Home? WHICH ONE.
Visa.
What it used to mean: A type of credit card.
What it means when you're an ex-pat: The single most important (and expensive) piece of paper you own.
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Vacation.
What it used to mean: Time off from work or school, usually spent relaxing.
What it means when you're an ex-pat: Time from work or school during which you spend thousands of pounds to travel back to America and spend 14 days in your family home, surrounded by relatives, all of the time, usually spent relaxing not at all.
Also: Sometimes, to mix things up, it's actual family vacation. Yup.
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Dinner.
What it used to mean: A meal after lunch, and before your next breakfast.
What it means when you're an ex-pat: Something you rarely have any more because you keep grabbing "a drink" after work and have developed a strange relationship with the man who works at your local kebab restaurant.
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Beer.
What it used to mean: Miller Lite. Bud. Coors.
What it means when you're an ex-pat: A multifaceted invention that you soon learn fixes all, and can be found pretty much everywhere. It's how you've bonded with British people, and also how you've gained weight.
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