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Expat Communication with Friends and Family.. What We Really Mean by “Fine”
Conversations about resilience and coping strategies at FIGT 2012 prompted a great deal of thought about the role of the people who we leave behind when expats relocate. In my ’7 Habits of Successful...
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Friends Beyond Borders
It is hard to move from one city to another, even harder to move to a different country. One of the positive things about this though, is that you tend to make friends wherever you go. Of course, it’s...
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Everything you need to know about relocation, you learned in your first week...
A conversation over coffee last week centered around how we all adapt to any new environment, and I offered up the Feisty One as an example of someone who had it figured out from birth. Watching her...
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Really Useful Cultural Orientation – How to Make Friends and Introduce People..
You’ve spent the first half of your life learning acceptable social behaviour, the last ten years telling your kids not to care what people think, and then wham! Relocation. Suddenly you’re stuck right...
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Expat Etiquette: How to be the Perfect Guest (2012 edition)
Expat etiquette #2: If you are going to use something from home, bring it with you, and bring spares to share. Unless you have the misfortune to live in Britain (where the rain has been pouring down...
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This is how a heart breaks. Expat parenting
You think when you have left school, taken exams, graduated from college and reached adulthood that the slings and arrows of the school playground can never hurt you again. And then you have children...
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Coping with Expat Homelessness – My Family in Global Transition.
It’s the latest expat dilemma in the Defining Moves household, and in answer to our newly homeless state, I’m moving in with my sister. She may be currently unaware of her impending fate, but I’m...
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The “Career Choice and the Accompanying Partner” Survey is out!
The eagerly anticipated “Career Choice and the Accompanying Partner” survey conducted by Evelyn Simpson & Louise Wiles is now available, and it makes fascinating reading. “This report provides a...
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Today We Celebrate! The Trailing Spouse Keeping the Family Together
Today we celebrate! All of us trailing spouse moms and dads, who have chosen to follow their spouse’s/partner’s careers over their own, who have sacrificed to keep their family living at one place....
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(Often Ignored) Expat Essentials – Writing a Will.
Yes, I know. You don’t want to think about it, much less talk about it, which is why I have been getting shifty looks from most of my expat network this week when I asked them the seemingly simple...
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