Where to emigrate to, balancing housing, law, etc?

[spyguy]

4 hours ago, BlokeInDurham said:

Everywhere has it's foibles, doesn't it?

Living in the North East having grown up in East Anglia, I really miss proper summers with hot days: I'm always waiting for summer to start and then suddenly it's autumn. On the other hand, I like the winters much better up here. You get rain and snow and patches of cold blue skies in between, far better than the months of unchanging, interminable greyness that epitomise winter in the Fens.

I could never live in the Fens.

I had a cousin who moved out there.

We went to see him for a week. Suicidal by the end of of it. Like living in a big flat muddy ditch.

[stop_the_craziness]

1 hour ago, spyguy said:

I could never live in the Fens.

I had a cousin who moved out there.

We went to see him for a week. Suicidal by the end of of it. Like living in a big flat muddy ditch.

Hurtful but so perfectly accurate.

[Habeas Domus]

An old but good website for reasearching this stuff is the CIA world factbook

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/uk.html

Lots of useful stats for comparing where to live, for me after trawling through a bunch of those numbers, I think the perfect solution would be living in an affordable part of the UK and also having a pied a terre somewhere on the med so you can escape the worst of the British winter.

The only problem with that plan is that I think the cost of maintaining a mostly empty property, (even if you rent it for the summer) is probably a lot higher than just paying for a self catering rental for the weeks when you use it.