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3 years abroad – What I’ve learned (Part 5: The Power of YES)

3 years abroad – What I’ve learned (Part 5: The Power of YES)

| Culture and Lifestyle, Expat Experiences, Expat topics

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow! What a Ride! Hunter S....
3 years abroad – What I’ve learned (Part 4: Paperwork and Bureaucracy)

3 years abroad – What I’ve learned (Part 4: Paperwork and Bureaucracy)

| Expat Experiences, Expat Paperwork, Expat topics

Bureaucracy is the epoxy that greases the wheels of progress. James H. Boren, in When in Doubt, Mumble : A Bureaucrat’s Handbook (1972) I’ve often said that living in Spain is a something like living in the 1950s with WiFi. Every time I have to file paperwork, visit a...
3 years abroad – What I’ve learned (Part 3: Friends)

3 years abroad – What I’ve learned (Part 3: Friends)

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You can make more friends in two months by becoming genuinely interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. Dale Carnegie As I’ve said before, I’ve lived in Valencia twice. When I lived here from 2013-2015, I was...

3 years abroad – What I’ve learned (Part 2: Food)

| Culture and Lifestyle, Expat Experiences, Expat topics

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.  Virginia Woolf Dear Clever Expat, This is the second of a series of posts about what I have learned while living abroad. Read the first post here. In short, I live in Valencia, Spain, and this...

3 years abroad – What I’ve learned (Part 1: Different Country, Different Life)

| Culture and Lifestyle, Expat Experiences, Expat Finances, Expat topics

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. Pablo Picasso Dear Clever Expat, This is the first of a series of posts about what I have learned while living abroad. It’s a long list, and I plan on spreading this out fairly...
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