Andrew Bliss has lived in China, South Korea and now Taiwan, his home for the past six years. In his years living throughout Asia and Taiwan he has: mastered Chinese, secured a position teaching at the university level (which includes four months of paid vacation) and recently started his own company called The Adventurous Mailbox, […]
Nicola has the expat dream arrangement – living in an inexpensive country, yet working professionally and remotely for a company in Canada. As part of my series on expats who figured out how to work and live abroad I had to hear more. Her arrangement sounded ideal but what about the horror stories of what […]
Carrie McKeegan grew up in New York, went to graduate school in Barcelona and then moved to London for her career. When she and her husband started thinking about having their first child they realized their lives of working 10 to 12 hour days and traveling on the weekends would not be as feasible with […]
Matt Dickhaus decided he needed a change and moved from Florida to Medellin, Colombia. Why Medellin and why Colombia? Because it was the cheapest ticket to South America he could find. He also wanted to learn Spanish. And where better to learn than a place where the vast majority of travelers are still, unnecessarily so […]
As part of The Delicious Day’s ongoing series of people who work and live abroad, I was excited to chat with Diana about living in Thailand. I have thought more than once (probably more like 43,521 times) about living in Thailand myself and wanted to get an insider’s story. Here is a bit of what […]
In 2006, Lara Goldman’s husband was killed in a plane crash. Two years later she was ‘not getting any better.’ Around this time she had a conversation with her sparring partner. It reminded me of a conversation I would have with myself every time I was on a hour plus commute (one way) to work […]