KNOW YOUR WORLD, INC.
NEW BEDFORD, MA

Know Your World supports people who dare to live and work in another country. Our products and webinars provide information on how to transition your life professionally, financially, legally and culturally to your new home abroad. The Know Your World Personal Advisory Service (PAS) is a mentoring service run by our expatriate advisors who work with you directly to help you find the right professional opportunity abroad. Our effective and proven international job search methods help you find the right role that fits your unique skill set, lifestyle and income requirements. We aim to provide guidance, information, and services that help you save time, take action and realize your dream of living overseas. The Know Your World community is made up of existing and aspiring expatriate professionals with whom you can share your experiences, concerns, and adventures. Of course, we provide fun stuff too: travel stories, diaries, how to’s and inspirational anecdotes from people that have made similar life transitions abroad. Tracey managed to successfully set up her life and work abroad. However, with each successive work opportunity in a new country, she became increasingly frustrated over the lack of readily available, easily understandable information to prepare for the move. This challenge inspired her concept for Know Your World. Our Mission To achieve its vision, Know Your World maintains a culture that’s built upon several core values: We provide fact-based, unbiased information on locations around the world. Know Your World Know Your World supports people who aspire to live and work in another country. Know Your World provides information on how to set yourself up legally, financially and culturally in another country – so you can build YOUR new dream life overseas! We are a professional review site that receives compensation from the companies whose products we review. We test each product thoroughly and give high marks to only the very best. We are independently owned and the opinions expressed here are our own. Tracey managed to successfully set up her life and work abroad. However, with each successive work opportunity in a new country, she became increasingly frustrated over the lack of readily available, easily understandable information to prepare for the move. This challenge inspired her concept for Know Your World. Our Mission To achieve its vision, Know Your World maintains a culture that’s built upon several core values: We provide fact-based, unbiased information on locations around the world. Know Your World Know Your World supports people who aspire to live and work in another country. Know Your World provides information on how to set yourself up legally, financially and culturally in another country – so you can build YOUR new dream life overseas! We are a professional review site that receives compensation from the companies whose products we review. We test each product thoroughly and give high marks to only the very best. We are independently owned and the opinions expressed here are our own. When we moved to Chantilly it was based on a common decision taken by my husband and myself. One taken for his job but together. I’ll be honest, although I have always wanted to live abroad, France never made it to the list of places we would fancy. Too close to home, too similar and yes, way too many Frenchies! Our first year in France was difficult, whether for the kids or for us. I remember being quite lonely and ready to move somewhere else as soon as the topic would come up (it obviously didn’t happen as we are still in France!). My luck came at the beginning of the second year of our stay. I met with the expat community in my little town. Funnily enough, it is quite large. Anyways, I made friends and discovered the amazing support network the expat community forms. We are all in the same situation: no family or friends back home to rely on in case of emergency (be it for the need to spill out your guts, laugh, have a good rant or give a hand on an unforeseen occasion). I felt incredible and like myself again. But how? How and why I had missed on that for a year that seemed to have last forever? Was I trying too hard to fit in and be a local? All I know is that it was like a new world was opening up in front of me, for me. I made some really good friends, created a deep bond with them. But that’s also when I started feeling like a fraud. Leaving everything behind takes a lot of courage and I no longer look at expats the way I used to. It might be financially comfortable for some (it is far from being the case for everyone, this is a well-spread misconception of expatriation) but emotionally it is not a peaceful joy ride. It requires you to be strong and to adapt. Look for opportunities. Don’t compare with what you had back home: it’s worthless and consumes energy that would be better spent on making friends and creating a new social network. Know Your World supports people who dare to live and work in another country. Our products and webinars provide information on how to transition your life professionally, financially, legally and culturally to your new home abroad. The Know Your World Personal Advisory Service (PAS) is a mentoring service run by our expatriate advisors who work with you directly to help you find the right professional opportunity abroad. Our effective and proven international job search methods help you find the right role that fits your unique skill set, lifestyle and income requirements. We aim to provide guidance, information, and services that help you save time, take action and realize your dream of living overseas. The Know Your World community is made up of existing and aspiring expatriate professionals with whom you can share your experiences, concerns, and adventures. Of course, we provide fun stuff too: travel stories, diaries, how to’s and inspirational anecdotes from people that have made similar life transitions abroad. Know Your World Know Your World supports people who aspire to live and work in another country.