BEING AN EXPAT: Whether you are a young person wanting to travel the world, a family transferring to another country for experience/work, or an international retiree, it appears you can never be too old to be an expat. While expat life still retains a somewhat glamorous, jet-setting image, you should know that it is not […] Continue reading →
BEING AN EXPAT: As we come to the year’s end, I am thinking of my expat life in NJ over the last eight years, at a height of many thousand feet, in a plane on my way to Australia. It has been a long while since my last blog post, and much has happened in […] Continue reading →
MOVING TO NEW JERSEY: For expats moving to New Jersey or elsewhere in the USA, a common problem that arises is inconsistent spellings and presentation of their names in key documents. Avoiding this can be critical for a smooth relocation process. This may sound a bit trite but I come across expats regularly who experience […] Continue reading →
EXPAT LIFE: I won’t be wishing for a White Christmas this year – just a cool one. Unbelievably, for the first time since we moved here to the USA, we will be having an expat family Christmas in Australia. Yep, that’s right: a hot, sunny Christmas, where the temperatures can go so high Santa has […] Continue reading →
EXPAT LIFE: We’ve just returned from another home visit to Australia. It was short but still very enjoyable. As with other visits, we saw our friends and family and looked at our house in Sydney’s Inner West. Nothing seems to have changed much except for one big exception. Somewhere, somehow between this year and last […] Continue reading →
RELOCATION: It’s always easy to be wise after the event. And there was never a better example than when we moved to the US on our first international assignment. In hindsight there are many things I wished I had done before relocating our family. Here are some of our learnings that were gained mostly […] Continue reading →
EXPAT LIFE: It’s almost three years since we relocated here to New Jersey. And it has taken me this long unbelievably to develop my blog and get organized. But here we are… I have officially launched my blog with my first ‘expat interview‘ over on the Expat Arrivals Blog website. If you would like to know […] Continue reading →
LIFE IN NEW JERSEY: Call me cheesy but I was really hoping to see a white Christmas this year. It’s not that Bing Crosby is my American Idol but like any greenhorn expat from a warm country, having it snow is just special. Things were looking good on the weather front for a while but it just didn’t work […] Continue reading →
EXPAT LIFE: Now that some time has passed since I wrote my last post, I feel I can move onto talking about some of the things we enjoyed in Australia on our home visit – one being Australian food! One of the greatest luxuries about going home is the ability to indulge your senses in your […] Continue reading →
EXPAT LIFE: It is well over one month since I written my last post, despite my best intentions. You see while I was in Australia on our home visit and holiday, my father passed away after being sick for a long time. I have now returned to New Jersey and although life has continued here, […] Continue reading →
BEING AN EXPAT: Whether you are a young person wanting to travel the world, a family transferring to another country for experience/work, or an international retiree, it appears you can never be too old to be an expat. While expat life still retains a somewhat glamorous, jet-setting image, you should know that it is not […] Continue reading → 
BEING AN EXPAT: As we come to the year’s end, I am thinking of my expat life in NJ over the last eight years, at a height of many thousand feet, in a plane on my way to Australia. It has been a long while since my last blog post, and much has happened in […] Continue reading → 
MOVING TO NEW JERSEY: For expats moving to New Jersey or elsewhere in the USA, a common problem that arises is inconsistent spellings and presentation of their names in key documents. Avoiding this can be critical for a smooth relocation process. This may sound a bit trite but I come across expats regularly who experience […] Continue reading → 
EXPAT LIFE: I won’t be wishing for a White Christmas this year – just a cool one. Unbelievably, for the first time since we moved here to the USA, we will be having an expat family Christmas in Australia. Yep, that’s right: a hot, sunny Christmas, where the temperatures can go so high Santa has […] Continue reading → 
EXPAT LIFE: We’ve just returned from another home visit to Australia. It was short but still very enjoyable. As with other visits, we saw our friends and family and looked at our house in Sydney’s Inner West. Nothing seems to have changed much except for one big exception. Somewhere, somehow between this year and last […] Continue reading → 
RELOCATION: It’s always easy to be wise after the event. And there was never a better example than when we moved to the US on our first international assignment. In hindsight there are many things I wished I had done before relocating our family. Here are some of our learnings that were gained mostly […] Continue reading → 
EXPAT LIFE: It’s almost three years since we relocated here to New Jersey. And it has taken me this long unbelievably to develop my blog and get organized. But here we are… I have officially launched my blog with my first ‘expat interview‘ over on the Expat Arrivals Blog website. If you would like to know […] Continue reading → 
LIFE IN NEW JERSEY: Call me cheesy but I was really hoping to see a white Christmas this year. It’s not that Bing Crosby is my American Idol but like any greenhorn expat from a warm country, having it snow is just special. Things were looking good on the weather front for a while but it just didn’t work […] Continue reading → 
EXPAT LIFE: Now that some time has passed since I wrote my last post, I feel I can move onto talking about some of the things we enjoyed in Australia on our home visit – one being Australian food! One of the greatest luxuries about going home is the ability to indulge your senses in your […] Continue reading →