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WHAT'S UNIQUE ABOUT IT? Our expat forums are exclusively for expats moving to South America. Unlike other worldwide forums, your message won't get lost among 197 other country forums! We Twitter your message and run it through Our Blog to ensure maximum coverage and quick responses. Other expats RSS our Blog and they'll get instant updates when your message posts online. Our Webmaster participates and responds actively. We do everything we can to find the information you need and get your questions answered! We even offer Your Own Private Forum! Now that's unique!

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Follow our Tweets: Our Twitter account is also set up to receive all new posts that run through our blog automatically. If you use Twitter, click here to follow us so you don't miss anything!

Free Newsletter: The South America Expat E-zine is a once-monthly free newsletter we send you by email to update you on new site features and pages, expat news, upcoming events, and much more. But you must subscribe cuz we hate spam!

Relocation: This is the largest and most rapidly growing section on our site. You'll find all the resources you need to prepare and plan for your move to South America here. Don't leave without visiting this travel planner.

Reading Rooms: These are collections of articles by expats and expat experts on topics such as relocation, finances, jobs and careers, health, insurance, retirement, adoption, real estate and much more. Each country also has its own individual reading room.

News Rooms: Our expat news rooms feature Google news shows that update continually throughout the day. Our news home page features expat news making headlines today. Clicking on a country name will take you to the daily news in each country.

Video Rooms: Like our news rooms, our video viewing rooms are fed and updated by Google and feature YouTube videos. To learn about a country, click on the videos. To share about a country, upload your own videos right from this page!

Expat Book Shop: Our bookstore features the latest books, travel guides, maps and more from Amazon, Better World Books, Ebooks.com and others. Know of a great book for expats we haven't added? Contact us.

Tourism: If you're still exploring the possibility of moving to South America, one option is to take a tour of the country you're interested in. Choose from hundreds of tours here. Search by country or by type of tour!

Expat Chat Room: Here you can interact with other expats in real time. Ask questions or help someone else find the information they're looking for. Guess you could say it's sort of a 'live' expat forum.

Expat Experts: We're building a team of expat experts just for you. They generously share and contribute to this site and we continually invite additional expats in specific areas of interest to expatriates to join this team. Each expert has their own exclusive Reading Room too.

Expat Top Ten Lists: We set these up to make sharing information amusing and fun but also informative. Take a look at our Top Tens and add an anecdote or something useful of your own. Each of us is an expert in something! Give back to the expat forum.

Our Community: We ask you to take a few moments to introduce yourself to our South America expat community by typing in a few words about yourself and/or your family and where you live in South America. The more proactive you are on the site, the better your chances of receiving a response to your query.

Guestbook: Before you go, leave us a short message to let us know what you think of the site. We improve based on your suggestions and will know what our guests are looking for only if you tell us!

Link Exchange: Add or suggest a link to your own site or blog or an expat website you think will be useful to other expatriates. In this section, you can also choose text or banner links to post on your page and link back to us so we can keep in touch with each other!

Site Map Site Search: You can search this site for pages relating to a specific keyword or topic, or take a look at our site map which will direct you to the proper sections where you'll be sure to find the information you're searching for.

Get Answers ASAP: Do you need answers right away, have questions about something we haven't covered, or need to speak to a qualified professional such as a lawyer or doctor in English? We set up this resource because we think it can be especially useful to expatriates in South America who need guidance from a qualified expert 'back home'.

Webmaster: Read about your webmaster and the creator of GoSouthExpat See what motivated her to create our South America online community and contact her from this page if you'd like to.

Contact Us: Please feel free to use the secure form on this page to contact us with any questions or recommendations you may have. If you're having trouble finding something on the site and have already tried the sections above, we'll do our best to handle your query personally!

Privacy Policy: Your personal information will never be shared in any way with any one at any time (unless you ask us to.) Period. Read our privacy policy to see how seriously we take this.

Andean Gift Shop: Looking from great South American gifts? Our gift shop features handmade Latin American crafts, apparel, leather, ceramics, and more from the National Geographic and Novica online stores. Your purchase supports NG's education and exploration mission and helps keep GoSouthExpat online.

Change Your World: Through GlobalGiving.com you can choose from over 40 projects in South America and help make vital changes in the lives of children, young people, men and women in what is (or may become) your host country.

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