On life as an expat

[on the brink]

Good point. However, I agree with him about expats being "spectators" in their host countries. If we don't like the music we can just switch channels: move elsewhere when things get hot, or the exchange rate is unfavorable.

There are immigrants, and then there are expats - two entirely different species.

 

[QuilmesSlo]

Good point. However, I agree with him about expats being "spectators" in their host countries. If we don't like the music we can just switch channels: move elsewhere when things get hot, or the exchange rate is unfavorable.

There are immigrants, and then there are expats - two entirely different species.

I think it’s a feature to be a spectator and take the good and to some extent ignore the bad. I care about people but at the end of the day, the social, political and economic problems of Argentina are not my own.

Like Redford’s character says in out of Africa, we are just passing through.

 

[chris]

Paul Theroux is a miserable man crippled by his deeply felt inferiority to V S Naipul

Paul Theroux is a miserable man crippled by his deeply felt inferiority to V S Naipul.

Paul Theroux is a miserable man crippled by his deeply felt inferiority to V S Naipul.

Paul Theroux is a miserable man crippled by his deeply felt inferiority to V S Naipul.

He's an excellent writer. His Great Patagonian Express includes a lot about Buenos Aires and his meetings with Borges.