Expat Life
I moved to Germany in August 2001. We initially thought it would be a 2-3 year thing. We’d live here for a while, get great work experience when the economy in the US was starting to get shaky and return home to take on bigger and better things. Two years quickly has turned into 9 and we still don’t know when we’ll be heading back to the States. But I can say that a piece of us will always be in America.
My husband is German and was born just a few miles from where we live now (he and our daughter were born in the same hospital, actually). But he also lived in Japan for a while and spent the majority of his youth in New York. We met in college at the University of Miami and fell in love. When he was offered a job here it was a no-brainer for me. I knew that if I didn’t go with him, I would probably never see him again. So despite it being one of the hardest decisions of my life, we made the move across the ocean.
Life in Germany is not quite like the US. Certain areas are nicer and the people are friendlier. Unfortunately, Frankfurt isn’t one of those areas. And the weather is just horrible during the winter. But it still has some good qualities as well and living in Europe has been a wonderful experience.
Now we’re in the process of raising our daughter to be bilingual (maybe even trilingual if we can get some friends to help with teaching her French) and hope that she will also get a chance to live abroad at some point. Since she has dual citizenship, it’s a whole lot easier for her to move around than for others.
Have questions about life in Germany or expat life? Leave me a comment or email me at tiffany AT noordinaryhomestead DOT com
More expats in Germany who blog
- 50% of my DNA
- AmiExpat
- Baroque Babies
- Cheeseburgers and Sauerkraut
- Click Clack Gorilla
- Expats Again
- Fairytale Hausfrau
- From the Big Apple to Big Bear
- Germany Doesn’t Suck
- Heidelbergerin
- HeisseScheisse
- Jentry in Germany
- Lady Expat
- Letters Home
- Lucid in Deutschland
- Making This Home
- Mom in High Heels
- Neither Here Nor There
- Papa Scott
- Planet Germany
- Regens Blog
- Resident on Earth
- Snooker in Berlin
- Solo & Co.
- This non-American Life
Websites with local information for expats
- Expat Women
- InterNations
- The Local — German news in English
- ToyTown Germany
So glad you registered on expat blog – really interesting blog. Life sounds grand. We have managed to raise 2 bi-lingual daughters… not easy, but I love that they can switch so easily.
Cheers
L
I’ve always wanted to live abroad but our current situation bars us from doing that (my stepson is here). But some day we’d love to live in Europe for a bit.