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Expatriate Life

English - Expat, Trailing Spouse, Tck
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Expatriate Life · 2d ago

There’s a special place in hell for expats …

… who don’t help other expats.* When I first moved to Azerbaijan in 1996, the online world was in its infancy, and although the company provided us with practical help (housing, school, shipping, etc) there was no orientation or cultural … Continue reading →
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Expatriate Life · 2W ago

Expat support groups: Forums

(Sorry if you’re receiving this by email for a second time.  I goofed and hit the Publish button before I was ready and then for some reason the post disappeared altogether on the blog.  That’ll teach me to talk to … Continue reading →
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Expatriate Life · 2W ago

If a measure of success is

If a measure of success is longevity, then the ExpatWoman forum has to high on the list of online support groups for expats. When I moved to the Dubai for the second time, Jane Drury had just launched her website www.expatwoman.com (not to be confused with Andrea Martin’s successful website www.expa
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Expatriate Life · 1M ago

A double-edged sword: Expats and the Internet

“Great, let’s do it!” was my reaction when my husband phoned to tell me about a job he’d been offered in Azerbaijan. As soon as I’d hung up, I reached for the atlas to see where on earth I’d committed to … Continue reading →
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Expatriate Life · 1M ago

Not where I should be

I should be at the Families in Global Transition Conference which is starting today, but I’m not.  The reason I’m not there is because I picked up the phone to speak to my medical insurance company after reading about recent … Continue reading →
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Expatriate Life · 2M ago

Laugh out loud: Diplomatic Incidents by Cherry Denman

That middle-aged women snorting on the subway this past week was me.  No, I’m not going senile, or at least not yet, I was reading Cherry Denman’s hilarious “Diplomatic Incidents,” billed as the memoir of an (un)diplomatic wife.  Yes, it … Continue reading →
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Expatriate Life · 3M ago

An Insider’s Guide to the FIGT Conference

A recent blog post by Rachel Yates about her fear of attending an Families in Global Transition Conference got me thinking about the first one I went to in 2010.  Like Rachel I was daunted by my fellow FIGTers.  They … Continue reading →
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Expatriate Life · 3M ago

Please remove your shoes

Are you a slipper person?  Do you remove your shoes when entering someone else’s home?  It seems to be quite a sensitive topic and one you need to pay attention to when moving to a new country. We wore slippers … Continue reading →
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Expatriate Life · 4M ago

Home at last

My friend Maria over at iwasanexpatwife.com has inspired me to write my own retrospective of 2011.  It may have been a train wreck for her, but for me the train finally arrived in the station in terms of my repatriation.  What … Continue reading →
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Expatriate Life · 4M ago

Test

From: Plus Public Activity Feed for Judy Rickatsonhttps://plus.google.com/107699007716140528046/posts/KCQrKZfRj5hJanuary 02, 2012 at 09:46AM Interesting infographic on the current state of social media. Highlights that jumped out at me: 1) Auto-posting to Facebook decreases likes and comments by 70%
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