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Expat Forums is an non-profit website developed through the hard work of several individuals who, in true cooperation, came together to build a genuine community online. Our intention was to create a place where expats and expat wannabees could come together to share ideas and information, help one another to succeed, and build friendships along the way. Although we are focused on the expatriate community, we are open to everyone. Anyone with an interest in living and working abroad, or simply a lust for travel and new places, will find a home here. We have a number of members who are currently living the dream, as well as many who are not currently working abroad, but intend to someday. There are also others who have since returned home, as well as travellers who are on the road and find this site useful for information on places to visit. Many of us travelled for a while before settling down as expatriates, and some still travel for business. Travel is a recurrent theme around here.

Where We've Been - A Little History

We started off as a group of bulletin board refugees who walked away from a commercial site that clearly did not care about its customers. We endured years of technical problems, annoying popups and animated ads, and poor customer support, and the final straw was an unannounced software "upgrade" which removed many popular features, as well as deleting over 200,000 posts. We decided to take matters into our own hands. A small group of us built this site as a form of protest, in order to lobby to get our old board back, or at least a more functional version of the new board. Although we were unsuccessful in swaying the marketing behemoth, we soon realized that we had built something entirely better. We polled our users for a new name, and one was chosen from among 15 nominations. ExpatForums.org was born! Our community still makes many key decisions via polling and user suggestions, allowing membership input into the growth and direction of the website.

Come Right In, Make Yourself at Home

So if you are lurking in the background, please sign up and come on in. You will need to register with a valid email address, because you will receive a confirmation link for validation. Your information will always remain private, unless you choose to disclose it. If you are new around here, head for the introduction thread and tell us who you are. Thanks to all those that helped make this site the place it is including dreamportal, gadreel, muppetmaster, bobgiblet, and rorschach in particular. And thanks to the many who continue to donate to help keep the site running.

Cheers and welcome,

The ExpatForums Community

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