Living Abroad
Below are our 8 articles in the 'living abroad' category:
We Britons are famous, or should that be infamous, for our lack of language skills. If it’s any comfort, we’re not the absolute worst in Europe in that respect. That honour goes to the Irish, 66% of ...
After you've been through one stramash with the bureaucracy to get your visa, don't breathe too easily. You may have to go through another to get on the road.
Driving in Europe
When to go ...
When you decide to go work abroad, fitting in is important. Learning the language is part of it, but more than that, there are behavioural and cultural norms to consider - habits and customs that ...
So you've decided to up sticks and go off to work abroad? Good for you. But how do you actually find a job abroad?
How to Find Jobs Abroad
The usual ways you'd look for a job in Britain ...
Despite the best efforts of the government to encourage it, we Britons lag sadly behind our continental cousins in foreign language proficiency. Yet if your goal is to live and work abroad and to ...
More and more of us are owning property abroad, encouraged no doubt by the combination of dismal weather and high house prices in Britain, and the spate of television programs showing us all how ...
In Britain we have something of an obsession with owning our own homes. In much of the rest of the world, it's just not like that. People are content to go through their whole lives living in rented ...
No matter how gung-ho you are about the idea of living and working abroad, the idea of what it might do to your children is something that many parents find troubling. You may be convinced that the ...
