Why are our CUK expatriates of such low quality?

[sasguru]

They're caught in the intellectual wasteland between unemployment and the middle class employee that has limited ability, spending his life running on a career treadmill as fast as they can but never really going anywhere. By becoming expats, it at least gives them the delusion of some sort of achievement because they are now somehow different to their intellectual compatriots back home.

Quite. Particurlaly if they are from a disadvantaged background, poorly educated and not very travelled, even a dull Teutonic country might seem like the height of glamour
I suppose as they grow up, they'll see the bigger picture.

[scooterscot]

Ha the green monster has awoken for breakfast.

[aussielong]

Patently lacking basic literacy and numeracy skills, generally poorly educated, certainly not in the top 20%, I can see why they they need to seek work abroad.
But it seems that if people of such poor quality need to be employed by the host country, that host country must be doomed in the long run.
Maybe the best companies in any country will hire the best talent and the mediocrites will work for the second and third tiers?

At my comprehensive school, they taught us never to start a sentence with "and" or "but".

[Troll]

At my comprehensive school, they taught us never to start a sentence with "and" or "but".

Presumably yours was not an "inner city comprehensive"

[Old Greg]

I think people of intelligence can distinguish between typos and literacy

Not just people of intelligence, apparently.

[Old Greg]

At my comprehensive school, they taught us never to start a sentence with "and" or "but".

They were wrong.

[sasguru]

Ha the green monster has awoken for breakfast.

That statement rather proves OracleSlave's point, I think.

[Churchill]

They were wrong.

And you are quite correct!

[Old Greg]

That statement rather proves OracleSlave's point, I think.

Do you mean 'proves' as in 'tests'? Or do you mean 'illustrates'? I doubt you mean 'proves' in the normal sense of the word.

[EternalOptimist]

What do you call an ex-pat who stops working abroad ?