Zugereister

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In countries where German is spoken (basically Germany, Switzerland and Austria), a Zugereister (literal translation from German: "someone who has travelled here [and stayed]") is someone who, for whatever reason (job, marriage, free will), has moved to a different region and settled there for good. They will have no or hardly any difficulty communicating with the locals but will forever be recognized by their accent and regarded by them as "not one of us". A man is ein Zugereister, a woman eine Zugereiste.

However, this phenomenon mainly applies to rural areas, whereas people who move to the large cities are usually not stigmatized according to where they come from.

The term is mainly used in Bavaria and applies to people from everywhere, even from other parts of Germany. For people from the North of Germany, an alternative term is "Saupreiß" (a derogative term for inhabitants of Prussia).

The word exists in many regional variants (e.g. "Immi" in Cologne).