Meet the Expats

Meet Marcie,

Serial expat and tag along wife, as she tells us how she followed her husband through Asia and Paris with just as many repatriations to LA  as moves. ✈️

She shares how she had to reinvent hersefl and shifted from the music industry to writing ✒️ and the challenges a married couple goes through when relocating.💍

All these experiences, her expat circles experiences, and passion for writing led to Em's awful good fortune, where she explores issues of marriage and compromise, love loss and betrayel.  💔

Recommendations:

🍸Bar in Shanghai Mayita http://mayita-shanghai.com/about-us/ for rooftop margharitas

🥐 Café Chez Pierrot in Paris for a neighborhood café https://www.lesrestos.com/restaurant/fiche/paris/pierrot 

Place des Vosges in Paris for a nice stroll in the Marais

🎤 Song: Should I stay or should I go, The Clash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN1WwnEDWAM 

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Meet Heather,

A Scottish woman, who decided to leave the UK to teach in the Middle East. After a few years in Doha, and Dubai she has now cummulated 14 years in the Middle East!

She tells us:

- the differences and various levels of conservatism from emiratee to emiratee 

- the yound kids passion for horse and camel racing 

- and her favorite aspects of the Middle East

And here favorite spots in Dubaï:

🍸 Folly for  drinks with a view

🍱  Marina Social for the food  

🛍️  La Mer beach a rea with cafés and restaurants 

And her home song Caledonia by Frankie Miller for those nostalgia days before coming home for Christmas.

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Meet Linda,

Serial repatriate, and serial expat she has lived in Tokyo, London Abu Dhabi and reptatriated a few times back to Chicago where she is now living. In this episode she tells us what she has learned from her different moves and what changed in her approach to every new move. 

Plus how she has dealt with these multiple repatriations, that she treats as a new task, what is the Reverse Culture Shock and how to deal with it .

And if you are heading to Chicago, check out her recommendations:

🍣Nobu restaurant to feel back in Tokyo, although it is a perivuian fusion style

☕ Café: Floriole  very homemade vibe

🌷Carte Blanche: Alfred Caldwell lilly Pool  for a nice stroll and some meditation space in the middle of the city

And her expat song 🎤 Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7k0a5hYnSI 

Retaled article: how to navigate Reverse Culture Shock

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Meet Kyle,

Who moved to Paris when he was 9, and 20 years later made the move there again, on his terms.

In this episode he tells us 

• how he lived the move as a nine year old 

Having spent the past 3 years in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, here is his 18th arr. list of recommendations:

🍺Bar: Supercoin http://supercoin.net/super-carte/

🍕Restaurant for #PizzaTuesday Amore Mio https://amoremio-parigi.fr/

⛪Carte Blanche: Sacre Coeur

🎤Ex-Pat Song: Inspector Norse by Todd Terje -- 

And to find out what Kyle is up to in the tech world check out www.startup-roi.co">www.startup-roi.com and subscribe to the newsletter here https://startuproi.substack.com/p/coming-soon">https://startuproi.substack.com/p/coming-soon

Music credits

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Meet Sondre,

Co-founder of SafetyWing, Sondre studied in Norway and started working as a policy advisor for the government. After getting frustrated with the slow pace of government change, he quit his job, and moved to Berlin to start freelancing and embraced the freedom!

He first founded SuperSide (YC W16), a platform for freelance designers. It was here he discovered the lack of a safety net for online remote workers. SafetyWing was then born with the aim of building a global social safety net.

In this episode we discuss:

• The benefits and challenges of being a digital nomad, 

Of course he shares his recommendations for San Francisco:

🍺Bar: Church Key for craft beers from all over https://www.theinfatuation.com/san-francisco/reviews/church-key

🍝 Restaurant: Portofino for the white fish soup https://www.yelp.com/biz/portofino-san-francisco

🌉 Carte Blanche: Lands End trail for the beautiful landscape. https://www.alltrails.com/fr/trail/us/california/lands-end-trail

and his Expat song 🎤Make your own kind of music by Cass Elliot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC6b3RMs5Z0

🚨For more information on Safety Wing and a 5% discount, click here, 🚨

SafetyWing is your home country online. They are building a global social safety net for remote workers worldwide: from health insurance and remote retirement to a truly borderless world

Music credits 🎶

Musique proposée par La Musique Libre Not The King - Ice Tea : https://youtu.be/xYI0Rrnk1Jo 

Not The King : https://soundcloud.com/coreygagne

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Meet Ann,

For whom voluntary work has always been a part of her life ♥️ and also a way to go on an adventure and start living abraod 🌎

She tells us:

-how via VSO she went to Nepal fro 3 years, working in education and woman empowerment, helping out in remote schools, 

-and then, with her family moved to France for what was initially 2 years... and has now become 10 years. She is an emigrant as she say! 

- and her tips to learn the language: her favorite way being cooking with a frnech woman 

So if you ever stop by Belfort here are Ann's top recommendations:

- 🥩Restaurant: La fontaine des saveurs 

- ☕Cafés: Mon Café

- 🥐Bakery: Boulangerie François. https://patisserie-l-francois.eatbu.com/?lang=fr

And if you have time to go skiing go to La PLanche des Bellefilles resort 🎿

The exapt 🎤song is Amazing grace : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoJz2SANTyo

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Meet Matt,

This young American with the dream of checking out every single country in the world 🌎 tells us about his solo backpacking experiences throughout Europe and Asia: flowing from ✈️ country to country meeting new people and experiencing unkown cultures. 

With an early passion for travel, he passed his Toefl exam to be able to exlpore the world and is now teaching english in South Korea. He tells us about the differences in curriculum and age, and of course gives us his top recommendations in Busan:

🥓 restaurant: K-Tuna korean BBQ

🍸 bar: HQ for it's views https://www.facebook.com/hq.bar.5/

🏖️ Carte blanche: go to Busan beach

🎤His expat song My Best life by KSHMR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI62sq7U8G0 as he is currently living his best life 

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Meet Thomas,

An englishman who moved to Hamburg twice! 

He first encountered Germany 🇩🇪 watching german  cable TV as a teenager, and from there went off to work in Hamburg a first time.

After a few years back in the 🇬🇧 UK, he started to miss the German rules that initially bugged him and went back to Hamburg, this time relocating with 🎮 InnoGames, Germany’s leading developer and publisher of mobile and online games.

He tells us:

• How he approached his move differently the 2nd time, 

His recommendations for Hamburg:

🍸 Bar: Sofa bar for a few G&Ts http://zoebar.de/

🍞Restaurant: Lokmam Turkish restaurant with the best flatbread https://lokmam.de/

🚴‍♂️Carte blanche: take a city bike and ride around the city and along the lake.

His expat songs 🎤

• Gloria Gaynor I will survive - getting through the bumpy challenges of any expatriation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZGwHtGBZJU

• Rockeffellar street by Gettia Joani, estoian eurovision song in 2011: the perfect song to beat the streets of Hamburg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxvmdR7oYdQ

🎮InnoGames is Germany’s leading developer and publisher of mobile and online games. The company based in Hamburg is best known for Forge of Empires, Elvenar and Tribal Wars. InnoGames’ complete portfolio encompasses seven live games and several mobile titles in production. Born as a hobby, InnoGames today has a team of 400 employees from more than 30 nations who share the passion of creating unique games that players across the globe enjoy for years.

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Meet Cristina, 

Originally from Malaga in Spain 🇪🇸, she was determined to go abroad to the 🇬🇧 UK in Leeds to finish her studies and improve her english, this despite her family not supporting her in this choice. And so, while still studying and living at her parents, having never left home, she took on a loan to make her move happen and enjoy good conditions there without having the stress of making ends meet.

Looking back, five years later, she tells us how the Leeds accent is one of its own, how she wasn’t expecting to feel homesick nor that she would in the end feel home here in Leeds where, after 2 months back in Spain she decided to move here again, and now teached spanish.

Her top recommendations in the city:

☕ Cafés: Fettle https://fettle.uk/ & IF

🌳 Carte blanche: Roundhay parks & Leeds dock

🎤 And her expat song, Let her go by The Passenger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBumgq5yVrA

To read more about her adventures in Leeds check out her blog: www.mylittleworldoftravelling.com

Music credits 🎶

Musique proposée par La Musique Libre Not The King - Ice Tea : https://youtu.be/xYI0Rrnk1Jo 

Not The King : https://soundcloud.com/coreygagne

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Meet Pamela Druckerman, 

Journalist and bestselling author for "Bringing up Bébé", Pamela moved to Paris in 2004. 

In this episode, she tells us about her initial fears of this snobby and cold city, in some aspects, versus the romantic place fantacised by most americans who see Paris as their escape city. 

We discuss the parenting differences she noticed with the US, from food to sleep and social benefits.

And with "Paris by phone", her debut picture book with Benjamin Chaud, Pamela takes us through this dream of Paris, as Josephine, a little girl travels through the city via her magic phone, and experiences Paris like a real Parisian.

Recommendations to be a real Parisian:

🍳Have a soft boiled egg at Café Charlot in the Marais 3eme arrondissement https://www.theinfatuation.com/paris/reviews/cafe-charlot

🍷 A drink at the clown bar rue Amelot 11eme arrondissement https://www.clown-bar-paris.fr/

🎾 Play tennis in Jardin du Luxembourg

🎤 Josephine's theme song is Stand by your Man by Carla Bruni: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJq2YsoSHk0

Website: https://pameladruckerman.com/ 📚 And free courses: https://www.pandemoniumu.com/ 

Music credits 🎶

Musique proposée par La Musique Libre Not The King - Ice Tea : https://youtu.be/xYI0Rrnk1Jo 

Not The King : https://soundcloud.com/coreygagne

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