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Survey shows French heathcare patients hate hospital food

Survey shows French heathcare patients hate hospital food
Whether you’re an expat or a French national, one important factor in your lifestyle is the quality of all aspects of local healthcare. French hospitals don’t just care for locals as their services are also available to expats living in the country via an EU reciprocal deal, at least until March 2019. Many Brits factored in the...

Getting real about withdrawing cash from pension savings

Getting real about withdrawing cash from pension savings
Pension scammers won’t be eradicated until all retirement savers get real about their financial options. A recent survey found the most popular reason for pulling cash out of pension savings is investment to generate an income in retirement. Holidays and travel came next, followed by stashing emergency cash in a bank account. Helping...

Jobs in France for expats without French

Jobs in France for expats without French
If you’re desperate to leave the UK and France is your favoured destination, not being able to speak French may seem like a major hurdle. As the UK sinks into the sunset, more and more would-be expats are leaving for fresh fields and pastures new, with France the closest and most convenient location. Not every Brit who aspires to living...

Expats warned over boiler room scammers

Posted on December 27, 2017 in Finance Legal UK Working Abroad
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Expats warned over boiler room scammers
Over the past decade or so, expats across the world have been warned time and time again about crooks posing as financial advisors, but boiler room scammers are the worst of the entire poisonous pack. Often operating from back-street rooms in the capital cities of many favourite expat locations, unqualified, briefly-trained and often...

Spanish property sales highest since financial crisis

Spanish property sales highest since financial crisis
Spain’s Development Ministry has reported a surge in property sales since the beginning of October, giving a 16 per cent increase on last year’s figures. Between September 2016 and the end of September this year, just over 510,000 homes were sold, with 121,000 finding buyers during 2017’s third quarter. The figure is only slightly...

Survey compares English proficiency across the world

Survey compares English proficiency across the world
If you’re looking for a new start to your life in an exotic destination but don’t relish learning a new language, where’s the best place to go? English may well be the world’s ‘second language’, but choosing a destination outside the USA and mainstream European countries may mean struggling to get to grips with the local lingo...

What do expats miss most about their home country

What do expats miss most about their home country
Wherever in the world your home country lies, it’s certain you’ll miss a good number of familiar activities, foods and cultural norms as well as communications with strangers in your own language. Emigrating to far-flung lands is as exiting as life gets, but it’s normal to miss certain aspects of the home country, a good number of...

Expat women in Beirut in fear after murder of female British diplomat

Expat women in Beirut in fear after murder of female British diplomat
Following the sad news of the murder by an Uber driver of a female British diplomat, expat women working in Beirut are living in fear of their lives. 30-year old Rebecca Dykes, a policy and programme manager with the Foreign Office’s Department for International Development, was strangled and dumped on a road outside the city after...

Landmark High Court ruling lets expats off HMRC taxman hook

Landmark High Court ruling lets expats off HMRC taxman hook
A landmark ruling in the British courts has taken away HMRC’s power to chase expats overseas for information used in a tax enquiry. n the past, expats who live permanently overseas have been called on by Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise office to release information or documentation related to possible tax evasion or avoidance....

FCA warns retirees at home and abroad about free pension advice

FCA warns retirees at home and abroad about free pension advice
The UK’s Financial Conduct Agency watchdog has delivered an uncompromising warning that ‘free pension advice’ is nothing but a scam. The government agency policing financial services in the UK is aiming its warning to retirees planning to move their pension pots out of a defined benefit scheme. The alert was issued in order to...