Its Official, one tenth of the UK population live abroad permanently. Even though we have previously reported this there are some interesting new statistics to digest. For example, British Expats are the third largest group of expats in the world after India and China and a British Citizen leaves the UK every 3 minutes!

"Most cited better quality of life, education and climate as their main reasons for leaving. An estimated 1m more people are expected to leave in the next five years and more than 3m pensioners are predicted to emigrate by 2050."
According to This Is Money at www.thisismoney.co.uk

What is also interesting is that British Expats are more spread out than any other nation who has large numbers of citizens living abroad. With more than 10,000 brits living in 41 countries around the world and another 71 countries with more than 1000 Brits!

The report, commissioned by th institute for public Policy Research also found that amongst the working class Britons who emigrated to Spain only one in four spoke Spanish, where as in the middle class who emigrated to Italy one in three spoke Italian.

According to Danny Sriskandarajah the associate director of the IPPR Brits cite a better quality of life over feeling that the country has "gone to the dogs"

Florida is high on the list of destinations for Brits wanting to emigrate to, however strict immigration laws do make it difficult with often waits of many years in some cases, many therefore prefer to own a holiday home here which they can rent out when they aren’t using it.