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A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute is multi-layered expat novel, which was made into a TV mini-series in 1981. It has been one of my favorites for a long time, not only because of the expat themes, but because it also features a strong female protagonist who overcomes some truly daunting obstacles.
Forbes list of The World’s Most Expensive Cities to Live. According to Forbes, the 10 most expensive cities are: Tokyo, Japan Osaka, Japan Moscow, Russia Geneva, Switzerland Hong Kong, China Zurich, Switzerland Copenhagen, Denmark New York, USA Beijing, China Singapore Share and Enjoy:
How Important is Health Care in your decision to move abroad?(online surveys)
Share and Enjoy: A few days ago, I asked the question, “Is US health care driving Americans to move abroad?” The response was swift.
“Of course it is,” wrote Lya Sorano, Atlanta businesswoman. “Hardly a month passes in which I do not hear about a friend-of-a-friend or former neighbor decamping to Mexico or Costa Rica. I may Continue reading Health Care and Expatriation I spoke with a real estate agent yesterday to see whether we have any realistic prospect of selling our house in this economy. I mentioned to her that we would be leaving the area, so of course she wanted to know our plans. “We can’t afford to retire here,” I explained, “so we’re
Continue reading Health Care: Is it Driving US Citizens to Move Overseas? Victor Victoria, starring Julie Andrews, Robert Preston and James Garner, was released in 1982. It’s hard to believe this film is nearly 30 years old. All the main characters are expats in Paris during the difficult years following the great stock market crash of 1929 in the US.
Victoria Grant (Julie Andrews) is an Continue reading Expat Films: Victor Victoria  One popular way to finance your new life abroad is to teach English as a second language. While formal teaching experience is not required, most programs require you to be a native speaker and have a Bachelor’s Degree. Training and certification as a TESOL (Teaching English as a second or other language)
Continue reading Finance Your Life Overseas by Teaching English Although I don’t have any personal experience with living abroad yet, one of the tidbits of information I’ve picked up is that you need to flow with the unexpected, because the unexpected happens a lot.
As I learned recently, the unexpected happens even before you make your overseas move! Share and Enjoy:  In our last installment, we talked about writing as a way to finance your life abroad, specifically travel writing. There are, of course, many other different kinds of writing, and almost any of them can be done remotely once you develop the skills and, more importantly, the contacts.
Share and Enjoy: The New Global Student: Skip the SAT, Save Thousands on Tuition, and Get a Truly International Education by Maya Frost.
Exchange Students Maya Frost has written a rather astonishing (to me, at least) how-to book. While her focus is ostensibly on how living and studying overseas is a powerful alternative to the standard US Continue reading Expat Books: The New Global Student |
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