Hello ppl
I m sorry if i m going to introduce myself copying and pasting what i have already posted in other forums(Belize, Panama, Philippines):
I m Maurizio, i m 30yo, i come from Rome and i m living in Byron Bay, Australia, since 6 months already.
I m here with my girlfriend. She is a pilates teacher and a ballet dancer.
We have the chance to buy a little business here but we are considering the idea about moving to a different place.
First of all i miss my 2 cats! They are still in rome and looks really too hard to bring em here. Plus i truly totally love nature and before coming here i was expecting much more fauna from this place.
So, i started to think about moving to another country and i would love to find someone that could help me making a choice.
We dont like big cities, we like to be surrounded by nature but maintaining a decent standard.
Here we use to live a pretty simple life style. I have moneys coming from my propeties in Rome and atm we dont really need to work yet. We use to go out with my kayak, riding around with the push bikes, snorkeling and long walks. We use to do sport during the whole day and reached the night we have our dinner in front of a dvd and we go to sleep. We never go out for a dinner. We dont have cars or motor bikes.
I use to spend:
1200$ rent, 1500$ food, 160$ gym, 250$ pilates and ballet classes, 60$ internet.
Sometime we pay less for the rent so let s say we use to spend +\- 3k $ monthly for both.
We are thinking about buying a pilates studio here that will cost us 70k $..
Before buying a business that will lock us to this place, as i said, i m thinking about moving to another country..
I started to think about thai, philippines and central america too. Belize, costa rica, panama, honduras and then Seychelles and Fiji.
I m trying to realize if i can manage to live in a little paradise, surrounded by nature, trying to invest my moneys opening an italian restaurant and/or a Gym.
As i said i have moneys coming from Rome but to be safe and keep myself busy and help the community of the country i m going to move i like the idea about opening somehting needed.
I m here in an internet point in Byron Bay at the moment, my girlfriend is training pilates in a gym near here.
I m checking online about the chance to move to Seychelles checking cost of living, permanent visas etc.
It s about a week i m reading everything on Expat-blog.com.
I tried to check the Seychelles forum but there are only few topics. Just for curiosity i tried to check Mauritius forum and "BOOM!!". So many topics and replys there..
Why so many in Mauritius and so few in Seychelles?
Now i m wondering and i truly hope you can helpme..
There is a chance for a 31 years old man and his girlfriend(wife in few months) to move there and get a permanent visa? How?
I was thinking about Seychelles because looks like there is the possibility to get a business visa there.. I don t know anything about Mauritius..
As i said i have 50/100 k euros to invest..
Do you think it s possible to open something needed there?
Thanks a lot for your patience reading my msg and i wish you a wonderful day.
Maurizio