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Adjusting to Expat Life in Algeria

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adminee

From: United States

5/11/2009 11:49 EST

Hello ExpatExchange.com Members!

One area of interest for many expatriates is the need for assistance in
settling in and the management of culture shock. In order to identify
the information most needed by expats as they adapt to international
living, we'd like to know the biggest hurdles you faced in the process
of moving overseas.

Please help us in this project by answering these few questions:

When you moved to Algeria, what was the most difficult part of settling
in there?

How much difficulty did you have with culture shock in Algeria?

What would be the best, single piece of advice you'd give to an expat
(or soon to be expat) in Algeria?

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mahdiyyah

From: United Kingdom

6/26/2009 16:57 EST

I have thought long and hard about this but cannot pinpoint anything specific. I think the hardest thing for me was an initial reduction in my independence although I have now rectified this! I would say that you need to be quite open-minded if you are going to live with an Algerian family as a majority of the culture shocks are experienced within the home environment and learnt about from talking to Algerians. Maybe on reflection it was the amount of corruption which I found the hardest to deal with (and still do to some extent). My one piece of advice is to learn French or Arabic as it is almost impossible to get by without one or the other!

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