One thing that an expat experiences when transferring to a new place is the lack of people to keep you company. Of course there's probably your family and some friends, but aside from them, there's nobody else you know. What you need is a community in which you will belong.
For starters, go online. There are a lot of expat communities that thrive in the World Wide Web. This BANewcomers Yahoo group is one. I hope this'll help.
Thinking about making a comment on this blog post? Great! But please remember that this space is for just that, comments about this blog post. It is not a place to post random thoughts about other stuff. We found that most of the "comments" posted here are not comments at all and should have really been posted in our forum. So:
