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Here’s our rundown of 5 of the best US expat blogs in 2015. Do you agree? One – Banker in the Sun After being robbed at gunpoint outside his home in Florida, Banker in the Sun re-evaluated his priorities in life and decided to pack in the bank job and follow his childhood dream of […]

Expats typically move abroad or a better life, perhaps for love, adventure, work, or retirement. We hope for an enriching experience in another culture, and an improved quality of life. What happens though when our host country experiences a full blown crisis? Journalist, Author and Bright!Tax client Marissa Tejada moved to Athens six years ago […]

Many young Americans are looking for opportunities abroad The following is an extract from ‘Survey says: 35% of Americans would expatriate’ published on CNBC.com. As sultry summer weekends loom and Americans prep their grills and ready their ongoing outdoor activities, some citizens are packing their bags. A recent online poll of more than 2,000 adults […]

A new type of bank launched in Europe today aimed at expats and immigrants. Monese, www.monese.com, registered in London and Estonia, is able to offer cutting edge banking services to the whole of Europe. Customers download an app and can then open an account in less than 3 minutes, providing a photo of their passport […]

It’s easy to understand why so many Americans choose to live, work, or retire in Mexico. If anything, it’s hard not to envy them. Mexico’s beaches, Spanish colonial cities, climate, delicious cuisine, and friendly people make for an incredible combination.   Americans living in Mexico are still liable to file an annual federal tax return […]

Internations.org has carried out an extensive survey of expat satisfaction levels for the second year running, and the results are in. The online expat resource questioned more than 14,000 expats in over 195 different countries to find out how they felt about the country that they were living in. It’s the biggest survey of this […]

American expats can live incredible lives, and often have incredible stories to tell. Kristen Evelyn Rossi is a jazz singer on a mission to spread the Golden Age of Broadway / Jazz throughout Asia. The following is an excerpt from ‘Falling in Love at the Metropole Hanoi’ in Global Living Magazine. Born on Long Island, […]

One – Mexican Food The only country on earth that can do Mexican food as well as the US, is… Mexico. And the further away you go, the worse it gets, if you can find it at all. Say goodbye to those huge, delicious burritos, endless tortilla chips, and fresh, fragrant salsas: the nearest things […]

America; land of the free, home of the brave. For years the US has been seen as the land of opportunity, the country where dreams come true. But for how much longer? There are an estimated 7 million Americans living abroad and the number is only increasing — over 150,000 Americans departed the country last […]

FATCA and the vilification of the American expat productive class There is a group of Americans who ought to be heralded as heroes. Instead, they are fairly vilified and treated mostly with suspicion by US taxing authorities. They are the American citizens who live and work overseas. It is interesting to note that most consumers […]