Any cost-conscious organization sending employees abroad needs to be prudent and justify all the expenses of an expatriate assignment. Smart organizations know that a small percentage of the overall expat management cost protects their investment in global talent. International employee relocations can fail for various reasons: A company may have chosen the wrong team member for the […]
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The Road Taken: How to Dream, Plan, and Live Your Family Adventure Abroad is your guide for envisioning and creating the family experience of a lifetime. What does your future hold? Settling in a Mexican village? Backpacking through Asia? Homeschooling with the world as your teacher? The Road Taken will develop your wanderlust into a plan and […]
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Don’t you wish there was a step-by-step guide to successfully raising a family abroad? Or anywhere, for that matter! Unfortunately, no one has all the answers. What I can offer, however, is years of experience listening to young people who were raised overseas. I’ve learned a lot about what their parents did to help (or […]
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Background While many parts of the U.S. tax code are both convoluted and punitive, the IRS regulations involving the treatment of PFICs – Passive Foreign Investment Companies (PFICs) are almost unmatched in their complexity and harsh tax treatment. The PFIC regime is a penalty provision that taxes gains and distributions at the highest tax rate […]
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These are the Top Ten Places You Cannot Miss When in Rio One of the amazing things about Rio de Janeiro is that you can come to visit countless times and always will have some place that you still missing… I chose to live in Rio 8 years ago and I promise myself to never […]
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Things to never say to the parents of boarding school kids and the responses that go through parents’ minds when they hear them. There are few responses to our decision to send our 12-year old children to a boarding school that are harder to hear than, “I could never do that.” Especially […]
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Another checklist you must be thinking – that’s the last thing I need amidst this process of moving, packing, leaving, adjusting, farewells, new hellos, and adjustment. But yes, what if by reading and taking one tiny step this makes a difference – would it be worth it? Here are three of the […]
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“For some people (yes, us) food doesn’t go to the stomach; it touches the soul and goes straight to the heart.” ~ ExpatWomanFood.com If you grew up with doughnuts then you may realize that they have an emotional value. I find that global nomads the world over often remark on where they found their doughnut […]
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Five years ago I wrote a post, 15 Things I Want to Tell My Third Culture Kids. I’ve been writing my kids letters and telling them things for years. When they return to school every three months, they return with packets of letters. One for each week, usually written on the back of a photograph of people and […]
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By Andy Molinsky, Expatriate Specialist: Global Competence Michael has been in Frankfurt for about a week and is really missing his home office in Chicago. Everyone in Germany seems to be so serious at work. No small talk, no conversation about the weekend, no interest in his American background — in fact, no interest really in him […]
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