The Expert Expat: Your Guide to Successful Relocation Abroad

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Quercus, Mar 4, 2011 - Travel - 228 pages
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.
 

Contents

Chapter 3 Managing Your Move
33
Chapter 4 Crossing Cultures Successfully
63
Chapter 5 Moving Children Overseas
97
Chapter 6 Moving Pets Overseas
145
Chapter 7 Adapting to Your New Environment
163
Chapter 8 Staying Safe Secure and Healthy
199
Chapter 9 Special Issues for Spouses Abroad
217
Chapter 10 Keeping in Touch and Moving On
243
Conclusion
263
A Sample Moving Plan
267
Index
271
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About the author (2011)

Melissa Brayer-Hess is Deputy Director of Crisis Management Training at the Foreign Service Institute Leadership and Management School.

Patricia Linderman is the associate editor of Tales From a Small Planet, a website about expat life.

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