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Lives in Austria
Registration: 09 December 2005
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Racism by Julien
Do you feel racism in your country? Is it complicated to integrate yoursleft with local people or are you used to it? I really like London because the city is a lot of people from everywhere, and everybody seems to be integrated. I don't feel ...
I just wrote about this on my blog the other day. I don't expereince racism personally here in Austria, but I do think that sadly, racism is very much alive. It applies to religions too - I've heard tell that it would still raise eyebrows if ... Read More
US º£½ÇÂÒÂ× + grouchy bastard by wmgildersleeve
Hiya My name's Walter Gildersleeve, and I'm an American expat living in Germany since '99. Left the States after meeting my (future) wife, who was an exchange student at The University of Iowa. Now (much to my surprise) I've got a German wife, ...
I embrace the reluctant expat concept! Sure, I loves me some Austrian baking, but you call THAT Chinese food? Sure I loves me some snowy countryside, but for crying out loud, must ALL the movies be dubbed? Sure, I loves me some socialized ... Read More
Why moving to another country? by Olivier de Montréal
I decided to move to Canada to live something different... discover a new country not only as a tourist. I often tell myself I did the right choice! What about you? Why did you decide to leave your country to go to somewhere else?
"When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore!" I think that's why lots of us move. That's what landed me in my Austrian kuhdorf/cowtown. ...given half the chance, I'd move again. I absolutely love it. Life is just too short to ... Read More
ERASMUS by Julien
Hi everybody, when I was a student I would have liked to participate to the ERASMUS program. Can anybody explain us (in any language) what the ERASMUS program is? What do you think about it? Is it a good program? How to participate, and which are ...
There was a movie - what WAS it called - Auberge Espanole? - about a guy in the Erasmus program. I remember thinking it was quite a good movie AND explained what the Erasmus program was. Yup. Auberge Espanol. Go. Rent. Be happy. :-) Read More
Do you prefere to live in "expat community"? by zurrosteph
Hi! I wonder if most of you prefer to live inside an expat comunity or to integrate in the local population? and why? stef
I WISH I had the choice. The ex-pat community here is me, one foreign exchange student, and um... um... that's all I know of. I don't think it's a good idea to live in an ex-pat ghetto, I mean, what's the point in living "abroad" (whatever that ... Read More
European administration by Julien
Hi everybody, It's now almost the fourth year that I am working/living between France, United Kingdom and Spain. And my administrative situtation is getting more and more complicated! :mad: When will we be able to work and live in any european ...
Husband has been trying to explain to me the whole worker market thing, too. I'm an American with Austrian residency. According the the worker market laws, I get priortiy over someone from, say, Hungrary, when looking for a job in Greece. Ireland, ... Read More
Looking for European Newsy Blogs by pmandel
Yesterday's email included the contract for my volunteer position as Euro-editor for this year's BlogHer. I have a few questions on the details, but esentially, I'll be trying to publish the best blogging from and about Europe to the BlogHer site ...
Thanks loads for the leads. Tenerife. Yum. And I'm pretty sure GW doesn't read Nerd's Eye View, either. :) Read More
Looking for European Newsy Blogs by pmandel
Yesterday's email included the contract for my volunteer position as Euro-editor for this year's BlogHer. I have a few questions on the details, but esentially, I'll be trying to publish the best blogging from and about Europe to the BlogHer site ...
Thanks for this! I'm still unraveling the editorial policies. I've been reading both AFOE and AFEM for a few weeks now, they're excellent. You, sir, are quite the grammar fascist! I love that. Are you an English teacher in Trier? Read More
Looking for European Newsy Blogs
Yesterday's email included the contract for my volunteer position as Euro-editor for this year's BlogHer. I have a few questions on the details, but esentially, I'll be trying to publish the best blogging from and about Europe to the BlogHer site ... Read More
Your favorite traditional dishes from where you are by Julien
Hello, It' almost lunchtime here in Spain and I'm thinking what I'll have tonight ... There are plenty of traditional dishes, here are my favorites: > Jamon (Ham) -> the best of the best dish in Madrid. The "Jamon Iberico" is a more expensive but ...
It's probably unfair to start with dessert, but here in Austria the baking, especially the sweet stuff, is INCREDIBLE. It's a good thing we burn so many calories just trying to stay warm because otherwise, we'd be big as houses. The bread here is ... Read More
What is the real reason to be an expat and being proud of it? by awa@lecce
Good morning, After answering to the questions "why did you start to travel" or "what was your motivation" by "I answered to a job announcement", I realised that we are all PROUD TO BE AN EXPAT. :D After all, that's why this website has been ...
...they refused to move out of town, even if that meant they had to travel 4 hours a day to get to work and back. i have no doubt these people will live in that small village until the day they die.It's funny - I'm an ex-pat in exactly that kind of ... Read More
European cultural shock by loloieg
Hello, almost all expatriates have experienced a cultural shock ...Do you think that european people experience a lower shock when they move to another european country ??? Did you move from an European country to another one ?? What is your ...
Just a note on the US. My US home is up in the north-left corner where we didn't support the war, do support and work for civil rights, and, well, you get it. Those values DO cross the Atlantic - I carry them with me to my Austrian home. If I was, ... Read More
Gruss dich/ Hello from the Part Time Ex-Pat by pmandel
Greetings all, Every year at about this time I expatriate myself from Seattle to my husband's home town in the Austrian Alps. Since we haven't been able to settle on where to live, we really do live both places. We get the best - and the worst - ...
We are both in Seattle in the summer, then Austria in the winter, and spring and fall we are apart. How much time we spend in each place changes every year - it depends on my work and how much time The Euro-Husband can get away and a lot of other ... Read More
º£½ÇÂÒÂ×riate profile by loloieg
Hi, I came in Italy to work on a european project on augmented reality in surgery ... I'm dealing with the image processing part. I am an engineer, but at the end of my work in Italy I should have a PhD as a bonus...
I'm a freelance writer. For money, I do mostly software documenation and technical marketing. I also do some outdoors/travel writing, but not enough to make a living at it. Read More
Gruss dich/ Hello from the Part Time Ex-Pat
Greetings all, Every year at about this time I expatriate myself from Seattle to my husband's home town in the Austrian Alps. Since we haven't been able to settle on where to live, we really do live both places. We get the best - and the worst - ... Read More