You mean immigrants who think they are too rich and too good to be called immigrants?
“Brexpats and Brimmigrants”?
Best i can tell, Spain has turned into Europe’s equivalent to Florida. Also known as a retirement home.
The fuck happened to my country on this map.
Who is 6th
Considering the UK was a part of the EU for 47 years, this is a considerably small number
Ça va se réfugier chez les Irlandais et les Français, quel culot
I see Kaliningrad Oblast sank into the Baltic Sea. Truly the Atlantis of our time.
“Expats” aka just immigrants who usually don’t want to be part of the country / integrate.
Subpar paellas with subpar sangría at twice the normal price run Spanish economy, you know.
That’s actually surprisingly lower than I thought it would be. It would be interesting to see a comparison with how many Spanish people etc are living in the UK.
Would be interested to see this as a percentage of the populations of the respective countries.
“British immigrant” communities.
You don’t hear English people call my uncle who was temporarily working in the UK an “Expat”, so don’t give me this bullshit about semantics and how “an expat is different from an immigrant”
I think that 60,000-400,000 is such a wide range that the map loses any meaning. Spain is the clear number one, yet from this map you wouldn’t know it.
There are over 1.5m Brits that’s have emigrated to Oz/NZ, and around 1.3m in the US/Canada and around 1m in the EU.
I’m not an expat, I’m an immigrant.
you mean immigrants?
As a British immigrant living in Europe can we please agree never to use the word Brexpats. Ever, just ever.
I wonder how many of them speak the main language on every one of those countries but Ireland.
Here in Spain you can find communities with UK residents that despite being here more than 20 years can barely ask for a loaf of bread on a bakery, something that I just dont understand. Out of that they’re more than wellcome.
I met plenty of UK expats in Barcelona 🙂 I guess it’s the weather and lifestyle overall everybody likes.
Immigrants…. They are immigrants. No need to call it something fancy or shit. They and a eastern European or an African kid, are the same, immigrants.
I can confirm. I was born and I live here in Alicante (Spain) and there are towns with mostly expat population. I will retire here as well, doesnt matter where I end up living, Ill come back here for retirement. 300 sunny days per year, temperatures never below 0ºC, only a couple of cold months with temperatures around 10-14º. I go swimming in the sea without neoprene suit from may until the end of october, and just by taking the car you have a wide range of beaches to choose from, but also there are a lot of mountains in the province, so you can go hiking whenever you want.
Im not getting paid for all of this advertisement, its only that I like where I live, aside from spanish political issues. I can see why british people like to come here. Its cheap for them, good weather and close home I guess
You mean migrants?
Mostly mixed marriges in Poland I think. I remember when kindergartens had quite a lot of Polish first name+English last name pupils on their student (?) lists, they were posted all over the Polish web in early 2010s. Pretty funny in retrospect.
Expat my ass it’s immigrant, if they retire and move to Spain they are not expats, if they are a consultant working for an year in Germany then they are expats. They don’t like to be called immigrants but that’s what they are.
As a Anglophile Frenchman, I’m glad a few Britons chose to retire in our beautiful countryside. I hope they feel comfortable and welcomed.
Why do they use the term “expat”? they are just called inmigrants, the fact they are not poor doesn’t mean they should be called anything different
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>Expats
You mean immigrants who think they are too rich and too good to be called immigrants?
“Brexpats and Brimmigrants”?
Best i can tell, Spain has turned into Europe’s equivalent to Florida. Also known as a retirement home.
The fuck happened to my country on this map.
Who is 6th
Considering the UK was a part of the EU for 47 years, this is a considerably small number
Ça va se réfugier chez les Irlandais et les Français, quel culot
I see Kaliningrad Oblast sank into the Baltic Sea. Truly the Atlantis of our time.
“Expats” aka just immigrants who usually don’t want to be part of the country / integrate.
Subpar paellas with subpar sangría at twice the normal price run Spanish economy, you know.
That’s actually surprisingly lower than I thought it would be. It would be interesting to see a comparison with how many Spanish people etc are living in the UK.
Would be interested to see this as a percentage of the populations of the respective countries.
“British immigrant” communities.
You don’t hear English people call my uncle who was temporarily working in the UK an “Expat”, so don’t give me this bullshit about semantics and how “an expat is different from an immigrant”
I think that 60,000-400,000 is such a wide range that the map loses any meaning. Spain is the clear number one, yet from this map you wouldn’t know it.
There are over 1.5m Brits that’s have emigrated to Oz/NZ, and around 1.3m in the US/Canada and around 1m in the EU.
I’m not an expat, I’m an immigrant.
you mean immigrants?
As a British immigrant living in Europe can we please agree never to use the word Brexpats. Ever, just ever.
I wonder how many of them speak the main language on every one of those countries but Ireland.
Here in Spain you can find communities with UK residents that despite being here more than 20 years can barely ask for a loaf of bread on a bakery, something that I just dont understand. Out of that they’re more than wellcome.
I met plenty of UK expats in Barcelona 🙂 I guess it’s the weather and lifestyle overall everybody likes.
Immigrants…. They are immigrants. No need to call it something fancy or shit. They and a eastern European or an African kid, are the same, immigrants.
I can confirm. I was born and I live here in Alicante (Spain) and there are towns with mostly expat population. I will retire here as well, doesnt matter where I end up living, Ill come back here for retirement. 300 sunny days per year, temperatures never below 0ºC, only a couple of cold months with temperatures around 10-14º. I go swimming in the sea without neoprene suit from may until the end of october, and just by taking the car you have a wide range of beaches to choose from, but also there are a lot of mountains in the province, so you can go hiking whenever you want.
Im not getting paid for all of this advertisement, its only that I like where I live, aside from spanish political issues. I can see why british people like to come here. Its cheap for them, good weather and close home I guess
You mean migrants?
Mostly mixed marriges in Poland I think. I remember when kindergartens had quite a lot of Polish first name+English last name pupils on their student (?) lists, they were posted all over the Polish web in early 2010s. Pretty funny in retrospect.
Expat my ass it’s immigrant, if they retire and move to Spain they are not expats, if they are a consultant working for an year in Germany then they are expats. They don’t like to be called immigrants but that’s what they are.
As a Anglophile Frenchman, I’m glad a few Britons chose to retire in our beautiful countryside. I hope they feel comfortable and welcomed.
Why do they use the term “expat”? they are just called inmigrants, the fact they are not poor doesn’t mean they should be called anything different
You meant to say British **immigrants**.