I'm frequently bemused by the number of new topics which are posted here each day and completely confabulated by the number of daily posts. There are a lot of people doing HUGE amounts of communicating here, at whatever level, yet the only thing that we have in common is that we (well, most of us) were born in a small group of islands between the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.
So - does anyone know if other nationalities carry on like this? Do the Greeks, Italians, Chinese, Vietnamese at all have similarly well-patronised ex-pat sites, or is it (another) peculiarly British habit?

Not too sure but you could check the other forums?

Cheers

Ginny

I actually think not everyone who posts on here is British ! I could be wrong though!!
Whats so perculiar about this site ? I find it extremley helpful and encouraging going through this whole visa progress!!

Kris

Hmmmmm interesting point......

Kris, you're right, there are lots of other nationalities posting on here, but I've not heard of "French Expats" or other forums along those lines, although can't say I've looked for them either...

Non siamo tutti inglesi qui.

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Think theres a couple of Dutch forums - Simone talks of them sometimes.

Got the general gist but enlighten me properly PLEEEEEEASE

Only for a couple more karma hits

Ok you tart, I've sent you some

It's nothing that exciting I'm afraid. All it says is "We're not all English here".

Thanks for the Karma though

I did say "most of us"..............and if you're not Bringlish, can you tell us about similar sites for (I assume) Italians?? Please???

I work with a Russian lady and while I peruse BE, she has a squizz on the Russian forum. I know she has spoken about the meets that they have too and that's how she met fellow newbies. I am South African, but was living in the UK when I applied for my visa and found BE by chance....

I'm from the Philippines and got here because when I was looking for info about OZ visas, most of the posts in usenet seem to come from here... so i just ignore the BE title and post my questions here nilly-willy.... moderators havnt kicked me out yet so I suppose its ok hehehehhe


Cheers,
Ron.

P.S. Ive seen at least one other Filipino here and other posters from other countries so I guess BE is not strictly/purely Brit-expat populated... there are others who found the site very informative and the people here quite helpful

I'm one of the non-British.

I came on here looking for visa info. Then got stuck..!!

There were some Dutch message boards, but not with as much info as this forum.
Now, since a year, there's also a Dutch expats forum. It's growing very quickly, and people are holding meets just like people from this forum do.
There's a few Belgiums on their too, but no other nationalities I think, but that's just cos nearly noone else can speak Dutch