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EXPAT: Interview with ExpatFocus

September 14, 2017September 12, 20172017, EXPAT, EXPAT GOING HOME, EXPAT HEALTH, EXPAT LIFE, EXPAT MOVING, EXPAT YEARS, INTERVIEW, TURKEY, WRITING Catie

Websites like ExpatFocus.com help others gain knowledge about the community, cost of living, and even neighbourhoods. Some of the best advice is from first hand experience. This website also has articles about expat living as well.

While most of our answers tend to be the same, we continue to learn more and more about ourselves through our expat living. We enjoy sharing that knowledge with others via our website, podcast, and expat websites.

Recently, our website was feature on ExpatFocus via an interview. Through this interview we are able to help other understand more about the country they are moving to, either by choice or through work. Continue reading about here…

Further down in the interview.

If you have more specific questions about our expat lives, our FunkTravels Podcast Episode032 and Episode033 answers most of them!

What did you like?

Did you learn anything new?

INTERVIEW: Check out YoungAmericanExpat

June 15, 2017June 10, 20172017, EXPAT, INTERVIEW, OUR STORY, TURKEY, WRITING Catie

Expats aren’t just Americans, but this post is definitely geared more towards our American readers who want to learn more about other American expats abroad. Maybe Turkey isn’t your fav (we are terribly saddened by this). YoungAmericanExpat website is the place to find out where other expats love to live and work!

I have mentioned before that an expat in another country means you have a unique perspective. Websites like YoungAmericanExpat help others gain knowledge about how other Americans live their expat life. Each country is different and each person’s story about how they got there is too. This website will be an eventually be an encyclopedia of expats bloggers and expat resources for all future expat!

Check out their short video explaining who they are:

Recently, we were asked to shared our website via a profile at YoungAmericanExpat website. Our interview for this website was less about the specific of Turkey and our life, and more general information about who we are, where we live, and how we work as expats. If you are more curious about our daily life and culture, definitely check out our FunkTravels Podcast. Episode032 and Episode033 we spent answering Q&As from our listeners.

Check out our profile here and enjoy learning about others who live abroad as well!

If you would like to be features as an expat, just write the website via their contact page!

EXPAT: Read our interview with ExpatArrivals

June 8, 2017June 3, 20172017, Culture, EVERYDAY LIFE, EXPAT, INTERVIEW, IZMIR, LANGUAGE, LOCAL, MOVING, TURKEY, WRITING Catie

Our 1 year mark is quickly approaching! We are somewhat surprised at how quickly it flew by. While my main goals are connecting with our neighbours and community and language learning, I have loved getting to know other expats as well. Part of our move over here was researching information about expat life via several expat website, one of them being ExpatArrivals.

Websites like ExpatArrivals help others gain knowledge about the community, cost of living, and even neighbourhoods. Some of the best advice is from first hand experience.

Being an expat in another country means you have a unique perspective. As we have transitioned to Izmir, I have enjoyed hearing other expat stories and how they moved from their native countries. Everyone has a story and no two are the same. You, too, have asked us questions about our expat lives, and in our FunkTravels Podcast Episode032 and Episode033 we answered most of them!

Recently, I shared via an interview at ExpatArrivals website to help others potential expats moving to Turkey in the future. The interview covers questions from hospitals, schooling, trailing spouses, and kids. If you have wondered about anything of these, then continue reading about here…

What question did you like? Did you learn anything new?