Gen Expat

Shopping in Bucharest will charm you with its variety, local style and familiar international brands. Finding your way to the appropriate and most convenient store is part of feeling at home in the city you live in. This short video is intended to meet you in advance with some of the challenges expats face in [...]

Leaving colleagues and friends behind is an unavoidable part of taking an international assignment. Finding support and familiar attitudes to the new environment can greatly help the expats at the beginning of their stay in a new country. Luckily, Bucharest has a lively expat community and a number of multi-lingual, cultural and business events going [...]

In Dubai, you will find all expats drive. The heat in Dubai can be detrimental to your car, so it is often beneficial to park in a garage when possible. Driving in Dubai can at times be challenging as many drivers are known to speed, which can make others on the road nervous. If one [...]

Welcome to Serbia, a nation quickly recovering from it’s dark past and emerging as the new trendy yet ‘undiscovered’ Eastern European destination. At its heart is Belgrade, an urban and thriving city full of cultural gems reminiscent of both Turkish and Austrian influences combined with a Communism. Spreading over the banks of the Sava and [...]

From large shopping centers to quaint local stalls, Belgrade has a wide range of shopping options. Expats rarely find the need to import food or other products as practically everything can be found locally. The main shopping area is in and around the pedestrian-street Kneza Mihaila and is home to many Western European high street [...]