Archive for May, 2008

Jetset & the International Lifestyle – Blessing or Burden?

May 6, 2008
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My life, and career, to date have given me the opportunity to live, study and work in a number of different countries – specifically, but not necessarily in this order: France, Spain, UK, Croatia (briefly) and USA. This has meant that I have a large number of international colleagues, ex-colleagues and friends – I think when you start to see things at an international level be it at work or at school, you never really revert to a purely national view of things.

What does this mean in reality?

It’s a small world.The world really isn’t that big, when you think that they’ve built a tunnel More >

Anglo or English?

May 4, 2008
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It gets harder and harder as the years – and the moves – go by to answer that inevitable question "where are you from?". And when you have the pleasure of starting x new jobs in y new countries it tends to come up quite a bit. It's been almost 10 years that I left the UK to study in France (I went to the 'prestigious' ESC Marseille-Provence; recently rebranded to Euromed Marseille Ecole de Management – see one of my early posts here) and I've bounced around the world a little over that time – so how or what decides where we are really from?

I guess that this is almost a nature versus nurture

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From my old blog to a new one

May 4, 2008
by LexBZ in ,

After struggling for a while with various different blogs and not really knowing how to make them all work together – or for that matter to find a particular direction – I have now decided to focus purely on Anglo Abroad and to abandon the various other sites.

I have therefore imported the relevant posts from my previous blog to this one; no need to go elsewhere to read them and herewith the previous intro:

London – Paris – New York With a small sejourn in Barcelona Bred in London, I’ve been to Texas, and I’ve come from Paris, but stand back Carrie Bradshaw, Here comes Lex… Posted to the city
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Itchy Feet

May 4, 2008
by LexBZ in ,

Itchy feet is a beautiful English term – I'm not entirely sure that it has made it into American usage – but it so neatly encompasses the feeling that I tend to get every 6 to 10 months.

A while back, I wrote a post about Choosing a City which is worth me re-reading quickly before I continue.

Some options to consider:

* San Francisco* Buenos Aires

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