This week the podcast ventured into unknown territory for Kirsty and Nikki, being expat while single. As they both entered the expat world post partnering, their nearly 40 years of combined expat experience and advice gave them nothing and they had to source the downlow elsewhere.
Nikki spoke to Lindsay and Kirsty spoke to Kate separately about their single expat escapades and the interviews are included in this episode.
There was also some further mining of amazing expats minds in the Facebook group and loads of the experienced shared their pros and cons, ups and downs and wishes as expat singles with us all.
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Cara
I loved the this episode. I arrived in Vietnam in 2008 on my first single expat gig, moved to Indonesia and got married and had 2 children in Jakarta and then moved to Bangkok and got divorced (but kept the kids… they were cute!). I am now a single expat again but also a single mum and now with a much more senior role that requires a lot of travel.
So many of the insights in this episode struck home….. the suspicious wives, the desire to just be invited for coffee and certainly the “expat wives” benefits and social scene which I have never been able to join as I’ve always worked.
I find it easier in Singapore which has more women working, but I loved Kate’s ask for women to be more open and supportive.