One of the joys of living the ex-patriot (aka immigrant!) life here in Majorca is that you get to meet people from across the UK practically all the time. Think about it, if you were living in London, Leeds or Liverpool, more than likely you would usually only mix with folk that were generally from the same area. When you decided to migrate south to the Mediterranean, it may not have occurred to you that even your fellow Brits weren’t exactly the same as you were used to at home. I have to say that I find it touching that most of our Spanish hosts think that because we are British, we are all of the same mind, or of the exact same purpose under the benevolent gaze of Her Majesty the Queen. In fact, for that very same reason we are bound to be friends, or at least friendly with each other to the exclusion of all others. Sorry, wrong! Many Brits living abroad are on occasions very suspicious of each other. Think about it; we have here on this island a British community that approximates the numbers of a small British town. Yet in living here for almost two decades, I have witnessed some petty jealousies and illogical tribal posturing than I would have never expected before I arrived here. Maybe that’s because we are domiciled away from home and living in an ex-pat bubble; indeed do we become afflicted with what can only be described as an embarrassing level of small town syndrome?
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Do we Brits suffer from small town syndrome?
Palma27/11/2019 10:04
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