Two Fat Expats Kirsty Rice and Nikki Moffitt

Starting a chat with someone new can be a little scarier when you’ve lost that expat hook. You know the chat – so how long have you lived here? Where are you from? Where did you live before you moved here? Nikki talks about her new intro chats as a repat and how she’s coping with conversations that seem to go nowhere.







When were you your most confident as an expat? Was it pre/post expat? Nikki and Kirsty discuss when they were at their most confident and why.







Our favourite things







Kirsty:







Life After Life







The Bear







The Big Swing – Season Two







Angela Hicks on Instagram







Nikki:







The Three Body Problem (Netflix)







Lie to Me







Nikki has given birth to a poet







See you in the first week of August.

This week we discuss Expats the television series based in Hong Kong. The series is adapted from the novel The Expatriates written by Janice Y.K. Lee.







Nikki is 6 months in with her repatriation and has a very honest chat about being friendless and miserable.







Our favourite things:







Tiny Beautiful Things







American Fiction







Past Lives







Taylor Swift The Eras Tour







One Day







Expats

What is a good salary in Doha? London? Jakarta? We’ve all seen the questions based on how much money you need to make to survive, today we have a new question. What’s been the biggest cost you didn’t foresee when you moved? What did you forget to factor in?







We also talk about the grieving expat. Going through grief when no-one understands the enormity of your loss. How do we cope with losing expat friends when we’ve moved on to a new location?







Favourite things:







Kirsty:







We talk Robbie Williams, Last Stop Larrimah, and Glen Maxwell’s iconic cricket innings.







Nikki:







Bosch Legacy – Season 2, Hard Fork (podcast), and a little story about lost in translation







What are you watching and listening to? How’s life where you are this week? Link in the comments.

The Trailing Spouse is dead – this week on the podcast we talk about why the “Accompanying Spouse” has arrived. I mean the Accompanying Spouse was always a better term wasn’t it? We all walk side by side don’t we? Sidenote – the term Trailing Spouse will no longer be used in the Two Fat Expats Facebook Group with Accompanying Spouse being the preferred term.







We’re also talking Posh and Becks and how no matter how much money you have or how many football teams you own you’re still going to lay awake at night thinking of schools, finding a hairdresser, finding new friends and feeling like a fish out of water.







We also discuss dealing with strong opinions on your host country from people who’ve never lived there. Has social media made it worse? 







Kirsty’s three favourite things:







Somewhere in Queens (Movie)







Blackberry (Movie – Amazon Prime)







The Morning Wars/The Morning Show – Season 3















Nikki’s three favourite things:







Nikki also loved Beckham







Silo  (television – apple tv)







Getting a giggle from the silent walking trend aka walking

This week on the podcast we answer a question from the Fatterati’s “Should I go home?” We also discuss the complications of re-acquainting yourself with old friends after repatriation.







Kirsty’s three favourite things:







Exposed (podcast)







Deadloch (television)







Travis and Taylor and everything EVERYTHING about them







Ange Postecoglou and The Tottenham Spurs







Nikki’s three favourite things:







Sex Education Season Four (television)







The Newsreader Season Two (television)







Wilderness (television)







What are you watching and listening to? Are Travis and Taylor the content you didn’t know you needed? What do you think of the social media trend “Taylor put Travis on the map”. How’s life where you are? Link in the comments.

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Nikki has repatriated and she’s yet to make a new friend BUT it’s not all bad because she’s living in paradise AND she’s discovered her new favourite drink (a gin mule).







This week on the podcast we’re talking repatriation, the good, the bad and the ugly cry.







Kirsty’s three favourite things:







The Girlfriends (Podcast)







What’s love got to do with it (film)







Matidlas (Disney + Doco)







And I know I said three favourite things but I had to mention Wham! (Doco) 







Nikki’s favourite three things:







Scamanda (Podcast)







You (television)







The Summer I turned Pretty (television)