Expat Essentials
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16.5KA working holiday visa allows some non-EU citizens to work while traveling across Europe
(Editor’s note: This post was updated on 25 April 2019 with new information.) If you’re young, not a European Union citizen and...
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Expat Essentials: If a Dutch telemarketer is calling, answering could cost you (updated)
Editor’s note: We expats who own companies based in the Netherlands are registered with the Kamer van Koophandel, or KvK, basically a...
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Stephen Heiner in Paris: Auto-entrepreneur is a tax classification, not a visa status
(Editor’s note: Stephen Heiner is a Paris-based consultant who helps expats with auto-entrepreneur status and other issues. You can email him here...
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Frankfurt jobs Pt. 2: Brexit exits creating expat career opportunities in banking, finance
(Editor’s note: You can see our first post on jobs in Frankfurt here.) We long ago lost track of all the multinational...
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New for 2019: Dispatches’ always-updated list of the best Dutch music festivals
(Editor’s note: We’ve gotten several emails and FB messages that The Flying Dutch is canceled for 2019 because local officials have stated...
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Expat Essentials: Lynne Evans’s expat guide to moving to Athens
Thinking of moving to Greece? It might be that you have become disillusioned with the country in which you currently live and...
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War for Talent: Career Hunt campaign offers expenses-paid VIP career trip to Estonia
File this under “too good to be true” … though it’s totally legit. This is the second year econ-dev group Work Estonia...
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DIY Expat: Did thieves use CrimeTech to steal our laptop? (updated)
(Editor’s note: This post was updated with new information.) Back in 2017, our car was broken into in a parking garage on...
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Joanna Storie: Living the dream in rural Latvia includes alpacas, fast internet
The first question anyone asks us is, “Why are we, two Brits, in Latvia?” to which the answer is, “Why not?” I...
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New for 2019 (updated): Europe’s best winter ski/music festivals and spring break destinations
This is the time of year everyone is planning for the spring adventures, and that’s when the majority of ski/music festivals happen...
