Brit expats missing their UK favourites should consider a VPN

Brit expats desperate for a taste of home should use a VPN.

Moving overseas as an expat professional may well bring huge benefits to your career prospects, but it’s likely to restrict your access to much of the internet’s UK-based content. For those living and working in countries with restrictive regimes such as Russia, China or the UAE, you’ll be cut off from YouTube, Facebook, WhatsApp and a good number of other popular websites. In addition, everything you say in forums online can and will be monitored to some extent, leaving you open to unpleasant consequences should you criticise anything at all about your present location’s government or royal family.

This being the age of tech, it’s comparatively easy to restore access to your favourite UK-based content, although it may well still be the best idea to restrict criticism of hi-so individuals and their activities. Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) temporarily connect your device to new IP addresses in the UK, sidestepping your geographic country of immediate residence. These encrypted connections hide your online activity in a plethora of encryptions, thus preventing your being monitored by governments or other interested parties.

Choosing a reliable provider is the first step, with ExpressVPN, budget-priced NordVPN, easy-to-use CyberGhost or new kid on the block PrivateVPN all reliable and relatively straightforward. For those needing added protection, IPVanish is the best as it gives an additional protection layer and has a huge choice of world-wide, self-owned and operating servers. Generally speaking and although it’s the most expensive, Express VPN is the most popular and reliable, as well as having the fastest connections along with optimal privacy protections and top-quality security. If you’re a gamer or want to stream video, whichever one you choose will need to have ultra-fast download speeds.