Offshore Bank Account & Savings Reviews With Offshore Living Inspiration

If you have a choice about where you relocate to abroad, you may as well choose a nation famed for offering its residents a high standard of living and a decent quality of life.  Which is why we thought we’d examine the top 5 countries for quality of life today, and see what the pros and cons of each are for expats.

We Brits are famous for being as at home abroad as we are at home, but part of our ease of integration comes from picking the right country to call home in the first place.  Some Britons have to relocate to a given nation for employment, but the majority of us are free to roam and explore – so where should we be headed if we want to have a good standard of living overseas?

The Centre for Future Studies and NatWest International have released their latest Quality of Life Index, (although – note to the PR company responsible for promoting the Index - it is virtually IMPOSSIBLE to get hold of a copy), and according to their findings, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, France and America top the tables when it comes to the ‘lifestylie’ on offer for expats!  Therefore, read on to discover what’s so good and what’s perhaps not so good about each country in turn.

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Australia has officially knocked all other nations off the number one spot in terms of being the best country in the world to live in – so say the findings of the NatWest International Quality of Life Index 2010 anyway!

So popular is Australia proving to be with Britons desperate to escape the immigration policy, climate and economic woes in the UK that apparently 1 in 10 people living in Brisbane is now of British origin for example!

However, many Aussies have issue with us Poms – and so we thought we’d speak to some native Australians and find out directly from them what a British expat has to do to successfully integrate into life in Australia.  If you’re contemplating emigration or you’ve already made the move and are trying to settle in to your new life Down Under, what do you need to know and do to ensure you’re welcome and accepted rather than resented and ridiculed!

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A new survey has revealed that far from it being a fact that earning more and more money makes you happier and happier, you need to be in control of your money and managing it more successfully for you to be anywhere near happy! 

So naturally there’s a lesson in there for all of us – taking control of our finances is key to our success and emotional wellbeing in life, and as an expat there are plenty of novel ways to get to grips with money matters much more effectively than when you were back onshore and a slave to HMRC.

If managing money is the key to expat happiness, the offshore world of savings and investment products must be how you access that key.  In this report we’re going to explore the statistics that reveal how having control of your wealth is important for your wellbeing, and we will show you how expatriates have an advantage when it comes to getting in control of their finances.

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