Living in Fiji

Fiji's economy leans on tourism, and that gives it a more visible door for a newcomer than most places nearby, since hospitality and the businesses around visitors hire steadily, and they hire in English, which is spoken widely here. Pay sits in the global middle and tax stays light, so a salary mostly stays in your pocket. With costs also middling, what's left after a typical life runs solid, enough to set a little aside. Outside tourism the market is thin, though, and breaking in without local ties remains hard.

Fiji is a country people leave. Its diaspora of about 181K dwarfs the 12.5K foreign-born residents living on the islands, and it has grown 15% over the past decade. Most Fijians abroad have settled in nearby Australia (83.4K) and New Zealand (70.6K), with a further community in Canada.