Keawyeds
Striker
I knew exactly the point you were making. Plenty of French ex pats living in London.
You're a rum bugger when you want to be y'know
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I knew exactly the point you were making. Plenty of French ex pats living in London.
Just a bit of fun. There was another poster who made the point but I try not to correspond.You're a rum bugger when you want to be y'know
It does make me chuckle, they all fuck off to Spain etc to supposedly live the lifestyle yet they still want their British telly and the likes. That includes some of the ex-pats/immigrants/emigres *delete as appropriate that post on here.You can call them immigrants and I'll call them ex pats. What a great language we have.
Edit, it depends upon your definition of permanent. Most of the ex pats would still see Blighty as home and if anything got a bit dodgy would be off like a shot.
It does make me chuckle, they all fuck off to Spain etc to supposedly live the lifestyle yet they still want their British telly and the likes. That includes some of the ex-pats/immigrants/emigres *delete as appropriate that post on here.
How does that work with immigrants in the UK? Most stick to their own nationality groups.There's a big group of British expats who have no interest in the local culture. They've basically translocated their own lifestyles from UK to Spain.
We were guilty of that to a degree. We had Sky TV, and we'd occasionally shop at the local Iceland for imported British brands. Why give up the things you like if they're available? (Many of them aren't now.)
The big difference is that we mainly shopped at the weekly market and in the Spanish supermarkets (we knew expats who'd never been to either), and we socialised with a lot of Spanish friends as well as with Brits. I think the main difference between an expat and an immigrant is that, although both may settle within communities of their own (just look at the patchwork of distinct communities in London), expats have no intention other than to exist within their own little cultural island, while immigrants recognise that they're part of bigger community and make efforts to adapt to it.
You see them wherever you go, here it's the Irish and English bars that get full of themHow does that work with immigrants in the UK? Most stick to their own nationality groups.
Sorry but there is no real difference in the terms and trying to separate them is a futile argument.
How does that work with immigrants in the UK? Most stick to their own nationality groups.
Sorry but there is no real difference in the terms and trying to separate them is a futile argument.
Every bit as good and quicker no doubt.Why? The treatment is every bit as good here. My uncle went through his cancer treatment here.
You'll not find any Corrie or Eastenders in my house. 'English TV' is Netflix and I streamed Louis Theroux the other day.It does make me chuckle, they all fuck off to Spain etc to supposedly live the lifestyle yet they still want their British telly and the likes. That includes some of the ex-pats/immigrants/emigres *delete as appropriate that post on here.
Antenna 3! Spanish ITV.Every bit as good and quicker no doubt.
You'll not find any Corrie or Eastenders in my house. 'English TV' is Netflix and I streamed Louis Theroux the other day.
I don't watch English TV. The night mostly consist of Antena 3 - Pasapalabra, a bit of the news and El Hormiguero.
Nowt wrong with a bit of Antena 3. It's a bit of background entertainment mostly whilst we eat or I'm browsing the internet or on here at night - wind down background shite.Antenna 3! Spanish ITV.
After 25 years in Spain I detest Spanish TV.
I'm in my own cultural desert. Listening to 6music. Watching the lads on hooky iptv, Spotify etc. All thanks to the Internet.
After years of getting the footy echo sent a week later. I'm glad we can forget about Antenna 3, Telecinco etc.
I consider myself an immigrant for what it's worth.
A bit if a daft non-argument in my book but there you go.
Did you manage to see the cricket in the end?Every bit as good and quicker no doubt.
You'll not find any Corrie or Eastenders in my house. 'English TV' is Netflix and I streamed Louis Theroux the other day.
I don't watch English TV. The night mostly consist of Antena 3 - Pasapalabra, a bit of the news and El Hormiguero.
Did you manage to see the cricket in the end?
Sounds a right fuck on. Do you think thats why plenty chose to stay under the radar in the past?Well that was a wasted week. The police have a different address, the one on my green card, than what is on my padrón. There is no communication between the police and the ayuntamiento so even though I'm empadronado the information hasn't been passed to the police. I can't change my green card to the TIE unless I change my address on the green card but I can't change my address on the green card because you have to change it to the TIE. Idiots at times and I'm fuming.
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Without doubt. Mine is in theory a straight swap from one card to another.Sounds a right fuck on. Do you think thats why plenty chose to stay under the radar in the past?
Hopefully, you get it all sorted soon.Without doubt. Mine is in theory a straight swap from one card to another.
Those communities aren't here temporarily. They raise kids here, their kids are in the school system, the second generation are often well integrated.
Expats, as used with regard to Brits in Spain, tends to refer to the retired older people who aren't raising families there and who are part of a community that is renewed and supplemented not through births but by new arrivals of the same age group.
Where we were there was a clear distinction. We knew a few Brits who had kids at the local schools, were fluent in the language, and had effectively settled. They were immigrants, and described themselves as such.
There is a massive difference, and it's highly relevant to this discussion. The expats are more likely to be under the radar (that is, they haven't done the legal paperwork that is required of all residents in Spain), whereas the immigrants are fully legal.
Cheers mate. In reality us who are already legal have an undetermined, up until now, time to sort it out. However, when we keep seeing stories about Brits being turned back, it becomes more serious.Hopefully, you get it all sorted soon.