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Expats, where are you for Christmas?

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  • #32
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    Seoul.


  • #33
    Liam90
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 645 ✭✭✭Liam90


    FearDark wrote: »
    New Zealand... sunburnt to death.

    Have family there, heard they had a scorcher this Christmas.


  • #34
    BraziliaNZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    I'm back in Dubbers from London. My booze hell :(


  • #35
    Eve_Dublin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,884 ✭✭✭Eve_Dublin


    Back in Dub-i-lin from Spay-in.


  • #36
    BrokenArrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,548 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    I'm back in Dubbers from London. My booze hell :(

    I came home from the uk. I'm always horrified at the cost of a night on the booze.


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  • #37
    Sound of Silence
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,192 ✭✭✭Sound of Silence


    dd972 wrote: »
    maybe one day in the future expats and immigrants will just be human beings residing where they want on the land mass of their choice, your consciousness in your head is the real you, you are not your birthplace or the nation state jurisdiction you randomly happened to be born in.

    So brave.


  • #38
    Mr. Loverman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,001 ✭✭✭Mr. Loverman


    In Beijing. Eating McDonald's (they deliver here) and trying to figure out why my new server is offline. Sleepy. It's 3:25 AM.


  • #39
    Promac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭Promac


    Also sunburnt in NZ.


  • #40
    InTheTrees
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    Seattle.

    Close your eyes and listen to the endless unrelenting Rain and its almost like home.

    Happy Xmas!

    :o


  • #41
    Tonto86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 731 ✭✭✭Tonto86


    Calgary, Alberta.

    Me and the missus having our first Canadian xmas


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  • #42
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Had one of the strangest tbh, spent Christmas Eve midnight to 2am in a Native American pueblo up on top of a mesa above a 300ft cliff, miles out in the desert, no electricity, bonfires and candlelight only for light, watching traditional Buffalo and Deer dances in a mission church built in 1625.

    Twasn't like your average midnight mass to say the least.


  • #43
    Talk To Frank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31 ✭Talk To Frank


    15 Yemen Road, Yemen.


  • #44
    Manic Moran
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,908 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    In-laws' place, near San Francisco. Pretty much routine


  • #45
    InTheTrees
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    coolbeans wrote: »
    What's the difference between an expat and an emigrant?

    An expat leaves because they want to and an emigrant leaves because they have to.

    Something like that? I'm just guessing...


  • #46
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,059 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan.


  • #47
    keithclancy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,157 ✭✭✭keithclancy


    Having a smoke in the shed, oh is murdering the remains of the lamb for a curry tray we will have later.

    Haven't been in Ireland for Christmas 5 years running.

    Might watch the office later with a beer.

    Eindhoven, Netherlands

    An *expatriate* (in abbreviated form,*expat*) is a person temporarily or permanently residing
     in a country and culture other than that of the person's upbringing. The word comes from theLatin
     terms "ex
    " ("out of") and "patria
    "("country, fatherland").


  • #48
    Marcusm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,202 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    I'm back in Dubbers from London. My booze hell :(

    Is Dubbers near Nobber?


  • #49
    BraziliaNZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    Marcusm wrote: »
    Is Dubbers near Nobber?

    yuppers


  • #50
    population
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,512 ✭✭✭population


    Naples. But then I am here every day


  • #51
    dd972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    Sound of Silence wrote: »
    So brave.


    My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.
    Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey, 1951-1989


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  • #52
    mayotom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 742 ✭✭✭mayotom


    Back in the whest for a while. All the while back in Southern Spain they have been getting low to mid twenties temperatures


  • #53
    anto9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 883 ✭✭✭anto9


    In Bangkok for a week .I live in Chiang Mai .Only 30c here today nice and cool for Bangkok .


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