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What Will It Take For You To Become An Expat?

April 13, 2010

What the hell?!? What are you doing? Why haven’t you done something about it already? Yes, I’m talking to you! Dammit, man – pay attention! Pull your seat a little closer, sit up straight, close your gaping mouth and listen. Really. Focus. Pay attention… You’re sitting there, behind your desk, in front of your computer [...]

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Countdown: 11 Weeks to Move Abroad

March 10, 2010

In case you don’t visit often or haven’t before now – I’m moving. Well, we’re a family of four, so We’re moving. Today, we’re expats in Prague, Czech Republic, but we will move overseas back to North America. This post is the first of several to show how we’ll do it. It’s now March 10th. [...]

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Kafka versus Dr. Seuss

March 1, 2010

Every night, the wife and I read a couple bedtime stories to our young kids. One of my daughter’s favorites is Dr Seuss’s Oh, the Places You’ll Go! We both recommend it highly. If you don’t have it – get it now.. The story speaks to “you,” a young boy. He learns all about life’s [...]

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Visa Process – Timelines

February 24, 2010

In a prior post, I mentioned how most countries do not require a visa just to visit. But some do. Some examples include Bolivia, India, Russia (& most of the former Soviet Republics), Cambodia, Vietnam. This post will set your expectations about getting a tourist visa for those countries. Filling out Paperwork, Paperwork, Paperwork Needing [...]

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I’m Still Here – I Promise!!

February 23, 2010

Hi all, I haven’t fallen off the map. Not yet anyway. I know I am woefully behind on posts. It kills me, really it does. Tomorrow I am jumping back in with both feet. I will deliver the next article in the “Visa Process” series. There’s some big news coming from me soon. This Friday, [...]

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Visa Process – the Basics

February 10, 2010

Rather than dive into filling out forms, let’s be sure we’re all starting on the same page. Read the below Q&A. Once you know & understand them, you’re ahead of most. What’s a Visa? Not the credit card. Here, we’re talking about permission to visit a country. Consider it like your personal “green light” to [...]

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Visa Process – Intro

February 5, 2010

This is a Big Topic: the visa process. By the way, when expats talk about visas, we ain’t talking credit cards! Whenever I hear the question How do I get a visa?, I cringe. I cringe because I know it’s the most common question to ask and the most difficult one to answer. Some people [...]

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Hey- An ExpatYourself Forum!!

January 26, 2010

I’m not just adventurous in real life (yeah, right), I’m adventurous in website administration. My dream of helping people live overseas suddenly found a glass ceiling – enough time to answer e-mails. So, one idea I came up with is to create a forum where people could ask questions (and I still answer them), but [...]

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Happy New Year – Setting Goals

January 4, 2010

Hi all – it’s January 2010. Unbelievable. I feel like it should still be March or April 2009. Anyway – Happy New Year!! Time to Set the Year’s Goals Right around now is when I set some goals for myself for the new year. I’m a big believer in the power of setting goals. (Of [...]

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Timeline to a New Life

November 6, 2009

If you’re thinking about starting over completely new, you may wonder how long it will take. Fair question – and here’s my answer: 3 months. Three months is all it takes to drastically change your life, self and all that’s around you. And that’s assuming you have a house, job, perhaps even family as we [...]

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