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MOVING ABROAD..any sensible reccomedations?
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 antman_cpfc  HAVERFORDWEST ( originally from CR... 30 Dec 18 1.51pm |
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A new year approaches and I'm seriously thinking of a change.looking to move abroad to warmer climates.has anyone done it and got good ideas etc?
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Badger11  Beckenham 30 Dec 18 2.01pm |
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Make sure you have a UK bolt hole. You never know what can happen, ill health, change of government natural disaster etc. If you have to return where are you going to live? Make sure you have enough money if you do go you can burn through your savings quickly and getting a local job may not be easy as the local (unlike the Brits) may favour their own. MY last piece of advice I had a 4 week holiday on Teneriffe as a test. If I enjoyed it I was thinking of moving their. At the end of the holiday I was bored stiff and glad to come home so do a little try out before you finally commit. Edited by Badger11 (30 Dec 2018 3.27pm)
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| DanH SW2 30 Dec 18 3.24pm |
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Don’t find a similar local messageboard that hate immigrants.
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| cryrst The garden of England 30 Dec 18 7.04pm |
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Originally posted by DanH
Don’t find a similar local messageboard that hate immigrants. Well; your making up for that week away quite rapidly i see.
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| YT Oxford 30 Dec 18 7.35pm |
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Originally posted by antman_cpfc
A new year approaches and I'm seriously thinking of a change.looking to move abroad to warmer climates.has anyone done it and got good ideas etc? How about England?
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| chris123 hove actually 30 Dec 18 7.56pm |
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Malta? Good weather, good connections home, English speaking, low unemployment rate so getting work should be ok - quite cheap from Gatwick at least for recce.
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cpfc_chap  koh samui 31 Dec 18 3.34am |
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I moved to Thailand in 2012 still here now but the government is making the visas harder and harder for people under 50. Cheap rent, cheap golf, plenty of things to do and great cuisine. However because the visa is becoming an issue I've been looking elsewhere visited Philippines, the island of cebu as visa are far easier to obtain. However didn't particularly feeel safe 40 shootings in ten days! Heading to look into Vietnam in the new year to see what that's like as visa are a bit easier so I've been told.
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chateauferret  31 Dec 18 10.01am |
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Come to Scotland. The weather's great - if you're a duck. Useless for watching Palace matches that aren't on Sky or BT though. Easier in Outer Mongolia, darkest Africa or some tin-pot island in the South Pacific than in the country where they're actually played FFS.
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mr. apollo  Somewhere in Switzerland 31 Dec 18 10.15am |
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Get a job first, have a bolt hole, be prepared to learn a language. Once abroad, I have been an expat for 30+ years and wouldn't consider moving back to the UK, although I do like visiting for a game or five each season. Switzerland is an Easyjet flight, further afield needs to be taken into consideration, depends what lifestyle you are looking for.
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| YT Oxford 31 Dec 18 10.51am |
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Originally posted by chris123
Malta? Good weather, good connections home, English speaking, low unemployment rate so getting work should be ok - quite cheap from Gatwick at least for recce. Yeah Malta crossed my mind before my sense of ‘humour’ got the better of me and I posted ‘England’. I’m told by people who have visited that the Maltese love the British. Quite a rare thing in Europe these days! It’s said that this feeling dates back to the 2nd World War, when the British Goverment awarded the country and its people the George Cross, for the bravery shown in the face of the German onslaught.
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eagleman13  On The Road To Hell & Alicante 31 Dec 18 10.52am |
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Have just purchased a property out in Alicante, not looking to move 'full-time' for a couple of years yet. As others have said, make sure you have a bolt hole to return to, do a recce 1st, make sure you got emergency funds, it can/will cost a lot more than you think buying property abroad.
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Bud  31 Dec 18 11.55am |
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Best thing I ever did was move to Europe in 2002. Worst thing I ever did was move back here last July I’ll be back in Budapest within a year. If I was you I’d just go for it, almost anywhere is better than here. Edited by Bud (31 Dec 2018 11.55am)
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