Yeah I avoid people from my own country because they are mostly homophobes

I’m originally from Argentina but I haven’t been there in decades. I do not tend to mesh well with Argentinians. I prefer people from countries Argentinians would call “boring”. People who aren’t boastful and noisy and who are trustworthy.

I love seeing fellow dutchies when I’m abroad! But I agree with your sentiment somewhat. They complain quite a bit about trivial stuff and how different it is and netherlands does x or y better.

I’m American.
Never really clicked with other Americans well.

I moved to the UK and loved it.

Moving back to the US later was hard, because I still don’t deal with other Americans well.

Could it be that they share those complaints as a conversation topic given you are British too?

Most people miss familiar things when they become expats.

However, I had (past tense) a friend from the UK who emigrated to Canada and was complaining about immigration to the UK. He really couldn’t see the irony.

Back to the question. I don’t struggle with people from Mexico because I tend to socialize with people from everywhere (at our home parties we switch from English to French to Portuguese to Spanish to Mandarin) so the Mexicans I know are also “international” Mexicans. I guess we tend to associate with people similar to us.

Talking about irony and associating with similar people, here is an observation for awarwness. Did you notice that you are whining about how whiny people from the UK are?

I’m a Brit in Japan and recently came back to visit family and all I’ve heard from them is complaints every day and it’s honestly put me off coming home again. You are totally right about British people, it’s actually depressing how most people can’t look on the bright side of life over here and it’s even worse when we’re in another country.

I’m sort of British. My main complaint actually is that it feels like Brits avoid each other like the plague when they meet abroad. I live in the US and my city (Northeast) probably has thousands of Brits and yet it feels like there’s a pact to avoid each other and make minimal eye contact. It’s a marked difference to other large immigrant groups like the Germans who seem to always be around each other

Brit in Japan here.

In my experience, the Brits I’ve met here have run the gamut. Some have been absolutely stellar people who represent everything good about the “British personality” - whatever that is - whereas others have been (to use my own country’s terminology) tossers, and there’s been everything in between.

Conversely, of the Americans I’ve met (which is quite a lot), they’ve been of a fairly consistent standard, so to speak. Most of them have been pretty decent types, but the exceptions have been…exceptional.

So, make of that what you will!

Whinging poms

Yeah, I’m tired of people from my source living in my destination country complaining about my source country.

They seem to forget how rubbish the source country is.

Names left out because one of them may come whine in my ear and I have to much of a headache for it haha