The restless expats have now an official name: GNE (Global Nomadic Expatriates)

[via frog blog] Tim Leberecht points at the qualities (as defined by a Mercer study) of these kind of people who can’t stay put for more than two years in once city and need more and more excitement as they burn stages in their life. Interesting to see its pros and cons.

The rosy I-am-a-citizen-of-the-world side:
"For GNEs, home is where they're going to, not where they're coming from. They move on for the sake of moving on, always on the hunt for the better opportunity, the richer cultural fabric, the more exotic and adventurous experience."

The not-so-glamorous side:
"The unhappiest people I know these days," writes Pico Iyer in The Global Soul, "are often the ones in motion, encouraged to search for a utopia outside themselves."