Is There A Difference?

[splott parker]

Listening to the wireless today re. England fans being allowed to go to the game in Rome, it’s being said that home based fans won’t be allowed but ex pats will. Is it only British people living abroad who are referred to as this? Surely they’re immigrants, the same as incomers to this country are labelled? Or does ex pat sound like a nicer description? As far as I’m concerned a bloke and his wife living on a caravan park just outside Benidorm is an immigrant but watching some of those ‘Brits in the Sun’ programmes they throw the phrase ‘ex Pat’ around like some badge of honour.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Listening to the wireless today re. England fans being allowed to go to the game in Rome, it’s being said that home based fans won’t be allowed but ex pats will. Is it only British people living abroad who are referred to as this? Surely they’re immigrants, the same as incomers to this country are labelled? Or does ex pat sound like a nicer description? As far as I’m concerned a bloke and his wife living on a caravan park just outside Benidorm is an immigrant but watching some of those ‘Brits in the Sun’ programmes they throw the phrase ‘ex Pat’ around like some badge of honour.

The wireless?

[splott parker]

The wireless?

Refuse to use the words ‘steam radio’

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Refuse to use the words ‘steam radio’

You can always use the stereogram...

[Des Parrot]

Dear Splott (birthplace of my Gran) am I an ex-pat, immigrant, exile or Brexit deportee?

[xsnaggle]

my understand has always been that an immigrant is someone who has moved to another country and made it their permanent or primary place of abode, and an ex pat is someone from one country who is in another country purely for the purpose of work and intends to return to his country of origin when the work ends,

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

my understand has always been that an immigrant is someone who has moved to another country and made it their permanent or primary place of abode, and an ex pat is someone from one country who is in another country purely for the purpose of work and intends to return to his country of origin when the work ends,

Which, rightly or wrongly, is the way I've always viewed it.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

my understand has always been that an immigrant is someone who has moved to another country and made it their permanent or primary place of abode, and an ex pat is someone from one country who is in another country purely for the purpose of work and intends to return to his country of origin when the work ends,

Funnily enough, a third of a million people in the US are currently assigned 'Temporary Immigration Status'.

[Hometown Unicorn!]

Anyone moving from one place to another is a migrant, especially in the case of work.

[life on mars]

Listening to the wireless today re. England fans being allowed to go to the game in Rome, it’s being said that home based fans won’t be allowed but ex pats will. Is it only British people living abroad who are referred to as this? Surely they’re immigrants, the same as incomers to this country are labelled? Or does ex pat sound like a nicer description? As far as I’m concerned a bloke and his wife living on a caravan park just outside Benidorm is an immigrant but watching some of those ‘Brits in the Sun’ programmes they throw the phrase ‘ex Pat’ around like some badge of honour.

Nah that just means their ex wife's are called Pat

[Rjk]

my understand has always been that an immigrant is someone who has moved to another country and made it their permanent or primary place of abode, and an ex pat is someone from one country who is in another country purely for the purpose of work and intends to return to his country of origin when the work ends,

There are many people who move to this country for work and intend to return eventually and they never get called ex-pats.
Usually just immigrants or occasionally "economic migrants".

I've only ever heard british people abroad referred to as ex-pats - some working and some retired.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

my understand has always been that an immigrant is someone who has moved to another country and made it their permanent or primary place of abode, and an ex pat is someone from one country who is in another country purely for the purpose of work and intends to return to his country of origin when the work ends,

I've always thought of those UK citizens who retire abroad as ex pats as well.

[The Hooded Claw]

Refuse to use the words ‘steam radio’

Steam radio? Now that must be an old device!