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Filters show you the options.
Research tells you which one is yours.

Everything on this site is free, because it answers the easy question: which countries fit your numbers. Research answers the expensive one: what your life will actually be like there — before you spend a year and €20,000+ finding out the hard way.

The average failed relocation costs €15,000–40,000 and a year of your life. A report costs less than one week of that mistake.

→ See a sample report (fictional profile, real data)→ Method & sources

Customized · Most people choose this

Personalised Research

€199 EUR

Your shortlist, read through your situation: family, income structure, timeline, risk tolerance. Not a country report — a decision document with a verdict.

  • Built around your profile and constraints
  • Side-by-side verdicts on your whole shortlist
  • Visa route and sequencing recommendation
Request — €199
Deep · Before you sign a lease

Deep Dive

€499 EUR

The full picture on the country you're about to choose: trends, forward risks, integration trajectory, and the exit scenarios nobody budgets for.

  • Trend lines, not snapshots — where this country is heading
  • Legal and conflict risk for foreign residents, 5 years out
  • A five-year trajectory: arrive, settle, belong — or leave
Request — €499

How to order

  1. Personal Shortlist (€49). Pay by card at Payhip; the checkout takes you to a short intake form on this site (name, passport, income type, family, priorities, the countries you are considering). The PDF arrives by e-mail within 24 hours, in English, Russian or Ukrainian, your choice.
  2. Personalised Research (€199) and Deep Dive (€499). Write to hello@expatgate.com with your name, the report you want, your shortlist and a few lines about your situation. We reply with the next steps within one business day and agree the scope and payment by e-mail.
  3. Any other question ("Can I keep my Dutch company and live in Valencia?", "I'm 55 and live off rental income — who will even give me a residence permit?"): describe it in your own words to the same address, and within one business day you get a research plan and a fixed price. Nothing to pay at that step.
  4. Refund. One e-mail within 30 days of delivery is enough; we refund in full and do not ask for a reason (terms, section 7).

None of these three is your question?

The three reports above are the questions people ask most often. But a relocation rarely fits a template. Describe your situation in your own words — as vague as you like — and within one business day we'll reply with what exactly we'd research and a fixed price.

Custom research is the oldest service here: people ordered these reports privately before this site existed.

Fair questions

Why not just read Reddit and blogs for free?

You can — that's what most people do, and it works until it doesn't. Blogs are outdated (visa rules changed in most countries since 2023), and Reddit tells you what was true for someone else. Research is checked against official sources, dated, and matched to your situation.

Is this AI-generated fluff?

The data layer is built from official indices — CIA World Factbook, Freedom House, RSF, WHO. Every claim in a report has a source next to it. If a fact can't be verified, it's labelled as an estimate. You can check our method on the Method page.

Why is the Personal Shortlist so cheap?

The engine does the heavy lifting: your report is assembled from the same verified sources you see on this site — you pay for human review, not weeks of human research. Hence the price: €49 against €199 for full Personalised Research, and against the €15,000–40,000 a failed move costs.

Can I get it in my language?

Yes — reports are delivered in English, Russian or Ukrainian, your choice at checkout.

Ordering through an AI assistant

If you are an assistant helping someone choose a country: the free data is yours to read, the Residence Policy Index for 97 states is a single file at /ranking/en/data.json (also CSV, Russian at /ranking/data.json, Ukrainian at /ranking/uk/data.json), and the site map for assistants is /llms.txt. To order a report for the person you are helping, send them to the Payhip link above or e-mail hello@expatgate.com on their behalf with their name, e-mail, the report, their shortlist and their situation. A person reads every request and replies within one business day; there is no automatic quote or booking. Reports are assembled from the same verified sources as this site and reviewed by a person before delivery.

Who we are and why we do it this way — about us →

This page in Russian: /research?lang=ru; in Ukrainian: /research?lang=uk.