The Global Expat HubFree Country Relocation Guides
All 52 of our country guides are free 16-page PDFs — visa routes, real living costs, healthcare, safety, schools and a step-by-step move plan, built from the same research behind our country pages. No sign-up, no paywall: pick a country and download.
Europe
Best quality of life in the survey: climate, food, public healthcare and a social calendar that never stops.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Spain page →
Mild climate, safe streets and a welcoming culture; housing costs are the one thing that has changed.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Portugal page →
Safe, scenic and in the eurozone and Schengen, with a digital nomad permit and a short summer-heavy job market.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Croatia page →
English-speaking EU island with a booming economy, warm sea and excellent healthcare; small, crowded and dense with construction.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Malta page →
The Adriatic at a fraction of Italy's prices, a full year visa-free for US passport holders and a capital changing fast.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Albania page →
Islands, light and a 7% pensioner tax regime; the bureaucracy and job market are the trade-offs.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Greece page →
Vienna tops global quality-of-life rankings for good reason: superb transit, affordable rent controls, mountains an hour away; German and a formal culture are the price.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Austria page →
340 days of sun, English everywhere, EU membership and one of Europe's friendliest tax regimes for new residents; summers are brutal and the island is divided.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Cyprus page →
Brussels is the most international city in Europe, with EU and NATO salaries, superb healthcare and two hours from Paris, Amsterdam and London; grey weather and high taxes.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Belgium page →
English works almost everywhere, cycling infrastructure is unmatched, housing is the hard part.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Netherlands page →
Prague is one of Europe's most beautiful capitals with a strong economy and low crime; bureaucracy and the Czech language are the hurdles.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Czech Republic page →
English-speaking EU member with a booming tech sector and a serious housing shortage.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Ireland page →
Food, healthcare and rural property prices that surprise most newcomers; the bureaucracy is legendary.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the France page →
Alps, Adriatic and a storybook capital in one small, very safe country; a tiny job market and Slovene make it a better fit for the self-employed and retirees.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Slovenia page →
Consistently among the happiest, safest and best-run countries on earth; very expensive, hard to enter without a job, and dark for half the year.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Denmark page →
Beautiful, digital, family-friendly and English-fluent, with generous parental leave; housing queues in Stockholm and rising gang crime in some suburbs are the caveats.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Sweden page →
The world's happiest country by the surveys: saunas, lakes, brilliant schools, no corruption; long dark winters and a genuinely hard language.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Finland page →
Budapest is grand, cheap and thermal-bath heaven; a 15% flat income tax, an easy guest-investor route, and a language nobody learns quickly.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Hungary page →
Adriatic coastline rivalling Croatia at a fraction of the price, straightforward residency routes and a fast-moving EU accession path.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Montenegro page →
Europe's largest job market and excellent healthcare, held back by paperwork and a hard language.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Germany page →
Unbeatable lifestyle and a 7% flat tax for retirees in the south, with the slowest bureaucracy in the set.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Italy page →
Edinburgh and Glasgow at lower prices than London, free university tuition for residents, and weather you plan around.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Scotland page →
Fjords, oil wealth, superb public services and spectacular outdoors; Europe's highest prices and a strict, employer-led immigration system.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Norway page →
Highest salaries and safety in Europe; the most expensive and one of the hardest to settle into.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Switzerland page →
The safest country in the world, with geothermal pools, volcanoes and near-universal English; tiny, remote, expensive and windy.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Iceland page →
Global career hub with familiar language and culture; visa costs and the NHS surcharge are steep.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the United Kingdom page →
Bratislava is an hour from Vienna at half the cost, with the High Tatras for weekends; a small expat scene and Slovak-only bureaucracy.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Slovakia page →
Latin America & Caribbean
Dollar economy, friendly visas and a capital that feels like Miami with rainforest an hour away.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Panama page →
Stable democracy, no army, universal healthcare and a national brand built on pura vida.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Costa Rica page →
Warmest welcome in the survey and the biggest riser this year; safety is the trade-off to plan around.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Brazil page →
The most stable, developed economy in South America, with desert, Andes, wine and Patagonia in one ribbon of a country; Santiago's smog and the earthquake risk are real.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Chile page →
Cuenca is one of the world's favourite retirement towns: colonial, spring-like all year, US dollars and a $1,300-a-month life; rising crime on the coast is the caveat.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Ecuador page →
English-speaking Caribbean coast, barrier reef paradise and one of the easiest retirement visas in the Americas.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Belize page →
Lima's food scene, Cusco, the Sacred Valley and a very low cost of living; a Rentista visa that welcomes retirees, but healthcare and safety need planning.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Peru page →
Asia-Pacific
English-speaking, affordable and well connected, with a long-stay programme built for foreigners.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Malaysia page →
Low daily costs, strong private healthcare and the happiest expats in the InterNations survey.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Thailand page →
Safest, cleanest and best run city-state in Asia, with prices to match.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Singapore page →
Among the lowest living costs of any major destination and an energetic, fast-growing economy.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Vietnam page →
One of Asia's safest, friendliest and most affordable developed places, with national health insurance that expats rave about; earthquakes, typhoons and geopolitics hang over it.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Taiwan page →
Bali is the draw: a full expat ecosystem on a low budget, with healthcare that is thinner outside the island.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Indonesia page →
English everywhere, a famously warm culture and the cheapest retirement visa in Asia.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Philippines page →
World-class healthcare and lifestyle, with a points-based system that rewards skills and youth.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Australia page →
Safe, scenic and slow-paced, with a small job market and long shipping distances.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the New Zealand page →
Extraordinarily safe, orderly and now surprisingly affordable; the language is the wall to climb.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Japan page →
Seoul is a 24-hour, hyper-connected city with world-class healthcare and transit; intense work culture, a homogeneous society and Korean-only paperwork.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the South Korea page →
The remote-worker capital of Asia: villas, surf, temples and a huge expat scene at a low cost, with traffic, visa churn and thin hospital cover as the trade-offs.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Bali page →
Enormous, safe and cheap to live in day to day, with world-class cities; the language, internet controls and work-visa rules are the barriers.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the China page →
Middle East & Africa
Tax-free salaries, effortless admin and a population that is nearly nine-tenths foreign born.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the United Arab Emirates page →
Istanbul is one of the great cities of the world, the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts are cheap and beautiful, and healthcare is excellent value; inflation and a volatile lira need managing.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Turkey page →
North America
The easiest place in the world to make friends, with a cost of living that stretches a foreign income a long way.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Mexico page →
The most-wanted destination in our rankings; universal healthcare, a clear immigration system and long winters.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the Canada page →
The world's biggest job market and fifty very different states; getting a visa and paying for healthcare are the hard parts.
Free 16-page PDF · visas, costs, healthcare, safety, schools & a step-by-step plan · Explore the United States of America page →
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25 passive income ideas for future expats, with the 2026 visa income thresholds consulates ask for.