What a fascinating question ! But isn’t £1,000,000 a rather large carrot? I’d happily abandon the sinking ship for a fraction of that !
Just revitalizing this thread.
Well as a few may know I,m a expat from Shropshire originally, and I moved abroad without any cash incentives! But I,m cheap 
Emigrating is an emotional difficult and stressful thing to do, you spend at least two years missing the familiar and getting used to the unknown. To those who envy those that have done it, and sadly those who see it as unpatriotic and have a good pop at you when they can, it’s not an easy option. It takes or it should do at least two years of planning, it’s costly at the smallest level, and at least 75% of emigrants return.
There can be huge pitfalls for those trusting Brits who expect the indegionous population to welcome you with open arms! There is much bureaucracy to deal with, plus finances and healthcare, even what to in death to consider.
But there are many that do deal with all of these things and apart from visits could,nt contemplate a move back to the UK. You acclimatize to extreme weather conditions, learn not to listen to bad people, and become as near as you can native!
But with the best will in the world, some can do all of the above and miss the green green grass of home literally! To that end some leave to live abroad for an adventure, for a different way of life, for an experience, and for a good time after a long and busy life, but not a long time.
Some sadly experience some of life’s worst people who smile and shake their hands and fleece them making their moves abroad an absolute nightmare. Being aware is upmost in ones mind once you step off the plane.
So for a million would I move abroad?
Yes absolutely! Ive done it now give me the money:lol:
Sounds like there is a bit of a dark side to moving to another country 
I’m pleased you feel settled there and made it work, Lyn:-)
One has to choose the location of where you’d like to move to very carefully. Obviously, the climate of the country (both summer and winter) has to be taken into account, one’s lifestyle is equally important, as well as the ‘locals’ - what attitude do they have to ‘Grockles’ moving into their community???
If it were not for existing and on-going health issues, having been to Cyprus on two occasions (one only a few weeks ago), I would love to up-sticks and relocate to Paphos - such a beautiful place and a very mild climate.
I don’t think moving to another country to live permanently is as easy emotionally or practically as many hope it will be, although if anyone gave me enough money, my children would want to come as well, and I could choose my spot I would give it another go.
I still want to move up to Scotland. Although the Scots can be rather nationalistic sometimes. They very much regard themselves as a separate country from England. But there are some really lovely people up there.
Until 1707, Scotland WAS a separate country and if Alex Salmond has his way will be again - and good luck to them they have every right to want their ‘independence’.
OMG, Never see my beloved Highlands again…Never in a million years. :shock:
Roxy you stay where you are 
it doesn’t get any better than Scotland 
There are bigger ones not that far away in Europe Roxy darlin’, I know 'cos Ive climbed a few.
It’s not the size Joe lol. There’s no others like the Highlands, and I love every crag and misty summet. 
Simply no…
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The River Teith at Callander Meadows. The gateway to the Trossachs
(taken on an iPhone 4)
That looks beautiful!
Thank you. No bad for an iPhone snap.
Really, really good!
What a pretty place, I could just walk along there with a (borrowed) dog and take it all in.
I do prefer my own company, always have done ,maybe its being an only child.I hate the way people where I live try to make you join in every thing, at last after almost 8 years they have got the message.Some people think its a commune and we are on holiday all the time,drives me mad.I like people but I also like my home to be private. Am I an old grouch!
I don’t think you’re an old grouch at all; I’m inclined a bit that way myself. You may have a point there about only children: we do learn to amuse ourselves and be content with our own company. And everyone is not a joiner!!
Hell no. I have lived abroad for different parts of my life. We up and left England to go and live in the Caribbean in 2005 and immediately when they demanded money before they would allow our loved dog to leave the box he had been in for 12 hours or even allow us to give him a drink of water knew that we had made a mistake.
To get anything done we had to give backhanders to everyone from electricians who wired our kitchen up wrong and I got such a shock which threw me across the kitchen to government workers so that we could unload our furniture.
Don’t forget that you have to pay for minute you spend with a doctor and then you have to pay for any medications he prescribes. The warm weather did not help my arthritis in fact often the heat made me feel really ill.
With the expense of building a house with working A/C and a swimming pool just to keep cool, and the purchase of a car that was capable of putting up with some very poor road conditions your £1,000,000 would go no where. So what are you going to live on? We needed a housekeeper as the house although beautiful was difficult to keep clean and in the heat of the day I couldn’t manage to clean house, do laundry, shop and cook.
Fortunately, we gave back our rented house and came back home to England. I don’t know how we would have managed with my husbands type 2 diabetes, my arthritis and then of course the need for surgery. I would not have felt safe having surgery abroad.
I would say that although the grass looks greener on the other side it is often an optical illusion. This place seems to be going to the dogs but it is our place, maybe we should try and make things better. I know I will not roam again but I also know even a million pounds is not enough to start all over again somewhere else.
Someone said it already England is the best place in the world although if we are not careful we will lose what makes it special.