rex-pat

informal Someone who leaves their birth country to live elsewhere, returns home, and then leaves again. A portmanteau of "repeat expatriate." Ernest Hemingway was a famous rex-pat. He left the US for Europe, returned to Florida, and then lived in several other countries before finally settling in Idaho, where he died.

See also:

elephant ear
read the tea leaves
rake off
rake-off
one for the (tea)pot
happy trails
snowbird
leave (something or someone) standing
leave somebody/something standing
leave someone or something standing

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