But in this global city today, the big real estate buyers are all from abroad.
Professor David Brown, a rabies expert at the HPA, said only four cases of human rabies acquired from dogs, all from abroad, had been identified in the UK since 2000.
Or will ministers at least set a target date for its implementation so we can prepare the ground for the day when we can all go abroad and speak other languages rather than simply speaking more slowly and loudly in English in the hope "Johnny foreigner" will understand?
But the project was stocked with expensive stars whose films haven't all fared well abroad.
These days, record numbers of students are studying abroad all over the world.
And while Groupon gives U.S. merchants their share of unredeemed vouchers, it keeps all such proceeds abroad.
Ireland, Portugal, Cyprus and Spain also all owe investors abroad a net sum of 80-100% of GDP (the gross debt is much larger).
G-8 foreign ministers' talks in New York this weekend turned down by a committee of the Diet, which must approve all ministerial trips abroad at times when the Diet is sitting.
In September the government established a new 15% tax on all purchases made abroad, affecting credit cards and purchases made on international websites like Amazon and eBay, and transactions made on Paypal.
To cap it all, a new investment law lets foreign contractors bring in labour from abroad but export all profits.
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The three-and-a-half-hour trip is so seamless it is hardly like travelling abroad at all.
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Small countries such as Jamaica, Trinidad and Senegal have seen half to three-quarters of all their graduates move abroad.
"I'm keeping in touch weekly with all of the non-playing staff, as are all the other players abroad, " he said.
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Many mid-market brands have already moved almost all of their production abroad.
Remittances from abroad are all that keep the economy afloat.
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And we have an obligation to them, to their families, and all other Americans serving abroad to figure out exactly what happened, and learn from those mistakes so that we can prevent this from happening again.
We as people and lovers of the kingdom of Cambodia should be optimistic and have faith in the new king, it does not matter if his passions are dancing or the fact that he lived abroad, all that matters is that now he knows his duties and he is promising prosperity and hope for the kingdom of Cambodia.
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They're all people who might not have had the opportunity to travel abroad - and they've all turned their experiences into a scene from the country they visited for the play, The Poverty Monologues.
Mariella Burani, which makes 70% of its sales abroad, outsources all of its production, about 70% to Italian firms.
By her own account Sanchez has on some 20 occasions been rejected for the much-detested exit visa that for decades was required of all islanders seeking to go abroad.
He is followed by two friends with candelabra and others carrying candles and lanterns, five choral singers who sing the Lamentation of the Virgin Mary at several points along the way, and many worshippers of all ages from Croatia and abroad wearing the tunics of religious brotherhoods.
Perhaps most surprising of all, Japanese firms are hunting abroad for new technology, traditionally their strong suit.
For all his shortcomings, he ranks abroad, if not at home, as the most respected American President in decades.
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These can consolidate for French tax purposes the profits and losses of all their affiliates at home and abroad.
Some estimates suggest that half of all money transfers from migrants living abroad are done outside the formal sector - that is, banks or money transfer firms.
It is unclear why Norway was targeted in the tape, but Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik, who visited Washington last week, said Wednesday he takes the threat seriously and has informed all embassies, companies and Norwegians abroad.
It is equally bizarre that Mr Spitzer and his fellow state attorneys-general should be able to extract cash from a Wall Street firm for their state coffers, when any damage done was to investors all over the country (and abroad).
The MoD's armed police force guard all defence locations in the UK and abroad.
And so the supposed friends of poor workers abroad are no friends at all.
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