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Tips on living overseas on a budget
Living comfortably overseas as a permanent expat doesn’t have to cost a small fortune. As with everything else in the 21st century, living, working or retiring overseas is endlessly linked in surveys and on blogs with wealth rather than with the real benefits of choosing a new lifestyle in an often drastically different culture....
Articles to pack when relocating to Japan
If you’re lucky enough to be relocating to Japan and are intending to travel light and restock with essentials once you’re there, what should you pack? Japan is one of the world’s most fascinating countries, and is absolutely nothing like the land of your birth, wherever that may be! Contrary to many expat surveys’ opinions, food...
How to access free state healthcare in Italy
If moving to Italy for work is your dream, you’re not alone as this romantic land of food, wine and song has been a favourite with expat professionals for many years. Relocating to Italy may be something of an adventure as regards negotiating its laid-back bureaucracy and learning its language, but the country’s excellent healthcare...
Leave or stay is now the UK expat dilemma
The question of the decade for a huge number of Britons is whether they should move to Europe whilst Brexit is still being negotiated or wait till it’s finalised. For many British citizens whose dreams have been focused on a move to another EU country, the referendum hasn’t resulted in their deciding to stay on the UK no matter what....
Expats safe from NZ ban on foreign property purchases
New Zealand’s new ban on foreign property purchase won’t include expats with permanent residency. In a bid to cool New Zealand’s overheating property prices, the newly elected government will ban foreigners from investing in the country’s residential property market. Over several years, house prices in New Zealand have soared to...
Philippines scores high in worldwide healthcare survey
Would-be expats who’ve decided on retirement in the Philippines might be happy to know the country’s medical services are rated highly on a list published jointly by the International Healthcare Research Centre and the Medical Tourism Association. The MTA’s listing placed private heathcare in the Philippines as eighth in a list...
Tips for expat drinkers heading to the UAE
If you’re heading to the UAE on relocation or have just signed your contract for that perfect job, hold back on the celebrations until you’ve memorised alcohol laws in the emirates. In spite of recent changes affecting expat communities in the UAE, it’s still a favourite with expat professionals looking to earn a more than decent...
Claiming your UK state pension from overseas
Retiring overseas is ever more popular with UK citizens already at or approaching retirement age, but the chore of claiming the state pension might be at the bottom of the emigration to-do list for many. Expatriates who’ve already left the UK before they’ve reached state pensionable age are advised to apply to the UK International...
Would be expats warned about pension transfer sharks
If you’re planning to retire overseas and have a personal or work-related pension, you’ll need to be very careful about any advice on pension transfer you may receive. Since pension freedoms were brought in, independent financial advisers have lined their deep pockets with over £715 million, just by persuading savers to transfer...
Paris property prices hit all time high
Britons wanting to live in Paris are now caught in a shocking rise in apartment prices, with a record €9.000 per square metre now considered the norm. It’s believed that pre-Brexit demand for Paris apartments has played a large part in the dramatic increase, bringing the cost of a Paris pad to its highest ever level. It’s not just...
