Sounds fair enough, if you have lived in the area legally on a working visa for an extended period of time (say 12 months or longer).

I get bugged by the fact that, over here, British expats get to vote in Parliamentary elections. I don't mean the Armed Services stationed abroad, or the Crown Servants in embassies and consulates; they're there because they've been ordered there. But there are a good many folk who have chosen to live and work abroad whilst retaining British nationality, some over there in the Colonies, others in the Antipodes and some in Europe. The ones I dislike the most are the several thousand wealthy, middle-class retirees spread across the Costa Brava, Costa del Sol, the French and Italian Rivieras, Monaco, Tuscany, the Algarve, the Canaries, the Languedoc and the Caribbean to avoid paying taxes on their inflated private incomes and pensions. All of them religiously register annually as overseas voters and virtually every one of the rich, tax-dodging bastards votes Tory! (Maybe that's why it annoys me!). Do US expats enjoy the same unjustified privilege?