Living Abroad

Living Abroad I have spent a lot of time living abroad, and have recently been wondering why. My history of being and living abroad is roughly as follows. I went on a two-week school cruise to Leningrad in July 1968…

Discover thrilling tales from Thailand to Wales – 60 novels by Owen Jones!

Discover thrilling tales from Thailand to Wales – 60 novels by Owen Jones!

Living Abroad I have spent a lot of time living abroad, and have recently been wondering why. My history of being and living abroad is roughly as follows. I went on a two-week school cruise to Leningrad in July 1968…

Being An Expat Summary To those of you who have read the first five parts to this series, I would like to say ‘thank you’. I don’t know what impression of being an expat I left you with except that…

The financial aspect of being an expat boils down to always having sufficient funds to satisfy your requirements, which will vary throughout the year.

I have lived here in northern Thailand for 21 years and I lived in The Netherlands for nine years until 1982, so I am sort of used to being an expat in two countries on two continents in two radically different parts of the world. The first thing is that being an expat is not like being on a very long holiday.