Emigration "Rent": how to find a location where you will be really good
Travels / / December 19, 2019
Anastasia Makarova
Carried away by the traveler who is looking for a place for their dream home.
All belong to the emigration issue in different ways. One simply takes and carries all their things liked the first place, and someone can not be resolved for years, afraid to make the wrong choice.
Understand cautious easy, because nobody wants to get into a situation where all the bureaucratic nuances over, and the place in which you move, it was far from ideal.
For people who are thinking about emigration, but do not know where they will be as comfortable as possible, there is a great way to make the right choice with minimal risk to make a mistake.
Have you ever thought about the fact that there is emigration "rent"?
To try on the potential place of residence, only need to change attitudes towards travel, turning them from issuing of ticks in a notebook with a list of the most interesting attractions in the experiment to dive into the specifics of the local life population. It's enough to have a list of the countries where you want to live, and a list of criteria for their evaluation.
Make a list of countries that are suitable for emigration
On the Internet there are different services that will become assistants to all who want to get objective information about different countries.
- If It Were My Home - a service for comparing states on multiple criteria.
- IndexMundi - service, which collected a lot of information about every country in the world.
- Wikipedia - the source of any information.
- Research and comparison of different countries of the world.
You can also pay attention to the parameter called the index of quality of life, which includes the evaluation of country on the list of indicators such as the level of medicine, climate, material prosperity, and many others.
Of course, keep in mind that even within one state different cities can differ greatly from each other. Therefore, after you decide the country, it is necessary to make a list of settlements, which should be tested in the first place.
Specify parameters for estimating settlements, which you will learn
In the five years of searching for the perfect place to live, I made the following list of parameters:
1. Climate
Suffice it to come at the worst time of year to assess its impact on themselves.
2. Ecology
For example, in Berlin, even in the middle of a surprisingly clean air and you can drink water from the tap. It is captivating.
3. Quality of products in stores and prices
Australia fall in love with an abundance of eco-friendly local products: meat, fruit, milk and its derivatives. Besides all this incredibly delicious!
4. Opportunities for the development of the child, especially the educational system
For me was a pleasant surprise that the French nursery employs only highly qualified teachers who have passed a very serious special training and passed a difficult test. And in each kindergarten has its own chef and feed children are not worse than in restaurants.
5. State of the labor market, wages
Despite the attractiveness of Canada with its environment, the proximity to the USA and immigration policy, which is one of the most open in the world, it has a very big disadvantage. If you go there do not direct invitation of the employer, then to find a job on their qualifications will not be easy.
6. urban infrastructure
This includes the possibility of hiking, availability of public transport, the number of parks and the like. For example, in Adelaide city center is surrounded by the perimeter of the park area, beyond which there are low-rise residential areas. A tram within this center - free. At the same distance to all important infrastructure facilities are quite large, so without a car do hard.
7. medicine level
I was surprised by the fact that in Bali, even in the best hospitals, health is poor. On this large and has long mastered the island by Europeans level of competence of health professionals and organization of the whole process of care, in my experience, it is much lower than, for example, Thailand.
8. the level of real estate prices and housing affordability
Even with relatively high absolute prices in the Nordic countries willing to give mortgages funny by Russian standards, 2-4% per annum. This makes the purchase of their own homes feasible task for the working person a large company.
9. The relationship of local residents
In Australia, the locals very friendly and sociable of all the people I met. In addition, they are always ready to help each other. The owner of one of the apartments that we rented through Airbnb, December 24 (in the Catholic Christmas) on its own initiative, traveled to me several offices car rental providers in search of a free child seat that is careless employees have forgotten me put.
10. The attitude of citizens to their state
This seemingly minor figure very well illustrates the general climate in the country. When the owner of a rural tourism business in Tuscany autumn evening heatedly tells that she and all her friends are dissatisfied with the government, it is clear that ItalyAs in Russia is likely to have to rely more on themselves than on government support, and regularly overcome bureaucratic obstacles with the help of a wide range of means.
11. The general impression of the city, aesthetics
Someone like modern metropolises such as Singapore or Hong Kong, and someone tends to be more provincial image of European cities. In any case, if the new location is unpleasant to you from an aesthetic point of view, no social benefits do not offset this minus.
12. Immigration policy and public attitudes towards immigrants
The first part of this criterion is important for obvious reasons: the stricter immigration rules, the more difficult it will be to you to go through all the formalities. The second has a direct impact on how easy (or hard) you will have in the first few years - as long as you do not integrate into the new cultural and linguistic environment.
Look for the city of their dreams, evaluate locations in accordance with a list of their demands
Many people prefer country life, but I still recommend to first determine the city where you will go for services and cultural life, and then later to inspect the neighborhood.
To appreciate the city on this list of criteria, I need at least 10 days. So I do not waste time on unnecessary trips, and deeply immersed in the study of local life.
I try to live in the apartments (I use the service Airbnb, To use public transport), rather than in hotels, going to the shops, to chat with the locals for a walk in the park. I love the service TripsterAs with the help of easy to find Russian-speaking locals and order from them a tour. And already during the walk, you can get first-hand a lot of useful information about the peculiarities of life in this city. All this gives me the opportunity to answer the question, "My, my, or not?" Quickly enough.
The beauty of this approach is that you get the opportunity to acquire some experience of emigration, not communicating with the move and paperwork.
This approach will not turn you from a tourist to a local resident at 100%, but still provide most of the information needed for a decision.
Using this method, I appreciated more than 50 seats. For example, Barcelona is not reached due to the fact that neither the town nor the local cuisine or Spanish is not made me positive emotions. Besides, in Spain high unemployment and a weak educational system.
Tel Aviv did not work out because of high real estate prices, the difficulties of emigration to Israel and unstable military and political situation. But the city to fall in love at first sight for its tree-lined boulevards and amazing openness and solidarity of local people, and the level of Israeli medicine is the reference.
At the moment, the priority for me is the city of Adelaide (Australia). It corresponds to a lot of my requirements. The town is small and very cozy, but with a complete infrastructure and the presence of everything that is necessary for modern life. The Australian shops selling beautiful eco-friendly products, the Australians themselves are incredibly friendly and hospitable. At the same time Adelaide has its drawbacks: a high level of solar radiation and the location on the other side of the world.
Besides, I would not I, if stop the search, did not visit all the countries and cities of your list before you make a decision. I hope it will not take me another five years, and very soon I will smell the cool sea breeze, where really good to me.
I wish each of you to find the city of your dreams or suddenly fall in love with the place where you live now. And, who knows, maybe we'll be neighbors?