WHERE TO FLEE
Last update: May 3, 2021
THIS WEB SITE COMPILES INFORMATION FROM ACROSS THE INTERNET AND BOOKS ABOUT THE BEST (and worst) PLACES TO MOVE TO.
Greece is Europe's next expat destination of choice
A couple could live comfortably there for as little as $2,000 a month, according to International Living. "We've seen a sharp uptick in online traffic to our Greece content in 2021, with the overall traffic to our Greece pages up 41% in the first three months of 2021, when compared to the last period (Oct-Dec) of 2020," says Jennifer Stevens, Executive Editor, International Living.
Story at WGMZ
American expats traveling to get vaccine shots
Travels from Thailand to Guam. Story at Guam Post
Related: American expats travelling back to USA for shots - Wall Street Journal
Increasing expat rejections in Norway
Story at News English Norway
Retiring to Greece
I recently spent 10 days meeting nearly a dozen retirees here. And my take-away is this: Greece is everything the U.S. is not in the best possible way…and everything the U.S. is not in some frustrating ways (especially in terms of bureaucracy or following societal rules)... retiring to Greece isn’t so bureaucratic. For North Americans, Australians, and residents of non-EU countries, the primary hurdle to legal residence is simply proving you have adequate income—€2,000 a month (around $2,250)—and health insurance. With that, you can get a one-year residence permit that you can then renew annually."
Story at International Living
How important are Spanish language skills for expats in Spain?
Story at Euro Weekly News
American expats travelling home to get vaccine
Story at The Hill
Expats from UK complain that EU not honoring agreements
Story at UK Express
Indian expats in UAE worried over mutant strain in india, delayign travel there
Story at Gulf News
Expats in Greece complain of trouble getting vaccine
Story at MSN News
Greece and the digital nomads
Greece is also planning visas and offering a 50% income tax cut for seven years for professionals who move there."
Story at Yahoo News
Living as an expat in Mexico
...the healthcare system in Mexico is not great for poor Mexicans, but as an expat, you would not be subject to the same healthcare in Mexico as the field worker making the equivalent of USD $10 per day. Remember, as an American expat, you are, from the perspective of a poor Mexican working the field, a rich foreigner. And rich foreigners (as well as rich Mexicans) have superb healthcare in Mexico; for 90% or more illnesses, the healthcare in Mexico is much better than the healthcare for a middle-class American living in the US, even for the same price, which it definitely is not...
Story at Forbes Magazine
Spain and its UK expat population
Does Spain want to keep its population of expat pensioners from the UK?
With 108,000 UK pensioners in Spain, the issue of annual income levels (required to be at £21,000 by the Spanish gov't) is running into the UK’s state pension being just over £6,500 a year.
Story at UK Express
Thailand's effort to attract "golfing expats"
Story at The Thaiger
The concept of the "micro-pension"
Story at Daily Pioneer
Popularity for buying homes in Greece by foreign nationals
...there is a strong demand from foreigners ...most of them are Europeans (British, French, Germans, Austrians, Swiss, etc.)...
Story at Ta Nea [in Greek - for translation, use Google Translate]
More on Greece
Puerto Rico seeking digital nomads
This subset of independent workers are often called “Digital Nomads,” since they rely on digital technology to keep up a lifestyle that allows them to see the world while they earn a living. They manage this by working from places with a similar or lower cost of living while garnering wages tied to higher-cost locations.
“It takes time to figure out how to make it all work, but the benefits greatly outweigh the drawbacks,” said Paul Butcher, a digital nomad from the UK who is currently living in Costa Rica...
Story at Tico Times
Singapore distributing vaccione to expats
Story at HCA Mag
Helping expats to understand China
Story at CGTN
Tips for expats emigrating from South Africa
Story at Fin Global
Choosing a bank in Portugal for expats
Story at Portugal Resident
Expats and New Zealand and the pandemic changes
Story at stuff.co.nz
Pricing a retirement in Phuket, Thailand for American expats
Story at The Thaiger
Covid control and Hong Kong expats
Story at Bloomberg
British expats on Majorca
Story at Majorca Daily Bulletin
What I wish we had known: moving abroad
Conde Naste Traveller "Women Who Travel" podcasts.
As vaccinations increase and the world begins to slowly open up, the idea of becoming a digital nomad—working remotely while traveling every few months to a new destinations—sounds more and more appealing."
Story at CN Traveler
Expats leaving Oman
Registering their exit at Gulf News
Imbroglio between EXPATs and quarantine effort in Hong Kong
Story at Global Times
More Hong Kong: Vaccination bookings in Hong Kong increase - MSN News
South Korea focus on foreign workers for Covid testing
Story at Korea Joongang Daily
How health insurance for expats gets cancelled in Saudi Arabia - Saudi Expatriates
The top locations for working abroad
...The job market has witnessed many changes over the past few months. The Covid-19 pandemic that is being battled across the globe has redefined major operations and processes, placing companies in every industry under pressure to make the transition to virtual workplaces..."
The global job market, and how the jobs themselves work, has been radically changed by the pandemic. Cities, such as Hong Kong, which were perennially on the top of the charts for "preferred global cities" have experienced dramatic drops in that preference, now replaced by other options. The rise of Athens, Greece (for example) is a reflection of that countrie's government intentionally structuring laws to draw in the self-employed global worker and the distance empoyee.
When the pandemic pressures have faded even more, the expectation for other governments to get into a bidding war to draw expat workers and "digital nomads" will probably intensify.
Story at MSN News
With Black Sea and Caucasus Mountains nearby, Georgia becomes hotbed for Digital Nomads
Story at Yahoo News
Tax myths for US Citizens abroad
For Americans living abroad, tax misinformation tends to thrive in online expat communities where incorrect advice is quick to be shared and hard to be corrected, particularly in the age of coronavirus.
Expat leaves UAE after 44 years
Story at Gulf News
"I Became an Expat in the Middle of the Pandemic – It Was a Lot Easier Than I Thought" – story at MSN News/Forbes
International Retirement Writer Jim Santos on being expat
The book is unique in that it is not a "how-to" book or even a "why to" book. Instead, it is an insider's look from someone who has lived life abroad and written for travel/retirement publications. Using informative and often amusing examples from his own life and travels, the author tackles questions and myths he has heard in his experiences meeting other expats as well as talking with potential expats via email and at conventions.
Story at Yahoo Finance
"On being a French expat" - Yahoo
Big drop in numbers of international students in USA - VOA News
Being an expat in the Netherlands
Story at I Am Expat
Expat frustration: unrecognized residency cards leads to three days sleeping at airport in Spain
Story at Olive Press
Expat exits from the Gulf States "threatens the economy"
Story at Bloomberg and at Nasdaq
"...GCC countries are experiencing an accelerating shift in the labour market due to an exodus of expatriates" - Trade Arabia
AMAZON: The Expert Expat: Your Guide to Successful Relocation Abroad