Expatriates Stack Exchange

Nice wealthy people from nice rich countries are "Expats". People from poor countries are "immigrants". It's an interesting language hack society developed.

It&#x27;s hard to imagine how it could survive. Even the Startups site (supposedly) didn&#x27;t meet the StackExchange criteria because it only averaged 4.9 questions&#x2F;day:<p><a href="http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/6243/startup-business" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;area51.stackexchange.com&#x2F;proposals&#x2F;6243&#x2F;startup-busin...</a><p>StackExchange replaced Q&amp;A sites that were completely backward in their approach (eg. requiring signups to see answers), but StackExchange itself is becoming a little bit backward. Questions that might involve some healthy discussion rather than a straightforward answer get shut down too easily, and they forfeit decent sites (eg. Startups, after 3 years!) just because they didn&#x27;t meet some arbitrary minimum activity criteria. The data dump download doesn&#x27;t even work, so now there&#x27;s just a tonne of information that people contributed which is lost.<p>(edit: data dump download actually does work, but it&#x27;s still such a waste to discard the momentum, Google indexing, etc.)

I have been both an &quot;expat&quot; and an immigrant (UAE, Qatar, Libya). Here is the difference. As an &quot;expat&quot; I never intended to stay in the country for long. As a young immigrant I went to South Africa settled bought a house had kids and businesses and eventually became a citizen.

I like to read &#x2F;top&#x2F;month or &#x2F;top&#x2F;year&#x2F; of many subreddits. With StackExchange there is only top, and I can&#x27;t see a way to come back a long time later and see what&#x27;s new in highly liked questions. Are there any third party sites that cater to this?<p>Relevant because I imagine I&#x27;ll read the top questions now, and again in a year with many questions coming up both times.

My instincts are that country-&gt;country specific forums are more valuable. Americans in Italy, like me, or Australians in Germany, or Canadians in Spain, or whatever. Because a lot of the value in these things is helping navigate the local bureaucracy, culture, and lifestyle for someone who is new to it.

What&#x27;s up with stackexchange menu bar? It is in unknown to me language (if language at all).<p>But if I view the source code or copy, I get plain English, what the hell?<p>Example: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/Gcyrwpe.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;Gcyrwpe.jpg</a>

Very nice, like it. Already came across some helpful questions and answers.