Friday evenings here are especially lively, as it turns into a virtual crawling carnival with expat workers loading up on socks, T-shirts and knock-off Calvins on their day off.

The Taipei Baboons were established in the early 1990s by expat workers from Toulouse in France.

The Amsterdam staff consists mostly of expat workers supporting, among others, the failed Sayso review website.

So, in Angola for instance, no business is allowed unless it was a majority Angolan partner; there is a strict quota to expat workers (just this week they expelled around 30 illegal expat workers).

It now is also not uncommon to see Spaniards frequenting English and bilingual activities, especially in respect to culture, alongside expat workers and their families.

There is more sexual violence against women in East Jerusalem (an expat worker got badly attacked while I was there), but as said above, your main problem is hassle rather than violence.

Singapore's government has bowed to local pressure and tightened rules on the hiring of expat workers in the rich city-state.

Hong Kong is home to thousands of expat workers, many filling crucial positions in its thriving banking and finance sector, but the relentless grey haze which hangs over the former British colony could be increasingly driving those who can afford it to settle elsewhere.