ExpatSteve

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   by ExpatSteve 5y ago

   > In the Iowa town where my wife grew up, the doctor’s kid went to the same school as the poorest kids in town, because there was only one school for everyone. But the same would be true if you decide to live in the countryside or small
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   by ExpatSteve 5y ago

   I've lived in numerous developing countries and while I can certainly think of a number of places where gentrification pushed locals out of certain neighborhoods, I've never seen expats doing this on the scale I witnessed in the U
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   by ExpatSteve 5y ago

   > But I still think that anyone who would want to leave their relatively egalitarian western society to live among such inequality is morally defective. Open up your closets, cabinets, etc. How many of the goods you own are made in the W
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   by ExpatSteve 5y ago

   > Cheap and luxurious expat living is bankrolled by the relative poverty of the native people. How are expats employing locals at local wages (instead of at the equivalent wages in their home countries) being "bankrolled" by p