Tag Archives: Expat Spouse Communities
My Red Couch Talk with Grace Lee Camoglu

Based in Zurich since 2015, Grace Lee Camoglu offers a unique perspective on navigating life and travel in Europe. As a Chinese-American raising a family in Switzerland with her Turkish husband, she brings firsthand experience to cross-cultural living and international travel. Originally from Atlanta, GA, Grace’s professional background spans various roles including product management, partnership management, and operations at companies like Google, LexisNexis, and Intapp in the San Francisco Bay Area and Product Management Festival/Peak Product in Zurich. After eight years in Zurich, she channeled her passion for travel into her business, Your Travel Story, specializing in crafting custom itineraries for families and multi-generational groups exploring Switzerland and Europe by land and river. With a BA from Northwestern University and […]
Benefits of Spouse or “Plus One” – Communities in Global Mobility
by Tracy Hope When I was 22, I moved from New Zealand to California’s Santa Cruz, from one ocean-loving, laid-back community to another. I was young, I was excited, I was a newlywed on an adventure, and I couldn’t imagine the culture shock that I was going to experience there. It was only years later, when I had moved back to New Zealand and was preparing to move yet again, this time to Zürich, Switzerland, that I really took the time to analyse why returning to NZ from Santa Cruz was such a relief. I never found my niche in California, and it never felt like home. I made few friends there and had a permanent sense of being a […]
