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Expat Blog Awards 2013

The Top Four Reasons Moving to the USA Can Make You See Things Differently

This Top Four is based on the things that I think have encouraged me to change for the better as a person through my experience of living in the USA. This is because my expat opportunity in the States has helped me to see things differently. It’s about the things that have encouraged me to take a different perspective, and which have given...

Writing Contest March 2013

Top 10 Things You Should Visit in New York without Breaking the Budget

New York City is a tourist Mecca. The place is fairly hoping day and night. Nothing shuts it down, well nothing short of 10-20 inches of snow but hey that brings a nice peace to it anyway. The problem is that it can be expensive. Here's some ways to see the place without spending much. Call it the cheapskate tour. Staten Island Ferry....

Expat Blog Awards 2013

Top 5 tips for European Shoppers in the US

It might sound silly to you or seem like a shallow thing to consider as a cultural difference, but I’ve had some very strange shopping experiences in this country so far. First of all, shop assistants are nicer and will always greet you when you enter a store. Do no be afraid of this, it's normal. Second, they might ‘bother’ you with...

Expat Blog Awards 2013

Top things my 7 year old loves about living in America

When I first saw this competition come up, my initial thought was 'Yay, I can list the favorite things I love about living in South Carolina’.  But then I realized I do this all the time. So I thought I would take a slightly different approach.  I sat my 7 year old, Oliver, down over lunch out one day and asked him what his favorite...

Writing Contest March 2013

Top Tips for Grocery Shopping in the US

When I moved to the US I expected shopping to be different. In particular I expected a lot of processed foods and fewer fresh items. In some ways I was pleasantly surprised, fruit and veg sections are abundant with a large amount of organic produce, kept fresh by spraying them with water. Some of the top end stores have great meat, fish,...

Expat Culture Shock

Trash Talkin - Culture Shock USA

Packing boxes, saying goodbyes, buying books, so much familiar territory in recent years. But the one that made the biggest impact was the one with just two people, moving across the world for a fresh beginning. We arrived in our new country early Summer of 1994 to a city teeming with people from all over the world. Born in Europe and raised...

Expat Culture Shock

We're Not in Kansas Anymore

I was whisked by taxi from my flat in central London in the early dawn. Giddy and slightly nauseous, I thought of my boyfriend waiting for me on the other side of the Atlantic. What the heck was I doing? I had waved goodbye to my French flatmate Jean-Claude who was a total Americanophile. A passion for all things American, had, like...