One of the topics still missing from this year’s Expat Insider survey report is a focus on expat women, as compared to male expatriates. But we hope that this blog post can provide some valuable insights instead. Gender Split and Average Age Among our general survey population, women slightly outnumber men, with 53% to 47%, […]
Filed under: Expat Women, Polls & Surveys on October 31st, 2014 | 2 Comments »
Every expat knows how difficult it can be to find accommodation upon arrival. Sometimes, this leads to rather absurd housing situations. Here’s a more humorous take on a potentially stressful topic. 1) The Single Room: It’s actually perfectly fine, and it has everything you need: kitchenette, bed, desk, TV, etc. There is only one tiny […]
Filed under: Global Insights, Guest Author, Humour, Moving to Another Country on October 28th, 2014 | 2 Comments »
Times New Romanian – no, you read this right. This is not a typo, and this post doesn’t actually describe popular fonts and typefaces. Times New Romanian: Voices and Narrative from Romania is the title of a recent book edited and published by Nigel Shakespear, himself a British expat in Eastern Europe. He has lived […]
Filed under: Adventures Abroad, Expat Interviews, InterNations Recommends on October 24th, 2014 | No Comments »
As for the Expat Insider Survey, there are several topics we’d have liked to cover in our survey report, but had to exclude due to various constraints. Expats and their language skills is one of these subjects. Fortunately, our blog provides plenty of space to make up for this lack. Number of Languages Spoken Let’s […]
Filed under: Languages, Polls & Surveys on October 21st, 2014 | No Comments »
Are you considering a move abroad? Our guest blogger Ben discusses important points to think about before you leave. A few weeks ago, I had lunch with a friend. During our conversation, she told me that she was thinking about relocating abroad for a while. Her life was in a rut and she needed a […]
Filed under: Expat Advice, Guest Author, Moving to Another Country on October 16th, 2014 | 7 Comments »
Last week we had several fairly intense discussions in the comment sections on the InterNations Facebook fanpage. They involved the overall country ranking of our Expat Insider Survey, the survey’s Quality of Life Index, and a BBC article touting Canberra as the “best place to live”. Actually, the BBC presented the results of another worldwide […]
Filed under: Polls & Surveys on October 13th, 2014 | 5 Comments »
Last month, on September 11, 2014, InterNations turned exactly seven years old to a day. What better place to celebrate this special occasion than our largest InterNations Community worldwide? So I got myself on a plane to London in order to meet up with our three local InterNations Ambassadors at that night’s event location, the […]
Filed under: InterNations News, InterNations Team News on October 8th, 2014 | No Comments »
InterNations has grown tremendously in these past seven years, from a small start-up to the biggest expat network in the world. With around 1.4 million members, we decided that it was time to find out what moves expats around the world: Why do they relocate? What makes them happy? And what is life abroad like […]
Filed under: InterNations News, Polls & Surveys on October 1st, 2014 | No Comments »