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It is easier to make friends from your own country abroad than at home, because ex-patriots are missing their friends from home and looking for other people to
by blacksmythe 15y ago
It is easier to make friends from your own country abroad than at home, because ex-patriots are missing their friends from home and looking for other people to hang out with.
Ex-patriots tend to hang out together, and are relatively easy to find, particularly in a country where your face makes you stand out as a foreigner.
- iaskwhy 15y agoI can see that being my problem since in the places I have been to I actually do seem to be a local. I also happen to stay only for a couple of weeks max and that doesn't help. One curious thing I have seen is that some ex-pats don't want to meet other ex-pats from their home country. I tend to agree with that since not doing so decreases your chances of meeting new local people which can be really interesting.
- unwind 15y agoUh, "expat" is actually short for "expatriate", not "ex-patriot". The latter would mean something completely different, so that's quite a confusing usage, in my not so native English speaker's opinion at least. See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expatriate> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expatriate>.