How to rebuild your social life abroad Moving overseas as an accompanying partner can be both exciting and lonely. Exciting because you’re embarking on a brand new adventure
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How to maintain family bonds across borders
How to keep in touch across borders I wrote some time ago about the difficulties of staying in touch with loved ones when you expatriate and how this
Be prepared for emergencies
What to do as soon as you arrive in a new country As an expat arriving in a new country there are so many new things to learn
Modern technology and staying in touch
Keeping in touch as an expat The autumn seems to bring a spate of family birthdays – my children, mother-in-law, step-mother, sister-in-law, niece, father and my sister all
Expat life quotes
“You hang around cafés” Ernest Hemingway, the famous expatriate writer, wrote the following in ‘The Sun also Rises‘ in 1926. You’re an expatriate. You’ve lost touch with the
3 secrets to a successful repatriation
Repatriating is going home? So, you’re going home! After so many years abroad, you’re finally returning home. Congratulations! Wait, home?? What is this ‘home’? What are the challenges
Moving back home to Australia?
Preparing to move back to Australia Are you thinking of moving back to Australia? You may have been born and raised there but if you’ve lived abroad for
Homesick expatriates
Homesickness and how to cope with it What is homesickness? Experiencing a longing for one’s home during a period of absence from it. Judging by the number of
Expat culture shock
Culture shock and reverse culture shock If you’ve never experienced culture shock, try imagining that you are Alice in Lewis Carroll’s books, ”Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and ”Through
Planning to move back home
Plan to repatriate Moving back to your home country isn’t as easy as you’d expect. People have repeatedly told me that repatriation shock, or reverse culture shock, is
