The Essential for Expats

Learn what expats need for a smooth life abroad. From finding a new home to mastering local customs, we’ve got tips to make your move easy. Settle in and enjoy your new country with confidence.

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The Best Places to Retire in Spain

Discover The Best Places to Retire in Spain (and Why Madrid is Not in The Top 10) If you have already read any of my other articles about retirement abroad, you can jump straight to the first subtitle (Why are we writing about retiring in Spain?). If not, keep reading from the beginning to get […]

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A Digital Nomad’s Japanese Visa Application Guide for 2023

Digital nomads have the luxury to roam around the world, since they work remotely and can move from one country to the other for a few months as tourists, without the need to pass through each immigration office. One of the countries worth visiting for digital professionals is Japan. For this reason, we published this

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25 Countries That Offer Retirement Visas in 2023

From Austria to Uruguay, retirees who want to live abroad may look for countries with retirement visas One of my colleagues, still in his early 40s, asked about my opinion on the idea of retirement abroad in some tropical English speaking countries with retirement visas (the name of the place you will discover in a

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Study Abroad in Poland: An Increasingly Popular Idea

An external author wrote this article about international students planning to study abroad in Poland. No statement made below should be interpreted as representing expatriateconsultancy.com‘s views or recommendations. Poland is a beautiful country that will instantly impress you with its European atmosphere allied with really, really affordable costs (especially when you compare it with other

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10 Tips to Study in Brazil for International Students

An outside author wrote this article with tips to study in Brazil for international students. No statement made below should be interpreted as representing expatriateconsultancy.com‘s views or recommendations. In the last decade, Brazil has taken deliberate steps to boost the internationalization of its higher education sector. This means that it is happy to have foreign

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Retire to Finland – Pros, Cons, and How Much

Living Costs, Best Places, and What You Need to Know When Planning to Retire to Finland So, you’re pondering both retirement and a serious change of scenery – here’s a thought…why not retire to Finland? Finland is a Nordic northern European country that borders Sweden, Russia, Norway, and Estonia and has a heartwarming claim to

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What Are the Best Days of the Week to Fly and Travel in 2023?

The key to discovering the cheapest day of the week for an international flight. Often people ask what is the best day of the week to fly, or how to find the cheapest and avoid the most expensive day to fly domestically or internationally. Years of working as a specialist at the headquarters of the

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Hold Your Breath: The Dirtiest Cities in the World (2023)

We analyzed air pollution, water quality, and wastewater disposal to list the dirtiest cities in the world What makes a city… dirty? When I was 21, I moved from a countryside town where the air smelled like orange cake (since we had some fruit processing plants around) to an 11-million-resident metropolis. Every day on my

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Retiring in Jamaica: Don’t Make Any Plans Before Reading This

Is Jamaica a good place for retiring? Learn more in the next paragraphs.  Jamaica is one of the most beautiful and welcoming places in the Caribbean. It has breathtaking beaches, stunning waterfalls, and lush rainforests (besides the lovely fauna; my favorite of the local species are the lovely hummingbirds). With a pleasant climate and an

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