Goodbye Germany - top expat destinations 2016

Important news for anyone who is planning to move abroad: The leading social media platform for expatriates, InterNations, has recently published the results of the Expat Insider 2016 survey to which 14000 expatriates have responded: So if you want to move out of Germany – which already ranked quite high on position 17 – the top countries for an international relocation are Taiwan, Malta and Ecuador. This ranking might be surprising, also due to the diversity of these 3 destination countries, but it is important to keep in mind that a variety of factors such as quality of life, personal finance, working opportunities abroad, and settling possibilities have been taken into account. Surprisingly, the United States have only reached an average ranking on position 26 out of 67 countries to move to. A significant role played the high costs for expats regarding healthcare and education, as well as political stability, which has been perceived as low by the expats who participated in the survey. Regarding Taiwan, the top ranked country for an international move, respondents consider extremely high factors such as personal finance, quality of life and working conditions. And in particular affordable healthcare services in Taiwan are considered positive by 95% of the expats who participated in this survey. Further details can be downloaded from the InterNations web site.