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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Very online folks word lawyering to the n-th degree. Language shifts and has different meanings in different countries.

    To play along, I’ve heard “expat” to refer to someone on a work appointment with a fixed timeline, say, someone who works for Microsoft being sent to France for 2 years. I’ve heard many Americans say “I’m immigrating to” to mean they are going through permeant resident or citizen pathways with the host country.

    Others have a different read of the word, but as long as you aren’t a jerk wherever you are going, it won’t ever come up