Budget airline routes are creating property hotspots for Brits buying abroad. But beware, if the airline pulls out of the route, you could be left stranded in more ways than one...
comments? | | Score: 0 Posted by Jamie Tuesday, February 09, 2010 (11:44:25)
Australia to focus immigration policy on skills
Australia's immigration minister, Chris Evans, has announced policy changes to attract more highly skilled workers. He criticised the current trend for new arrivals to sign up for cookery or hairdressing courses to gain residency. Mr Evans said Australia would abolish the current list of 106 skills in demand and review a points test used to assess migrants...
comments? | | Score: 0 Posted by Jamie Monday, February 08, 2010 (13:13:19)
Property abroad: The Balearic Islands
Spring might seem an awfully long way off in dark and chilly Britain, but in a couple of weeks, it's blossom time in the Balearic Islands, half-way between Spain and North Africa. From late January to March, 5m almond trees in Majorca alone will carpet the land in fragrant clouds of delicate pink blooms...
comments? | | Score: 0 Posted by Jamie Monday, February 08, 2010 (11:18:18)
Bach, Building and the Berlin Wall – about Germany and Living There
House prices here in Germany have been stable for a long time and are beginning to rise, unlike the situation in the UK. I only discovered this some time after I had bought, demolished and rebuilt a small house in a place no-one in Britain has ever heard of. That was in 2004. I can now say definitely that it was the best and most exciting thing I have ever done, and I haven't exactly led a sheltered life.
comments? | | Score: 0 Posted by Jamie Friday, February 05, 2010 (10:02:41)
Expat Experiences: Portugal - Eric and Diane
We are Diane and Eric. We are both trying marriage for a second time... so far! We are both former Devonians although my wife was brought up in Cornwall. We met through our work at a local newspaper and after knowing each other for eight years and having both been divorced for ten years we decided that we could make it work. That was back in 1991. So far, so good. I have to say that it was Diane who had been hankering to get out of the U.K. She had been trying, unsuccessfully, to do so since 1960...
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