50 episodes
Two Fat Expats Kirsty Rice and Nikki Moffitt
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- Society & Culture
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4.8 • 112 Ratings
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Kirsty Rice and Nikki Moffit have over twenty years of expat life experience having lived in ten countries (and given birth in six of those). Libya, Jakarta, Hong Kong, the US, Kuala Lumpur...the list goes on. They answer the curly questions on expat life and throw in the ocassional expat interview to get an insight into expat life.
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Expats – The Series
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 -
How much money will I need?
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
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The Trailing Spouse is Dead
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 -
Should I go home?
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. -
Repatriation – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Cry
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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) -
When do you spill the beans that you’re moving? Long term postings or always on the move which one are you?
This was Nikki’s very last podcast before she repatriated.
Customer Reviews
Fantastic
I have loved this podcast for many years - Dr Phil drove me to add a review! This is a fantastic podcast that we love to listen to. It has been such a tough 18 months away from family and ‘home’ - your podcast has helped us realize we are not alone ! Thanks for your honesty and transparency! Love this podcast.
First review of a Podcast EVER
Thank you! Thank you for carrying on all year through what was probably the hardest year for expats ever. I haven’t seen my family or home country friends in over a year now and it’s just so comforting to know that I am not alone in the struggle. Your conversations are lively and relatable and real. Thank you! Keep them coming for 2021!
Fascinating glimpse into a totalitarian takeover
These two haven’t a clue that their government is using a virus to control its people. Canada and Australia are in lockstep. England is suppose to be as well but when 1 million take to the streets it tends to work. Good luck you two, you are becoming a communist country, it happens....
P.S. the only reason middle easterners say yes is not because they are conformists it is because they will get killed. Americans say no because the USA has a Bill of Rights and oh, no cop can make me wear a mask, they don’t even wear them. 😉 good luck. Tell your kid to become a paramedic in the states.