expat meetup

Hey Everybody,

My name is Lorin and I'm a Belgian born in Flanders but living in Brussels. If somebody needs help to rent a place or have questions about living in Belgium or just wants to visit some nice places like cities or museums, please let me know something.

Even I'm not an expat, I met already a lot of expat people and it was always a very interesting contact!!! The downside is that a lot of them left Belgium already for various reasons but that's part of the life of an expat

BTW, there is a new museum in Antwerp, the "red star museum". The New York times wrote a very positive article about it so it's worth the effort!

regards

Lorin

 

Dear Texkourgan,

It's true that it's not easy to make new friends but the most important thing for me is that you do an effort to meet people.

The reality is that sometimes meeting somebody in real life feels like dating. So the most difficult thing is too make clear to people that this is NOT a dating site!!!! I believe that loneliness is a real problem when you are an expat. It took a lot of time and a lot of patience because not everybody on the internet is there with good intentions, but I succeeded several times to meet people in real life so I know that it's a real problem.

We did always some nice things like going to a museum, cinema or I went even with somebody to Paris for a weekend. So they met me first and after that I introduced them to my friends so we are all in kind of social network but a network in real life and not a virtual one. That's the only way (I think) to integrate yourself in a city like Brussels.

So my advice: stop thinking in term like "dating with somebody"; and be a little bit naive and stop thinking that no one can be trusted. -

regards

Lorin