Accept or don't, it's completely up to you based on how you feel about the relationship between employer/employee. I personally feel that it is the employer's responbility to demonstrate their level of obligation without needing to be manipulated by their employee. An employer that does not consider the value of an employee without be coerced is either a thoughtless employer or a disrespectful employer. Either way, I personally don't like working for that type of employer.
If you think you'd be the kind of employer that would milk your employees, rather than work ethically with them, then take the counter-offer.
My only word of caution is to be careful about signing on with a company in order to move overseas. This is exactly what my wife did because the company (a large, Fortune 50 company) seemed to encourage moving their employees overseas. It turns out that it really only works for everyone except Americans. When jobs became available (in England and France), the bureaucratic process was so confusing that the people telling her it would be no problem didn't realize what kind of problem it was. All the money had to be put up by the site to which she would be moving, which would then have to pay her American income tax in addition to her salary, so the cost of having her as an employee was like have +2.5 Europeans in the same job. Very discouraging.
I don't konw if anyone has had experience trying to do this within both large and small companies. I always thought larger (wealthier) companies would make this easier, but maybe smaller companies, where it is not only easier to know the procedures, but HR also has a been more power, are really the key to an overseas move for US citizens.
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Accept or don't, it's completely up to you based on how you feel about the relationship between employer/employee. I personally feel that it is the employer's responbility to demonstrate their level of obligation without needing to be manipulated by their employee. An employer that does not consider the value of an employee without be coerced is either a thoughtless employer or a disrespectful employer. Either way, I personally don't like working for that type of employer.
If you think you'd be the kind of employer that would milk your employees, rather than work ethically with them, then take the counter-offer.My only word of caution is to be careful about signing on with a company in order to move overseas. This is exactly what my wife did because the company (a large, Fortune 50 company) seemed to encourage moving their employees overseas. It turns out that it really only works for everyone except Americans. When jobs became available (in England and France), the bureaucratic process was so confusing that the people telling her it would be no problem didn't realize what kind of problem it was. All the money had to be put up by the site to which she would be moving, which would then have to pay her American income tax in addition to her salary, so the cost of having her as an employee was like have +2.5 Europeans in the same job. Very discouraging. I don't konw if anyone has had experience trying to do this within both large and small companies. I always thought larger (wealthier) companies would make this easier, but maybe smaller companies, where it is not only easier to know the procedures, but HR also has a been more power, are really the key to an overseas move for US citizens.