Spanish ex-pats

Wise words indeed.
However in this case it's very much like "Well I'm not an immigrant", when that's precisely what they are. They just don't want to be tarred with the same brush as they do others while reading The S*n in Benidorm.

Unless you're trying to be ironic, that kind of comment is quite insulting to the legitimate genuine legal workers here, of which there may be hundreds of thousands.

It's a lazy slap-dash way of trying to insult one's own brethren for little other reason than envy.

Agreed, there will be thousands of your "S*n readers" in Benidorm but in no way is that reflective of the British population in Spain, or anywhere else abroad.

Brexit voters are but a tiny, albeit rather vocal, minority that the UK media love to portray as your "typical expat / immigrant".
 


Unless you're trying to be ironic, that kind of comment is quite insulting to the legitimate genuine legal workers here, of which there may be hundreds of thousands.

It's a lazy slap-dash way of trying to insult one's own brethren for little other reason than envy.

Agreed, there will be thousands of your "S*n readers" in Benidorm but in no way is that reflective of the British population in Spain, or anywhere else abroad.

Brexit voters are but a tiny, albeit rather vocal, minority that the UK media love to portray as your "typical expat / immigrant".

I wasn't referring to economic migrants. I was referring to immigrants who pass themselves off as "ex-pats".
If you've moved from Britain to Spain and you're not working, you're an immigrant. Ex-Pat is like saying "I'm not an immigrant" so you can still be prejudiced against immigrants
I'm an immigrant living in the Basque country, I don't read the sun newspaper

See. Thank you and good luck to you.
 
Unless you're trying to be ironic, that kind of comment is quite insulting to the legitimate genuine legal workers here, of which there may be hundreds of thousands.

It's a lazy slap-dash way of trying to insult one's own brethren for little other reason than envy.

Agreed, there will be thousands of your "S*n readers" in Benidorm but in no way is that reflective of the British population in Spain, or anywhere else abroad.

Brexit voters are but a tiny, albeit rather vocal, minority that the UK media love to portray as your "typical expat / immigrant".
Very well said mate, it is, all about envy . Envy of people who've had the brains to realize they could have a better life elsewhere and the guts to go out and get it . Rather than stay in some pissy little job you hate but don't have the guts to leave . Enjoy your life in the sun mate .
 
I wasn't referring to economic migrants. I was referring to immigrants who pass themselves off as "ex-pats".
If you've moved from Britain to Spain and you're not working, you're an immigrant. Ex-Pat is like saying "I'm not an immigrant" so you can still be prejudiced against immigrants


See. Thank you and good luck to you.

I've never referred to myself as an expat and I don't like being called one.

I agree with this article

 
I was an immigrant when I emigrated to NZ.
Now I am an expat .
Here in Bahrain anyone who is not a Bahraini is an expat, but when we recruit its Western Expat,Eastern Expat,Local or Regional Expat.
Hopefully I will retire in Spain and be an expat, if not its back yem to Indonesia where I will just be a Bule.
Come on!
 
Very well said mate, it is, all about envy . Envy of people who've had the brains to realize they could have a better life elsewhere and the guts to go out and get it . Rather than stay in some pissy little job you hate but don't have the guts to leave . Enjoy your life in the sun mate .

Why, thank you. Thank you very much.
It was a massive decision to move out here, but I only did it after securing a job first.
By doing what mackems do well (talking to anyone that will listen), I continued networking and looking for something even better after I arrived.
I've subsequently done far far better than if I'd stayed in Sunderland or any other UK town for that matter.
Brexit was the final straw - who wants to live, work and spend all their money in a city where over 60% of the populous voted like morons?
 
Why, thank you. Thank you very much.
It was a massive decision to move out here, but I only did it after securing a job first.
By doing what mackems do well (talking to anyone that will listen), I continued networking and looking for something even better after I arrived.
I've subsequently done far far better than if I'd stayed in Sunderland or any other UK town for that matter.
Brexit was the final straw - who wants to live, work and spend all their money in a city where over 60% of the populous voted like morons?
But they are still some of the best people on the planet and I say that sincerely and with experience.
 
Sod the labels, we are just people living in a country in which we weren´t born.
I´m busy doing my renta online, but as always I´m not sure if I owe or am owed. It´s a swing of 1500 so I hope it´s the latter.
Daily Star eh?

How else would you decide it? Dominos? 3 card brag? One potato two potato?

Don't read any sensationalist tabloid bollocks
 

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