Joining Community Organizations Joining Community Organizations Challenges of relocating Relocating overseas can be a very unsettling experience. Your family faces the big tasks of finding a new home, getting it furnished, getting the kids settled in school and adjusting to a new job. But to make it even more difficult, you are trying to accomplish all of these tasks without the usual support of family and close friends. While you may have been through a relocation in the past within your own country, you find the many simple tasks of relocation very different in an overseas posting. Each step in the process may become a bewildering mystery to unravel as you try to understand new ways of accomplishing things. . .
Expats come in all varieties diplomats, business people, students, aid workers and teachers.
The commonality of our experience as expats is that we've left our home country and come to a new country. Besides that, our needs, likes, wants and problems differ widely. One of the most essential needs of an expatriate is to quickly establish new support groups to replace those that they left behind at home or in the last overseas posting. The children will make friends at school and the working spouse will make friends at work. Every member of the family can benefit greatly by quickly joining community organizations.