Financial Planning
Costs and Fees of Renting or Buying a Home/Apartment + Tips for Moving
Renting a home in the United States has several moving pieces. Because you have most likely gone through the process of moving into a new home while on deployment, you will likely be familiar with a few aspects of the home/apartment renting ...
Understanding and Building Credit in the US
Building positive credit is important upon arriving in the U.S. For those of you who have never dealt with credit before, think of credit as a rating for a lender’s confidence level in trusting someone with money based on their history of paying back ...
Bill Shark: A Paid Resource to Help You Lower Your Monthly Bills
Bill Shark is a website designed to help save you money on your monthly bills. They claim to lower the cost by 25%, while doIng all of the hard work for you. There are two avenues in which they help cut the cost of your bills: 1. Negotiate to lower ...
Medical Bill Debt Forgiveness Resource
In the US, even with insurance, you'll get bills for medical treatment. The structure of insurance and medical care in the US can sometimes lead to expensive medical bills, however, there are resources for lowering bills and forgiving debt. Dollar ...
US Money - The Basics
The US dollar (USD) is the official form of currency in the United States and its overseas territories. You may see it represented by a symbol referred to as the dollar sign: “$.” American paper money is referred to as “bills,” each bill featuring ...
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Body Language in the US
Communication extends beyond the words we say. Body language is an important piece of the communication puzzle. In fact, a large portion of communication is nonverbal, and each country and community has its own movements that communicate different ...
Common Idioms in the United States
An idiom is a phrase that has a meaning different from the literal interpretation of the individual words and is often used to express a particular idea or cultural reference. In the US, there are many idioms that nurses may have never heard before. ...
School for Children
School Schooling, like many other things in the US, varies from state to state, and things are not “one size fits all” when enrolling your children in school. For the most part, every state’s public school begins with kindergarten at the age of five. ...
Costs and Fees of Renting or Buying a Home/Apartment + Tips for Moving
Renting a home in the United States has several moving pieces. Because you have most likely gone through the process of moving into a new home while on deployment, you will likely be familiar with a few aspects of the home/apartment renting ...
Common US Cultural Nuances
Each culture has their own way of doing things and their own norms that may seem quite different from other cultures. Here are a few notable cultural nuances in the United States. Cultural Nuance Examples in the US Imperial system Filling up your own ...