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Essential requirements for budding expat entrepreneurs
Which are the most important requirements for budding expat entrepreneurs?
When considering the best expat location for your new business, the most important issue is choosing one which fits neatly with your sector. One recent survey focused on three sectors, import/export, digital and tech and the hospitality trade as in restaurants,...
Becoming a single female expat can be the lifestyle change you need
Careful planning after research makes moving overseas as a single woman a breeze!
Emigrating to an unfamiliar land is correctly seen as daunting for new expats due to culture shock and the total unfamiliarity of just about everything, but for single women it’s generally seen to be far worse. However, careful research, forward planning...
Checking out Panama as an expat retirement destination
American expats discovered Panama a good few decades ago, but there’s no reason why this luscious destination shouldn’t be the perfect hideaway for Europeans as well.
The romantic appeal of a combination of Caribbean and Pacific coastlines, soaring mountains covered in wildflowers and thick jungles hiding slow-flowing rivers would be...
South Africa’s best cities for expat professional life
However tempting a new job or reassignment may sound, moving lock, stock and barrow to a totally new land can be scary at best.
Expat professionals heading to South Africa are following in the footsteps of foreigners who arrived more than a century ago and established the new land as an important part of the international trading network....
Trailing spouses facing divorce should get their own careers back
How can trailing spouses reignite their own careers after divorce?
Sadly, divorce is often a by-product of a reassignment gone bad, leaving the wife to attempt to get her own career back on the burner after a marriage breakdown. Some 50 per cent of all overseas contracts fail, with 30 per cent of expatriates forced back to the home...
Is India a good choice for expat career progression?
India may not be the first country which springs to mind as an expat professional destination, but the reality can bring on a pleasant surprise.
Historically, India is a country people come from, with comparatively few heading in the opposite direction. Of its teeming population, some 20,000 to 30,000 are expatriates, although numbers are...
Key factors determining expat retirees’ choice of destination
What are the key factors which should determine would-be expat retirees’ choice of destination?
Many potential expat retirees fall in love with a particular destination after spending enjoyable holidays in or near the area, but living full-time overseas isn’t the same as visiting, however regular. Choosing a location which supports...
Becoming a short-term expat is a constructive life experience
Becoming an expat for at least one year should be mandatory.
Whatever the reason for moving overseas, it’s an experience everyone should be forced to take for at least one year. Basically, moving overseas as an expat worker is scary at best, as it involves leaving familiarity behind and taking on a whole new way of being. The same is...
Tips for expats on adapting to totally unfamiliar cultures
Over the past decade, moving overseas to take on a new job has become routine for qualified professionals in many sectors, but for most it’s not quite as straightforward as it first seems.
Adapting to a new environment may seem the natural thing to do for today’s huge expat army, but cultural and other differences can easily interfere...
Hong Kong based expats will find Singapore a safer environment
For those Hong Kong-based expats now considering a move to Singapore due to the continuing riots, it’s fairly straightforward to organise.
Expats now living and working in Hong Kong but unsure about their futures could well make the move to Singapore with ease. Although salaries in the city state tend to be lower by 10 per cent than the...
