Expat Essentials
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675Beyond Lisbon: Affordable and convenient cities for a new life in Portugal
Over the past decade, Portugal — to the excitement of its politicians and the mixed feelings of its citizens — has become...
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581French healthcare: An expat discussion of CSS vs Mutuelle
(Editor’s note: This post about French healthcare originally appeared on The American in Paris website. It’s reposted here with permission.) A note...
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625Polya Pencheva: Surviving the Brussels Commune registration, Pt. 2
After writing my first post about registering at the municipality (commune) in Brussels it took me a total of eight months to...
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816Mónica Da Silva: The things I wish I’d known before moving to Portugal
I lived in Lisbon from 2018 to 2022 and I remember those years with gratitude, but honestly I am not sure if...
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656Polya Pencheva: An expat’s guide to health insurance in Belgium
(Editor’s note: This post on health insurance in Belgium is part of a series by expat Polya Pencheva, who recently relocated to...
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1.5KWhere you should be shopping: A definitive guide to the major supermarkets in Salzburg
If we are indeed what we eat, then where we can get the best bang for our buck is a topic of...
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824Expat Essentials: Dispatches’ list of international schools in Zagreb, Croatia
I’ve already spotlighted Zagreb as a great place to live for a multitude of reasons, but things are always more complicated when...
