by Jane | Dec 31, 2012 | Expat issues, Red tape and bureaucracy, Tips, advice, suggestions
I’ve shed a tear nearly every morning since the massacre took place at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut on the 14th of December. Any time I look at a newspaper or scroll through my Facebook feed or hear a clip on German or English language radio,...
by JessicaL | Dec 11, 2012 | History and culture, Work and employment matters
My first trip to Hamburg’s famous Reeperbahn was a bit of shock. I think I can more accurately call it culture shock now though, as I look back at my reaction to the “sinful mile”. Having only been in Hamburg for a few days, after spending the summer in Canada and...
by HF | Nov 29, 2012 | Daily life, Expat issues, The euro and money matters, Tips, advice, suggestions, Work and employment matters
Expatriates don’t always have a choice of where they’re assigned to work, but they definitely need to know the cost of living in their assignment location. If your salary is paid by a US company, for example, that salary might put you at a huge...
by HF | Nov 19, 2012 | Daily life, Expat issues, German vocabulary, Tips, advice, suggestions
Today we’ll finish my list of expat likes (the good), dislikes (the bad) and major gripes (the ugly). We are now in Part 2 of the “good” things. In Part 1 I began with “the bad,” but my “good” list turned out to be even...
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