Bermuda is the most expensive place in the world in which to live, visit as a tourist and work. Tourist boards and headhunters don't tell you this. Newcomers need to be forewarned, to enable them to negotiate more accurately with a prospective Bermuda employer for a realistic starting salary and benefits package.

Common crimes include: burglary. mugging. theft of unattended baggage and belongings, including from rental scooters.

Bermuda (officially, The Bermuda Islands or The Somers Isles) is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the North Atlantic Ocean.

The closest land outside the territory is in the American state of North Carolina, about 1,035 km (643 mi) to the west-northwest. Bermuda is an archipelago consisting of 181 islands, although the most significant islands are connected by bridges and appear to form one landmass.