Expat Wives

Much like army wives, expat wives often find themselves having to choose between a rock and a hard place. Moving every few years, relocating your sense of self and establishing new social circles are great fun and fantastic adventures if you have an outgoing, curious and flexible personality. If you’re looking for stability on the [...]

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Service and tipping

When you go out to eat, have pizza delivered, or get your hair or nails done, do you always tip? Even if the service was bad? When is it ok to complain, and what do you as a customer expect?

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Fiscal responsibility

“(…) in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” (Benjamin Franklin)
Just a short post this week, because many of you will have more important things to do. And this isn’t something to procrastinate!

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Survey: Expat spouses and employment

Yet another couple of expat survey findings have been published that caught my attention. As you know from this post, I love each and every one of them. Surveys are necessary, helpful, informative; they shed light into detailed international corners where our individual flashlights don’t reach, and they remind us that expats and their families [...]

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Interpreting Expat Surveys

HSBC has published new survey findings, called “Offshore Offspring”, where they looked at the experience expat parents have with raising their children internationally. Parents were surveyed to rate their country on time their children spent outdoors and studying, the cost of raising them, how many languages the children spoke, and whether they would remain in [...]

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