Living Abroad I have spent a lot of time living abroad, and have recently been wondering why. My history of being and living abroad is roughly as follows. I went on a two-week school cruise to Leningrad in July 1968 when I was fourteen. At sixteen, I wrote to the mayor of Rheinfelden, our sister …
Being An Expat Summary To those of you who have read the first five parts to this series, I would like to say ‘thank you’. I don’t know what impression of being an expat I left you with except that it is a truthful one as I see it. This last article then is the …
Being An Expat (part four): The Financial Aspect The financial aspect of being an expat boils down to always having sufficient funds to satisfy your requirements, which will vary throughout the year. For example, in Thailand, I need to have either 800,000 Baht (for a retirement visa) or 400,000 Baht (for a spousal visa) in …
Being An Expat (part one) The Personal Aspect Being an expat is a strange feeling. I have lived here in northern Thailand for eleven years and I lived in The Netherlands for nine years until 1982, so I have been an expat in two countries on two continents in two radically different parts of the …
