An interesting article on the use of the word 'expats'

[mobri1130]

I'll take "Cities Not Under The Misquided Prohibition Law" for $200 Alex!

Touché Napoleon

So let me update my expat references a few decades after Prohibition and another group of expats in Europe:

1950s/60s Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Jim Morrison, Nina Simone

 

[davonz]

I still get the feeling that the term "expat" is the buzzword in today's media articles.

In past years expats were always people who had got a transfer with the company they worked for to another country, or was a consultant who had a contract in a country not their own, or someone who just went to live somewhere different but with no need to actually work there (they had money)... Especially places like hong kong, singapore and african countries..

But now its used all the time for anyone living in another country..

 

[Johnno]

Like the pull of a woman for instance.

I agree with Napoleon here - nothing beats a good pull