I currently live in South Africa and well, I want a plan for a place to move to in the next 5 years max. The problem is i can’t decide where to go and as much as I love Australia, it feels too far from the time zones where all my people are.
So I have decided that Europe/UK would be perfect but can’t find a perfect fit. I have a UK passport
I am looking for:
- mild weather. Not too bothered to be honest but not looking for a snow 8 months of the year or rain 8 months of the year. Ideally i just want a place that gets some sunlight, some rain, some cold and some hot days
- low level or low acknowledgment of corruption. I want my taxes to do something -low crime rate
- good work life balance with a decent opportunity for living. Currently working at a Big 4 consultancy so hoping I can have a nice enough lifestyle but not be working 24/7
I really like places like Netherlands, Scotland, Germany but have found various flaws. I also really like the Mediterranean
I don’t really like the UK but prefer something like Scotland. They just apparently get less sun than I’d like
Have you ever travelled outside of the randstad? Its not the space we’re missing. It’s the fact that we stopped building cheap houses ages ago and are just now starting to attempt to catch up. Stef Blok ruined our housing market by allowing investors to buy up huge stocks of social housing. Add to that the fact that we now have a high interest rate which makes it the worst possible time to be building houses. The fact the we ‘lack space’ is another big myth. Did u know that if every municipality builds 1 street worth of houses our whole problem would be fixed?
I know the housing market is fucked up, especially the ‘huisjesmelkers’ had golden times the last decades. To give you some more insights in the migration dilemma, see this post. Hope that clears up some questions.