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The best places to move abroad aren’t the obvious ones.

What it costs to live, how safe it is, what happens when you are ill, and whether you can actually stay.

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Argentina
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A DNI, and then patience
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Armenia
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Cheap, sunny, and paid for in cash
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Australia
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A tax file number, then everything else
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Bangladesh
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English gets you far, the traffic gets you nowhere
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Botswana
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Orderly, English-speaking, and quiet to the point of empty
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Cambodia
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Dollars everywhere, paperwork nowhere
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Canada
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A SIN number, then everything else
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Chile
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The RUT before anything else
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Costa Rica
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The CAJA card unlocks the residence card
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Croatia
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Register with the police, then relax
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Czechia
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Insurance before anything else
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Dominican Republic
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Warm, loud, and quicker than the paperwork suggests
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Estonia
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An ID card, and then everything at once
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France
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French, and a dossier for everything
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Georgia
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Register a business in a day, everything else takes longer
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Germany
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Address registration before anything else
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India
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Everything in English, nothing on time
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Indonesia
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Warm, cheap and slow — the last one in both senses
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Ireland
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A PPS number before anything else
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Italy
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Fast trains, slow offices
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Japan
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Ward office first, then everything else
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Jordan
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English in Amman, Arabic at the counter
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Kazakhstan
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Russian gets you further than English
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Lithuania
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Everything digital, everything in Lithuanian
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Malaysia
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Glasses in ~2 days
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Mauritius
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Small island, short queues
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Mexico
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CURP first, then everything else
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Morocco
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French first, then the prefecture
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Namibia
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Everything in English, everything a long drive away
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Nepal
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Cheap and warm-hearted, and the paperwork never ends
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Netherlands
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A BSN first, then everything else
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Oman
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Everything works, and everything is sponsored
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Panama
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Dollars, lawyers, and air conditioning
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Philippines
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Everything in English, nothing in a hurry
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Poland
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A residence card unlocks the rest
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Portugal
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Tax number first, then everything else
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Romania
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Fast internet, slow institutions
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Rwanda
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Orderly to a degree that surprises people
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Slovenia
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Small enough that everything is nearby
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South Africa
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Everything in English, nothing without a car
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South Korea
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Fast at everything except the visa
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Spain
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The padrón unlocks everything else
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Switzerland
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Everything works, everything is billed
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Thailand
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Everything fast, except the paperwork
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Tunisia
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French first, then patience
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Türkiye
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Check the neighbourhood, then everything else
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UK
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Proof of address is the blocker
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United Arab Emirates
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Emirates ID first, then everything at once
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Uruguay
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Slow paperwork, quick everything else
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USA
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Sort out health insurance before anything else
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Uzbekistan
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Cash, Russian, and a country in a hurry
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Vietnam
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Cheap daily life, opaque paperwork

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