Expat Life Quotes

I do think of myself very strongly as a New Zealander, but when I moved out to the States, I was aware that I didn't want to just live in a satellite community of only other New Zealanders.

I have a lot of fond memories of my life in England.

I see myself raising my children in Europe, probably in Paris.

I've been traveling around the world forever.

I love Paris, just to stay there and visit. Maybe I'll live there one day.

I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I've never even been to US.

I'm a third-generation Miamian. I'm fond of it. I'm an expatriate, so it's the only American city I can still legitimately claim.

I had the interesting experience of having lived and worked for six years in China with Procter & Gamble, and that just changes, I think, your whole perspective in living overseas and living in a country like China.

If you go to America or London, you will see Indians shining.

If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.

I have an English family and I've lived in England for years.

There was a time when I wanted to get out of the Western world. I went down to Grenada and looked at a place, and I realised that if I lived in a Grenadian manner I'd be nothing but a blah. I'm going to need constant bodyguarding, guns and money to join the community there. Otherwise you just got a bunch of fat, old white people dying together, overeating, drinking. Not very attractive.

I was born and raised in Nigeria. We lived in England when I was 3 and 4, and I would go to summer school every year in Switzerland.

I've been in Hamburg for about ten years and I just feel at home.

We were Londoners for about seven years during the decade they called the naughties. My first son, Finn, was born over there. He's actually very proud of that fact.

I love living in London but I would like to buy a place in Dubai and spend a few months of the year out there.

I'm married to an American. I work for a company that is, you know, its headquarters in the U.S.

I lived in Cyprus for six years where I learnt all about flatbreads.

As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners.

I think the Aussieness got beaten out of me back in the States.

For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.

I love London. I would move here. I like British people; everybody is so down to earth.

I was happy in Dublin because it is very cosmopolitan.

The point of Berlin was that it seemed that only people like you ran the city. You never ran into people who weren't like you - especially when you lived as that kind of American in Berlin connected to the arts.

When I was in Taiwan, we were there for about 8 months, and I was 11 at the time, so it was definitely a culture shock. But it was a really interesting time to be there. I didn't entirely realize how different it is from the States. I just accepted it because I was there and my parents needed to be there.