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5 Great Ways Trailing Spouses Can Earn Their Keep

There’s no end of coverage on trailing spouse syndrome and the potentially damaging emotional effects that can occur when an individual relocates to new country so that their partner can pursue their own career and interests. However, a life damned...

3 Things That Expats Overlook When Negotiating Their Contracts

1) The type of contract on offer. One major area that many expats overlook their expat contract negotiation is the type of contract they will ultimately be bound by; a local contract or international contract. The type of contract should have a major...

7 Fantastic Reasons Why You Should Pack up and Relocate Overseas

If you are considering international relocation but seem to be able to formulate more reasons why you should stay at home than why you should move overseas, then let us step in and provide you with some reasons why moving abroad may be the best thi...

6 Personality Traits of a Happy Expat

Earlier this year The Economist Intelligent Unit issued a special report on expatriate life entitled, Up and Out. Next Moves for the Modern Expatriate. In the report they looked at expatriate personality types and questioned, “What makes a success...

Eternal Migration of a Spotless Housewife: Singapore Wildlife

One of the things that is taking me some time to get used to here is Singapore wildlife. Unidentified flying things, unidentified crawling things and unidentified swinging things... and that’s just the expat population. It really is taking me some ...

Eternal migration of a spotless housewife: Glossary of expat names

Glossary of expat names : An expat by any other name? This week I was called an “Ang Mo” by one of my Singaporean friends: “Hey Ang Mo, your husband always late lah?” Ang Moh is a Hokkien word that literal translates as “red hair” and ap...

Expat Research Survey : HSBC needs YOU!

HSBC are yet again sponsoring the world's largest expatriate survey and this year they're aiming to include even more expats from all over the world. This is where you come in. HSBC are seeking your valuable views and insights into life as an exp...

Eternal Migration of a Spotless Housewife : Expat Child Syndrome

Forget trailing spouse syndrome, there’s a new paradoxical psychological phenomenon that I have been hearing a lot about recently. It’s called expat child syndrome. “What is this abnormality and how can I identify the clinical features associat...

Special Report: What is it really like as a modern-day expatriate? Part 2

What is it really like as a modern-day expatriate? Benefits, holiday allowances and quality of life A life abroad is more accessible than it has ever been and increasing numbers of people choose to leave behind their home to experience life in a new...

Special Report: What is it really like as a modern-day expatriate? Part 1

A life abroad is more accessible than it has ever been and increasing numbers of people choose to leave behind their home to experience life in a new country. Traditionally, life as an modern day expatriate was associated with vast wealth and privile...