Where are Brits allowed to live?
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Where are Brits allowed to live?
As explained in my intro. post elsewhere in the forum, I'm looking for a house overseas to keep for my eventual retirement. So far I've only considered EC countries as I know British citizens are allowed to live there. I know it's not easy to get accepted for New Zealand, Canada, Australia and USA. In any case, property prices are very high in my favourite of these, New Zealand.
What I was wondering about, is there a list of countries available with a summary of their immigration policies? In particular it would be handy to know which English speaking countries are willing to accept Brits. I fancy Malta but again I don't think my maximum budget of perhaps £75K would buy me a property there.
What I was wondering about, is there a list of countries available with a summary of their immigration policies? In particular it would be handy to know which English speaking countries are willing to accept Brits. I fancy Malta but again I don't think my maximum budget of perhaps £75K would buy me a property there.
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Re: Where are Brits allowed to live?
As explained in my intro. post elsewhere in the forum, I'm looking for a house overseas to keep for my eventual retirement. So far I've only considered EC countries as I know British citizens are allowed to live there. I know it's not easy to get accepted for New Zealand, Canada, Australia and USA. In any case, property prices are very high in my favourite of these, New Zealand.
What I was wondering about, is there a list of countries available with a summary of their immigration policies? In particular it would be handy to know which English speaking countries are willing to accept Brits. I fancy Malta but again I don't think my maximum budget of perhaps £75K would buy me a property there.
What I was wondering about, is there a list of countries available with a summary of their immigration policies? In particular it would be handy to know which English speaking countries are willing to accept Brits. I fancy Malta but again I don't think my maximum budget of perhaps £75K would buy me a property there.
Lake Chapala in Mexico is the most popular with a large colony of north Americans and Europeans. In fact, I believe it has the largest colony of Americans and Canadians outside of their respective countries:
http://www.lake-chapala.com/lake-chapala-retirement.php
http://www.mlsmexico.com/chapala/
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Re: Where are Brits allowed to live?
As explained in my intro. post elsewhere in the forum, I'm looking for a house overseas to keep for my eventual retirement. So far I've only considered EC countries as I know British citizens are allowed to live there. I know it's not easy to get accepted for New Zealand, Canada, Australia and USA. In any case, property prices are very high in my favourite of these, New Zealand.
What I was wondering about, is there a list of countries available with a summary of their immigration policies? In particular it would be handy to know which English speaking countries are willing to accept Brits. I fancy Malta but again I don't think my maximum budget of perhaps £75K would buy me a property there.
What I was wondering about, is there a list of countries available with a summary of their immigration policies? In particular it would be handy to know which English speaking countries are willing to accept Brits. I fancy Malta but again I don't think my maximum budget of perhaps £75K would buy me a property there.
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Interesting, it looks like this was quite a busy website in the past. I might try to find out a bit more about Gambia as at least the property is cheap. I've always tended to dismiss Africa and South America as being full of diseases and horrible insects. At school I had a french teacher who had been working in Brazil and he had some horror stories about the creepy-crawlies there!
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Re: Where are Brits allowed to live?
As explained in my intro. post elsewhere in the forum, I'm looking for a house overseas to keep for my eventual retirement. So far I've only considered EC countries as I know British citizens are allowed to live there. I know it's not easy to get accepted for New Zealand, Canada, Australia and USA. In any case, property prices are very high in my favourite of these, New Zealand.
What I was wondering about, is there a list of countries available with a summary of their immigration policies? In particular it would be handy to know which English speaking countries are willing to accept Brits. I fancy Malta but again I don't think my maximum budget of perhaps £75K would buy me a property there.
What I was wondering about, is there a list of countries available with a summary of their immigration policies? In particular it would be handy to know which English speaking countries are willing to accept Brits. I fancy Malta but again I don't think my maximum budget of perhaps £75K would buy me a property there.
Take a look at Thailand, low cost of living/housing and nice people. I live and work here as a teacher and love it. If you want to know more ask me?
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I think it's the same as in Bulgaria, you can't own land in your own name but you can start a company there and hold the land / property as a company asset.
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Have you considered Central Portugal? You can get some property bagains there at the moment. I came across this site that has some interesting properties that are reasonably priced, especially if you are prepared to do some renovation work.
http://www.pureportugal.co.uk/
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Yes, I had looked at a few sites like that in Portugal and had not ruled it out. I certainly ruled out Spain because of "Land Grab" but apparently this does not happen in Portugal (so far). At least there's no snow there just now, we have plenty here!
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Some people set things up like this with law firms who hold the land but in effect never have use of it.
I would however advise renting something, you can rent from as little as 25 Euros a month, lets be fare if you decide to move it is very easy to do if you don't have not got to sell the house first.
I know people that rent here, and get an income from renting out the house they have in Europe. That way you can also go back if you need to, plus you keep an address in your home country, not always a bad thing. The cost of living here is low if you don't eat in fancy restaurants and drink wine. Stick to the local "very tasty" stuff and two can live on 500 GBP per month all in, I do.
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