Expert Expatriate: Your Guide to Successful Relocation Abroad--Moving, Living, Thriving

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Great for familes, steer clear if you're in business

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Great Knowledge for Temporary situations

Your Guide to Successful Relocation Abroad-Moving, Living, Thriving

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Expert Expatriate: Your Guide to Successful Relocation Abroad--Moving, Living, Thriving
Melissa Brayer Hess , and Patricia Linderman
Manufacturer: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
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This book not only covers the practical aspects of relocating; it enters unchatered territory, laying emotional and cultural groundwork to help the expatriate thrive.

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Great for familes, steer clear if you're in business.......2007-07-26

This book contains overall good information and very humorous stories about living abroad. The fact that it was written by two women shows in the items covered.

In particular, the chapter on moving pets confused me- it seemed out of proportion with other items.

Also, areas like using email, online banking, and other seemingly obvious matters are mentioned as if they are novel ideas.

If you're a business person, I'd recommend New American Expat: Thriving and Surviving Overseas in the Post-9/11 World instead.

Best book of it's kind.......2006-02-23

Melissa Brayer Hess and Patricia Linderman truly deliver in The Expert Expatriate. If you are even considering a move overseas, read this to get a good look at the reality of such a life change and the preparation you should undertake. Be sure to read each of the inserts recounting personal experiences of expats all over the world! This book will help prepare you for succesful adaptation to any new environment and takes special consideration of the needs of the family and children. You will be impressed by, and surely grateful for, the relentlessly thorough content. Their advice is clearly based on the authors' extensive personal experience and my cherished copy wears a fringe of neon Post-It arrow markers.

Great Knowledge for Temporary situations.......2006-02-06

I got the book because I am contemplating moving overseas, permanently. This book is wonderful for all those out there that are moving to a different country because of work, and will eventually be returning home. Though this book helped me a lot, It didn't cover a lot of things I needed to know, such as:

How to really pack and ship things overseas. They gave a general overview, but no real concrete steps or information that would help me on shipping.
It also didn't cover things that people would need if they are indeed staying overseas permanently, like immigration laws, steps on how to become a citizen of whatever country you are going to, or work/study permits. They assume that most of their readers will have the aid of an organization behind them. I attribute this to the writers not being able to be country-specific on such details.
They also added things which I didn't need such as language barriers, ( I am moving to an english-speaking country), or things to do with Pets & Children ( I have neither one or the other). I, as a single person moving overseas permanently without any organizational help whatsoever, will need more supplemental reading to go along with this book. But let me say again that this book is packed with information about the experience of moving abroad and anyone contemplating working/moving overseas should at least give this a read-through.

Your Guide to Successful Relocation Abroad-Moving, Living, Thriving.......2005-09-30

This book is a 'must' for everybody going overseas to learn how to prepare the whole family for what is a major transition. Following the excellent advice offered will preclude negative reactions from the children both now and in the future.

Not Very Helpful for Setting it up Yourself.......2005-08-19

This book offers some great advice for moving when you have a company or government moving you and a network to tap into who has done your similar move previously. If you are going it alone, the advice is very rudimentary. For example, it offers little advice on how to pack things and ship them except to contact those who have done it previously for advice. Well duh!? It also focuses on language barriers, etc. but I am moving to an Engligh-speaking country, so that did not apply. Advice such as - have your organization set you up with another American who can get your apartment, buy your first groceries, etc. - is a nice idea IF that type of person is available. We're the first Americans in our organization doing this, so we can't ask previous Americans in our situation to help us out. Some of the psyhological issues it addresses, however, are very helpful! There is a BIG focus on moving a FAMILY (big chapter on PETS too!). This book was not as helpful to a single girl moving!!!

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