A couple of weeks ago, I asked you to give me some input about topics you’d like to see more discussion of here. As promised, I let the poll run for a couple of weeks and now it’s time for the results. The choices were: Health Care Language Learning Personal Stories Portable Careers Reviews of [...]
Finally! A Real Roadmap for Moving Overseas
May 27, 2011
I’ve found it! Earlier this year, I wrote about my disappointment in a product that promised to be a roadmap for expats. Instead, it was a bunch of fluff — mostly recycled fluff, at that. I haven’t given up the search, though, because we future expats need something that will take us, step by step, [...]
Future Expats Have Spoken!
November 2, 2010
I’ve just closed the poll, and the verdict is in. You want to see more about preparing to expatriate earning an income overseas and health care So we’re going to zero in on those topics. You’ll still see some general expat issues discussed from time to time, and if there’s any news of particular importance [...]
Expats: Ready, Set, Go!
October 26, 2010
Last week I asked you to help me out. I’ve been wanting to narrow the focus here at Future Expats Forum, but before I make any big changes I wanted your input. A bunch of you have responded, and here’s how the categories are breaking down to this point: Preparing to Expatriate: 27% Earning an [...]
What’s Important to You?
October 19, 2010
Since starting Future Expats Forum in March of last year, I’ve written on a pretty wide variety of topics. Health care, earning a living, garage sales, expat-themed books and movies. . . and the list goes on. I’d really like to narrow my focus a bit, and I have some ideas about what I’d like [...]
Are You Running Toward. . . or Running Away?
August 3, 2010
Recently it seems as though I’ve been stumbling across all sorts of reasons to expatriate — or not — from all sorts of different sources. All the reasons, though, fall into one of two categories: running away from something running toward something In general, the coaches I’ve been in touch with agree that your move [...]
Enough to Make Anyone Sick
June 18, 2010
I’m a big fan of Kathleen Peddicord’s website, Live and Invest Overseas. I get her Overseas Opportunity Letter, and look forward to it hitting my inbox every day. I even subscribe to her Overseas Retirement Letter. Most of the time, I think she and her writers are completely on target. Once in a while, not [...]
Americans, I Have Some Bad News for You
June 12, 2010
On June 10, EFAM published an article titled America — the Grim Truth. And grim it was indeed! “Americans, I have some bad news for you,” the article starts. “You have the worst quality of life in the developed world – by a wide margin. “If you had any idea of how people really lived [...]
US Healthcare Reform Brings Jobs to India
April 19, 2010
Last month, the US Congress passed health care reform legislations and the President signed it. While it doesn’t appear it will make much of a difference to US citizens living overseas, Global Post reports that outsourcing of jobs to India will increase because of it. The headline on the April 17 article read: “For India, [...]
How Will the New US Health Care Law Affect Expats?
March 24, 2010
On March 21, the House passed the health care overhaul bill and on March 23, President Obama signed it into law. Nobody really knows how it’s going to impact expats, but preliminary indications are that, unless you earn more than the FEIE (foreign earned income exclusion) annually in US income, it won’t effect you at [...]
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