Why Are Baexpaters So Negative? The Poll

[Joe]

... some of the perennially negative members of our little dysfunctional online family can now gloat and say "I told you so"....

Pink tells us: BAexpaters are Negative and form a Dysfunctional Family. What do you think?

 

[GS_Dirtboy]

What a f*cking bull-sh*t poll!

 

[EdRooney]

We're not negative, it's just that everything sucks.

 

[Joe]

This photo taken at the last Coffee Chat does NOT show a Dysfunctional Family:

 

[ajoknoblauch]

Just because my wife says I'm anti-Argentine?

 

[cruizes]

If people don't like living here, cant afford to live here comfortably, making shit money where you could be making better elsewhere, its a big fricking world to choose from. But of course there are those who just like to bitch about everything and never happy about anything. Hmmmm that might be coming from within!

 

[Chet]

Expats the world over are negative, BA isn't special.

 

[Joe]

Typical BAexpater family photo from the 80's - Maybe dysfunctional after all...

 

[GS_Dirtboy]

Being an expat is not easy. If you voluntarily came then you are still leaving those things that are familiar to you. You are thrust into a world with different norms, different food, different music, different language, etc, etc. It's almost impossible not to constantly compare what is here to how it was "back home" - with back home being "better" oftentimes. That can be a very, very hard transition.

Add to that you might not be here voluntarily and all of those things can be magnified to the point of just plain suffering.

 

[GS_Dirtboy]

Typical BAexpater family photo from the 80's - Maybe dysfunctional after all...

She's totally hot! (and I'm not talking about the ditzy blond) I'd volunteer to be dysfunctional with her!