Designing Your Best Expat Life – Colin In China

black man in white shirt posing in studio
June 19, 2020
black man in white shirt posing in studio. Designing your expat life
Nothing gives me more pleasure than speaking with people who have high aspirations and then go on to smash these goals and forge for themselves the kind of lives they envision. Colin is one of those people. This podcast and post has him telling me about growing up as an outsider of sorts, being a child of immigrants and going on to work for huge companies before striking out on his own. I also update on Valencia as we go into the final phase in just a few days.

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What Expats in Spain Miss Most About Home

Turia Park and bridge in Valencia Spain

Turia Park and bridge in Valencia Spain - what expats in Spain miss most about home

What do expats in Spain miss most about home? This question has been on my mind lately as it seems to pop up more and more amongst friends who have moved out of the States and now live abroad. Wanderlust aside, the day to day living sometimes means lamenting what one had.

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Nostalgia creeps in time and again. I decided to do an informal survey to see what expats in Spain, both new and old, found missing in their new homes. It was reassuring to find that a couple of things were universal. One hundred percent across the board. Read on to find out the seven most often missed things by Expats, plus a bonus reason or two.

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Renovating Our Valencia Spain Flat (Home Reforma)

Living room with open walls in the middle of reform Spain

June 10, 2019

Salmon color living room with balcony

Now that we have successfully completed our home purchase in Spain, the next phase is in progress which is renovating our Valencia flat. This phase involves modernising the flat. It’s not that it was in a horrible state, it had obviously been well cared for. We just want it refreshed a bit. The apartment had stood empty for almost two years as the old woman had been moved into an assisted facility after her husband passed away. Here is how the home renovation is going.

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Life in Valencia Spain Is Satisfying (An Update)

palau musica valencia

Updated: In just a few days, we will have been in Valencia two years. Time has really flown by. It seems like just yesterday that we decided to stay in Seville for one more year. It has also occurred to me that l haven’t written a whole lot about the city. [the_ad id=”13767″] This hasn’t …

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