Living Abroad

Settle into expat life with insights on cultural adaptation, building community, managing finances abroad, and finding your place in a new country.

Are Language Skills Needed to Work Abroad?

We Britons are famous, or should that be infamous, for our lack of language skills. If it’s any comfort, we’re not the absolute worst in Europe in that r...

Buying British Goods Online

Even if you plan to fully embrace the culture and lifestyle of the country you’re visiting when working abroad, it is certainly the case that some products...

Driving Outside the UK

After you've been through one stramash with the bureaucracy to get your visa, don't breathe too easily. You may have to go through another to get on the road...

Etiquette Abroad

When you decide to go work abroad, fitting in is important. Learning the language is part of it, but more than that, there are behavioural and cultural norms...

How to Find a Job Abroad

So you've decided to up sticks and go off to work abroad? Good for you. But how do you actually find a job abroad? How to Find Jobs Abroad The usual ways you...

Learning Another Language

Despite the best efforts of the government to encourage it, we Britons lag sadly behind our continental cousins in foreign language proficiency. Yet if your...

Making the Most of Your Time Off in a New Country

Your time working abroad will be over before you know it, so even if you’re feeling incredibly homesick and can’t wait for it all to be over, it’s a go...

Owning Property Abroad

More and more of us are owning property abroad, encouraged no doubt by the combination of dismal weather and high house prices in Britain, and the spate of t...

Renting Property Abroad

In Britain we have something of an obsession with owning our own homes. In much of the rest of the world, it's just not like that. People are content to go t...

Schools and Childcare Abroad

No matter how gung-ho you are about the idea of living and working abroad, the idea of what it might do to your children is something that many parents find...

Understanding Cultural Differences

Even though the adventure of going to work abroad is sure to give you a real boost of confidence, it’s important not to get too carried away and actually o...