Comments on: Tips on How to Drop Everything and Move Abroad

By: Manda

Manda — Sun, 25 May 2008 12:03:30 +0000

You are lucky not to get the photo thing where you live(d)! People regularly ask to take photos with me – about two or three times a month, on average. I have honestly had people ask me to hold their babies for a photo. A man I rode a chairlift with at a skifield took out his keitai without a word and started snapping away, taking about seven shots of my slightly shocked face before I asked him to knock it off a bit.

Admittedly (just maaaybe, eh) rural southern Kyushu is a bit different to Kansai. But still! It happens, dude!

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 08:00:25 +0000

Great blog Harvey! Thanks for helping me to start my list. I’ll be moving back to Japan in a couple of months and wanted to suggest some more items for your list:
Have a complete physical before you head out, check out international medical insurance,
Figure out what to do with your mail,
Make sure your credit card doesn’t charge crazy fees for international transactions
And if you have a car that you will be keeping look into changing your insurance coverage to save big bucks!

By: kole

kole — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:52:49 +0000

Thanks for answering my question in a post. I think it will be helpful to others trying to make the same transition. This will be my first time living outside of New York, except for that time back in ‘04 when I moved to Stamford, CT for a year. I’ve been to Taiwan a couple of times, every year since 2002. But still the thought of going to another country with no plan to return is huge. You can read about it in my newly minted blog after chinese new year. I’ll send you a link then.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:20:51 +0000

Bang up post Harvey. Great info!

By: Contamination

Contamination — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:51:44 +0000

Good advice. Very similar to what I did when I came to japan.

Well, this is my first visit here and I’m so impressed that you’ve been bookmarked.

Keep it up and I’ll link to you from my blog. ;-)