Photo: istockphoto.com My own career took me from London to New York on my first expat assignment in 1989. Fast forward nine years and my soon-to-be husband and I managed (after a 15 month separation and a with the help of a sympathetic boss) to move to Hong Kong and keep both of our careers [...]
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On her Facebook page, my friend Madeleine refers to herself as “Living in Shanghai, China, as trailer trash for my beloved [husband]“. In doing so she is not-so-gently mocking the outdated term ”trailing spouse”. Though the term is slowly being abandoned, it remains in common use in HR departments and among relocation service providers [...]
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