The great escape

After last month's performance by the English football team in the European Championships, their outgoing manager may well have looked abroad to escape the pressures of living and working in the UK. He would be one of a growing trend of British people who are emigrating (400,000 people in the past year, up by more than 40,000 on the previous year, according to the Office for National Statistics) to work or to spend their retirement, attracted by the promise of warmer climates and a slower pace of life. The pitfalls However, how easy is it to retire abroad and what are the benefits and p...