I have relocated from Shanghai to Kuala Lumpur for almost 2 years now. From a small cosmopolitan country Singapore to a major city Shanghai and a buzzing world in Kuala Lumpur. For the past 4 years, it has been nothing short of an adventure. One thing that my friends love to ask me is what…
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Tomorrow is the day where a very dear friend of mine close her chapter as an expatriate in Kuala Lumpur and relocate back home to Switzerland. Sad as it is, we all know it is the inevitable ending we must face, sometime in the future. Five years ago, I left my country (Singapore), full of…
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Moving to another country is often seen as a permanent move. However, it doesn’t always have to mean going to your new forever home. Many people make short-term moves for their career or business. You can spend a while in another country before going home, or perhaps moving on to somewhere else. It can be…
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I love travelling and like a lot of folks out there, I don’t really like to travel alone. It’s like going to a fancy restaurant and eating dinner alone or going to movies alone or *gasp* going to karaoke by yourself. However, when you relocate and you’re by yourself all the time especially the initial…
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The part two of the Relocation article and if you haven’t read the first part, you can catch it here! 11. You no longer can keep up with happening to your country You read news impacting the country you lived in, you do catch up news of your origin country but it just seems so…
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If you have ever relocated miles away from home to a place where cultures, languages and food are so different from yours, you’ll share the same pain as me listed below. If you are going to relocate soon, check out my Relocation corner and you might be able to find the information you need and…
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Please don’t get me wrong, I love my time in China. I can’t say I love the country since I have only stayed in Shanghai for two years and visited a number of places in China. (China is huge!!) I love the Chinese culture and many of its historic moments are fascinating, even to an…
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It’s been a while I shared my relocation stories. I have relocated twice, once from Singapore to China and once from China to Malaysia. It’s foreseeable that one day I’ll have one more move to make and that is from Malaysia to Singapore. While it is fun (and heartbreaking at the same time) to relocate,…
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I’ve spoken about the pros of relocation so I think it’s fair that I talked about cons as well. Yes, there are always two sides to anything, the pros, and the cons, even towards winning a lottery. Moving from one country to another is a big decision, one should not take lightly because the impact…
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I wanted to share this topic for a very long time even longer than MiddleMe was set up because I had so many people asking me why I chose to move away when I have everything. To give you the context: I was doing extremely well at work, I have a fantastic team who loves…
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You are working just nicely in your company, probably made up of mostly local colleagues that share your interests and once in a while, you’ll hang out with them in a pub across the road especially on Fridays when everyone wind down and bitch about work or talk about the upcoming games over beer. Suddenly…
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