Globe Dweller is a community and a knowledge database for expatriates who want to get fully integrated into their new home country.

What is Globedweller.com?

Globedweller.com is an international network that connects expatriates with locals around the world. Since January 1. 2010, members have been using the website to come together for information and cultural exchange and to form international friendships.

Our mission is to create inspiring experiences: cross-cultural encounters that are fun, engaging, and illuminating. These experiences take many forms. Globedweller.com offers its members the choice between gathering information via contact forms and subsequent emails or telephone calls as well as providing opportunities for real time meet-ups when both parties are interested.

We have a vision of a world where everyone can explore and create meaningful connections with the local people of their new host country – even before they arrive to the country. Each Globedwelling experience shared by our members brings us closer to that vision.

How does Globedweller.com work?

Globdweller.com members share information with one another. These exchanges are a uniquely rich form of cultural interaction, usually initiated by an expat or potential expat contacting a resident of the country to which they consider relocating to. Residents have the opportunity to meet people from all over the world without leaving home, while expats gain invaluable knowledge and local insight into their new country, including information on the property market, finance sector, how to join banks, get mobile phone cards, where to put the children to school etc.

The Globedweller.com community continues to expand its horizons. Members are always finding more ways to connect and learn about each other. Globedwellers across the world share coffee, meetings, language exchanges, discussions and all sorts of other experiences.

Why join Globedweller.com?

Reason 1 (expat): Are you consider relocating to a foreign country or have you just moved to a new country where your local network is small or non-existent? Then you should definitely join globedweller.com. Globedweller.com offers you a unique opportunity to get essential information on a how things are run in your new country including where to search for jobs, which schools to enrol your children, how to open a bank account and how to find a suitable place to live. By getting in touch with local residents you will get up-to-date reliable information and who knows perhaps making new friends.

Reason 2 (resident): Have you previously lived abroad and know how lost new expats can feel or do you just want to expand your international network? Then you should definitely join Globedweller.com. You will get in touch with people from all over the world wishing to come to your country and looking for people willing to help them with essential information. In the process you will learn more about their home culture and make new friends.

Who is behind Globedweller.com?

The idea to Globedweller.com arose in 2007 by two Danish guys, Lennart Kiil and Thomas Hesselberg, both of which had several years of expat experiences behind them and thus had experienced on their own body how difficult it can be to settle in to a new country without a strong local network. Lennart has lived in Spain and Hawaii for several years, while Thomas has spent more than 5 years in the United Kingdom as well as having lived in Germany and in Panama. Globedweller.com is now run by the Danish consultant company ZenSci Consult, of which Thomas and Lennart remain co-owners.

What does globedweller mean?

Globe dweller. noun

Definition 1: Globe dweller: Literally a person that dwells or resides on the globe. A person that resides voluntarily and feels at home in a country different than the person’s native country. [Syns.] expatriate, expat, foreign resident. [adj.] globe dwelling.

Definition 2: A globe-dweller is a person who feels at home while living in a foreign country. Used for people that enjoy integrating and submerging themselves in a different culture by living in another country from that in which they grew up in. A true globe-dweller has spent several years living in one or more foreign countries.