Xpat Glory Days

I am enjoying the new trashy Budapest gossip site way too much.

Way back when, before people started stripping the "e" off of "expat" - or just getting rid of the horrid word entirely - the life of a western expatriate in a place like Budapest was a blissfully uncomplicated affair. Such folks, mostly foreign businessmen, spent their days looting state assets, building market share for their brands of consumer do-dads, and otherwise helping to bring these withered post-communist states back into the Western fold. And then they would leave their offices and have nasty animal sex with local gals dazzled by their unimaginable riches and regular use of underarm deodorant.

The picture above is from a sexy party thrown by xpatloop.com. I am still looking into that. (The site, not the picture.)