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		<title>Home is a Foreign Country</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Virginia Proud</dc:creator>
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		<title>Short Autobiography of a Writer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Virginia Proud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something about this bleak winter morning makes me reflect.  From my window, I watch the snow fall, softening the stark, leaf abandoned branches. The road is a patchwork; memories of cars departed hours earlier as I lay in bed, curled tight under the down, cringing at the harsh scraping as my neighbours carved ice from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talesfromexpatria.com&#038;blog=29316156&#038;post=1061&#038;subd=talesfromexpatria&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Individual Kulture Extermination Authority</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2012 11:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Virginia Proud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a person in possession of a property will eventually visit IKEA. Whether you’re trying to furnish a whole house or just organize your sock drawer, eventually you will, out of sheer curiosity, ‘just pop in’. And once inside that big blue and yellow magical kingdom, hope fills your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talesfromexpatria.com&#038;blog=29316156&#038;post=1020&#038;subd=talesfromexpatria&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Considering Expatria? Five Questions!</title>
		<link>http://talesfromexpatria.com/2012/11/24/considering-expatria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2012 17:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Virginia Proud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, a fellow Australian contacted me with a question; he’s thinking about retiring and fancies moving a bit closer to the rest of the world. How should he choose where to live? I pondered. Budapest, Paris and Istanbul are the only places I really chose, without any particular push from study, work [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talesfromexpatria.com&#038;blog=29316156&#038;post=972&#038;subd=talesfromexpatria&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: A New York Comedy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Virginia Proud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finding a local hairdresser can induce anxiety in even the most hardened expat. All you can do is cross your fingers, because there are no guarantees &#8211; not sharing a common language, not being in a big city and certainly not the fanciness of the salon. In fact, those very ‘reassurances’ can be misleading. Of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talesfromexpatria.com&#038;blog=29316156&#038;post=929&#038;subd=talesfromexpatria&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Expatria Changed My Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 17:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Virginia Proud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Essential to happiness in Expatria, is your willingness to adapt. I was never one of those expats who railed against the cultural norms of wherever they found themselves, associating only with their similarly disenfranchised compatriots while they waited out their corporate contracts. But even though I was pretty good at the whole travel the world [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talesfromexpatria.com&#038;blog=29316156&#038;post=893&#038;subd=talesfromexpatria&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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