{"id":17219,"date":"2014-04-29T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T08:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hotspots.net.hr\/2014\/04\/how-to-become-an-expat-in-croatia\/"},"modified":"2014-04-29T08:00:53","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T08:00:53","slug":"how-to-become-an-expat-in-croatia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/croatia-hotspots.com\/en\/2014\/04\/how-to-become-an-expat-in-croatia\/","title":{"rendered":"How to become an expat in Croatia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hotspots.net.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Like-croatia-2a.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3437\" src=\"http:\/\/hotspots.net.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Like-croatia-2a.jpg\" alt=\"Like-croatia-2a\" width=\"600\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/croatia-hotspots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Like-croatia-2a.jpg 600w, https:\/\/croatia-hotspots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Like-croatia-2a-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Not too long ago, the term \u201cexpatriate\u201d held an air of mystique, carrying vague connotations of a glammed-up, long-gone generation that swore off life in their own countries to pursue the finer things elsewhere, joining the ranks of Hemmingway, Fitzgerald, and Man Ray. But now, as more and more people adopt location-independent lifestyles, becoming an expat \u2013 that is, one who lives outside his or her native country \u00ad\u2013 isn\u2019t quite so novel. Still, though, when most people think \u201cexpat,\u201d they likely conjure up images of themselves cycling through a chic Parisian neighborhood, bike basket brimming with wine and a still-warm baguette. Or maybe scrawling notes for a novel while people watching on a Roman piazza. But Croatia has its expat community, too, and it seems to be on the rise. Many of Croatia\u2019s international residents are associated with the <a href=\"http:\/\/aisz.hr\/\" target=\"_blank\">American International School in Zagreb<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.likecroatia.com\/news-tips\/expat-life-in-croatia\/www.amcham.hr\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Chamber of Commerce<\/a>, various international embassies, or the Universities of <a href=\"http:\/\/international.unizg.hr\/international_students\/coursesprogrammes_in_english\" target=\"_blank\">Zagreb<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unist.hr\/EnrolmentsandLectures\/StudyProgrammes\/UniversityStudyProgrammes\/tabid\/402\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Split<\/a>, both of which offer several English-language programs. It\u2019s also home to a few \u201cself-made expats,\u201d too \u2013 those who didn\u2019t move for a job or for family, but simply because they wanted to experience life in Croatia. For the long-term traveler and the expat alike, Croatia is an ideal place to settle, at least temporarily, for a number of reasons. Most people speak at least some English, and many are practically fluent. For those expats who want to try their hand at Croatian, several universities offer Croatian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.likecroatia.hr\/news-tips\/learn-croatian\/\">language courses<\/a>. And online networks aimed at the globally-minded, like <a href=\"http:\/\/couchsurfing.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">CouchSurfing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/internations.org\" target=\"_blank\">Internations<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Meetup<\/a> make social integration easy. Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.likecroatia.com\">Like! Croatia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Not too long ago, the term \u201cexpatriate\u201d held an air of mystique, carrying vague connotations of a glammed-up, long-gone generation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How to become an expat in Croatia? - Croatian Hot Spots<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u00a0Not too long ago, the term \u201cexpatriate\u201d held an air of mystique, carrying vague connotations of a glammed-up, long-gone generation that swore off life in\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/croatia-hotspots.com\/en\/2014\/04\/how-to-become-an-expat-in-croatia\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"How to become an expat in Croatia? 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