Eight years somewhere beats eight days everywhere.
You know which bus actually runs, what the coffee should cost, and which month the guidebooks lie about. Find the expats who live where you are going, or become the one people find.
Find the expats in your country.
The Location Expert who lives there, the groups people actually show up to, and the handful of resources worth your first week.
The experts so far. Plenty of desks.
Each expert anchors their country page. Their links are the ones they switched on, nothing more.
Owns a place
One city or region, claimed on your profile. Your stories anchor its country page.
Files the local truth
Real prices, real seasons, the restaurant that survived the hype. Dated, so readers can trust it.
Answers the mail
Reader questions about your patch come to you through TLL, never straight to your inbox. A sentence back is enough.
The Location Expert label on your profile and every byline. Earned, not bought.
Your links on every story: blog, newsletter, socials, the ones you switch on. Your byline stays yours, edited lightly.
First call when a reader, an editor or a press trip needs someone who actually lives there.
Claim your desk.
Tell us where you live and what you know that a visitor never will. An editor reads every application and replies within 48 hours. Your first story lands on the Stories shelf under From the Location Experts.
Run a group? List it.
Meetups, WhatsApp circles, running clubs, the Thursday pub quiz that is secretly the whole expat scene. A human checks every listing, usually within 48 hours.
No groups listed yet. The first one goes here.
Bring the local truth.
We bring the readers and the backlinks, credited and disclosed.