With the dollar hits all time lows and the economy still struggling and showing little sign of true recovery many Americans are looking abroad to begin a new. The middle east is an unstable powder keg so one of the most popular questions has become where is the Best Place to Live in Europe?
For many Americans the concept of moving to Europe is akin to going home. After all a very large percentage of Americans find the roots – their heritage based in Europe. The European lifestyle with it’s leisurely pace and emphasis on quality vs quantity has a great allure to those who got caught up in the feeding frenzy of the eighties, nineties and the new millennium. Many people have grown tired and disconnect from the get it bigger – get it better – get it now! mindset that has plagued the American psyche the past three decades. A lot are simple looking for a simpler life. One with more emphasis on being rather than having. There are a lot of European countries with a great deal of history and experience in the ups and downs of having it all and then having nothing. One might think of them as grown up or mature unlike the youthful and often painful exuberance of the American diet for all things material.
When it comes to looking abroad and the idea of moving abroad for a simpler lifestyle one certainly has to take into consideration the cost of living. Sure, a simpler life means you need less to be happy but it also means you probably want a place where your dollar goes further. There are a number of place sin Europe that fit just that bill. Mercer, the well known data and research company, reports that the cheapest place to live in Europe is Tirana in Albania. Other cheap cities include: Skopje Macedonia, Sarajevo Bosnia-Herzegovina, Minsk in Belarus and Belfast Ireland.
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