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What are the procedures for packing up your family and household goods for a move to Europe? Experience from four moves to Holland, France, Germany, and Switzerland is laid out in this essay.
During or after your move-in you have many things to do, from the mundane to the official. Then you cope with an entirely different way of life, from shopping to driving to banking and just about everything else in your routine. This essay will help you adapt your daily drill to your new surroundings.
If you are moving to Europe it is likely that you will be working to support yourself. As a chemical engineer I have held full time jobs in The Netherlands and in Germany. Here is an introduction to survival in a foreign office.
We live in an age of lightning fast changes in the technology we use for communications and entertainment. One reader who prefers to remain anonymous as "Dave in Ireland" sent in this detailed description of the latest in gizmo-land.
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