Emigrating

[ukkid76]

Emigrating How many of you are thinking of moving out of Great Briton to live a less stressful life, it seems that everyone I speak to want's to move abroad there main reason is the excessive amount of work they need to do to achieve a basic existence. Are you thinking of going?_____ for what reason?______And where might you end up?

[sft42]

yeah i have been considering it in the past few months mainly due to the failure of a long term relationship which has caused a lot of heartache for me....and i have been considering Canada mainly for it's similarity to Scotland in parts and good quaility of life.......probably won't go though as really i'm only running away for the problem rather than dealing with it......Ho Hum!

[andy hughes]

We are talking about a move to Spain. The climate is better, the food is better, the people arer nicer, the pace of life is better, and it's still only a couple of hours away if we want to visit friends and relatives here. I could imagine really relaxing with the 'siesta' system, and we may wait a while until we retire, but it's an increasingly attractive option. Failing that, Florida is fabulus, but we would almost certainly need to retire there because of imigration restrictions, but I love The US and it's people, I would be really happy there.

[jenstar]

Yep. The question I posted in this category a few weeks ago about how to find out which countries had ID cards, military service, etc, was purely for the purpose of figuring out where to go. I expect that Falconer and Blunkett will get their way and institute an ID card scheme and I'm very keen to get the hell out of here before it happens.

[RCP]

I moved to Ireland (Cork) 10 years ago, but unless you are moving with a large bank balance, generally you are going to have to work just as hard for the same remuneration wherever you go. Life just seems to have become more stressful over the last 10-20 years, with companies expecting more from their employees,making leisure time more intense as people try harder to "unwind". Having said all that, I didn't move very far and my experience has been an extemely positive one.

[mikewith]

I could cope with a small house by the coast (with broadband) in just about anywhere.

[darth vader]

I think you'll find that with most (developed) countries the price of living / earnings ratio is pretty much the same as the UK - France and Autralia are two examples i know of where the price of living is dirt cheap, but the salary matches that. So to answer your question i would emigrate not for financial reasons (unless i took a wad of money with me) but for quality of life - Canada Australia and N. Zealand are all pretty good for the quality of life, and the population of the latter two are small so overcrowding isn't a problem. I would have considered it myself 5 years ago but have young family now so i guess not until i retire/the kids fly the coup!

[ipek]

Definitely!

We've just bought some land in Turkey and plan to build a home on it over the next couple of years. The idea is then to spend increasing stretches of time there and maybe stay for good when I retire in only 9 years time. The lure is the peace and lack of aggravation during plain daily living. I find that here, everything I try to do, even the simplest of things, is laden with hassle. The drive to work, the job, the equipment to do the tasks, the attitude of people around me, fitting all domestic chores and leisure time into too few hours ' very rarely do any of these come without problems and their incumbent pressures.

I accept that my patience has grown thinner with advancing years, but looking around me I find I am not alone in feeling 'trapped' in a lifestyle that is not healthy (in all senses) - a lot of younger friends and colleagues feel the same (not to mention hubby who is 17 years my junior). From a finance angle, my pension spent out there will go a lot further than it will here! I realise that being on holiday somewhere is not the same as living there and I also understand the need to keep occupied as well as stimulated. Hubby plans to freelance with his photography and I shall paint, pickle, potter and do odd jobs around the village ' that may add to the coffers, too.

Maybe I feel I've done my 'national service' and can afford myself some quality time before it's loo late. Maybe I just want to feel warm, relaxed, well, happy and at peace. Maybe I'm just an old hippy who never lost the ethic''.

[mykola]

i think the grass allways seems greener on the other side. I moved away from the island 17 years ago to a stress free life in austria its now so bad that im looking again for the other side. but at the end of the day i think were our selfs to blame .we make ( & or) we let us be made our own circumstanses. sounds shakesperish.. good luck

[ipek]

Thanks for the stars ukkid76 - it doesn't read like you feel like moving yourself, you must be fairly settled.

[ukkid76]

Thanks to you all for your replies it is interesting to find out what's going through other peoples minds on a particular subject, With reference to IPEK I along with my partner (Jill) will be moving out of this country as soon as possible, that's hopefully within the next three to five years, I would like to live where the summers are a little warmer and the winters a little less cold like Spain or southern France and where the people you don't know are a little friendlier where you can drive your car down the road without reaching the stress level required here in the UK, somewhere where you live to work not work to live!!!

[brawburd]

ukkid76 - u surely mean "work to live" rather than "live to work"?!

[ukkid76]

Brawburd No I mean what I said I enjoy my work the problem here is that you have to work to survive If I took your work away from you how long would you last? You have no free time to yourself no sooner have you put your feet up on Sunday morning to relax and read your paper its Monday and you have to start all over again, I would be happy with a far simpler life but don't seem to get that option in the UK, even enjoying a game of golf is stressful with people behind only interested in pushing through just as they do on the roads, (by the way I am speaking from the south eastern part of the UK!) Go and have a look at the way the Spanish for example conduct their life!!! Answer me one question how are the youngsters of this country ever going to get their foot on the property ladder even the well paid ones, they already have university debts of around 15 to 20K and that's before they start work?!!!!!!!!!

[greybeard]

I have read all of the replies with interest and I wonder what comments your writers would have on the following?. I would appreciate them. At some point in the future and I pray that this time will not come too soon, through circumstances that I cannot control I shall be alone in life. I am not looking for sympathy I am just stating a fact. I am looking to spend the rest of my days in a warm,not hot,part of France fishing,reading,doing carpentry and radio/computing,plus of course getting outside a few litres of good red wine. For medicinal purposes only you understand. My pension will support me an I have a smattering of the language so I will get by,I am not a gregarious person by nature and am quite comfortable with my own company. I have reached my three score years and ten and want to live where I am not worried about going out at night where I can walk through a town without being accosted and insulted by beggers of various nationalities because I do not share my income with them. France is my choice for economic reasons and I would like the writers feelings on when one becomes too old to have ambition.