jasonsamui55 Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 How does one quantify this? I am not a citizen of the country where I was born and raised. I even need a visa to visit there which at the moment I do not have. I carry two other country's passports, one of which I visit for a month or two every summer, and the other I have only visited 3x and haven't been there in about 10 or more years. And I'm an official resident in a 4th country, but spend most of my time in Thailand as a tourist. Is there a label for this type of expat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaunduhpostman Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Well...what about ex-pats who used to be named Patrick or Patricia? The Ex-Patrick/Ex-Patricia Ex-Pat... I mean, don't they mean anything to anyone any more? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naam Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Jingthing is of course an Eaterpat- and long may he continue to help his fellow eaterpats to boldly go and explore new restaurants and new cuisines across the final frontier that we know as Thailand. in my [not so] humble opinion Jinthing belongs to the rare species "gourmet-gourmand-pats" (American spelling: "goremay-goremaan-pat") Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naam Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Well...what about ex-pats who used to be named Patrick or Patricia? The Ex-Patrick/Ex-Patricia Ex-Pat... I mean, don't they mean anything to anyone any more? both Patrick and Patricia who converted to Islam are now "Ex-Pats"... i think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naam Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 How does one quantify this? I am not a citizen of the country where I was born and raised. I even need a visa to visit there which at the moment I do not have. I carry two other country's passports, one of which I visit for a month or two every summer, and the other I have only visited 3x and haven't been there in about 10 or more years. And I'm an official resident in a 4th country, but spend most of my time in Thailand as a tourist. Is there a label for this type of expat? you are a "hybrid³-pat". as simple as that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggt Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 I have had a fascination with the world's peoples, culture, food, exotic animals, and scenery...since childhood...used to take one of those large basketball sized world globes...spin it around and stick my finger on the globe to make it stop spinning...wherever my finger rested on the globe I would seek information and dream of being there and experiencing the people and culture...very entertaining... So...when offered the opportunity to work internationally...I jumped at the chance...soaking up every moment as a priceless adventure... I am older and more settled now...yet have some of the most wonderful memories possible... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overherebc Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 I am English, did my thing through life but now am deemed to be a 'nothing' cos of my age and do what I do now. BUT, I don't care......So rock on..........Am still English wherever my feet are.......... WOW I always thought you were a plastic !!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overherebc Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 (edited) To the OP " I have nowhere else to go" What kind of expat does that make me?????? Edited September 21, 2015 by overherebc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williet98248 Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Never really understood the term "ExPat"...what is it...Ex patriot?...I don't see myself as Ex anything...just a living being breathing the air around me. Ex patriate; a person who leaves their home to live somewhere else. If you go back to where you came from then you are are a re patriate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonawatchee Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 I married my wife here in 1968. I knew most of the folks in her village and we all got along good. We went back to America where we got jobs and raised a family and then retired. During that time we both kept the notion of settling back down here near her village. We've built a small but nice home on a half rai near the rice fields and jungle. Its peaceful and she has friends and family. I joined the expat club just to keep abreast of events. We love the slow pace and we can do things at our leisure. I don't feel like an expat per se as living here to me is just as normal as in America. It wasn't too hard to adapt to the lack of regulations and red tape here. We like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emster23 Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Noticed someone said couldn't be expat if retired, to which I say "hogwash". Ex patria: left home country. That's the definition and I'm sticking to it... or maybe it's just the humidity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy chef 1 Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 JT they got you wrong ...nice lighthearted topic for some fun,but...isn't the Pub??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Time Traveller Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 How does one quantify this? I am not a citizen of the country where I was born and raised. I even need a visa to visit there which at the moment I do not have. I carry two other country's passports, one of which I visit for a month or two every summer, and the other I have only visited 3x and haven't been there in about 10 or more years. And I'm an official resident in a 4th country, but spend most of my time in Thailand as a tourist. Is there a label for this type of expat? One doesn't quantify it, does one? Because Quantifying is related to numerical characteristics. Qualifying is related to non numerical characteristics. And yes there is a label for this type of expat: The "narcissistic" or "vain" expat. Can be easily identified by their boasting about something they deem to be of important but is inconsequential to everyone listening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred Kubasa Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 I am, with the exception of " fugitive", a composit of all the others Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muhendis Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Take away the word "expat" and look at the list of types again. I'll bet they are all around you wherever you are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baneko Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Im an ex tax pat.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterb17 Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 A guy on another forum called folk like me an 'Isaan refugee', well, this fat bloke thought cos I have to watch the pennies I am some sort of low life, WHEN I know his mum bolsters his life...Hmmm. We have one life, forget about the zillion virgins waiting for you up there, in fact I don't want a zillion virgins at all... We do what we want in life, we have one life, look back at our failures, sit back and wonder about it in thought..Well I do... Are you Muslim ? They seem to be a bit obsessed with sex- bit of an odd analogy. No you are not a low life- the life in Isaan is brilliant for some and purgatory for others- take no notice. Actually I rather like chubby men ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteregion Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 An expatriate (often shortened to expat) is a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country other than that of their citizenship. The word comes from the Latin terms ex ("out of") and patria ("country, fatherland"). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muhendis Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 An expatriate (often shortened to expat) is a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country other than that of their citizenship. The word comes from the Latin terms ex ("out of") and patria ("country, fatherland"). Hah! Someone's been reading wiki.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1FinickyOne Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 There are 2 kinds of people - people who divide people into 2 kinds of people and people who don't... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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