Making your life your own as the expat partner

Why being proactive is important for the accompanying expat partner Are you an accompanying expat partner or trailing spouse? Or will you be, because you are about to

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Ten of the best countries for expats

Want to move abroad? Where is a good place to go? Making the decision to move to a new country and make a fresh start is no easy task.

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Expat personality characteristics

Three personality characteristics necessary for a successful expat life Do people who become expats have a specific personality? What is it about some people that makes them more

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How to prepare for UN-packing day

How to prepare to receive your shipment Or, to be more accurate, Preparing For The Day All Your Shipped Items Get Delivered… Because unpacking can take way longer

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Life as an introverted expat

Surviving expat life when you’re an introvert “Introvert: a shy person; a person characterised by concern primarily with his or her own thoughts and feelings” I wonder how

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Moving overseas – Countdown to packing day

Two or three weeks before your packers arrive You’re now about two or three weeks away from packing day. Time to speed up the decluttering and organising now;

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How to cope with emotional overwhelm

Expats and emotional overwhelm Emotional overwhelm is a recognised and very real condition. It’s the state of being caught up in too many emotions all at once; when

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Expat divorce

Where do divorce proceedings take place for those who have connections to more than one country? In many instances when a marriage breaks down the spouses only have

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Managing overwhelm when moving abroad

Overwhelmed and inefficient Moving anywhere is stressful. Moving overseas is, just wow! And it’s not like you can just pop back to your home town to cancel a

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Expat ‘failure’ – what to do if expat life doesn’t work out for you

When expat life doesn’t work out Despite our best intentions, relocations don’t always work out the way we hope and expect. For a whole host of reasons, the

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