The One EU Country Every Brit Can Move to Today (No Visa And No Income Test!)

The free guide, Leaving Britain and Living Abroad: lifeabroadwithjames.com/guide?utm_source=youtube Chapter 1, "Would they even have you?", covers what each country asks before it lets a Briton stay. The £9 book. The cheapest mistake in it cost me €220. The most expensive cost me €134,000: lifeabroadwithjames.com/book?utm_source=youtube An Irish passport is an EU passport, and a British citizen can live in Ireland with no visa, no permit and no income test. I posted a short video about Ireland and hundreds of people who live there told me what it left out. So I checked every point against the official sources: the shortcut some Brits already have, the five year route for everyone else, what healthcare actually costs, what Irish tax does to a UK salary earned from an Irish kitchen table, the paperwork, and the proposal to raise five years to eight. I'm James Hopkins. I've left Britain twice, lived in Thailand and in Cyprus for five and a half years, and I've lived in Dubai since February 2026. I've never lived in Ireland, so this one is the official rules, read properly. Chapters 0:00 One EU passport, no visa 1:23 The wall 2:39 The shortcut 4:00 The route 4:41 Healthcare 7:42 How the five years count 8:28 Tax, the kitchen table 10:49 Time and money 12:35 The catch, prove every year 14:21 Eight years? 15:23 Where that leaves you Every figure is from the official source: GOV.UK, Citizens Information, Ireland's Immigration Service, Revenue, the HSE, the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Residential Tenancies Board, Eurostat, gov.ie (Department of Justice, 9 September 2026), the Houses of the Oireachtas, the Spanish government and Portugal's official visa portal. Business enquiries: hello@lifeabroadwithjames.com #IrishPassport #LivingInIreland #BritsAbroad