November 2012 - Expat Info Desk

Expat Book Review: Expat Life Slice by Slice

Expat Life Slice by Slice was written by long-term expatriate Apple Gidley. The book is a memoir of her adult life and describes the places she has visited and the amazing experiences she has had along the way through her trials and tribulations ...

An Expat’s Guide to Celebrating Thanksgiving Abroad

Holidays can be a difficult time for expatriates, especially when you know you’re family are tucking in to a turkey with all the trimmings while you are faced with xxx. However, you can make Thanksgiving work for you, providing you make the right a...

Expat Interview: I Love Your Accent

Today we talk to a British expatriate who originally moved to the U.S. as a result of her husband’s job in real estate. However, while traveling back and forth across the Atlantic she realized how many people were interested in meeting people f...

What Type of Expat are You

Quite often people tend to describe expats as one homogeneous group. But are we really all the same? Most certainly not. It is only in more recent years that companies that sell expat-targeted products and services have started to realize that people...

[Infographic] The Best Places to Live and Work in 2012

In a recent survey that was published as part of the Expat Explorer series, HSBC revealed the 10 best to live and work in for 2012: Singapore, Hong Kong, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Mexico, Australia, United States, France, China, Netherlands, and th...

An Expat Guide to the Indian Provident Fund Scheme

The Indian Provident Fund Scheme is a contributory Provident Fund (PF), pension and an insurance scheme that is mandatory for the Indian work force. In 2008 the Government of India extended the scheme to all “international workers” and the de...