If you’ve lived in multiple locations the question invariably arises. “So which one was your favourite?”
It’s a question so many expats have trouble answering. Being asked to choose your favourite location is a little like being asked to choose your favourite child. Often there is no one clear favourite, they were all good for different reasons.
Maybe you were financially better off in the Middle East while your lifestyle was fabulous in Europe. While the food was the highlight in Asia, you’d never been healthier while living in Nigeria. Each location has its highlights and low-lights, but if you were pushed to answer which was your favourite what you would you say? And why?
Internations conducted a survey with rankings decided by asking these questions:
General Quality of Life Index?
Ease of Settling In Index?
Working Abroad Index?
Family Life Index (where applicable),
Personal Finance Index?
As well as “How satisfied are you with life abroad in general?”.
We spoke to some wonderful women who have lived all over the world and asked them where their favourite place was to live. Some of the answers might surprise you! A big thank you to Sue B, Sam, Linda, Sue McD, Sarah P, Phoebe, Sarah W, Nikki and Clelia. Apologies to Milana who gave such a great interview but we had technical difficulties and couldn’t produce her interview.
We found some great articles about where the best expat places are to live:
14 Best Places In the World to live and Seek
Living in the Worlds Best Cities for Expats
15 Best Places to Live Abroad for Expats
Sarah’s Blog and Instagram Pick: The Hybrids – Ahmad & Ascia are a husband and wife fashion blogging team from Kuwait. Both are of mixed heritage, and thus call themselves “hybrids”. This is their personal style photo diary. You can follow Ascia on Instagram @ASCIA_AKF
Sarah’s Book Pick: “Beijing Tai Tai” by Tania McCartney. Former expat and blogger and now children’s book author. Tania’s book is all about expat life in Beijing and I loved how many similarities there were to my life here in Doha.
Kirsty’s TV Pick: Mad Men. The final episode is being played this week and Kirsty is devastated.
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4 Comments
Mum
the iPad goes off before you finish how do you stop it
kirsty@shamozal.com
I’d say your screen is set to shut down to save your battery. If you occasionally tap it it’ll keep it alive. I’ll check it out when I get home. Xx
Miss Chardy
I loved this episode guys, loved even more that I got to listen to you for 60 minutes!!!! Yay. You guys do an amazing job with this podcasts, I could seriously listen to you all day long. I especially love it when you giggle at yourselves, makes me laugh too. Looking forward to the next one already. God I would kill to jump on a plane and fly to the Middle East…well actually anywhere out of Australia would do right now. Thanks guys.
kirsty@shamozal.com
Thanks gorgeous, looking forward to a vino at problogger xx