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Tag Archives: India

“Low Expectations:” Your Guide to Successful Relocation to China

November 13, 2012by expatlingo 23 Comments

People often wonder how I happily lived in Mainland China for 3.5 years. What about the pollution/censorship/unsafe food/spitting/high road casualties, they ask? The key is strategically low(ered) expectations. With my […]

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China, expat life

Inspiration: tales of sleeping in haystacks with backpacks

September 3, 2012by expatlingo 9 Comments

I was nine when I first came to know that near-penniless youth could “backpack” around Europe. I had spent many weeks carefully studying the souvenirs placed around my best friend’s […]

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travel

Pictures of Strangers

August 6, 2012by expatlingo 17 Comments

Watching strangers is one of the simplest pleasures. I do it in airports, city centers, beaches, restaurants, on public transport, etc. Even at the zoo, it is often the people […]

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spotted, travel

Cheating Death on Asian Highways

March 19, 2012by expatlingo 8 Comments

Traffic accidents are a key danger of expat life as we live in countries with hazardous roads and move around by car a lot. (Smug expats riding their bikes on […]

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Central Asia, China, expat life, India, travel

I thought it would be different (mis-anticipating destinations)

March 12, 2012by expatlingo Leave a comment

I once spoke to a woman who was moving to Layton, Utah from someplace in the east of America. She looked at the map, saw the giant lake (“The Great […]

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Britain, China, expat life, India, places, travel

Bureaucracy and the bored Indian clerk

February 28, 2012by expatlingo Leave a comment

Two phones, office visitors, open notebooks, the possibility of tea (see the back corner), and still so very, very bored.  After watching this clerk stare into the middle-distance for quarter-hour […]

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India, spotted, travel

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