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A quarter of self-employed people in the UK would consider moving abroad in the next five years, a survey suggests.
The poll of 2,000 small and medium-sized firms cited the lure of a better work/life balance as the main reason.
Two out of five bosses say looming tax rises make them look overseas, while a third feel relocation offers a better chance of building a profitable empire.
The most popular destinations are New Zealand and Australia, the survey by broker Foreign Currency Direct reveals.
The firm's director Stephen Hughes said: "Given the state of the UK economy it's hardly surprising that so many self-employed people are considering moving their business interests abroad.
"We've seen a significant jump in self-employed people transferring money abroad to set up their businesses as well as paying for big ticket items such as rental deposits and cars."

Well Australia is not the place to go right now. Its property bubble is even more expensive than here, its big four banks while they have not been hit as badly by the credit crisis are overly dependant on chinese funding to support the banks lending and could make Northern Rock look amateurish.

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Tue May 04, 2010 1:13 am
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Been there, done that.

Although I worked for a large consultancy in the UK and took 15 years redundancy money and became self-employed in Germany...

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I think about it regularly. :D

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I might move back just to be difficult and annoying . ;) ;)

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A quarter of self-employed people in the UK would consider moving abroad in the next five years, a survey suggests.


Five years? Five months!

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A quarter of self-employed people in the UK would consider moving abroad in the next five years, a survey suggests.


Five years? Five months!

Why not next week as a response to the Tories, Labour, Liberals, UKIP, BNP, SNP winning the election?

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Why not next week as a response to the Tories, Labour, Liberals, UKIP, BNP, SNP winning the election?


Five days!

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Amnesia10 wrote:
Why not next week as a response to the Tories, Labour, Liberals, UKIP, BNP, SNP winning the election?


Five days!


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