2 thoughts .<p>Immigrant: person who&#x27;s moved to a new country indefinitely<p>Expat: person who&#x27;s moved to a different country temporarily<p>Also a 2nd definition from my personal experience<p>Expat: a person sent temporarily to another country by their company. Usually they are in $300k+ a year job and their company pays their relocation expenses and their rent.<p>As someone who has lived abroad for 8 years of my own choice, in other words I don&#x27;t fit that 2nd definition of &quot;expat&quot;, it was an eye opener how the 1% lives because there are entire industries set up to cater to them. Before I lived abroad I never saw that but living abroad all the English magazines target those type 2 expats and are full of ads for services far far beyond anything I could possibly afford. Example: ads for apartments starting at $6k a month to $20k a month plus.  So, suddenly I was acutely aware of just how big a different there is.