rovineye Posted April 26, 2004 Report Share Posted April 26, 2004 For years, with long time GF, I didn't feel like a tourist. As said above, more like a future expat. Now, with no GF, I spend time in the bars as well as looking outside them for a future ex-gf and seeing new sights and places to retire.. SO I am tourist/sextourist/future expat/ hunter/hunted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lazyphil Posted April 26, 2004 Report Share Posted April 26, 2004 ....haunted! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brink15 Posted April 26, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2004 Some would say you are confused..... ...but I would say it is more like Cunt...fused..... Right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 26, 2004 Report Share Posted April 26, 2004 Brink, my image of an expat has always been a person sent abroad by his company/government to work for a period of time. (The dictionary doesn't say that though!) Big house, maid, driver, country club membership, etc. Funny enough, it seems that the local hire guys in Thailand teaching 20 hours a week for their 20,000 baht a month are the ones who get caught up with the 'us expats, they tourist/sexpat' mentailty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lazyphil Posted April 26, 2004 Report Share Posted April 26, 2004 Yeah, eventually when finacially everything is in place (a few years from now) I will be an expat, no big rush, plan is to have summers (be them brief!) here and the rest in LOS. I do worry about the Thai gov making it hard for me to stay in LOS for long spells even though I wont be a burden and I do plan on learning Thai, its just getting around to it here :: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovineye Posted April 26, 2004 Report Share Posted April 26, 2004 guilty as charged :: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 26, 2004 Report Share Posted April 26, 2004 rovineye said:For years, with long time GF, I didn't feel like a tourist. As said above, more like a future expat. Now, with no GF, I spend time in the bars as well as looking outside them for a future ex-gf and seeing new sights and places to retire.. SO I am tourist/sextourist/future expat/ hunter/hunted. I also belong to this group. :: I guess I wee mysself as a traveller, rather than a tourist. And this (LOS) has been my travel base for many years now. "Travellers Welcome" ~ "Tourists Tolerated" A sign outside one of my former 'investments'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaiHome Posted April 26, 2004 Report Share Posted April 26, 2004 I think the point Fly was trying to make by denying the expat title was he does not feel he belongs to his home country any longer so he does not fit your dictionary definition. The term I use to describe the people, like Fly, that have all but severed any connection to their home country is wannabe immigrants. Since Thailand will not accept them as immigrants they can't really be immigrants. After all, we call people that move to US from other countries immigrants, not expats, why would the people in Thailand that claim no ties to their home countries be expats? TH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.. Posted April 26, 2004 Report Share Posted April 26, 2004 Who is anyone here to redifine a word that has been in use for 200+ years? Isn't the world complex enough already? Besides, Webster's Dictionary defines expatriate as: 1) to withdraw (oneself) from residence in or alligence to one's native country; 2) to leave one's country to live elsewhere; 3) to renounce allegiance to one's native country; 4) living in a foreign land. Seems pretty clear to me. Therefore all immigrants are expats, but not all expats are immigrants (as some go back to their native country). Cheers, SD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaiHome Posted April 26, 2004 Report Share Posted April 26, 2004 "Therefore all immigrants are expats, but not all expats are immigrants (as some go back to their native country)." I think that is a good explanation and I couldn't agree more. But why are westerners living in Asia always called "expats" and Asians living in the west are "immigrants"? TH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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