Posted on 04/15/2018 12:29:43 AM PDT by SmarterJr
Peering into a webcam, her face intermittently frozen over an iffy Skype connection in Medellin, Colombia, Lizz Quain was explaining not long ago why she uprooted her 9-year-old twins almost a year and a half ago to travel the world. Ms. Quain, who is in her 40s, owned a childrens play cafe and preschool near Seattle before she renounced her American middle-class existence in August 2016, fed up with what she described as a stifling, consumerist culture.
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If a bunch of Trump haters want to leave the U.S., I’ll eagerly volunteer to hold the door open so it doesn’t hit them in the ass when the pass through towards their new “greener pastures”. I’m retired, too old to rejoin the Navy and need something to do that helps out country.
-——— Mr. Jernstrom said from Chile. But this trip has made me appreciate so much about how much we have in the U.S. Its made me feel like I want to go back to the U.S. and make things better at home”
Bull**** header,it is NOT about escaping Trump’s America at all.
Lordy.I hate the New York Times.
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They hated the consumerism of America before Trump came into office, couldn’t afford to live in California... before Trump. Lost jobs, collected inheritances. And can afford to do this because of the very particular American economy.
Yeah, if was pi$$ed enough at the US to leave, Mediien, Columbia is the first place I’d relocate to. Apparently neither Canada nor Europe is woke enough.
Bye-Bye.....call back in 10 years and tell us how it turned out.....
Examples please....
Wanna bet they are on some sort of benefit program???????
I would BET that some of them indeed are. Like I said, I would have more respect for them if they renounced their citizenship and left to become citizens of other countries.
In this case, it is like a young person who knows that when they leave home, they can still go back anytime and pick up where they left off, paying no rent, watching tv all day and partying all night if the “going out into the world” thing doesn’t work out to their satisfaction.
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