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Munich Expat Forum

February 23rd, 2009

A lot of expats (expatriates are people who live in a foreign country) moving into a new country are often faced with difficulties most of us rarely encounter.  Things such as getting legal advice, finding accommodation, updating a CV, etc, all take on a new dimension of difficulty when doing so in an unfamiliar language and city.

This is one way in which the Internet has been such a great help to expats, via the expat forum.  In Munich, the population is expanding at a fast rate which includes over 50% of the new residents being of foreign descent.  There is a huge market for those who don’t speak the language well enough to settle in easily.  This is where ‘Talk Munich’ comes in.  Talk Munich is an English-language expat forum that helps people in Munich and the surrounding Bavarian region to settle into life there.  It can be a great resource for finding out all the little things which can be so troublesome if you don’t speak the language.

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Talk Munich

January 27th, 2009

The English-language expat forum for Munich, TalkMunich.com, is live and ramping-up.  It will take some time for the Munich expat crowd to learn of its existence and to start using it.  Once they do so however, it is my guess that many will find it a very useful resource and a friendly community.  The trick is to make it an actual community and not just an online forum.  Therefore real meetups and other events will need to take place to cement the relationships formed on TalkMunich.  Hopefully the forum will grow quickly and work as a very real and practical support network/resource for all those English speaking expats based in Munich, Bavaria (or Muenchen, Bayern to give it its German name).

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