The Lost Expat Digest (in Greece)

The Lost Expat Digest (in Greece)

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Are you a "migrant" or an "expat"? And what is the difference?

Are you a "migrant" or an "expat"? And what is the difference?

Plus an "Ask the Accountant" Community Meet-up, how getting drunk on the weekend might just get you a cheap taxi drive, subsidized by the Greek government - and testicle art

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I was walking through Kypseli the other day and, among the old “Migrants Welcome, Tourists Go Home” stickers - the kind you see all over many Athenian neighborhoods (especially in Koukaki) - a friend pointed out a new variation:

The question of what an “expat” is, whether and how this person differs from a “migrant” (subjectively or objectively), and how…

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