Voting against your own best interests

[JohnD]

So what do you call a European who works in the UK, paying tax and National Insurance?

And what do you call a British pensioner who retires to Spain, doing no work and making no Social security payments?

You seem to be asre-about-face

 

[EFLImpudence]

Any Ex Pat living abroad should not have got a vote. Including EFL....
They chose to leave for reasons only they know..C ant tell us how to live our life's

I know you're only joking.

 

[transam]

So what do you call a European who works in the UK, paying tax and National Insurance?

And what do you call a British pensioner who retires to Spain, doing no work and making no Social security payments?

You seem to be asre-about-face

tis obvious one is an EX pat and the other is a tax paying migrant worker or a Romanian

 

[EFLImpudence]

I'm quite happy with immigrant.

As for ex-pat, what does it actually mean?

 

[Notch7]

As for ex-pat, what does it actually mean

I dont know.

There are some that live in Bangkok and become known as sex-pats -I think I know what that means

 

[SirGalahad]

- having paid into the system.



- not having paid into the system.

Lol. You really need help.

 

[transam]

Lol. You really need help.

how so

 

[transam]

I know you're only joking.

do u live abroad then ?

 

[Ihavenojob]

So what do you call a European who works in the UK, paying tax and National Insurance?

Brit's would call them immigrants, as that is what they are, their compatriots back home may call them expats (expatriates)

And what do you call a British pensioner who retires to Spain, doing no work and making no Social security payments?

The Brit's would call them expats, the Spanish will call them immigrants , or a Godsend .

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Voting against your own best interests

No different from the millions of people living here who did exactly the same.

 

[EFLImpudence]

do u live abroad then ?

No, in Portugal.

 

[EFLImpudence]

their compatriots back home may call them expats (expatriates)

That's what I was getting at - patriate is a verb.

Repatriate means send someone back to their country of origin, so what does ex-patriate mean used as a noun?



Edit - perhaps the term was meant to be ex-patriot and first used as a derogitory term.

 

[JohnD]

If we accept that "patria" is Latin, native land, fatherland, home country, origin

And that "ex" is Latin, outside, out of

Then ex-patria is accepted as describing a person outside their homeland.

It might also have been arrived via the French "patrie," native land.

I doubt many people using the abbreviation "expat" could specify what it is short for.

It is not a word of English origin.

It used to be common for the educated English classes to invent terms based on their knowledge of classical languages (such as e.g. bike, bus, binoculars, telly, democracy, idiot, photo, phone). Some other European languages don't do that.

 

[Bodd]

I know you're only joking.

 

[Ihavenojob]

I doubt many people using the abbreviation "expat" could specify what it is short for.

I could, & did
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/expatriate