Anyone looking for a new nation to call home needs
to look beyond potentially positive economic indicators as nowhere has really
been immune from the global financial fallout, rather expats are urged to bank
on themselves when dreaming of a successful new life abroad.
Just four short years
ago the global fiscal landscape was very different to that which we gaze upon
today! Banks were apparently booming, they were still happy to lend, the
pound was still relatively strong, and people’s dreams of owning investment
property abroad and of retiring in style to the sun were apparently eminently
achievable. Link
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As was to be expected,
now that the elections are over, the leader of the powerful, pro-Peronist labor
union organization in Argentina, the CGT, has divorced himself from all his
duties (which were many) within the ruling Peronist movement this past
Saturday, December 17, 2011. Link
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Thailand has been listed at the best place for retirement
by the 2011 HSBC Expat Explorer Survey.
82% of those surveyed said that it was a great place for
retirement compared with 78% of those who had relocated to France and 62% of
those who had made the move to Spain. Thailand rated highly with expats for the
ease with which they were able to integrate into the community, establish a
local support network and maintain a positive life/work balance. Link
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Shanghai has the largest population of foreign nationals
among all domestic cities and provinces in China, with about 143,200 expat
residents living in the city, the Shanghai Statistics Bureau announced
recently. Nearly one in every four foreign
residents in the country lives in Shanghai, according to the sisth national
census conducted in November 2010. Shanghai is home to a total of 208,300
overseas residents, which adds people from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan to the
foreign nationals population. Link to the full
article
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