What r/expats is talking about this week

After roughly 12 years abroad, I've recently returned to the US. My mother is getting older, and my family was dealing with some complicated state and legal matters where I felt my experience...

I’m going on 8 years in the Netherlands. What began as a fun and exciting adventure and fulfilling a lifelong goal of living in a European country feels like it has run its course, but I’m not...

Thought this might be the right sub to ask on. I live in Scotland, our new neighbours moved over here in the summer (they’re from Iowa) so with Thanksgiving coming up I thought they might be...

I live in Switzerland but have lived in Asia and Latin America too. I am Southern European but raised in Switzerland. I feel that the work and social culture here are just really not nice, it is...

Have any of you guys ever moved back to the US after living in Europe for a long period of time (or I guess anywhere abroad for that matter) and regretted it? What made you move back to the US in...

Send me all your good vibes, advice, whatever. Trying not to freak out.

Anyone here who has kids, and is trying to decide between raising them in Europe, or the US? Or did you have to make this decision in the past? I'd love to hear your experiences, and why you...

I’m looking for any experiences or stories of any Americans who lived in the UK a while and went back - are you happy you did or regret it? For context I’m 29F lived in the UK 5 years, moved to...

i moved there on the back end of managing to leave an abusive relationship. I quit my job, packed up my flat, rented it out and moved away. I started painting and I went HERMIT mode. I started to...

Hi! I'm a man in my late 30s, originally from Russia, and have been living in Sweden for over a decade. I work in tech, have a comfortable and stable life, very safe job, etc etc. I've recently...