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What's Inside
A window into the world of Brits building better lives abroad.
The dream is sunshine, space, cheaper eating out, better schools, slower mornings, and fewer conversations about the miserable weather.
The reality is also HMRC letters, pension questions, bank forms, healthcare rules, tax residency, family logistics, and the inevitable discovery that “moving abroad” comes with a surprising amount of British admin.
The Departure Lounge is your weekly briefing for both sides of expat life: the freedom you're chasing, and the loose ends you still need to manage back home.
Useful expat nuggets
Practical things worth knowing for any Brits looking to start a better life abroad. We scour the latest news and trends to bring you a weekly digest of what matters to expats.
A UK affairs check-in
Tax, pensions, property, banking, healthcare, voting, and the other bits Britain keeps quietly attached to your ankle.
Moving trends worth watching
Where Brits are going next, what's changing, and which destinations are getting easier, harder, cheaper, pricier, or overhyped.
Lifestyle design ideas
We talk to expats living the dream about better ways to manage work, family, money, retirement, location, and building a life that works for you.
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An honest perspective for Brits with one foot out the door.
A weekly newsletter for Brits leaving, left, or still working out whether to.
I really appreciate that you tell the actual story of expat life — because it's not always what it looks like in the YouTube and TikTok clips! Your email is a brilliant way to stay in the loop with other Brits on the same journey.
Sarah Mitchell
Madrid · 3 years out
Most expat content feels like a fantasy. The Departure Lounge is the first newsletter that gets the balance just right — the freedom AND the admin, the lifestyle AND the loose ends back home. It's the welcome perspective I'd been missing.
James Keane
Dubai · 7 years out
I've been weighing up a move to Portugal for the better part of two years and most of what I'd read was either glossy property porn or scaremongering about NHR. This is the first thing that actually helped me think it through. Thanks!!
Rachel Owens
Bristol · still deciding
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