Ex Pat

Why's Our New Puppy Almost Dead?

Jeff Jones and Gay Haubner | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Moving Out of New York, Moving to Costa Rica, Retiring, Ex-Pat, Leaving New York, Ex-Pats in Costa Rica, Costa Rica, Puerto Viejo Costa Rica, Expats, Puerto Viejo, Retirment, Living in Costa Rico, Impact News

A married couple, 50-somesuch, kids grown and flown... so what comes next? We moved from Manhattan to Costa Rica: a move that took just under 10 months from the night we said, "Let's do it" till we boarded the plane with one-way tickets.

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A Baby to Change the Times... and U.S. Immigration Laws

Adrian Margaret Brune | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Citizenship, Australia, Gay Families, Gay Rights, Ex-Pat, Gay Immigration, LGBT Families, Lgbt, Gay Voices News

Miles' story has a happy ending, and potentially huge implications for other LGBT parents abroad, but it also illustrates the expense and frustration expended by gay couples for outdated laws that do not reflect the changing nature of today's families.

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Pardon My French: Our Heroine Gets a Lesson in Etiquette

Katie Beck | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: France, Ex-Pat, Katie Beck, French, Etiquette, Living Abroad, Coffee, Travel Blogs, Pardon My French, Travel News

All of the quirky rules and formalities here give a sense that people are doing the same things -- in the same places -- that they have been done for centuries. This is precisely what I find so fascinating about this country.

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Pardon My French: Our Heroine Joins a Secret Society

Katie Beck | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: France, Japanese Cooking, Living in France, Ex-Pat, Sushi, Living Abroad, Macrobiotic Diet, Pardon My French, Travel Blog, Travel News

Nice is chalk full of restaurants, I can see about 50 from my balcony, but it's not all that easy to navigate which ones are genuinely good and it can be equally difficult to figure out when they might actually be open.

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Pardon My French: Our Heroine Struggles With the Language

Katie Beck | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: France, Nice, Learning French, Living Abroad, Ex-Pat, Pardon My French, Europe Travel, France Travel, Travel Blogs, Travel News

There is a false security that comes with being spoken to in the very slow, very clear, perfectly-formed French spoken only by French teachers.

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Pardon My French: Our Heroine Learns To Love/Hate The French

Katie Beck | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Living Abroad, France, French, Ex-Pat, Nice, Travel Blogs, French Culture, Pardon My French, Cultural Differences, France Travel, International Destinations, Travel News

It was clear that our presence was beyond an inconvenience to them. My lack of French, from the looks on their faces, was an offense punishable by death.

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Notes of an Ex-Pat 1: View From the Bridge

W. Hunter Roberts | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: American Culture, European Economy, European Culture, Ex-Pat, Fidesz, Financial Collapse, Rudeness, Lunar Eclipse Winter Solstice, Civility, Healthy Living News

From my window I see sheets of ice floating down the Danube. It's mid-winter, and I am finally here in Budapest. Last week I went with a Hungarian law...

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Midwest Girl Living in a Mid East World

Anne Peterson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ex-Pat, Gulf States, Middle East, Northwestern University, Sheikha Mozah, Qatar, Arabian Peninsula, Dubai, Travel News

Despite the fact I find the desert area outside of the beautiful seaside Corniche and cosmopolitan downtown rather dreary, I am having a love affair with Qatar.

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Notes of an Ex-Pat: Deciding Not to Come Back

W. Hunter Roberts | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Travel, Ex-Pat, Ex-Patriot, Ex Patriot, Ex Pat, American Culture, Healthy Living News

From this distance, life in America looks like a treadmill: working constantly to maintain a life with little reward or joy: striving and consuming.

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Village People

Heidi Kingstone | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Kabul, Afghanistan, Party, Night-Life, Ex-Patriot, Travel, Ex Pat, Healthy Living News

The big decision facing any ex-pat in Kabul on any given Thursday, the start of the Afghan weekend, is what to do that night.

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Notes of a Temporary Ex-Pat #3

W. Hunter Roberts | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Classical Music, Art, Travel, Hungarian Rhapsody, Ex-Pat, Beauty, Budapest-Hungary, Identity, The Inner Life, Budapest, Hungary, Collapse, Healthy Living News

I came here to find a corner of the world where relationships, ideas, and beauty were more important than winning. I wanted a place where people sat down to dinner, where I could live.

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Notes of a Temporary Ex-Pat #2 (Week One)

W. Hunter Roberts | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Identity, Travel, Beauty, Local Food, Budapest-Hungary, The Inner Life, Ex-Pat, Life Abroad, Healthy Living News

One of the joys and the fears of travel (not the kind that is safe and monitered so you never have to deal, but real travel) is that existential moment of just throwing yourself out onto the world.

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Notes of A Temporary Ex-Pat #6--Escaping the Matrix

W. Hunter Roberts | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Unplugging, Travel, Unplug and Recharge, The Matrix, Ex-Pat, American Dream, Healthy Living News

Outside the bubble is danger. After all, the bubble contains the best of everything--the best healthcare, the best food, the best houses, the best education ... doesn't it?

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Quality Of Life Index 2010: Which Country Has It Best? (PHOTOS)

Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Australia, France, World Photos, New Zealand, Slidepoll, United States, Italy, Luxembourg, Canada, International Living, Ex-Pat, Germany, Belgium, Quality of Living, Quality of Life, World News

International Living has released their 30th annual Quality of Life Index, which attempts to answer the question of what is the best place in the worl...

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Defining The Holidays By More Than Just The Economy

Vivian Norris | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Blackberry, Holidays, Depression, Economy, Ice Skating, Walks, Childhood, Paris, Skiing, Central Park, Marche D;aligre, Ex-Pat, Cooking, Christmas, World War II, Food, Holiday Shopping, Rockafeller Center, Outdoor Activities, Economic Crisis, Holiday Cookies, Christmas Traditions, Christmas Commentary, Houston, Bank Closure, Ex-Pat Christmas, Christmas in Paris, Financial Crisis, Seattle, Healthy Living News

Turn the TV off during the next few weeks, don't check your email, and lose the Blackberry. Take a few days off and have some real vacation time.

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Where To Live Now: Using The Electoral Map As Guide

Jeannie Ralston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Washington, Mexico, Oregon, Blue States, Colorado, Texas, Election Results, Red States, Virginia, Relocation, Montana, Election Reaction, New Mexico, Ex-Pat, Oklahoma, Tennessee, North Carolina, Style News

I've found that I've increasingly consulted the electoral map as I've been trying to zero in on our new home.

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