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That's a weird way to spell "emigrant"...
If you were asking for people from any country who moved to the same one you're going, you'd use "immigrant".
But if you run around calling yourself a "US expat" ...
People will base their initial opinion of you on the way you introduce yourself, and that's not a good thing with how you're introducing yourself.
Expat is the term used by immigrants who think they're better than the bad immigrants because they come from the good countries. At least that's how it is in my country. Usually they're the worse kind of immigrants because they refuse to integrate.
An immigrant joins a country
An emigrant leaves a country
OP doesn't know where they're going, just that they're leaving a country. Because of that "potential emigrant" is the pedantically correct term for now.
When/if OP enters another country, he would be an immigrant to that country and an emigrant from the US.
They say "expat" in new country because they don't want to call themselves immigrants searching for a better life, even when they're open about that being what they're doing. And they get to keep "US" in front of it which is a huge bonus for some people despite America's reputation.
But once over there when talking to people also over there, they should be identifying as an immigrant.
Doing anything else, is only going to make friends with other "US expats" like the boomer communities in Mexico where no one speaks Spanish and they put zero effort into fitting in. Wherever you go that paints a target on your back, not just for outright crime, but to get taken advantage of by locals at every opportunity.
Ironically they're often liable to keep complaining about how immigrants don't try to integrate in America, even after leaving.
They just want to live somewhere that they're "rich" compared to everyone else.
What if they call every one an expat? Something tells me those people you speak of will hold those opinions regardless of what OP does.
Thanks for the bump.
Not sure what you mean by "bump"
But I was being serious, don't run around calling yourself an expat unless you want people to assume you're racist and that you think lesser of all your new neighbors
It would be a very bad time for you personally, you would be alienating everyone in your new community.
But you go off I guess
Thanks for the bump.
Thanks for the bump.
Apparently "bump" is what 4chan calls replies?
Which honestly lines up with the "expat" and repeating the same reply over and over again. So since you won't explain I gotta go with that assumption and am.juat gonna block.
I truly hope you succeed in leaving America and that you can do it quickly.
Specifically, it 'bumps' the thread back up to the top of the list and keeps it from aging out for longer. The context here is 'thanks for signal boosting my opinion with engagement'
Thanks for the bump.