10 Types of Expat -- Which One Are You?

Interestingly, less than 10% of expats are like our Armenian restaurateur who relocated in the name of love. If I look at a cross-section of my own friends, one (maybe two) out of 20 left behind their home country for love. The others are evenly distributed across the other nine categories.

Naturally, the 10 categories are not 100% inclusive — there will always be people who don’t fit neatly into one — but considering the size of the survey, it is the most representative data we have. Which type of expat are you? Or, if you haven’t yet taken the plunge, which would you likely be in the future?

This article originally appeared on Atlas & Boots — Travel with Abandon and is republished here with permission.