Expatriates who behave like spoilt brats when away from home

The expatriate gets bored very quickly, because as everyone knows, relative wealth gives you a sense that you must spend this often ill-gotten gain, that you must always be active and ‘doing or buying something’.

Many recent European expatriates in Kenya have arrived after over a year of almost total Covid-19 lockdown, during which they weren’t allowed out of their homes to do anything but wave at neighbours.