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About: Cyra Miles is a freelance writer moonlighting as a reluctant worker in the UAE's hotel industry.
Every country offers a unique experience of their culture and it is their distinct...
The challenge of repatriation: from Czech Republic to the USA
by Crissy Swartz
Re-entry into the USA has been more difficult than I expected. Sure life in the CZ was not easy. I didn...
Randy "Ace" Parker is originally from the Southeastern US and after a short career as a military officer right out of college began a series of boring technical jobs with marriage and...
One of the most important if not the very most important financial decision for any of us is “what to do about saving for pension purposes?” and here I would like to share an industry...
Author: Geoff B is an independent financial advisor with strong views on Off-shore pension products. His opinions do not necessarily represent the views of Expat Arrivals.
One of the most...
Whether you are a young executive planning your first move overseas or a high net worth individual, there are many financial matters to consider when moving abroad. These include opening a bank...
An Overseas Medical and Safety Primer
by Beverly D. Roman
Traveling overseas takes families a long way from 911! If you and your family are relocating overseas, know that accidents and illness occur...
Veronique Martin-Place is from Lyon, France and has been living in Chicago, USA, since July 2008. She is a writer focusing on topics such as expatriation, education, travel, France and French culture...
Tracey Keenan moved from England to Switzerland 10 years ago when her banker husband was relocated for work. She has since, started up her company 'Ready, Steady, Relocate' which provides...
Gillian (aka Olga Swan) is a writer originally from England but moved to South West France with her husband five years ago upon retirement. They now spend their days in the fresh country air of the...
Jehan is from Australia but moved to Dublin with her Irish husband about a year and a half ago where she works as a course developer for a private college. She loves the scenery in Dublin, the...
Tina moved from Canada to Dublin just over a year ago. She had an overwhelming desire to experience a life abroad and, after visitng four times, decided that Dublin would be her new home.
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Joanna moved from Poland to Dublin nearly 4 years ago to pursue a career and lovelife. The move was an easy one for her as she has been visiting Dublin since she was 19 years old and fell in love...
Marie Brice was born in New Zealand but made Australia her home many years ago, where her children still reside. She is a coach, educator, group facilitator, singer, yoga lover, walker, traveler,...
British expat looking for a flexible pension? Introducing QROPS
by Adrian Flambard of Close Trustees Guernsey.
Until recently, British expatriates with pension savings in UK based plans have had...
Di Clarke and her husband lived in Northwest Louisiana until they were struck with a strong desire to travel. In 2003 they upped and moved to Japan where her husband taught fifth grade on an American...
Andrea van Niekerk arrived in the United States from South Africa in 1987 holding Master's degrees in both History and Library and Information Science. For ten years she served as Associate Director...
David R. Hampton, PhD is an experienced global leader in medical device innovation and new business development, creating profitable new products for diagnostic and informatics markets. Dr....
Ann Marie McQueen is a Canadian journalist working in Abu Dhabi, UAE. She moved there two years ago to help set up a new English newspaper. Before that she worked in Ottawa, Canada's capital, as a...
Andromeda Huff is a young American expat with hopes of enjoying the good life in France with her Frenchman for many years to come. She worked as an English teacher for two years but is...
Marina Marangos is a Greek Cypriot by origin, born and raised on the island. Her professional background is law but she enjoys writing and travelling even more. Luck or circumstance have taken her to...
Candice Broom is an American mother of two young children. They have lived in Asia since 2002. She loves traveling with her family any and everywhere! Candice holds an M.A. in teaching and has many...
Julie Musk lived in Beavercreek, Ohio for two years and has since returned to Dorset, England. She has travelled extensively, including three years living in Germany and is the author of A...
Annette Hersey is a wife to one, and mother to two. She and her family relocated to Houston, Texas from Johannesburg, South Africa. She also spent parts of her childhood in Zambia, Zimbabwe, and...
Mark Greenside was originally from New York, moved to California, and then dragged by his girlfriend to a tiny Celtic village in Brittany at the westernmost edge of France, in Finistère, where...
Julie Mautner is a freelance food, wine and travel writer who lives most of the year in Provence, France. She was a founding editor of Food Arts Magazine in New York and was its executive editor for...
Valerie Schneider and her husband moved to Italy in 2006 and quickly settled into life in the beautiful city of Ascoli Piceno. Valerie is a freelance writer, and she and her husband offer...
Michael Harling was born and grew up in rural, upstate New York. He never entertained the notion of moving to another country until he visited Ireland in 2001 and met a Sussex gal. Six...
Elmer W. Cagape is from the Philippines but moved to Hong Kong 9 years ago to pursue a career with a large telecoms company. Here he met and married his wife and got married. Elmer loves the vibrant...
Ana Karenina Pera is a Chemical Engineer living in Stuttgart, Germany. She says she is blessed with a very wonderful husband and an adorable little girl, and although only a recent expat to Stuttgart...
Andrea White is from the USA but has been living in Wachtberg, Bonn, Germany for three and half years. She, her husband and 2 children relocated for her husbands job. Andrea enjoys writing, is a...
Barbara Isenberg is a freelance writer specialising in travel, food and culture about Istanbul and Turkey. She moved to Izmir with her husband after buying a one-way ticket to Istanbul in August...
Lloyd Lauland moved from Houston, Texas to New Delhi, India almost 2 years ago with his wife and 16 year old son after being awarded a company promotion. In his opinion the inconveniences of living...
Kala Shekhar has lived and worked in Istanbul for three years after moving here from India. His son Sid is a regular contributor to the Turkish Daily news and is also a deputy editor for one of their...
Kathi is from the USA but has been living in Ahmedabad, India for the last 3 years. She and her husband relocated to India and started their own business. This interview gives a good idea of what to...
Emma Grenham is originally from London and now lives and thrives in Barcelona. She is a writers and advisor on expat issues and has particular passion for kids and parents in Barcelona, producing a...
Danielle Duffey is an American expat living in Melbourne, Australia with her husband, her 5 and 3 year old sons, and 2 cats. Her husband inspired the move after being posted to Australia for a 2 year...
Dedene Nelson-Court lives in central France between Orléans and Gien near the Loire River and Sully-sur-Loire. She grew up in Oregon and moved all over the U.S. before finally settling in...
Jennifer Dinoia was born in New Jersey, moved to Nashville, then Memphis, then Washington DC, and then finally Virginia. She then migrated with her husband to Iceland for 3 years, before...
Henno Kotzé is a 27-year old South African who moved from the winelands and grey-blue mountains of the Western Cape, South Africa to the frenetic buzz of Saigon, Vietnam. He now finds himself...
Ellen Weeren moved from Northern Virginia to Delhi, India a year ago and has since made Delhi her home, along with her husband and 3 children. They reside on her husband's employment visa which was...
Ashley & Jason Bartner live in the beautiful Le Marche region of Italy. They run a small guest house cum cookery school that combines searching for the best seasonal local ingredients, hands-on...
Tiffany Jansen moved to the Netherlands recently after marrying her Dutch husband. Her father is a pilot for Delta Airlines, so she’s lived in places like Japan, Greece and Germany before high...
Ellen and Jim Fields are living large on the splendid Yucatan peninsula of Mexico. They have been here for 8 years and counting, run an expat services company (Yucatan Expatriate Services) and...
Danielle Bray arrived in Singapore three years ago from her native New York. Having left her job with a large insurance firm when her partner was transferred here, she immediately fell for the Lion...
Geraldine Eliot is an ex-South African living in Vancouver, Canada. She runs her own copy writing and editing company and teaches at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT). ...
Kimberlee Mancha describes herself as a somewhat contrary, 40-something woman who decided to leave corporate life in the USA behind and reinvent her life in France. She runs a small business,...
Melissa Stoey fell in love with Britain as a child after listening to Rolling Stones records. That lead to a love of British comedy and an appreciation of rainy days. She was posted to Bedfordshire...
Theo Scheffler is a 35 year-old born in Cape Town, South Africa, now living in Hyderabad, India. He is an actuary and fellow of the UK, South African and Indian professional bodies. He is currently...
Born and brought up in God's chosen country, Tyneside in the north east of England, Toni has lived in Chicago since 1991, when she moved there with her husband.
Toni is a contributor to Expat...
Susan McKinney de Ortega lives in a small village in Mexico. She describes herself as a memoirist, journalist, spa owner, mother of bilingual teenaged girls, daughter of former National Basketball...
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Wendy Johnson is an English 42 year old mother living with her French husband near Montpellier. She has been living in France for 11 years and loves to help people move to France and settle in. Read...
Carol Fleming is an American ex-diplomat who spent most of her career in South Asia and the Middle East region as well as traveled to more than 75 countrieshas. She has now been living in Riyadh for...
Jim Veihdeffer an American that has recently moved to Saudi Arabia to teach English. He is living in Riyadh and writing all about it in his entertaining blog jveeds.blogspot.com
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Maryanne Stroud Gabbani came to Egypt as the wife of an Egyptian/Canadian businessman in the late 1980's. Her husband is no longer with here, the children are pursuing careers abroad, but Egypt is...
Gabrielle Hase is a New Yorker who moved to England three and a half years ago, and currently lives in London. She is married to an Englishman and works as an ecommerce consultant.
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About you
Q: Where are you originally from?
A: Durban, South Africa
Q: Where are you living now (city + suburb)?
A: Singapore
Q: How long you have you lived here?
A: 6 months
Q: Did...
Tom Pitman lived in Cape Town for six years from 2002, and although now back in London he visits regularly on business trips and misses the quality of live, lifestyle, people and scenery of...
Annabelle Dare moved with her boyfriend, James, to Cape Town in 2003, planning to stay for a year or two. Now married with two children, Belles and her family are having such an amazing...
Louise Fly resigned from her position as an international advertising consultant 5 years ago to follow her husband to Belgium where he had a career improving job opportunity. She became not only an...
The challenges of repatriation
by Beverly D. Roman
Relocation planning typically focuses on the initial move overseas and managing life abroad. The often-overlooked issue is returning “home....
Siobhan Wilson was born and raised in Scotland, and decided to give west coast America a shot for six months. Nine years later, she’s still there but with a lot more baggage than I arrived with...
Irene Woodbury is an American who has been living and working in Italy for a decade. She writes about her experiences in this beloved yet often awkward country on her immensely readable blog www....
Cynthia Caughey Annet never dreamed about living in France. In fact, she’s an Italophile, having studied in Italy as a college student, vacationed there for 20 years and lived there from 1998-...
Susie is an American woman living in Jeddah since October 2007. She has been married to her Saudi husband for over 30 years. She finds her new home interesting, fascinating, and colourful, with...
Naomi Hattaway lives in Delhi, India and blogs about her experiences at http://delhibound.blogspot.com She has found the transition to life in India to be a challenging but hugely rewarding...
Sholu Pande has lived in many places and worked in a number of fields before settling in France. Sholu and her husband Mark bought their French house in a beautiful village in south-west France in...
Di Mackey is a professional photographer from New Zealand. She lives in Belgium, traveling where the work takes her - Italy, Germany, throughout Belgium, Egypt and Turkey to date. You can read more...
Sarah Micallef lives in Libya and is the author of a new website on her adopted country. This is her experience of life in this fascinating desert country…
Read more about Libya in the Expat...
Amanda Surbey lived in Moscow with her family. Originally from Ohio, Amanda was bitten by the travel bug when she spent a summer as an exchange student in Australia. She has lived in Russia, Taiwan,...
Amber Pierce-Schulz lives in lovely Puerto Morelos, Mexico with her husband and two children. She runs Mayan Riviera Properties and writes avidly for www.puertomorelosblog.com.
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Moving to a new country with a culture different to your own? What do you need to know before you leave?
Moving to live and work in a new country will challenge you in ways that you have not been...
Teaching the rich in Moscow
I did some teaching at a mega rich Russian family a few weeks ago. A driver collected me and drove me to the house outside Moscow. After some forty mins we arrived and I...
Welcome!
By becoming our local expert for your city you can provide valuable insider knowledge to new expat arrivals and also to long-time residents - advising on everything from opening a bank...
This article highlights some of the challenges you might face if you are dismissed whilst abroad, and suggests some steps you might take to protect yourself and your family.
Can I use...
1. Location
Where do you want to move to?
Just like buying property, location is the key factor in planning a move. Are your expectations about the destinations accurate and reasonable – and...
We live in a globalised, integrated economy and that means recessions are never localised. What happens in one part of the world can have a major impact around the globe.
However, one thing that is...
The World’s Happiest Countries
Before moving abroad it’s a good idea to ask the locals how they find life in their own country. That’s exactly what the Organization for Economic Co...
With all the packing and planning that goes into moving abroad, many couples forget to prepare for one of the most important changes of all: the one their marriage goes through. Studies show that...
With all the planning that goes into moving abroad it’s easy to neglect those members of your family that don’t have a choice in the matter. Children typically find out about the big move...
Expat Contract Negotiation
What should be included for an expat hired from overseas?
Salary | Hardship | Cost of Living | Healthcare | Accommodation | Schooling | Car |...