Expats Overseas Cities Guide

Are you moving and relocating abroad? Is your company sending you to work and live in Paris, Hong Kong, or any other foreign city around the world?

Are you wondering about the expats lifestyle in the new city? How is school, shopping, people, housing, weather, etc'?

Some companies and organizations do send future expats overseas for a familiarization trip. During this trip expats can search for houses or apartments, visit schools, and meet other expats.

However, not always your spouse and kids are able to join you on the familiarization trip, and other times you are still left with more questions about the target city.

A great way to find more information about the lifestyle and conditions in the foreign city is to ask other expats, and to learn from their experience.

This is where we would appreciate your assistance:

We have created an open-ended questionnaire about living in a foreign city. In the questionnaire we covered areas that are of interest to all expats overseas, no matter where they live.

So, whether you are an expat in Brussel or an expat in Tokoyo, you can assist other newcomers by answering our city guide questionnaire.

All you need to do is go over the questions, and write your answers in the following form. If you wish to stay anonymous that's absolutely fine, and if there are questions that are not relevant to your situation then just skip them.

Curious to read what other expats have written? You can find previously submitted city guides here.

Together we can build the best cities guide resources for expats overseas.

1. In which city are you living?
2. What is the spoken language, and how much local language do you need to know for daily living?
3. How is the weather?
4. Is this a good city for families/singles/couples?
5. How are the preschool and daycares?
6. Are their international schools/American Schools?
7. Any after school activities?
8. Are there English speaking universities? Or any special programs in the English language at a local university?
9. How is the accommodation?
10. How is the healthcare?
11. Is it a pet friendly city?
12. Is household help easy to find?
13. How is the traffic and the public transportation (buses, trains, taxis)?
14. How is the communication - Cell/land phone, T.V/Cable/Satelite, Internet connection, international calls?
15. What is the dress code to work and in public?
16. How is shopping for groceries, household items and clothing?
17. Tell us about sport, entertainment, night life, restaurants.
18. How is the expats community?
19. Any other comments?

Fill out the form bellow with your answers to the city guide questionnaire

Thanks for your time and for providing important tips and information to future expats!

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