

Tom Bolger is a British expat who moved to Catalunya to focus on his climbing career. He's redpointed numerous ninth-grade routes up to 9a+ (Gancho Perfecto). He's also a former GB Climbing Team member.
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Well done Tom, excellent work. Looks like superb climbing on an amazing wall.
UKC, how come you're referring to Tom as an expat? Are all the connotations around that word not enough to just not use it anymore, and refer to everyone as migrant workers or whatever? I appreciate the dictionary definition if the word, but it's clear the reality is that it's preserved for white northern Europeans working abroad.
"Migrant worker Tom Bolger",
Or "Tom Bolger".
..........coming over here, taking our jobs, stealing our projects...........
Migrant Worker isn't the correct term though. Migrant worker implies that the primary reason for the move was to look for work, however it states that he moved to Catalonia in order to climb. Therefore, if you must stick a suffix on, 'Migrant Climber' would convey the message you are trying to convey better than 'Migrant Worker' which is misleading for the sake of political correctness. Or, if we take Expat to mean 'someone who has moved abroad for a jolly', that works pretty well