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From: Malaysia

6/14/2006 17:04 EST

Hello

I too am about to make the move to Malaysia with a young family. We are currently planning what to take and what to leave, what to buy when we get there etc. I'd appreciate some tips on the following!

What do you miss in Malaysia, so what to make sure to bring - eg. marmite (I am English!), food/products/possessions...

ALso what not to take - I've read in this forum about wooden furniture - is it really not a good idea to take any wooden furniture from N Europe to Malaysia, or is it only a problem when bringing it back?

Can you recommend shipping methods/specific companies for shipping out our possessions? (we are paying, not the business!)

Is there a good second-hand market for expats leaving and selling off their furniture etc? How can we tap into this?

Thanks for your help!

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From: Malaysia

6/24/2006 01:26 EST

I've found that while food is inexpensive, I've now brought in with me;

- ground coffee. Call me a cheapskate, but good quality ground coffee is expensive here compared to France, and I stocked up on 250g vacuum bricks for the office and home.

- tea cake. I've not yet found a good cake source in KL, and on last trip from France packed in about 3 half kilo breakfast cakes - not too sweet and made from real butter, not veg oil - yummy!

As for secondhand funiture here, so far I've found things in the listings on the www.expatkl.com website from Malaysians and expats to be good. Australian Manza website yet to put classifieds on and I can't access British Assoc member section, but they probably have. To be honest, the whole second hand thing here should be bigger when you consider the number of people going in and out. Expats don't seem to use ebay here.

Good luck!

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Shama

From: Malaysia

6/25/2006 10:26 EST

Hi,

Just read your post. I live in Penang, Malaysia and work in an American organization here. We have many expats, especially Americans and Canadians working here.

Malaysia is a very modern country and you can get practically anything here. The supermarkets are well stocked and there are many wonderful restaurants of cuisines from all over the world - German, Japanese, Middle Eastern, American, Mexican, Italian and more.

Bringing wooden furniture to Malaysia is like taking coal to Newcastle. We have lovely Balinese and Indonesian teakwood furniture here and they are all reasonably priced. Many European and American expats take back our lovely furniture which they say they could sell back home for a nice tidy profit.

Make sure that the appliances that you bring are 220voltage, if nt you need to use a transformer.

Again it depends where you are residing in. The two main cities where a lot of expats are living in are in Kuala Lumpur and Penang.

Hope this helps you.

Shama

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