Mexico peso drop
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Mexico Expat Forum for Expats Living in Mexico Mexico is the fifth largest country in the Americas and covers an area of two million square kilometres. With the American Expat community in Mexico reported to be well over one million it is the largest ...

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Which education system to choose
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Dubai Expat Forum for Expats Living in Dubai Have you made Dubai your new home? Are you thinking about moving to Dubai? If you want meet like minded Expats living in Dubai then you have come to the right place. Join Dubai Expat Forum and discuss food, ...
Australia Is Easily The Most Popular Expat Destination -HSBCWall Street Journal
Australia most popular expat destination: HSBCMarketWatch
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S'pore ranks 3rd for ideal home among expats
Yahoo! Singapore News
Singapore has been ranked the third most ideal place to live in, due to its quality of life and career opportunities, according to HSBC's Expat Explorer survey. More than 3000 expatriates from over 100 countries rated locations on a range of criteria, ...

More expats now choosing Australia over US
GMA News
The HSBC's Expat Explorer survey, released on Thursday, was conducted among some 3000 expatriates in over 100 countries, the news site Gulf News said. The respondents were asked to rate nations based on criteria such as accommodations, food, ...
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For 457 visa
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Australia Expat Forum for Expats Living in Australia Have you moved to Australia from another country? Are you thinking about making Australia your new home? Want to meet others like you and discuss immigration, property, sport, socialising, food, ...
Australia Is Easily The Most Popular Expat Destination -HSBCWall Street Journal
Australia most popular expat destination: HSBCMarketWatch
Australia seen as ideal home for expatsReuters
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American citizen visiting UK hubby
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Britain Expat Forum for Expats Living in the UK The Britain Expats forum is a community of people that have moved to the UK from overseas. This is the place for Expats to meet and discuss anything about the British way of life.

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Britain Expat Forum for Expats Living in the UK The Britain Expats forum is a community of people that have moved to the UK from overseas. This is the place for Expats to meet and discuss anything about the British way of life.

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Financial Times
Expat lives: Laidback in Tuscany
Financial Times
By Emma Jacobs Living in the tranquil Tuscan countryside with her husband and three young children, Renée Elliott is founder director of the UK's largest chain of organic supermarkets, Planet Organic, with a turnover of £15m. It was a circuitous route ...

Telegraph.co.uk
'Twitter helped us make friends when we moved to Spain'
Telegraph.co.uk
Expats all over the world are turning to Twitter to keep up with the news from home, boost their business or find new friends abroad. In the first of a new series of fortnightly features, Suzi Dixon chats to Lisa Sadleir, a British expat in Spain, ...

Ryanair To Open Budapest Base, 31 New Routes - Expat Life In Budapest,...
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Following the grounding of Malév today Ryanair announced that it intends to launch 'a rescue plan' for Hungarian air travel and tourism. Ryanair confirmed that it will base 4 new Boeing 737-800 aircraft at Budapest Airport commencing Friday 17th ...

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Komen Reversal: Finding our Collective Spine?
ChicagoNow (blog)
By Expat in Chicago, today at 10:48 am So the Trib reported today that Susan G Komen for the Cure has reversed its decision to cut grants to Planned Parenthood for breast screening. Komen claimed it was because Planned Parenthood was under ...

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For this week’s guest blogger, we have the pleasure of introducing Candace Kuss, an American expat who’s been living in London for more than six years. 


With Super Bowl season upon us, Candace shares with Expat Explorer readers, the incurable homesickness of missing Super Bowl Sunday.
Missing the Super Bowl
Missing friends and family during the holidays is a common expat experience. But for Americans like me, incurable homesickness attacks hardest during our biggest unofficial holiday — Super Bowl Sunday.
It is the only day that can’t be truly celebrated on foreign soil. London is lovely at Christmas time. Halloween is growing in popularity. Thanksgiving is all about English expats (aka Pilgrims). And it is cheeky good fun to have British friends over to toast and roast on the Fourth of July.
But living in a country where football means soccer, it is impossible to translate what the Super Bowl experience is all about. The BBC, with kind condescension, will broadcast the game, but not the commercials, even though they will be analysed as seriously and as deeply as the game itself. Indeed, it is the Super Bowl which has single-handedly kept the glamour of TV advertising alive, even as social media soaks up all the oxygen and marketing spend keeps moving online.
It is this carnival surrounding the spotlight stealing ad sideshow that make Super Bowl Sunday a holiday for all American. The fight to entertain us during the commercial breaks can make even a dull game fun. You don’t have to be a football fan to join the party. Families all over America stock up on beer, chips, dips, ribs and red velvet cupcakes with their team’s logo. There’s a reason Doritos and Budweiser are the brands that go large for the game. For the last five years, Doritos’ mega ‘Crash the Super Bowl’ contest has consumers creating their own Doritos commercial for a chance to win a million dollars and the fame of having their ad shown in the game. And my personal favourite, the Budweiser Clydesdales, is an American icon in their own right.

The pain of a loyal Patriot on the sidelines
Before I was an expat in London, I emigrated from Long Island, New York to Boston, Massachusetts. Thrown into a sports obsessed city, I went over to the other side and swore allegiance to the Celtics, Red Sox and the Patriots - all bitter rivals with the teams from New York. So imagine my joy, not to mention that of the network executives, to be gifted with this year’s rematch of the New York Giants vs the New England Patriots. Historic teams from huge media markets. MVP quarterback (Tom Brady) with a super model wife vs MVP quarterback (Eli Manning) from a legendary football family and Madonna at halftime. Oh my! The coverage is insane. This year, NBC Sports Network will air more than 18 hours of live programming ahead of the game. It’s like the entire hoopla of an Olympics squeezed into one day.


But sadly, I will miss the parties, the mass quantities of food, the electricity of the whole country coming together in celebration. As I struggle to stay awake in GMT, tweeting and texting friends, I will vow to be there in person this time next year. Let’s go Pats!
About the author


Candace Kuss is an American in London. Voting address is beautiful Sonoma California but her sport homebase is Boston. When not watching sport highlight clips online, she runs the Interactive Lab for H+K. Please say hi on Twitter, check out the work blog and, if you are inclined, root for her team, the New England Patriots to crush the Giants on Super Bowl Sunday.

Expat technology: impressive numbers from Apple
Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Chris runs the expat blog Almerimar Life covering subjects like expat finance, expat insurance and general advice for expats. He blogs about his life in Spain with his wife Sands, five cats, two Harley Davidsons and (far too often) a glass of red wine.

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Malév Grounded: National Airline Crisis In Hungary - Expat Life In...
XpatLoop.com
Jet2.com contacted XpatLoop.com this morning to remind expats they fly directly to Manchester, Edinburgh, and an upcoming new route from Budapest to Leeds Bradford, UK. Jet2.com is a British airline based at Leeds Bradford Airport, it operates services ...

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American expats can vote in elections online
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by Ray Clancy on February 3, 2012 American expats can now register to be able to vote in the forthcoming general election by submitting an Overseas Absentee Ballot Request. Many like to do so because as expats there are some issues such as taxation, ...

SGGP
New opportunities open for Vietnamese expat workers in 2012
SGGP
Year 2011 was unlucky for Vietnamese expat labourers working on foreign shores, what with the global economic crisis; impact of Japan's triple disaster of the tsunami, earthquake and nuclear meltdown; 10000 expat labourers being evacuated from Libya; ...

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Kuwaiti citizen, expat killed in separate traffic accidents
Arab Times Kuwait English Daily
Meanwhile, the remains of an unidentified expatriate who was crushed to death under the wheels of a Kuwaiti motorist's car have been referred to Forensics, reports Al-Rai daily. A case was registered. 2 hurt in mishap: A bus driver and another person ...

By Jamie Douglas
Siberia Moved to Europe for the Season
First off, I apologize to all my loyal readers who may have followed my advice on how to culturally enrich yourself as a nomadic expat in the winter. All of those lovely destinations, museums, opera houses, and low rates I was telling you about are still awaiting your arrival. …Friendly people everywhere, ample parking day and night.
But something happened along the way. The normally bearable winter temperatures of Central and Western Europe have been spoiled by no less than BMW, the Bavarian Motor Works, in an evil plot dreamed up by the meteorological department at Berlin’s Free University along with BMW in Munich. For a fee of £165, payable in advance of course, the mad scientists at the Free University have created a Siberian cold wave and named it ‘Cooper,’ after the formerly British little cute car used by James Bomb not so long ago to save the free world (again). Dog bless Mr. Bomb. read the full article

Expat Health Insurance News: Brazil 'good place for property investment'
Expatriate Healthcare
Expatriates with international private medical insurance policies who are considering relocating abroad to Brazil may be pleased to hear the property market in the country is strong. BuyAssociation editor Paul Collins noted the minimum wage in the ...

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Another Super Scottish Supper In Budapest - Expat Life In Budapest,...
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The 15th 'Big' Burns Supper, held last Saturday at the Corinthia, raised almost HUF 5 million for children's hospitals in Hungary. This traditional Caledonian event, held annually around the world, recalls the words and deeds of Scotland's national ...