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Overseas Exile
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Overseas Exile is a personal blog at overseas-exile.com about culture and career. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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2012–2015first – last linked?
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog on expat life abroad, including the US tax burden on citizens living overseas, moving to Europe, and the French Foreign Legion. Commenters point to it as a resource for these topics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Explore Overseas Exile for stories, guides and insights about living abroad, expat life, international travel.
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- /3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-12-23
What Hacker News says?
Amsterdam, Netherlands. Work permit and relocation assistance provided. Looking for UX designers, front-end and back-end developers. UX designer: use Photoshop, Gimp, or whatever makes your socks roll up and down and you know how to make Web and/or mobile applications work for customers. Knowledge of HTML, JavaScript and CSS also needed. Front-end developer: you can make Web sites do exactly what you want them to do…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2013)”Submitted A Beginner's Guide to Moving Abroad as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYup, we're a recruitment company (amongst other things). However, we're very specialized. We focus on international IT recruiting where companies are willing to sponsor you for a work permit (or the local equivalent). This is because my wife and I are both serial expats and we believe that people should be able to live anywhere in the world they want (we're not saying it's practical, but it's still our dream). Thus,…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2013)”Amsterdam, Netherlands. No remote. I have a blog where I try to help people move to other countries and one company contacted me about helping them find people willing to move to Amsterdam (I used to live there and it's a gorgeous city!). So now I'm letting people know that there are front end, UX designer and back-end jobs available there. If they like you, they'll sponsor the work permit and help you relocate. Fro…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2013)”brian (if this is indeed the same brian d foy, I don't know since he always uses 'd' with his name, per his style guide: http://www252.pair.com/comdog/style.html ), I'm rather surprised to see you writing this. First, it should be clear that for obvious reasons, I can't identify the company in question. My wife and I are starting a company trying to help people live their dream of living in other countries and that'…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2013)”Evidently the Legion now asks for ID and runs recruits through Interpol prior to letting them join[0]. [0]: Things Google tells me when I should be working[1] [1]: http://www.overseas-exile.com/p/french-foreign-legion-myths....
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on “Vanishing Point: How to disappear in America without a trace (2012)”Source: a long time ago I read several books on this topic because I collected odd books and I found three of them in an estate sale. The instructions below are how this was done in the early 90's and earlier, but today, with increased security and faster records access, the information is probably well out of date. Traditionally, the best way to do this has always been to establish a solid "breeder document". This…
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on “Ask HN: How does one create a fake identity?”It is a big one. Many expats had to resign their US citizenship to avoid this silly law. Double taxation only exists in Aethopia and the US. Read this blog: http://www.overseas-exile.com/ Protection? Yes, maybe that's the reason. To support the US military efforts and budget. On a side-note: If I would applied to the US greencard, and then decided to move back to Germany, I would have to pay double income taxes. To…
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on “The Law That Makes U.S. Expats Toxic”I'm an American who's lived in five countries and currently lives in Paris, France with my French wife and our French-American daughter (and if you're curious, I have a blog about how you can move abroad, too: http://www.overseas-exile.com/p/start-here.html ). I note that the author says their aren't enough jobs in the US or Europe and I've got an issue with that. Yes, Europe is also struggling with the world econom…
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on “Why Young Americans Should Work Overseas”The labor shortages are on both sides. However, the visa system in the US is horribly broken ( http://www.overseas-exile.com/2013/04/whos-hiring-h1b-visa-w... ). Further, with the introduction of the European Blue Card ( http://www.overseas-exile.com/2011/02/european-blue-card.htm... ), entry to Europe is getting easier and easier for skilled workers. Both sides have a labor shortage, but the US has traditionally ha…
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on “European startups battle labor laws for best talent”The article was good, but there are a few issues. My background: I went to uni to be an economist, but I'm now a freelance software consultant/trainer. Also, for years I've written a blog about how to be an expat and on top of that, my wife and I run a company and she handles international IT recruiting. In short: I know a ridiculously large amount about this topic (except for the black-market work). > Schools and u…
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on “European startups battle labor laws for best talent”You can check out: http://www.overseas-exile.com/ by "ovid" of Perl fame. He used to (or still does?) work for Booking.com, which is based in Amsterdam[1]. He was pimping it pretty hard during the Perl Lightning Talks at OSCON2011. I got the impression that they were willing to sponsor people internationally (but possibly within reason). [1]: http://www.booking.com/jobs.html?st=top (FYI: HN wraps blocks of text sepa…
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on “Ask HN: Considering relocation to Europe, options for recruiters/job hunting?”You're welcome. Most Americans back home (we expats often call them "homelanders") have never heard of FATCA. It was a law recently passed which stated that every foreign financial institution (FFI) had to turn over information to the IRS about American customers. Never mind that this was often in violation of their country's privacy laws and expensive as hell to implement. It also had a wide variety of other conseq…
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on “Ask HN: people outside the USA, will NSA issues help your economies?”Right now, non-US based cloud services are using the PATRIOT Act as a way of selling themselves ( http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/12/patriot-act-and-p... ). As an example from that article: BAE Systems had ditched Microsoft Office 365 over PATRIOT Act concerns, because Microsoft could not guarantee the company's data wouldn't leave Europe. Also, you may not have heard of FATCA, but it's hurting business for…
Comment linking /2012/07/ing-france-turning-away-us-customers.html
on “Ask HN: people outside the USA, will NSA issues help your economies?”