Moving Abroad: A Guide to International Living

By Virginia L. McKay

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9627060011
• ISBN13: 9789627060017
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Vlm Enterprises
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Helpful and Practical

From how to sell your home to how to prepare for tropical illnesses, this book has it all. Here is everything you need to know for preparing to leave your home country, the trip to the new country, and how to set up life in the new country. One will likely find, as I did, that there is far too much information here- in the sense that no one person needs it all. I don't need to decide how to divest my stocks before I leave, or what kind of school to put my children in in the new country. But that's the beauty of this book- pretty much anything you need to know for moving abroad, it's here.McKay writes from a very American perspective, and so the book will be most helpful for Americans. And this is general- other than a chapter on the particular difficulties in a tropical environment, you won't find anything here specific to your future country or area, other than empirical examples throughout the text. But there's a process that all of us who are moving overseas go through, and this book gives you the step-by-step process. How to decide to move, what to tell the children, what to do about taxes and papers, how to pack, how to deal with culture shock (and to expect it!), how to find a house, how to learn the language, how to do business in a new culture, how to hire help, how to use transportation, how to get medical help, how to go to other countries besides your host country, and more. (By the way, this is a How To book.) My copy is copiously underlined. The one reservation I have about the book is that too often McKay assumes that the man is the bread-winner, sent by his company abroad, and the wife is taking care of the kids. While in many cultures this may be necessary in order to adapt to the culture, McKay assumes this in all cases, and does not allow for moves to more progressive countries in situations where it is the *woman* who is sent by her company abroad.Upon moving abroad, I'm going to come up against many problems- I mean opportunities. And when I do, I'm going to turn to the requisite page in this book for a solution.