Moving around Europe for a year or two

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Member since 19 August 2014

cwendMember19 August 2014 03:45:17

We are a retired English/Chinese couple living in Hong Kong. We both have permanent HK IDs and British citizen passports. We plan to spend next year living for about three months in each of four European countries - say Portugal, Spain, France and Italy. We really just want to experience unpretentious life in these places. If it works out OK we would plan something more adventurous for following years. We will arrange the leases of the small HK flats we own so that we can use one for annual return visits if necessary.

We would be most interested and grateful to receive advice from anyone who has tried something like this or who has experience with longer term stays in European countries generally. We have Hong dollars so suggestions about paying rent and drawing cash would also be helpful.

Olivier101 ViP

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Olivier101ViP19 August 2014 13:29:56

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Hello cwend,

Welcome to Expat.com

I would suggest to ask specific questions in one of your chosen destinations.
This will allow other members to give better and more acurate answers.

All the best,
Olivier
Expat.com Team

cwend Member

Member since 19 August 2014

cwendMember20 August 2014 04:08:21

Thanks Olivier. I have posted a similar post in the Portugal section. As an introduction it seemed premature to ask specific questions, but rather see if anyone had any views (pros and cons) on the idea of country hopping rather than settling in one country. Perhaps this thread would be better transferred to European Union section?

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