Relocation evidence, without a made-up ranking
Eight island markets on this site appear in World Bank B-READY 2025. Search their business-entry, utility and other firm-level evidence alongside NOAA climate normals and today's property asking prices.
B-READY describes the business environment. It is not a visa, personal-tax, safety or quality-of-life score. Climate figures are recorded normals, not forecasts. Property figures are current asking prices, not achieved prices. The separate columns stay separate on purpose.
8 of 8 B-READY-assessed markets match. The other 25 places still have property and living pages, but this release does not assess their economies.
| Place | Typical asking | Warm months | Entry | Utilities | Taxation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malta Mediterranean | £381k | 8/12 | 85.2 | 72.3 | 42.7 | Compare |
| Cyprus Mediterranean | £343k | 9/12 | 82.3 | 83.2 | 55.0 | Compare |
| Mauritius Indian Ocean | £394k | 12/12 | 82.3 | 53.0 | 65.4 | Compare |
| Seychelles Indian Ocean | £436k | 12/12 | 73.2 | 63.9 | 59.5 | Compare |
| Samoa Pacific | £68k | 12/12 | 69.5 | 62.4 | 42.0 | Compare |
| Vanuatu Pacific | £292k | 12/12 | 67.6 | 52.5 | 46.5 | Compare |
| Barbados Caribbean | £403k | — | 67.4 | 82.8 | 43.6 | Compare |
| Bahrain Gulf | £175k | — | 65.3 | 88.4 | 54.6 | Compare |
Sources, licences and known gaps
| Feed used | What appears here | Provenance and licence |
|---|---|---|
| world-bank-b-ready-2025 | Six topic scores and three pillar scores for the eight assessed economies. | World Bank B-READY 2025 · CC BY 4.0 R2: datafeeds/world-bank/b-ready/2025-12-24/B-READY_ALL_DATA_2025.zip · imported 2026-08-24 |
| noaa-ghcn-daily | 1991–2020 monthly station normals derived from daily observations. | NOAA NCEI · United States federal open data R2: datafeeds/noaa-ghcn/20260812/superghcnd_full_20260812.csv.gz · imported 2026-08-13 |
The approved Environment Agency station, current-flood and catchment-classification imports cover England. They are not used for these island markets, and no England result is imputed to an island.
Unavailable and not used
| Source | Status | Why |
|---|---|---|
| ILO employment-law databases | Unavailable | No approved bulk endpoint; NATLEX, NORMLEX and EPLex require dataset-specific access and reuse review. |
| GBIF occurrence data | Unavailable | Bulk download requires a credentialed job and an approved publication scope. |
| Copernicus climate data | Unavailable | Requires a credentialed job and an approved dataset scope. |
| EPC data | Unavailable | Credentials and reuse terms are not cleared for this property. |
| Ofcom archive | Unavailable | The current archive is blocked from the approved Cloudflare importer path. |
| OFAC data | Unavailable | The approved importer currently receives a TLS 525 response. |
Method and reuse details: data catalogue · licences.