The Expert Expat


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Expanded and updated edition! Trusted by thousands of families and individuals, The Expert Expat is essential reading for anyone moving overseas. Personal stories - from the authors' dozens of years abroad as well as the experience of countless expats worldwide - help prepare people for the exhilarating and daunting task of establishing a life far from home. This new edition includes an important chapter on safety, expert advice on preventing identity theft and responding to terrorist threats and, for the increasing number of people traveling solo, guidance on networking and establishing a home. Now more than ever, The Expert Expat's practical advice and encouragement eases the challenges and helps create a rewarding experience living abroad.




How To Move Abroad And Why It's The Best Thing You'll Do


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There has to be more to life than this. How many times have you said that to yourself lately? You are not alone. There has never been a better time to take the leap and move abroad. Four-time expat and travel expert Jessica Drucker distills 15 years of living, working and traveling abroad into an amazingly simple recipe that anyone can follow. In the long tradition of Tim Ferriss' The 4-Hour Work Week, Marie Kondo's decluttering framework and Bill Bryson's travel memoirs, How To Move Abroad And Why It's The Best Thing You'll Do provides a practical step-by-step guide and personal anecdotes to get you abroad, whether you're looking to start over, retire, reignite your career, or show your kids the world.Drucker demystifies the process of setting up life in a different country, clarifying topics such as: **How to finance your move**How to get a job abroad **How to pay your taxes **How to blend in like a spy, even when you stick out like a sore thumb**How to learn any language. This book is for you if: You want to escape the rat race, Your heart breaks after every vacation, You spent your childhood dreaming of living abroad, but don't know when you are going to take the leap, You have always thought you would retire abroad (why not go now?), You're tired of the politics, consumerism or 5am starts, You are looking for somewhere safer for your kids (or your sanity!), You are tired of a dead-end job or career, You feel like you will never get to a place where you 'have enough', You know you want to move abroad but others around you think you have lost your mind.When you move abroad, you join nearly nine million other Americans who have decided to do the same. There is nothing magical that got them there and not you. They simply committed to the idea and followed a process. How To Move Abroad And Why It's The Best Thing You'll Do connects you to that group of people, helps you sidestep expensive and time-consuming pitfalls, and helps you get realistic about how to make your




GenXpat


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Designed to help young, internationally and culturally mobile professionals achieve the personal fulfillment they need to succeed in their international careers.




The Expats


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Can we ever escape our secrets? Kate Moore’s quiet Luxembourg days are filled with playdates and coffee mornings, her weekends in Paris and skiing the Alps. But Kate is also guarding a tremendous secret—one that’s becoming so unbearable it begins to unravel her new expat life. She suspects that another American couple are not who they claim to be, her husband is acting suspiciously, and as she travels around Europe, she finds herself looking over her shoulder, increasingly terrified that her own past is catching up with her. As Kate begins to dig, to uncover the secrets of the people around her, she finds herself buried in layers of deceit so thick they threaten her family, her marriage, and her life.




The Expatriates


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The inspiration for Expats, a new series starring Nicole Kidman coming soon to Prime Video. “Devastating and heartwarming, and exquisite in every way, this is a book you’ll fall deeply in love with and never want to put down.” —Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians From the New York Times bestselling author of The Piano Teacher, a searing novel of marriage, motherhood, and the search for connection far from home. In the glittering city of Hong Kong, expats arrive daily for myriad reasons—to find or lose themselves in a foreign place, and to forget or remake themselves far from home. Amidst this hothouse atmosphere, a tragic incident causes three American women’s lives to collide in ways that will rewrite every assumption of their privileged world: Mercy, a young Korean American and recent Columbia graduate, once again finds herself compromised and adrift, trying to start her life anew; Hilary, a wealthy housewife, is haunted by her struggle to have a child, hoping to save her uncertain marriage; meanwhile, Margaret, once the enviable mother of three, tries to negotiate an existence that has become utterly unrecognizable after a catastrophic event. Faced with unthinkable choices, these three women form a profound connection that defies the norms of the sequestered community—finding in each other a strength borne of need, forgiveness, and ultimately hope. Atmospheric and utterly compelling, The Expatriates showcases Lee’s exceptional talent as one of our keenest observers of women’s inner lives.




Millionaire Expat


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Build your strongest-ever portfolio from anywhere in the world Millionaire Expat is a handbook for smart investing, saving for retirement, and building wealth while overseas. As a follow-up to The Global Expatriate's Guide to Investing, this book provides savvy investment advice for everyone—no matter where you're from—to help you achieve your financial goals. Whether you're looking for safety, strong growth, or a mix of both, index funds are the answer. Low-risk and reliable, these are the investments you won't hear about from most advisors. Most advisors would rather earn whopping commissions than follow sound financial principles, but Warren Buffett and Nobel Prize winners agree that index funds are the best way to achieve market success—so who are you ready to trust with your financial future? If you want a better advisor, this book will show you how to find one; if you'd rather go it alone, this book gives you index fund strategies to help you invest in the best products for you. Learn how to invest for both safety and strong returns Discover just how much retirement will actually cost, and how much you should be saving every month Find out where to find a trustworthy advisor—or go it alone Take advantage of your offshore status to invest successfully and profitably Author Andrew Hallam was a high school teacher who built a million-dollar portfolio—on a teacher's salary. He knows how everyday people can achieve success in the market. In Millionaire Expat, he tailors his best advice to the unique needs of those living overseas to give you the targeted, real-world guidance you need.




The Expat Partner's Survival Guide


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From how to organise an overseas move to what to do in the event of an earthquake, the Expat Partner's Survival Guide is a light-hearted yet in-depth guide for anyone accompanying their partner on an overseas assignment. In our increasingly globalised society, more and more people are moving to another country to work 0́3 and many of these people are taking their partners and families with them. What does it feel like to sit at home alone in a strange country on the first day your partner leaves for work? How easy is it to find the right school for your child 0́3 and what happens if your child hates it there? Where exactly are you going to track down all the ingredients needed for tonight's dinner? And what happens when it all goes very, very wrong? This authoritative guide draws on the expert advice of more than 70 expat partners who have been there, done that and survived to tell their tales. The experts include author Clara Wiggins, who spent her childhood as a 'trailing daughter' accompanying her diplomat parents on various exotic postings including the Philippines and Venezuela. She later saw life from the other side, when was posted to Jamaica and then took her young family on her husband's postings to Islamabad and St Lucia. She is currently preparing for another move, to South Africa.




The Global Expatriate's Guide to Investing


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Exploit your offshore status to build a robust investment portfolio Most of the world's 200 million expats float in stormy seas. Few can contribute to their home country social programs. They're often forced to fend for themselves when they retire. The Global Expatriate's Guide to Investing is the world's only book showing expats how to build wealth overseas with index funds. Written by bestselling author, Andrew Hallam, it's a guide for everyone, no matter where they are from. Warren Buffett says you should buy index funds. Nobel prize winners agree. But dangers lurk. Financial advisors overseas can be hungry wolves. They don't play by the same set of rules. They would rather earn whopping commissions than follow solid financial principles. The Global Expatriate's Guide To Investing shows how to avoid these jokers. It explains how to find an honest financial advisor: one that invests with index funds instead of commission paying windfalls. You don't want an advisor? Fair enough. Hallam shows three cutting edge index fund strategies. He compares costs and services of different brokerages, whether in the U.S. or offshore. And he shows every nationality how to invest in the best products for them. Some people want stability. Some want strong growth. Others want a dash of both. This book also answers the following questions: How much money do I need to retire? How much should I be saving each month? What investments will give me both strong returns, and safety? The Global Expatriate's Guide To Investing also profiles real expats and their stories. It shows the mistakes and successes that they want others to learn from. It's a humorous book. And it demonstrates how you can make the best of your hard-earned money.




Expat Secrets


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In this #1 Best Selling book Mikkel Thorup draws on his 20+ years of overseas experience to bring you a complete guide to living overseas, saving money on taxes, obtaining a second passport and traveling the world as an Expat. This book will save you years of trial and error and will give you a comprehensive blueprint to planting flags around the globe as a PT (Previous Taxpayer, Permanent Tourist, Perpetual Traveler). Expat Secrets is filled with timeless knowledge stemming from Mikkel Thorup's travels to more than 100 countries to bring you a No-BS approach to the offshore markets. So if Secret Vaults in Asia, Offshore Bank Accounts in Belize, Hardwood Plantations in Central America, Real Estate in China and Business Class Travel around the world excite you then this is the book for you.




A Broad Abroad


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Comforting and irreverent, encouraging and practical, Pascoe's book for expatriate wives offers empathetic and honest advice for married women who have been catapulted into a foreign country.