If you emigrate, you can design a new life for yourself and find a place that matches your wish list. Most people want to emigrate in order to simplify their lives, to concentrate on what is important and to have the time to enjoy themselves with their families. So they need to find a place where the cost of living is lower and the standard of living is higher.

How do you know where this place is? Nobody can afford to spend the time and money to investigate every potential destination so we trawl through internet sites, watch every episode of No Going Back, reread Driving Over Lemons and attend emigration shows.

Having negotiated all the possibilities, soul searched and made the decision, you then have to take the big, bold move. There is no getting away from the fact that this is a difficult decision that could drastically improve your life or risk everything. So most people go back to dreaming and making their wish list. But for the ones that take action, the rewards are endless.

Our Story

We had moved from the UK to Ireland 8 years previously and had a good life. However, we both kept coming back to the idea that there had to be more to life. We were like people in the supermarket, trying to choose what we wanted out of life. The list got longer and mainly revolved around more space, less pressure but still have access to culture and life. We wanted our children to have more chances to broaden their horizons and to give us a new challenge. The new life had to be affordable, not too far from the UK, familiar but not too anglicised and enough of a challenge without being unrealistic. Were we being a little fussy?