Tag: Community
The Value of the Expat Community (3)
For all its positive benefits, the expat community can also hinder your ability to integrate. It can provide too much comfort and familiarity, and if you let it, it can almost completely insulate you from local society, thus retarding your ability to integrate with your new colleagues and preventing you from experiencing those things that make living overseas such an adventure.
The Value of the Expat Community (2)
I was surprised at the number of people who, when they found out I was moving to Russia, knew someone living there and were keen to put me in touch. In hindsight, one of the smartest things I did—and I did it as a fluke—was make a list of these Moscow contacts. I figured I’d probably never do anything with it, but I might as well take it along.
The Value of the Expat Community
Tapping into the resources of an established expat community might prove to be one of the best ways of easing into another culture. If you involve yourself in an established network of similar people, you will find new friends and be able to get involved in activities that you might never get around to on your own. This community will help you settle in faster and make things feel a little more like home.