InterNations expat guestblogger Brynne explains why and how she came to establish her own relocation company. My expat journey has taken me from Hong Kong to India to London and beyond. In the process, I have danced tango in Delhi, gained a love of Chinese pop art, and embarrassingly mistaken a British royal for a [...]
Filed under: Expat Advice, Guest Author, InterNations Recommends, Moving to Another Country on December 12th, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Work in Singapore, raise your kids in Hong Kong, and retire in India! That would be an ideal curriculum for internationally mobile, high-earning individuals, at least according to HSBC. Recently, in early October, HSBC published the long-awaited results of the fifth Expat Explorer study. For the past few years, the international banking company has conducted [...]
Filed under: InterNations Recommends, Polls & Surveys, Press & Media on October 19th, 2012 | No Comments »
Svetlana tells us her story about living and loving abroad and how her personal experience nearly tarnished her perception of a whole country forever. When I first came to Paris, one late summer over 6 years ago, I had no idea what a major impact this would have on my life. In fact, it all [...]
Filed under: Culture Shock, Expat Families & Relationships, Intercultural Differences on February 20th, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Expat Maris tells us about his experience of feeling strangely at home in his country of origin, Latvia, despite not having lived there longer than 10 months of his life. I was born in Latvia, yet spent most of my childhood and adolescence in Denmark and was living in the United States for the past [...]
Filed under: Adventures Abroad, Culture Shock, Intercultural Differences, Moving to Another Country, Repatriation on January 25th, 2012 | No Comments »
When Davide from Sardinia in Italy found out he was to be offered a job transfer to New Zealand, he was delighted! What he didn’t quite consider was that the job was to start in 3 weeks and he needed to get ready. He recalls his three-week packing spree and how he regretted not taking [...]
Filed under: Moving to Another Country on January 12th, 2012 | No Comments »
Jen from Denmark tells us how she had always dreamed of going abroad since she was little, despite the fact that her parents had a certain distaste for everything non-Danish. Read on for her explanation of how she decided to follow her dreams and the hardships she faced with her family. I was raised in [...]
Filed under: Adventures Abroad, Moving to Another Country on December 13th, 2011 | No Comments »
Patrick from Ireland takes a different twist on saying goodbye to his friends and family before moving overseas to Algeria. I’ve read a lot of different tips online concerning how to properly say goodbye to your friends and family before going abroad. Now I know that most of these tips are pretty self-explanatory but I [...]
Filed under: Expat Advice, Moving to Another Country on December 1st, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Michael from San Francisco went on a 2 year expat assignment to Zurich Switzerland and recalls how incredibly unprepared he was for what awaited him in this foreign country. I had always wanted to go to Switzerland, I am a big fan of skiing and where can one ski better than in the Swiss Alps?! [...]
Filed under: Culture Shock, Expat Advice, Intercultural Differences, Moving to Another Country on November 4th, 2011 | No Comments »
There are thousands of reasons to move abroad: an interesting job, the whole family moving, girlfriend or boyfriend living abroad, or simply feeling like experiencing life somewhere else. It may also be the case that for economic, political, climatic, or other reasons, you do not want to spend the rest of your life in your [...]
Filed under: Expat Families & Relationships, Moving to Another Country on September 21st, 2011 | No Comments »
Eric, a 37 year old graphic designer from America, shares some reflections on the concept of home with us. Usually people start conversations by introducing themselves and giving a few basic facts: what they do, how old are they, where they come from. This last part is the question I actually cannot answer… I’ll explain [...]
Filed under: Moving to Another Country, Third Culture Kids on August 12th, 2011 | 5 Comments »