What's a rex-pat?

According to the experts

"A rex-pat is a returning expatriate, an ex-pat has been here, goes home to America, takes a job, maybe goes to law school, maybe does well in America but can't get Prague out of his or her blood and returns to Prague to live again."

-Alan Levy, in film Rex-patriates (2004)

Alan Levy is the father and leading expert on Prague's expatriate movement of the 1990's. Levy is the former editor-in-chief of The Prague Post. It was Levy who coined the phrase "Prague, the Left Bank of the 90's" in the Post's first issue. The message rang out like a clarion call, attracting thousands of young North Americans from Nova Scotia to the Golden Gate.

Phylis Gardner

PhD candidate, School for Pathology and Psychosis, East-North Anglia College

"Well what Levy calls rex-pats are nothing more than expats who went home and simply couldn't make it. The failures in question return to Prague because the city allows them to live in a sort of perpetual adolescence. In my research I've discovered that something like 28% of all Prague ex-pats who leave the city return within two years, a terrifying statistic."

Phylis Gardner currently moves back and forth between Prague and London doing research on her dissertation "Ex-Patriotism in Prague: a dysfunctional co-dependency of cross-fertilizations during the pre and post millennial period