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New Economic Report Can Help You Find Your Dream Expat Life

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The Brookings Institution and the London School of Economics and Political Science have just released their Global Metro Monitor report, The Path to Economic Recovery: A Preliminary Overview of 150 Global Metropolitan Economies in the Wake of the Great Recession. While this information won't determine where in the world you'll be happiest as an expat, it can help you figure out where to start looking. Why? In the wake of what they are calling the Great Recession, Latin American and Asian …

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Learn a New Language Online — Before Your Overseas Move

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When you imagine a different life for yourself overseas, do you hear yourself speaking English, or do you visualize yourself conversing with the local people in their own tongue? Should you learn a new language when you move? That’s a question only you can answer, and that answer will depend on several factors. What kind of expat are you? If you're a cultural or missionary-type expat, deciding to learn the language will feel like a no-brainer to you. Will your work require it? Will you live …

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Profitable Blogging

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Let's face it, you don't make money just by blogging. But there are lots of profitable bloggers, and some of them are very, very profitable. Gazillionaire profitable. They do it by using the blog to sell something. As I wrote recently, There are basically three ways to make money from a blog: Sell your own product Sell your own service Sell someone else’s product or service If you want to live the untethered expat life through a blog, you'll most likely start, as I did, by selling …

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How Thanksgiving Reminded Me to be Thankful

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A lot of blogs featured "things I feel thankful for" types of posts just before Thanksgiving, which was yesterday here in the US. I didn't join them because, frankly, I haven't been feeling I had much to be thankful for recently. However, spending Thanksgiving Day with my husband's family, and a long phone conversation in the evening, put a few things into perspective for me. One Man's Yummy is Another Man's Disgusting Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday. While many cultures celebrate …

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Imagine Yourself with a Different Life

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Recently I wrote about chipping away at your stuff to free yourself for your untethered expat life. This presumes you're like most other readers of this website, and you're choosing your own expat destination, not being sent on an overseas assignment by a company. Just as you need to inventory and make decisions about material possessions, you need to decide what’s important to you after you move. This is a place where you can dream a bit, and envision the way you’d really like your life to …

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To Untether, First Take Inventory

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The story goes that Michelangelo created his beautiful statues by visualizing what was trapped inside the marble and chipping away everything that wasn’t the statue. Before you can untether yourself as an expat you have to undergo a similar transformation. You need to chip away everything that won’t work with your new life so you can free yourself to enjoy it. There are two broad categories you need to chip away at: your stuff and your ideas. Chip Away the Stuff One way to start is by taking …

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