Vantaggi
All the obvious pros - you can save money, keep a healthy life style, have great time off, flexible working, travel the world going to beautiful places. The community is fantastic. Some of the best times I've had have been as a result of working for Backroads.
Svantaggi
As a European your health case is awful and management tries to sell you the benefits of working for a French company. In general they try to spin everything as great and don't take ownership of the employment related issues of the people out in the field. Being expected to drink the Cool-aid was one of the most irritating things. But, you know what you are getting, it's a job after all and it isn't going to be perfect. A lot of the employees expected too much from their employer. The Management have an bad habit of trying to blur the lines of managers and friends and it doesn't do them well.