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Twelve CARICOM countries with free movement*, twelve different answers. Narrow them by what it costs to live there, what language you will be working in, or whether you can move without a permit.
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Antigua and Barbuda
EnglishUS$1,100–1,700 a month
365 beaches, one for every day of the year, and a Georgian naval dockyard still in working order.
Barbados
EnglishUS$1,900–2,500 a monthFull free movement
The Caribbean’s culinary capital: a former British colony turned republic, built around rum and Bajan food.
Belize
EnglishUS$1,200–1,800 a monthFull free movement
The only English-speaking CARICOM country in Central America: the world’s second-largest barrier reef offshore, Maya ruins inland.
Dominica
EnglishUS$1,200–1,600 a monthFull free movement
The "Nature Isle of the Caribbean": a mountainous, volcanic island built for hikers and divers, not beach loungers.
Grenada
EnglishUS$1,300–1,800 a month
The “Spice Isle”: a tri-island state built on nutmeg, and home to the world’s first underwater sculpture park.
Guyana
EnglishUS$1,000–1,400 a month
Mainland South America’s only English-speaking country: a vast, largely untouched interior of rainforest and savannah, transformed by a recent oil boom.
Jamaica
EnglishUS$1,200–1,800 a month
The Caribbean’s best-known island by far, running from the Blue Mountain coffee slopes down to Seven Mile Beach, with reggae and jerk the whole way.
Saint Lucia
EnglishUS$1,500–2,000 a month
Home of the Pitons, a UNESCO World Heritage volcanic landmark, and a drive-in volcano you can walk right up to.
St. Kitts and Nevis
EnglishUS$1,700–2,500 a month
The smallest sovereign state in the Americas: two volcanic islands under a UNESCO fortress, and a carnival held at Christmas instead of summer.
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
EnglishUS$900–1,400 a monthFull free movement
One volcanic mainland and 32 smaller islands and cays strung south to the Tobago Cays: one of the Caribbean’s classic sailing grounds.
Suriname
DutchUS$800–1,200 a month
The only Dutch-speaking country in the Americas: a Dutch colonial capital fronting a vast, largely untouched Amazon interior.
Trinidad and Tobago
EnglishUS$1,200–1,800 a month
The most industrialised CARICOM state and the most populous, and home of the world’s biggest Carnival and the steelpan.
* Free movement is the right CARICOM nationals have to live and work in another member state without a work permit, established under the CSME (CARICOM Single Market and Economy) by the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas. All twelve countries listed here participate. The four marked full free movementwent further on 1 October 2025 and admit CARICOM nationals of any skill level, not only those holding a Skills Certificate. Budgets are the modest single-person, all-in figures published on each country’s own page, with their sources and dates.
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