City in another top list
CTV’s got to stop running pieces about Montreal by this Toronto-based writer, who presumably saw fit to decorate this item about Montreal being in the top five cities to be an expat in with a cheery photo of a calèche, just as the existence of calèches is ending. We’re in a class with Kuala Lumpur, Taipei, Ho Chi Minh City and Singapore, and that’s leaving aside the thorny question of what exactly an expat is.
Hamza 11:15 on 2019-12-04 Permalink
when they are not white, they are merely immigrants/ethnic. when they are, you get a fancy label like ‘expat’
SMD 11:57 on 2019-12-04 Permalink
Agreed.
Tim S. 12:39 on 2019-12-04 Permalink
The article does include quotes from people from Nigeria, Venezuela and Brazil (alongside Britain and Australia). They could still be white, of course, but at least it’s more than Europe/Anglo countries.
My biggest takeaway is how happy they were with low housing prices. Those won’t last long, it seems.
Tim F. 14:14 on 2019-12-04 Permalink
I suspect it’s more of a socio-economic status thing than a strictly racial thing – although of course there is a correlation between the two. A berry picker from Mexico is an “economic migrant”; a fund manager from Nigeria is an “expat.”
Jo Walton 10:39 on 2019-12-05 Permalink
I think the difference between an immigrant and an expat is whether they intend to go home, or whether they think of this as home. Jo, immigrant