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Thailand’s top five places for expats to relocate to
Thailand’s city Chiang Mai was recently rated by the Travel and Leisure readers as their third top city in the ...
Prepare your relationship for the strains of your expat lifestyle
Moving abroad is an exciting adventure, but moving homes, let alone countries is regarded as one of the most stressful ...
We have our globetrotting winner!
FinGlobal has been running a competition for all South African expats who used our services between the 7th of December ...
Prime countries for retiring expats
Expat retirees have their eye on three EU countries when it comes to finding the perfect country to retire to, ...
Heritage Day – a day where South African’s everywhere celebrate their diversity
Heritage Day, celebrated on the 24th of September, is one of South Africa’s new public holidays when South Africans are ...
New Zealand is offering foreign teachers a $7000 incentive to teach in the country
Are you a teacher and do the wide, open spaces of New Zealand attract you? Well, then it’s your lucky ...
Qatar is fast becoming the most expat-friendly Gulf Arab State
Qatar has recently announced that expats living in the country could soon be entitled to permanent residency and that the ...
Proposed South African emigration laws will affect expats arriving and leaving the country
On the 28th of July 2017 the South African Department of Home Affairs released The White Paper for South African ...
New ‘beer index’ rates the most expensive countries and cities for expats
There are countless league tables and surveys released annually documenting the ‘world’s most expensive cities’ that look at the costliness ...
10 safe destinations for expat single women
Many single women choose to travel and move to other countries – whether it’s for pleasure or for their careers ...
What’s it like to work in the Tiger states?
A lot is written about life abroad in the UK and the USA – but there is a lot less ...
Expat careers that make the most money abroad
Expats often earn more than local residents for a variety of reasons – the biggest one being that their company ...
SA expats rally to defend their home country
South Africans never forget their home country – no matter where in the world they have moved to, and this ...
Popcorn and biltong will go well with Noem My Skollie
It’s movie time again and this month ShowMax has a real treat in store for you – Noem My Skollie ...
South African recipe: Rib Eye Steak with a Guac-a-Salsa twist
September is heritage month and we all celebrate this occasion in different ways. We do however share one common heritage ...
South Africans turn their focus offshore
The unstable political situation in South Africa and the weakening rand has got many South Africans looking offshore. Some are ...
Famous South Africans who have made their mark abroad
September is Heritage Month, so to celebrate and commemorate this special month we’d like to focus on some famous South ...
EU expats will be allowed to stay in the UK after Brexit
The long wait has ended – Theresa May has finally announced at a European Summit in Brussels that she wanted ...
7 Reasons to move to the USA
While the USA’s president might be taking a beating in the international press, the country is still regarded as a ...
The countries that are an ‘easy fit’ with expats
There is no doubt about it, some countries are just a lot easier to settle into than others – and ...
Travel to Toronto for a better quality of life
In the 2016 HSBC Expat Explorer survey, which analysis 26 871 expats across 190 different locations, the city of Toronto ...
