Category: Expat Life

This coming summer will mark seven years that I’ve been living abroad as an expat. In those seven years I’ve traveled home to the U.S. five times: for Christmas in 2016, the summers of 2017, 2019, 2020, and then this last holiday gathering, Christmas 2021. My longest break was from the summers of 2017 to 2019 as I moved from Mongolia to Turkey in the summer of 2018. While my employer does fund a ticket…

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It’s a commonly known fact that as foreigners working abroad in the field of education we make a higher salary than our domestic counterparts. That said, the salary I make abroad is significantly less than what I last made working stateside in 2015. However, because I am exempt from U.S. taxes (I’m never home for more than 30 days, and am far under the threshold amount), and because my cost of living while abroad has…

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