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Bureaucracy, housing, jobs, healthcare. The concrete things you need in your first month — tailored to your specific country-of-origin and destination pair.
Italians in Berlin, French in London, Argentinians in Madrid. Questions and answers among people going through the same transition — not a generic forum.
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