According to Victoria Férauge, a Paris-based writer who edits the Association of American Residents Overseas, (AARO’s) newsletter and her own widely read The Franco-American Flophouse blog, FATCA is making life abroad for American citizens so complicated that for many giving up their nationality is no longer seen as a taboo.

The American Diaspora Meets a Polarized America


Please, homelanders, stop and think for a moment and use your common sense:
Since when do billionnaires watch other people’s children, teach English or grade undergraduate papers?

Allow me to point out the arrogance here. Homelanders seem to be saying that our diaspora (Americans abroad) is special and totally unlike any other developed country’s diaspora being composed entirely of A. criminals and B. the idle rich.

Hate to break the bubble, folks, but Americans abroad are just as diverse as Americans in the homeland. We come in all shapes, sizes, colors, creeds and (yes, Virginia) income levels. And however we came to cast ourselves on distance shores, the reality is that most of us have to work for a living. Just like you.



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