Expat theory

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Once an expat, always an expat?

By heero_yuy2• 12 Aug 2008 15:28
Rating: 2/5
heero_yuy2

don't wanna stay long in the Middle East...although I plan 7 years here 'fore I stay put back to my country.

"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach

By intelligentconversation• 12 Aug 2008 08:55
intelligentconversation

Guess we've all said it once... "We'll give it another two years, save up and go home" Nah... the laid back lifestyle is just addictive, going home to lots of walking, waking up real early to beat the hustle and bustle of big city living, relatives complaining, lots of relatives...

By snowyowl• 11 Aug 2008 17:01
Rating: 5/5
snowyowl

I think I can say I won't always be an expat. The plan is to go back home one day and since Aust is so multi-cultural and friendly, reckon I'll adjust very easily. I find home is where home is, life is what life is....live it.

 

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By belfa88• 11 Aug 2008 16:57
Rating: 5/5
belfa88

Living out of one's country change one's perspective and views, broaden their horizon and going back, it is hard to find things as they are..everything seem smaller and life back home seem to be on a standstill. Expat I knew, almost always opt to settle somewhere else other than their origin country. There is most likely that once an expat, will always be an expat.

By lovinni• 11 Aug 2008 16:46
Rating: 5/5
lovinni

i will be an expat till further notice...

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.  ~Charles Schulz

By britexpat• 11 Aug 2008 16:38
Rating: 5/5
britexpat

Been an expat Since 1984..

Tried several times to settle back in Blighty, but couldn't..

By anonymous• 11 Aug 2008 16:37
Rating: 4/5
anonymous

I agree! I've been an 'expat' for the most part of my life and there is no way I would return to that shithole known as the UK.......

By intelligentconversation• 11 Aug 2008 16:35
Rating: 2/5
intelligentconversation

People always ask if we were to ever return and I often say no, atleast now I don't feel so alone...

By dweller• 11 Aug 2008 11:46
Rating: 5/5
dweller

expats from 1978 and now live permanently in Turkey.

I agree with the comment about secondees not really being expats as they have a job to go back to in the parent organisation.

By Bahraini83• 11 Aug 2008 11:36
Rating: 5/5
Bahraini83

want to believe that once an expat always an expat .. i like it ... like to go further than i am now

By baldrick2dogs• 11 Aug 2008 11:34
Rating: 5/5
baldrick2dogs

People who come out, stay out and find jobs I would call expat. There are those however who come on secondment form their foreign companies and stay 2 years or so and return. I would not class them as expat.

I have worked most of my life away from UK and could not return. My life is out here now :o)

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