French book on British expats | 9 comments (9 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: French book on British expats (4.00 / 3)

Americans who came here to escape a political situation they found intolerable would be in a very different category from those (numerous) Britons who practise arbitrage between two adjacent property markets, either for speculative reasons, and/or, as DeAnander pointed out in this thread that discusses the same subject, to buy into a "gentrification" dream.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Apr 19th, 2006 at 03:10:03 AM EST
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Re: French book on British expats (4.00 / 2)

I have to support this, based on our own (anecdotal) experience.

Telling folks upfront, any folks, civil servants, shopkeepers, whatever, that we've fled from George Bush get us an amazing amount of goodwill.

by Lupin on Wed Apr 19th, 2006 at 07:02:36 AM EST
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Re: French book on British expats (none / 0)

How does it feel being a political refugee?

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Apr 19th, 2006 at 07:07:07 AM EST
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Re: French book on British expats (none / 1)

Truthfully: a little strange. But we were always "citizens of the world" before.

by Lupin on Wed Apr 19th, 2006 at 08:46:34 AM EST
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French book on British expats | 9 comments (9 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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