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Statistics - size of ex-pat community in Medellin, breakdown by nationality? just curious

Anybody know how many ex-pats live in Medellin more than half time? How about a break down by nationality?

By joelg on Jul 17, 2008, 17:33 in Friendly Talkzone.

paulr says on Jul 17, 2008, 18:14:

I´m a British ex pat living in Medellin, no idea how many ex-pats out there but i´m guessing in the low 1000´s that come and go every year. I´ve lived here for nearly a year after traveling for 3 1/2 backpacking around the world, i chose Medellin over LOTS of places around the world but nothing came close to the Latin Culture. It ended up with a choice between Salta in north Argentina and Medellin, Medellin won.

"paulr threatens me with death !" pobrecito

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adrimm (☼Travelguide writer) says on Jul 17, 2008, 18:50:

I think DANE tracks it, but they don't release it by nationality. I know that a whopping ( 4% I think) of all residents in Chapinero Bogota, are foreign-born. I think I have the link to the stats page in one of my past posts.

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adrimm (☼Travelguide writer) says on Jul 17, 2008, 19:03:

Yes you can find it, I tried to paste the direct link but it didn't work.. but they have the break-down. There is a total of 60,000 foreigners living in all of Antioquia. .. they do list some nationalities but the UK isn't among them.

http://190.25.231.242/cgibin/RpWebEngine.exe/PortalAction?&MODE=MAIN&B...

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adrimm (☼Travelguide writer) says on Jul 17, 2008, 19:11:

Under the left hand column select the information you want:

Emigracion Internacional (bold) ****choose this****

- Hogares con emigrantes
- Personas que eran miembros del hogar residentes en el exterior
- Emigrantes por pais y periodo ***** choose this*****
- Porcentaje de Hogares con Experiencia migratoria

A table will come up:
- "Nivel Gepgrafica de Salida" (in bold) choose "Departamento-Municipio-Class"
- "Seleccion geografica" (in bold): choose the Department
- "Opciones de Porcentage" (in bold): choose valor absoluto
- "Filtro" - leave it empty
- "Formato de Salida": choose "tabla"

Click Ejecutar and voila!!!

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joelg says on Jul 17, 2008, 20:17:

good job! thanks!

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adrimm (☼Travelguide writer) says on Jul 17, 2008, 21:29:

I just ran it another way - and got 8,000..I may have misunderstood and the 60,000 in the first run may the number of people who have emigrated *away* from Antioquia (which is lower than I would expect).

This second run was done using another format from the left-hand menu

ENSO GENERAL 2005 FECHA CENSAL - POBLACION Y VIVIENDA (bold)
--Características Básicas
---Variables de Vivienda
---Variables de Persona ****choose this****

- Variables drop down, choose "donde nacio"
- Geographic scale: blank
- Geographic location: Antioquia

Also depending on how good your spanish is you should probably check the definitions -

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dwmte7 says on Jul 18, 2008, 03:37:

for my first 3 years in colombia...'89 through 92, i WAS the ex pat community, with the exception of some of the older american wives, married to colombians. some had been there since the late 40's and early 50's...by that time, these lovely women had become pura paisas. raised their children and grandchildren and in some cases their great grand children.

most had prettymuch forgotten about their birthplace.

the first foreigners i saw, were the dope flyboys who would come through periodically on one of their 'hauls'....too, an occassional gringo--narco--would hold up at the hotel inter while they did their business. also, i forgot, there were occassional chinese business men trying to sell their wares. me? just another gringo cum paisa.

dwmte

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Ctg Bound says on Jul 18, 2008, 08:12:

Probably several thousand foreigners living in Medellin.

The British consulate has about 190 living here, I am not registered or another English guy I know, so there are far more than 190 people with UK passports living in Medellin, although most of those I expect are Colombians with UK passpots.

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dwmte7 says on Jul 18, 2008, 16:37:

i'm from the black community...jesse jackson says i'm a nigger.

dwmte

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adrimm (☼Travelguide writer) says on Jul 18, 2008, 21:13:

jack_jason - Yep I totally agree - a veritable wealth of information. I think alot of people would be surprised to see such a sophisticated online query & reporting tool from what is a "developing" country!

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Desideria (Moderator) (Trustee board) says on Jul 19, 2008, 06:10:

Fascinating....
Valle and Cali have almost double as many foreign-born people living there than Medellin and Antioquia.

"When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?"(First Witch in Macbeth)

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dwmte7 says on Jul 19, 2008, 06:58:

i was playin above with all the bs about j jackson and the n word.

dwmte

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