I could probably get any job I wanted. I already had some companies offer me high salaried jobs in the USA but I don't really want to accept because I don't like living here.

I don't know what my odds would be of getting a job in EU vs trying to do a post doc. I really worry if I did a post doc if I'd even be able to support myself. And I'm not sure if a post-doc would even be a path to permanent residency. Since my main priority is relocating I'm not super concerned about having a big salary. I have EU academic contacts I can reach out to but I figured I'd ask here first since doing a post-doc wouldn't be super ideal to me.