Life & Culture

Life in Ireland, as expat forums and relocation accounts describe it, tends to arrive as a set of small daily rhythms rather than the postcard version. An unpredictable sky that …

Ask around before a move to Ireland and Dublin will come up first, almost by reflex. It is the capital, the biggest job market and the place most newcomers can …

Ask five people where the best place to live in Portugal is and you will get five confident, contradictory answers. That is not a sign anyone is wrong. Portugal is …

Portugal has a way of looking settled from the outside. Tiled facades, tram bells, a coffee that costs less than a euro and a coastline that runs almost the length …

Read any expat forum about Colombia and one city comes up more than the rest — expat living in Medellín has become the default experience for people moving to the …

Ask a room of newcomers where the best place to live in Colombia is and you will get a different answer from each of them, usually delivered with total conviction. …

You are probably asking because you have a decision in front of you. A job offer, a visa application, a partner from here, or just years of thinking about it …

The question most people ask before moving to New Zealand is not “which visa?” — it’s “where?” You can spend weeks reading forum threads and still feel no closer to …