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We’re happy to announce we have just brought Events out of beta. This means community members can now post their events and we can get the news out and help them make them a success. Any community member can publish an event. Depending on the nature of the event, we then provide different levels of [...]
No-one looks forward to moving house, when you’re moving country at the same time there is even more to get done. It can seem there are too many things to do and not enough time to get them done! Robinsons international removal, one of the top five UK specialists in UK, European and International moving [...]
HSBC International is soon to release the full results from its 2011 Expat Explorer survey. In their preview, Thailand comes out top of the league table for lifestyle and economic factors. Bahrain was last year’s leader and despite social unrest and political uncertainty is has surprisingly only dropped down to 13th place. An even bigger [...]
Three years ago, HSBC launched a global expat survey with the goal of learning more about the opinions of expats. Key findings from the 2010 included: Emerging economies remain on top for expat finances Wealth gap continues to widen between the East and Mainland Europe with Russia home to wealthiest expats, followed by the Middle East [...]
The Guardian and HSBC have launched a series of guides for expat finance. The first installment is online now: Expat Guide to Money Management. Lisa Wood, Head of Marketing at HSBC Bank International, said: Starting a new life abroad is a fantastic and exciting experience, but there is a lot of planning to do to ensure all [...]
No local experience? You’ve filled out the forms, jumped through the migration hoops and arrived in your country of choice with your skill in demand. Now come the job offers – or not? You may hear from employers and recruitment consultants, that the only experience that matters is “local experience.” I wrote this article [...]
No, this is not being published at the wrong time of year! We look at how people are using Just Landed to make sure we focus our efforts on making the site work as well as we can on the most popular platforms. We did get a bit of a surprise as people accessing Just [...]
You can now send an SMS to make ads premium from some countries (if available you will see the option in the ‘make premium’ area). We hope this will be an alternative to credit card payments that is easier and quicker to use. Paying for an ad by SMS is currently cheaper than doing so [...]
According to our statistics, we get visitors from 229 countries (probably more countries than actually exist as a few islands are being counted when they are not strictly speaking countries). This presents a particular challenge when it comes to online payments. We recently added CCBill as a payment option for premium ads on the site. [...]
The latest edition of HSBC’s Expat Explorer survey provides a snapshot of how expatriate parents think their kids are getting on abroad. Belgium came top overall, with the only downsides identified being that more junk food was eaten there and less time spent outdoors. It was followed by Spain, France and Hong Kong, while the [...]
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