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With its low cost of living and extremely competitive property prices, Bulgaria is a popular destination for Brits moving abroad. It is estimated that some 30,000 UK expats now call Bulgaria home. The country joined the EU in 2008 when housing prices hit a peak. However, the global economic downturn hit prices hard. The market is now more...

The Canadian government has introduced a new visa scheme that gives young people the chance to live and work in the country before deciding whether they would like to make a more permanent move. The International Experience Class visa has been created by the merger of the International Exchange Programme and the International Youth...

British expats who are thinking of spending time in the UK are being advised to become familiar with new rules to be introduced in April that could affect their tax status. The Treasury announced the Statutory Residence Test in 2011 which will calculate how many days an expat is allowed to return home for before becoming liable for UK...

An inquest has heard how British woman who moved to Turkey in an effort to find love died after she contracted an illness after not taken to a hospital by her boyfriend. Beverly Mitchell died two weeks after falling ill with the mystery disease. The illness caused respiratory failure. Although a second post mortem was carried out in the...

Over the past five years around 10,000 Brits have decided to make a new home in South Australia, with many deciding to settle in Adelaide. In 2011 there was a 10 per cent increase in the number of people moving to South Australia from the UK according to Anglo Pacific’s international migration manager, Noel Glavin. He explained that...

More and more wealthy Brits are considering moving abroad, according to a new study. The de Vere Group, an expat wealth management firm, has reported that they have received 36 per cent more enquiries about relocating abroad from Brits under 40 in the third quarter of this year compared to the same period of 2011. Nigel Green, the...

The Irish government has published new data which indicates that up to 40,000 people quit the Emerald Isle each year as a result of disheartening employment prospects. However, analysts have said that such a rate of emigration is among the reasons that the jobless rate is not at an even higher level. The Central Statistics Office revealed...

Football clubs throughout Ireland are feeling the effect of emigration, with some clubs seeing up to half their players heading for pastures new over the last couple of years. Figures have been published by the country’s Central Statistics Office which show that from April 2010 to April 2011 around 40,200 Irish citizens moved overseas, a...

New research has revealed that the biggest difficulty for expats when moving overseas is learning the language in their new home. The study, which was carried out by the Forum for Expatriate Management and language firm Rosetta Stone, found that over 60 per cent of the senior managers who participated in the survey felt the greatest hurdle...

The authors of a new study have warned Brits against buying property in Turkey if they do not have a good enough grasp of the language. The Legal Adaptation of British Settlers in Turkey study found that poor language skills prevented expats from gaining Turkish citizenship, and in turn stopped them from enjoying many civil and legal...