Yo for real though. Even though I was born with UK citizenship, I didn’t grow up here and I don’t really fit in. It was hard at first, but life immediately made more sense when I mentally dropped the expat thing and started fully thinking of myself as an immigrant. I never did fit in in America anyway, so I have the mental framework in place already.
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Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 1 day ago“But I’m an “expat””
yakko@feddit.uk 1 day ago
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Isn’t the whole thing with expats is that they explicitly keep their US citizenship? Most the self described expats I know are overseas military that married a local so my perspective may be skewed here.
yakko@feddit.uk 10 hours ago
Yes perhaps, but once my family has their UK citizenships sorted out, getting rid of our US citizenship is going to become a realistic option.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
BuT I Am hErE FoR a JoB, I wIlL gO bAcK AFteR!!!
Oh, so you’re a foreign worker. who refuses to integrate to the culture?