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Where should you go?

Your passport, your pay, your working hours and how long you want to stay, against every city we cover: whether you can get the visa, keep your hours, afford the basics, and stay without becoming tax resident.

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Add what lands in your account each month, and your shortlist appears here.

How the ranking works. Each city gets four checks, each green, amber or red. The visa and the hours count double, because either can rule a city out; the budget counts one and a half times, and tax once, because becoming tax resident is a cost to plan for rather than a reason not to go. Cities that score the same are ordered by what is left after the basics.

The visa is judged on your take-home pay. Where a country sets its bar on pay before tax, you may clear it more easily than this shows. The hours are worked out for today's date, so clock changes ahead are not included; the time-zone planner shows them. The budget assumes a coworking desk. Tax treats the stay as one continuous stay inside one counting period, and counts days only: a home, family or job there can make you resident sooner.

None of this is legal, tax or immigration advice. It is the first filter, not the last word.