Some countries are more difficult for expats to make local friends in than others, for example Denmark. South Korea is another country that is ranking low on the InterNations survey in terms of the categories “feeling at home” and “making…
Guest blog post by Dr Reto Wegmann, Senior Advisor of Swiss Ibex LLC, Lecturer at the University of Lucerne1 Making friends with locals is much more difficult when expats do not live among the local population, but rather in expat…
‘The happy expat needs friends’, yes, but how does this work? What helps and what doesn’t? And what can expats do to help the process along? Read here some of the highlights of my research based on 72 interviews with…
“…Chinese students stick together with Chinese, Thai students with Thais…. when they go to the campus, they are together. I hardly see culturally mixed groups of people.” 1 ‘The happy expat needs friends’ to truly thrive in the new country…
We need other people around us. Aristotle already recognised this when he said that “the happy man needs friends”1. When expats move abroad, they need to make new friends and connections in the host country. Re-establishing social life is the…