Expat Experience Quotes

My wife is Italian, and I lived there for six years.

Living in Korea was a big adjustment because a coffee is going to be a little more pricey than what it is in the States. Wages aren't as high either.

I try to get back to Australia as much as possible.

When I told people in Dubai that I am going to leave my job here and head to Mumbai, they were convinced that I will not survive in the dust, grime, pollution.

I enjoyed living abroad. I enjoyed the differences as much as anything.

I moved to Paris for two years, then to London, then New York in 2002. In that time, I also lived in Japan, Italy, Germany - I've been a bit of a gypsy.

Moving to France is not the hard part. Living here is more difficult. Of course there are many benefits but it's not always easy especially if you don't speak the language.

I went to school in Tanzania for two years, from five to seven. I started off in my mother's school with a lot of African children - but then I was put into the international school.

There are so many Jamaican people here in London, it's going to be like being at home for me.

Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.

When I was 12 years old, living in Cairo, my parents enrolled me in the American school. Most of the Americans there appeared oddly stifled, determined to remain, if not physically then sentimentally, back in the United States.

When I was living in the Dominican Republic, the local kids became a part of my family.

Alan Paul plunges into Chinese life and takes us along for the ride, through vegetable markets, used-car lots, Taoist temples, divey bars, and a beachside music festival before thousands of cheering fans. He conveys the thrills and challenges of living abroad, the confusions and regrets, and most of all the opportunity to become the person we always hoped to be.

I am very happy in London and to be at Chelsea.

It has been stressful to be a French resident in America.

When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.

It's my mission to tell the Australians from abroad in my work that Australia is a wonderful place.

After I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do.

I already lived in Switzerland in 2002, and from this time I know that it's a very calm country. I really enjoy living there.

I live in Beverly Hills and I'm proud of it. The only things I miss are pie and mash shops and football games. I've lived in America longer than I lived in England. When I first got here, it just felt right to me. I like the open space, and the weather's great.

I never felt particularly alienated as an English person in America. It doesn't feel culturally like a massive gap to me.

I went back to Hong Kong for the first time in 17 years and I was culture shocked in Hong Kong.

It was totally different. I am living in Sao Paulo and then I'm in Ukraine living in a small city called Donetsk. There's the weather, the language. I went there with my family. That helped a little bit and I ended up staying there for five-and-a-half years. It was important there that I had so many Brazilian players.

Back in the States, they actually liked hearing my Filipino accent. People I meet there found it very endearing.

I did live over in the U.K. for a while, so I guess I'm just naturally a Brit at heart.