Living and breathing Papua New Guinea.
A first-hand guide to living and working in PNG, curated by our Port Moresby team and the expats we've placed across the country. Request the full guide and we'll talk you through what it's really like.
The country most people misjudge from a distance.
In 2023, Forbes ranked PNG the 9th most beautiful country in the world, yet the picture people form online rarely matches life on the ground. We've been in PNG since 2014, with a full team of local Papua New Guineans in our Port Moresby office. Every word in this guide comes from people who know the country: our PNG staff and the expats we've placed across the nation. It's the guide we wish every candidate had before they said yes.
What's inside.
The complete guide goes deeper than any headline. Inside, you'll find the practical details that makes a move work:
Housing, healthcare and schooling
Where expats live, what secure accommodation costs, and which clinics and schools to line up first.
Transport, banking and cost of living
Getting around safely, opening a local account, and what your week really costs.
Language, culture and history
The Tok Pisin you'll use daily, the wantok system, and the history behind 800+ languages.
Safety and settling in
Real risks, sensible routines, and what to sort in your first 90 days.
Lifestyle, community and the places worth seeing
The networks worth joining early and the trips that make the posting.
The seven traits that help expats thrive here
Drawn from a decade of placing people in PNG.
Don't judge it from the headlines.
In our Voices of Expats in PNG survey, 84% said their view of PNG changed over time, and only a fraction felt the media represented the country fairly. The people who live here tell a very different story to the one you read from a distance.
It wasn't as bad as it was shown in the news.
Placed expat, PNG
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