So what is an expat? Someone who chooses to live in a foreign country, for a specific purpose, while retaining their citizenship in their home country.

My purpose is kind of complex, and you will find that most have a multi-facited reason I am an older American, long time computer programmer (45 years) who generally tries to get out of the road, when I see a bus coming.

As my financial situation started to change and I saw evil heading to take over my country, I started examining databases for another spot to go to hang out until the pendulum of life started to swing back to something tolerable.

I examined places I’d been (China, The Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Korea, Mexico, Columbia), and new places that promoted themselves to Expats, Digital Nomads, Tourists and the like. I tried to take into account the things that would impact me and via that improved the AI called Digitly Me, a system with parts of a AI I wrote in 1982 and mixed with Chatscript, an open source AI system that talks to the latest available AI's around the world, picked Cambodia. So far, so good.