A CHRISTMAS surprise, a tale of bravery and a story about noises in the night proved to be a winning combination for three promising writers. The Hummingbird Centre, a cancer support centre near Bicester, threw down the gauntlet to Bicester’s budding writers to come up with original prose - and dozens responded to the challenge. Judges were given the difficult task to choose three winners after more than 60 people entered the Hummingbird Centre’s inaugural creative writing competition. Sophie Barnett, 10, won in the 15 and under category sponsored by Nicholsons with her piece titled The Christmas Surprise . She wrote a magical story for Christmas about going on a great adventure with the amazing, well-rounded character Tilly.
Countries experiment with special remote-work visas for ‘digital nomads’
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Jacob Gershman
, The Wall Street Journal
Want to take your job to a distant land? Post-pandemic immigration and tax policies could make it easier in the coming years.
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The coronavirus pandemic has shattered the notion that you must live near where you work. It may also dispel the idea that you must live in the same country as your employer.
Attaining the expat lifestyle once meant finding a job in a distant land or bouncing around on short-term tourist visas. Now, a growing number of countries are allowing you to take your current job to a distant land, with a little bit of paperwork. A decade from now, the immigration barriers and tax deterrents to globe-trotting could be looser.