How Many Foreigners Living in Thailand

[timxxx]

The number is def higher since 24.2.2022

[NanLaew]

On 2/24/2024 at 3:45 PM, Dan O said:

You don't need to change your passport or citizenship to be an expat but you do need to reside in the country as your permanent home. A global traveler that continually moves locations or countries isn't really an expat but more a nomad. 

Semantics

 

Expat is from the Latin 'ex-patria' and you live outside (ex) your birth country (patria). It has nothing to do with residence or permanent home. When you are repatriated, you are returning to your birth country.

 

Nomad is a catchy modern distortion of the original meaning of nomadic which infers travelling people of no fixed abode. They are still expatriates if they are outside their birth country.

Edited Wednesday at 07:02 AM by NanLaew

[Dan O]

21 hours ago, NanLaew said:

Semantics

 

Expat is from the Latin 'ex-patria' and you live outside (ex) your birth country (patria). It has nothing to do with residence or permanent home. When you are repatriated, you are returning to your birth country.

 

Nomad is a catchy modern distortion of the original meaning of nomadic which infers travelling people of no fixed abode. They are still expatriates if they are outside their birth country.

you're real current with your comment to an 8 month old discussion. Maybe you should go back and read the post from the beginning as we were discussing tax status and I stand by my statements in that context. I believe you are the one using semantics in this case.

 

It's just semantics' is a common retort people use when arguing their point. What they mean is that their argument or opinion is more valid than the other person's. It's a way to be dismissive of language itself as carrier for ideas.

[NanLaew]

22 hours ago, Dan O said:

you're real current with your comment to an 8 month old discussion. Maybe you should go back and read the post from the beginning as we were discussing tax status and I stand by my statements in that context. I believe you are the one using semantics in this case.

 

It's just semantics' is a common retort people use when arguing their point. What they mean is that their argument or opinion is more valid than the other person's. It's a way to be dismissive of language itself as carrier for ideas.

I was specifically addressing the misunderstanding and misuse of the term expat.

 

I am not interested in debating other people's tax status, just how they describe themselves.

 

Note that the term "expat" isn't used to define a person's income tax status in any jurisdiction.

 

I'm not dismissive of anyone's argument or opinion. I'm just clarifying the meaning if the word expat and how it has no bearing with regard to tax.

[Dan O]

11 hours ago, NanLaew said:

I was specifically addressing the misunderstanding and misuse of the term expat.

 

I am not interested in debating other people's tax status, just how they describe themselves.

 

Note that the term "expat" isn't used to define a person's income tax status in any jurisdiction.

 

I'm not dismissive of anyone's argument or opinion. I'm just clarifying the meaning if the word expat and how it has no bearing with regard to tax.

Trying to dig out of your hole.  No one said using the term expat was for tax purposes, it was in reference to a group of people.  I don't think anyone misunderstood what was being discussed.