With more than 800,000 visitors per month, Just Landed has now become one of the biggest expatriate networks worldwide. Our new expat community enables our users to help each other overcome the obstacles of moving countries, and quickly get to know new friends abroad.

After registration at the Community, you can upload your profile, build your personal network of friends, discuss life abroad and ask other members for advice on living in your country of destination. For now, the community is only available in English, but we will soon make it available in other languages as well.

At this point, we would also like to thank all members and friends that have given us valuable advice on the community. As always, we appreciate any feedback that will help us improve this new and exciting application.

The number of German expatriates continually increases: According to the statistical office of Germany, in 2006 more than 155.000 people left the country, the highest number since the beginning of the measurement in 1950 and an increase of 7% in comparison to 2005.

However, the reality abroad seldom meets expectations: According to a poll among 1200 German speaking users of our site, only 34% find their live abroad better than at home, and only 22% are “very happy” in their new home. Some of the biggest obstacles abroad are adopting to a new culture (85%), finding new friends (72%) and practical issues finding a job or an apartment or learning a new language. For a statistical overview of the poll results, please download the following PDF (in German): Umfrage Auswanderer 2007

At Just Landed, we’re working hard to ease this transition and help our users overcome the hurdles that go along with a move to a new country. As you might have noticed, all our country portals are divided in standard topics (such as jobs, housing, visas & permits or language), which reflect the most critical issues that our users have told us about when moving abroad. As always, we’re happy for any suggestion on subjects that we are still missing. If you would like to receive future press releases directly, please send us a mail so we can add you to our distribution list.