Expat-Friendly Links for July 22, 2009
Here’s our collection of expat-friendly links for today.
- France and Spain ‘remain popular destinations for expats’ – Many Brits have properties in Spain and France because they are easy locations to get to, it has been claimed.
- The Problem with Short-Term Overseas Assignments – You've just been told you will work in the south of France (or northern Russia, or Timbuktu) for six months. But you have a spouse holding down a job and kids in school, and they can't tag along. Now what?
- For finance pros, Asia expat life losing perks – For most financial market professionals in this city and other hubs across Asia, the days of extravagant expatriate life have ended.
- Expats who own land [in Bermuda] must ‘validate’ licences – Housing Minister David Burch has urged expats who own land in Bermuda to validate their licences as soon as possible.
- Expatriate and former prisoner says Castro nearing end in Cuba – A prominent Cuban expatriate and political prisoner for 28 years under Fidel Castro told The Light's editorial board Friday the end of the Castro era is at hand
- Dr. Expat: American physicians on foreign soil – Traveling to practice medicine doesn't necessarily mean working in underdeveloped countries. U.S. doctors are finding adventure and fulfillment filling gaps worldwide.
- 50 Beautiful HDR Images from 50 World Cities – HDR can make the ugliest, run down, industrialized cities seem appealing, and if you take quality HDR photographs of the most beautiful cities in the world thay seem to be captured from a different perspective, you seem to be able to view different elements of a familiar scene that you had never noticed before.
- London Calling Mobile Phone makes us long to be British – You know those red K6 telephone boxes that are such an iconic and unmissable part of any stay in London?
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