Where Are the Yodeling Cows?

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 »

Missing Local Color

As expats we’ve all had that feeling where we just wanted to go back home and surround ourselves with things of our own culture: smells, sounds, and sights. It’s something that has been discussed time and time again – the expat dilemma of homesickness. It is thus that there are so-called “expat watering holes”, contrary […]

Filed under: Culture Shock, Expat Advice on November 3rd, 2011 | No Comments »

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