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The Relocation Companion: Everything Nobody Tells You About Moving to Another Country
Hardcover
Immigration & RefugeesRelationshipsSelf-Help
Publisher Price: $24.99
ISBN13: 9789083716312
Publisher: Max Hartman
Published: May 7 2026
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Nobody tells you that at month three, you'll sit in your new flat and price flights home. This book does.
Moving to another country comes with a wall of logistics, emotions, and unknowns that no blog post or expat forum can untangle. This book walks you through the entire arc - phase by phase, month by month. What you'll need to do AND what you'll be feeling, from the moment you think am I really doing this? to the morning you make coffee and realise this place feels like home.
What makes this different:
- Phase-based. Read the chapter that matches where you are right now. Decision stage? Start at Chapter 1. Already moved and wondering if you made a mistake? Go straight to Chapter 15.
- Practical systems you'll actually use. The Friendship Funnel: how to go from zero friends to a real social life abroad. Pre-departure checklists.
- The emotional truth nobody writes about. The loneliness of month two is predictable. You are not losing your mind - you are going through a process.
- Both partners, not just the one with the job. The Driver/Tag-Along dynamic is woven through the entire book - because the partner without the built-in workplace has the harder adjustment, and most guides pretend they don't exist.
This book is for you if:
- You're planning a move abroad and want a system
- You already moved and need to know that what you're feeling is normal
- You're the partner who followed someone else's career to another country
- You're retiring abroad and want honest preparation
Written by an expat couple - an IT professional who relocated and his wife who teaches English to adult immigrants - who learned everything the hard way so you don't have to.
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