Expat Essentials
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4.5KThird Culture Kids are the antidote to the Brexit/Trump madness engulfing the world
In 1999 when we were moving our family to Turkey, so many friends told my wife Cheryl and me they’d love to...
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7.3KBeth Hoke in Croatia: Dispatches’ English-speaking expat’s guide to Split
(Editor’s note: Digital nomad Beth Hoke has traveled four times to Croatia since 2016, including three stays in Split as she moves in and...
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7.1KFrankfurt: Brexit exits creating expat career opportunities in banking, finance
While Brexit doesn’t seem to be working out all that well for the United Kingdom, it’s a windfall for financial centers across...
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9.1KNew for 2019: Dispatches’ list of Europe’s five best developing countries for expats
(Editor’s note: In multiple capacities, Dispatches staffers work daily with expats – friends and colleagues – from developing countries including Bosnia, Macedonia,...
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9.8KIt’s not just you (updated): Dispatches’ 2018 traffic data confirm a growing interest in the expat lifestyle
For a relatively new pure-play digital media company, Dispatches Europe gets a lot of traffic. When we went back at the end...
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7.5KStephen Heiner in Paris: Expats, get a French bank account before renewing your visa
(Editor’s note: This advice column on getting a French bank account was originally posted on Stephen Heiner’s “The American in Paris” website....
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4.7KLaura Kaye in Berlin: Celebrating the sheer chaos of Silvester in the German capital
The annual New Year’s chaos in Berlin began on Friday, when I noted that the whole of the “random middle aisle section”...
