I've found I really don't get on very well with "expat" Brits¹, but "immigrant" ones are fine.
Partly, it's that the "expat" ones tend to be working in a bank for a year or two, and just talk about money, but I also think you're exactly right about the unspoken assumption. When I meet "expat" British people I feel like I'm one step away from a comment like, "oh, you actually like the pickled fish? I haven't dared to try it myself" or, "no, we don't really like the beaches -- too much nude sunbathing".
And this is in Denmark. Further away, this presumably translates to living in a compound, sending the children to a British private school and a social life revolving around the English Pub.
French and German friends have grumbled about emigrants like this from their countries, but I'm unlikely to meet them. Last year I was given a menu in "Nordic" in a restaurant in Greece, based on the brand of backpack I was carrying -- it turned out there was a Danish/Swedish/Norwegian "enclave" nearby.
¹ And Canadian, American, Australian, and to a smaller extent New Zealand or Irish -- they exist, but there are more British people here than all the others combined.
Partly, it's that the "expat" ones tend to be working in a bank for a year or two, and just talk about money, but I also think you're exactly right about the unspoken assumption. When I meet "expat" British people I feel like I'm one step away from a comment like, "oh, you actually like the pickled fish? I haven't dared to try it myself" or, "no, we don't really like the beaches -- too much nude sunbathing".
And this is in Denmark. Further away, this presumably translates to living in a compound, sending the children to a British private school and a social life revolving around the English Pub.
French and German friends have grumbled about emigrants like this from their countries, but I'm unlikely to meet them. Last year I was given a menu in "Nordic" in a restaurant in Greece, based on the brand of backpack I was carrying -- it turned out there was a Danish/Swedish/Norwegian "enclave" nearby.
¹ And Canadian, American, Australian, and to a smaller extent New Zealand or Irish -- they exist, but there are more British people here than all the others combined.