Expat Interviews Archives - Expat Info Desk

Top 5 Reasons to Make New Expat Friends Overseas

Knowing a few people in your new host destination can be a big advantage. It is especially important if you are moving abroad as a first-time expat. Making expat friends with fellow expats from your home country is a great way to settle in a foreign ...

Author Interview: The Mistress

In the latest in our Expat Interviews series we meet Elaine Purnell, an English expatriate who found her life in Brussels inspired her to write a book that is set within the expatriate community in Belgium and is billed as the story of a "trailing ...

Expat Interviews: An Expat Author in Paris

Today we meet Aurelia d'Andrea, a U.S. expatriate who, after questioning what she wanted to do with her life, found herself living in a city she loved: Paris. There she started to follow her dream of becoming an author and successfully published...

Expat Interviews: The Happiest Place on the Planet

Today we meet Casey Halloran, a U.S. expat who, after moving to Costa Rica, didn't guess for one minute the cascading effect that an advertisement in the local paper for "gringo roommate wanted" would have. Ten years later his entrepreneurial instinc...

Expat Interviews: Keeping Sane in Shanghai

Today we meet Donna Campbell, an Australian who is living in Shanghai, China. Donna shares her story with us, describing how she finds life in China, why you need to be careful crossing the road and how you can stop yourself from going crazy in a...

Expat Interviews : A Psychiatrist in New Zealand

Today we meet Dr Stuart Jeanne Bramhall, a psychiatrist from the United States who has lived in New Zealand since 2002. Here Stuart tells us why Americans living in New Zealand should be careful what they say and provides some really useful tips for ...

Expat Interview : An Education in German

Today we done expat interview of Dana Foltice, an American expatriate who moved from her home in Jacksonville, Florida to Borken, Germany so that her husband could pursue a PhD in Finance at the University of Münster. With a husband that studies har...

Expat Interviews : A Family Sabbatical in Ecuador

Many people dream about taking a break from the daily grind of everyday life and enjoying a sabbatical that will allow them to refocus on the things that are important in life, but every few people actually take the plunge and make their dreams a rea...

Expat Interviews : In Search of the American Dream

Today we meet Ruth Grau, an Australian who left her native home of Adelaide in search of the American dream. Here she shares her story. Where are you currently living? Redondo Beach CA, USA Where in the world were you born? Adelaide, Aust...

Expat Interviews : A Year in China

In the latest installment in our expat interview series we talked to Doris Gallan, a Canadian expatriate who immigrated to the USA in 1998 and then lived in Mexico (2008-09), Costa Rica (2009) and China (2010-11). She recently returned to the USA but...