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The rise of flexible working has given people the freedom to pick where and how they work. This has allowed people to move abroad, set up their home in a new town and still clock into the virtual office.
Packaging experts RAJA UK have ranked some of the top 25 cities in the world on 10 factors including affordability, employment rate and wellbeing to find the best places to relocate to. Not to mention, the top 11 countries that will actually pay you to move there.
The top 11 places that will pay you to move there
- Ireland is offering the most money for entrepreneurs to move there and start a business (nearly £150,000).
- New Zealand town Kaitangata is enticing
people to move there by gifting a quarter acre of land worth £120,338.
|
Rank |
Country |
City/town |
Incentive |
|
1 |
Ireland |
Dublin |
£148,481 to start a business |
|
2 |
New Zealand |
Kaitangata |
£120,338 worth of land |
|
3 |
Chile |
Santiago |
£23,000 to start a business |
|
4 |
Switzerland |
Albinen |
£19,635 per person to live in the village |
|
5 |
Canada |
Saskatchewan |
£11,537 in tax returns |
|
6 |
Greece |
Antikythera |
£5,124 annually |
|
7 |
Croatia |
Legrad |
£3,000 to buy a house |
|
8 |
Spain |
Ponga Village |
£2,560 cash |
|
9 |
Italy |
Candela |
£1,707 cash |
|
10 |
United States |
Alaska |
£732 annual dividend |
|
11 |
Mauritius |
Port Louis |
£344 to start a business |
There are numerous places around the world that have schemes in place to tempt people to move there to boost their population and stimulate their economy. These schemes can include a monetary incentive, home or land at a discounted price or money to start a business.
- Chile – £23,000: Start a business in Chile and you can get up to £23,000 in funding to build your start-up. And with a rent score of 9 and the cost of an average dish being £6.45.
- Switzerland – £20,000: Get paid to live in a village in Switzerland? You can earn nearly £20,000 per person (or double that for couples) to live there for 10 years. Switzerland also ranked the highest on both the employability and wellbeing scores.
- Canada – £11,500: Study at one of the pre-approved universities in Canada and you can enjoy over £11,500 in tax returns, as well as all the natural landscape that Canada is famous for.
- Greece – £5,000 A island Greek is offering just over £5,000 a year to move to the island.
- Italy – £2,000: Receive nearly £2,000 to live in a little Italian village that’s only an hour drive from Naples.
There are a lot of factors to consider when moving abroad, from checking there are adequa
