Your description of the author’s motivation for moving may be accurate - I don’t know. Having said that, I suggest you are not giving some ex-Pats due credit. Many are leaving because they have seen the destruction of what was once a great nation, and they choose to fight that battle from afar (which can be done now thanks to technology).
Many of the things that made America great are now more abundant elsewhere.
“I suggest you are not giving some ex-Pats due credit.”
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Ed, FR does have its share of “dog in a manger” guys.
I wonder if they ever think about America’s founding fathers or consider those expats that founded America?
Most of them left their home countries for what they considered a better life.
I re-read the article and high-minded mourning for the United States of yore didn’t leap out at me. But there are lots of references to cheap booze, cheap massages and haircuts, and women (presumably a lot younger) who are willing to marry rich old men — oops, sorry, I mean, KINGS.