i have seen the same thing with expats in thailand- and they are usually the ones as has been said that dont speak the local lingo and dont immerse themselves into the culture they are living in.
many also have a superiority complex in thinking that cos the locals are generally poorer they are beneath their contempt.
of course naturally as us blokes get older we tend to view things from the past with rose tinted glasses- for example- i think that the music today is ***** whereas the music from the 80's when i was growing up was terrific
Originally Posted by sparky
, for the most part. Like YOU, my son and daughter both grew-up into teenagers in the 1980s ... and I noticed on 'Facebook' just the other day [she was obviously too modest to tell me herself!] that the latter recently won a competition on Eighties' music - held by some organisation in Aberdeenshire (where she now lives). For ME, though, there'll never QUITE be anything that can compete with "Sounds of the Sixties" 
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... except ... perhaps ... 'Abba' - (even better!) in the 70s!
