Hard Lessons In Expat Paradise

[LaoPo]

41.000 Brits in Thailand.

Brits Abroad

By Kate McGeown

BBC News, Bangkok

Thailand: For Britons it's a friendly Asian holiday paradise. But the reality of moving lock, stock and barrel to the other side of the world, has been a lot harder for some of the tens of thousands of expats.

Full story here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6176647.stm

LaoPo

[Old Croc]

These figures came from a link in that story:

An estimated 5.5m British people live permanently abroad – almost one in 10 of the UK population. The emigration of British people has happened in cycles over 200 years. The trend is now rising again: some 2,000 British citizens moved permanently away from the UK every week in 2005.

This unique project aims to explain where people have gone.

BRITS ABROAD: THE TOP COUNTRIES

Australia 1,300,000

Spain 761,000

United States 678,000

Canada 603,000

Ireland 291,000

New Zealand 215,000

South Africa 212,000

France 200,000

COUNTRIES WITH GROWING COMMUNITIES

UAE (Inc Dubai): 55,000

Pakistan: 47,000

Singapore: 45,000

Thailand: 41,000

China: 36,000

Edited December 14, 2006 by Old Croc

[daleyboy]

It really gets on my <deleted> nerves when they feel the need to mention gary glitter. What the <deleted> does he have to do with a report on Thailand? I wish someone would tell these <deleted> so called reporters, he was arrested in Vietnam not Thailand.

Ok rant over.