Living in Bermuda

Bermuda is a money story before it is anything else. The pay sits at the very top, and because the island takes almost nothing in tax, what you earn is close to what you keep. Life here costs as much as anywhere on earth, yet even so the balance leaves real room to get ahead and save. The hard part is getting in, since this small island runs on finance and insurance and rarely opens a job to anyone without a specialized skill to offer.

Bermuda draws its newcomers from the English-speaking world. About 17.9K residents — 28% of the population — were born abroad, arriving mainly from the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada. The foreign-born population has grown 6% over the decade, a gentle pace, and against a tiny diaspora of barely 1,100 abroad, the island is overwhelmingly a place people come to.