What Is An Ex-pat?

[johnnyk]

ex = out of

patria = country

Merely someone who lives outside their own country.

Behaviour, dress, occupation, reasons etc etc have nothing to do with the definition. That's all individual stuff.

[Thomas_Merton]

<snip>Do you agree?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

No;

Please tell us where you are before being critical of others.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Ok, Mr. Mattnich, you are a moderator on Thaivisa Forum – a position of some authority and even more power.

You have made several serious allegations towards me in for the last 3 hours or so.

Two of them you made in a closed forum. I challenged you to prove them. You have not been able.

Now I challenge you in open forum to prove where in this thread I have been "critical of others".

Then the "others" perhaps can judge whether you ought to reconsider your position as a moderator.

[kayo]

I don´t know how technical of an expat I am.

I´m not registered, or rather, I´ve "checked out" of my birth country and my country of citizen ship. I´m not registered to vote or pay taxes in either, though I have been in the past. (well, at least the taxes part)

I´ve lived on this latitude (guatemala - Central thailand) for five years now, and don´t see myself returning.

I receive NO money from my countries of origin.

I have no banks back there either, anymore.

I earn my living here. Day by day. Lose my job and I have no alternative sources, nor any savings at the moment.

Does that make me an expat?

I think by many definitions - Yes.

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Makes you a border line dirt bag.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Er... Ok. Would you care to use your other braincell to explain that comment, smart arse?

[RDN]

Makes you a border line dirt bag.

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See you later, cwilliam.