https://tomhickerson.com/en/tags/expat/Recent content in expat on Tom Hickerson's SiteHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usCopyright 2023-2026Sat, 16 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2009/2009-05-16-expat-thug-life-were-all-leaving-moscow/Sat, 16 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2009/2009-05-16-expat-thug-life-were-all-leaving-moscow/I had lunch today with Mr. X, a fellow expat who lived in Moscow for the last four years. He had taken a temporary assignment in the US with the company he worked for in Moscow - an international, well-respected company - with the intention to return back to Moscow with his wife and child in August. This month he came back to Russia to resign his position, and ship all of his things back home.https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2006/2006-12-08-manifestos-all-shapes-and-sizes/Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2006/2006-12-08-manifestos-all-shapes-and-sizes/Hugh over at Gaping Void has posted a challenge to create manifestos in 500 words or less. Of the many interesting results, I especially liked the Ex-pat Manifesto, part of which I’ve posted here: I live here because I want to. Just because I could be paid better for the same job back home does not give me the right to complain about it. In fact, just because anything at all is different here, I do not have the right to be rude about those whose country it really is (’the locals’).