Expat Life

Surviving 31 Hours of Standby Hell -or- Brazilians Make Everything Better

4:15pm– Arrive at São Paulo’s international airport for your 11:55pm flight to Miami. The standby list opens four hours before departure time and you get there seven hours early so you can be #1, having learned the hard way. It’s a Thursday and you’ve left work early, hoping to beat the weekend rush. And you

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Having Help

I have help; I’ve had it since moving to South America six years ago. There’s a saying round these parts: “You either have a maid or you are a maid.” In my case, it’d be a doorman or handyman or whatnot. Either way, with the daily rate for a housekeeper being an exploitative R$60 (US$37),

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Thoughts of an American Expatriate After a Spur-of-the-Moment Weekend Trip Home

•    Everything is so clean. •    Everything is so cheap. •    There are indeed a few loud, obnoxious American douchebags. Conversely, most Americans are friendly, polite, and helpful. •    Products come in too much unnecessary packaging. •    The weather couldn’t be any more pleasant than in Northeast Florida in spring. •    At 72, my mother

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Ernest White II