My List of Requirements as an Expat

There are must-haves and nice-to haves. It’s good to know the difference.

Barbara Grassey
The Expat Chronicles
6 min readOct 20, 2022

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When I decided I was FINALLY going to pull the lever and go after my goal of living outside the US, I knew it would not be a smooth ride. There would be differences in physical things (refrigerators are smaller, for instance) as well as culturally (cappuccino is frowned upon after…

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Barbara Grassey
The Expat Chronicles

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