Expat Life
Would you ever relinquish your citizenship?
Miss Move Abroad first posed this question in response to a New York Times article, entitled “More American Expatriates Give Up Citizenship”. According to the article, 743 Americans traded in their citizenship for permanent lives abroad in 2009. And although that’s a minuscule amount compared to the 5.2 million Americans estimated to be living outside … Continue reading
Patriotism: Good or Bad?
Patriotism by Alex Thomson “U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!” That’s what the crowd of Americans seated at the table next to mine were shouting. My housemates and I were in a sports bar, eating cheeseburgers and buffalo wings and watching the World Cup football (soccer) match between England and the United States. While this may have resembled … Continue reading
Why I like Living Abroad
Today my Dutch roommate told me that he doesn’t like living with expats. “At home I’m special,” he explained. “But here, no one cares that I used to live in Curacao,” naming the Caribbean island he lived on for five months before moving to Guatemala. It’s true. I live in a house with mostly other … Continue reading
Roughing It
If I could only use one word to describe my life in Guatemala, it would be this: rustic. Well, maybe it’s not rustic by some people’s standards. I mean, I have a roof over my head after all (although I use that term loosely), electricity (well, most days), cable TV, hot water (sometimes) and most … Continue reading
The Hippies in Guatemala
If you’re sitting in some cafe in Haight-Ashbury and wondering to yourself where all the hippies have gone (like the REAL hippies, not the third-generation-urban-outfit-wearing posers), well, I have an answer for that: Guatemala. While Guatemala doesn’t even register on most people’s radars (“like, is that a city in Mexico?” – is the usual question … Continue reading
