The practical handbook for British expats - old hands and newcomers.

It has never been easier to move abroad whilst maintaining your relationships with friends and family back in the UK. We are only ever one Facebook alert away from our loved ones, on a device that vibrates in our pockets.

In previous decades, British expats had to cope with homesickness and huge sacrifice by moving abroad. There were strings attached to that beautiful beach in paradise, or that climate where it doesn’t actually rain 364 days a year.

That simply isn’t the case anymore.

Technology connects us all day, every day.

The decision of where to live is a lifestyle choice that more and more Brits are ‘hacking’ to create better and more fulfilling daily lives.

British Expat Guide was originally launched in 2016, built by a small team of British expats living in South East Asia (Bangkok, Thailand!).

The pitch then was simple: globalisation was reshaping how British people thought about home, and the traditional model of staying put from adulthood to retirement was starting to look…well, very outdated!

Cheap flights, video calls, and remote work meant you could leave the UK without leaving everyone behind.

Ten years on, the case has only sharpened.

Brexit redrew every visa rule for British citizens in Europe overnight. Remote work normalised the idea of working from anywhere. The cost of UK living has moved in one direction. Up.

And the questions Brits are asking - about visas, tax, healthcare, banking, schools, the post-Brexit reality of the 90/180 Schengen rule - are completely different to the ones an American or Canadian expat would ask.

That's the gap we aim to fill here at British Expat Guide.

A British perspective on moving abroad, a British perspective on coming home, and a British perspective on living in the in-between.

Get in touch, share your journey with us!

Email: contact@britishexpatguide.co.uk