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- Type: Article
- Author: Jessica Lockhart
- Category: Work Abroad
What are the most in-demand and highly sought-after professions for international work—and how can you get your foot in the door? It doesn’t matter whether you’ve just graduated from high school or are a mid-career professional—working abroad has the...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Jessica Lockhart
- Category: Beyond the Guidebook
Overtourism and the problems it creates may make you feel like giving up your passport. But responsible travel experts say there's a better way. Early in 2020, when plastic straws (and not a global pandemic) were still the tourism industry’s biggest...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Aisling Force
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
I had just settled into my first consulting gig when COVID-19 hit Costa Rica. Finding work can be challenging enough in places that you know and have an established network. But the job search becomes increasingly difficult when you have recently...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Jessica Lockhart
- Category: Budget Traveller
From couchsurfing to house swapping, here's how to take the cost of accommodation out of your travel budget. There it was: Fat, furry, beady-eyed and decidedly at home. It was the first rat I’d ever seen, and it was standing directly in the pathway to...
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How to Volunteer Abroad for Freehttps://www.studyandgoabroad.org/20-2/features/volunteer-for-free
- Type: Article
- Author: Jessica Lockhart
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
Hosting international volunteers requires a considerable amount of time and resources. But does that mean you have to pay to volunteer abroad? The best things in life are free—and volunteering certainly seems to be proof of that. In exchange for your...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Aisling Force
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Establishing a Costa Rican residency was a recipe for both laughter and frustration. While it is true that you can “live” in Costa Rica as a perpetual tourist, this can be exhausting. Those on a tourist visa must venture to the border every 90-days to...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Aisling Force
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
What to consider when taking a car with you abroad. Of all possessions in life, I believe few are as signature to one's identity as a car. I have owned the same car since I was 16 years old: a ‘91 Jeep Cherokee that my parents gave me when I learned to...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Rebecca Janacek
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
I decided to study abroad in Taiwan—then the coronavirus pandemic hit. Here's how my semester abroad is unfolding so far. I really didn’t think I would ever be learning Chinese in Taiwan. If you had asked me a few years ago about this place, I doubt I...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Rebecca Janacek
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
As a biology student, I have always been fascinated by pandemics. But I never expected to live through one—especially while studying abroad. I’ve never experienced a hurricane, but it sure feels like I’m in the eye of the storm. A few months ago, the...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Shrita Pathak
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
The COVID-19 outbreak in Spain has turned my life abroad upside down. When the opportunity to move to Spain knocked on my door sometime in the summer of 2019, I graciously accepted. I moved to the northwestern principality of Asturias in September....
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- Type: Article
- Author: Zoe Bell
- Category: Study Abroad
I decided to continue studying in the UK, rather than return home to Canada. Here’s why. When I left Canada to pursue a master’s degree in England, I expected my life to change. But I never expected this. As I write this, I am living in London, UK...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Jessica Lockhart
- Category: Travel intelligence
I'm a Canadian working abroad in New Zealand. Here's how a global pandemic altered my life overnight. For years, I’ve lived in the grey zone. As a freelance journalist and Verge’s contributing editor, I’ve been working remotely for the better part of...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Jeff Minthorn
- Category: Travel intelligence
A travel reading list to help you through a pandemic. Like you, right now I am social distancing. Spending my days working from my home office is nothing new—I've been doing it for years—although my productivity has plummeted and without the prospect...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Aisling Force
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
It's time to pack up and leave Montana—with a career and a toddler in tow. After 10 years of living in the United States, my husband and I began considering the possibility of leaving Montana and returning to Costa Rica. To me, Costa Rica feels like...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Eric Coleman
- Category: Travel Health
Experts share their top tips for surviving culture shock and thriving in your new country. Flashing neon lights, pulsing music, and delicious, unfamiliar scents were calling my attention in every direction. After four years of planning my exodus to...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Mark Dickinson
- Category: Travel Health
The downfalls (literally) of being a 54-year-old backpacker. Having backpacked through 70 countries over three decades, I take pride in handling travel adversity, but now I found myself lying helplessly in the middle of a Bolivian market—alone,...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Jiaqing Low
- Category: Beyond the Guidebook
A Mandarin-speaking vegetarian shares her secrets for navigating a meat-heavy land. It’s hard to be a vegetarian in China. Oyster sauce is as ubiquitous as salt and pepper is in Western cuisine, and minced meat is slyly slithered into tofu and leafy...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Nicholas Rao
- Category: Budget Traveller
A first-time hitchhiker learns the subtle art of thumbing to Serbia. The sun pressed down in Timi?oara, Romania and a small voice in my head began to taunt. "Sure," it said, "have a field day. You’re in a strange city in a strange country and for the...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Dave Smurthwaite
- Category: Why we travel
The most common mistakes that prevent people from realizing their dreams of living abroad. How does it sound to leave home behind? • The drawn-out screech of heavy screen door opening. . . • The muffled grind of a house key turning in its lock. . . •...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Marisa Ebony
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Since moving to this tropical paradise, I've learned to make the most of rainy days. A change in climate from Canada's cold, frigid winters is always welcome; however, tropical paradise isn’t always hot and sunny. Costa Rica experiences a lot of rain...
