Lifestyle & Culture
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4.3KFrench startup Octoly wants to connect your beauty brand to emerging Youtube stars
This is the coolest concept we’ve heard about in a while. Well, at least in the last few months. French startup Octoly...
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4.7KSheep heads and smelly fish: U.S. Embassy vid of staffers trying Norwegian Christmas specialties goes viral
Rarely do diplomats or embassy staffers get to say out loud what they really think. In a refreshingly authentic video just posted...
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7.8KExpats, you’re not in Kmart anymore: Retail in Europe is all about neatness, orderliness and service
As we’re closing out this Christmas shopping season, we’re thinking about all those expat arrivals who are experiencing serious retail culture shock...
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4.2KOpinion: Refugees’ criticism of Austria shows ingratitude, unrealistic expectations
(Editor’s note: Nina Avramovic Trninic is a civil engineer, and an expat originally from Tuzla, Bosnia. This opinion post is a response...
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7.1KPossibility City: Eindhoven offers rare combination of talent, vision and affordability
It’s tough being a startup. But one of the easiest decisions we’ve made so far was choosing Eindhoven for what we like...
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6.6KTreasures and tchotchkes: Dispatches’s list of our favorite Christmas markets
One of the real pleasures of living in Germany for years was proximity to some of Europe’s best Christmas markets, from Trier...
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5.6KFor expat architect Keith Gibson, his home is his castle
For American expat architec Keith Gibson, an Italian castle became more than a picture on a postcard. If you Google “Castello di...
