Meanwhile, it's a beautiful spring day here in NC. My plans today include mowing the yard and taking my mom for a drive in the country. After that, we might stop for ice cream. Trump's America sure sucks /s.
Posted on 04/14/2018 4:38:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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 children’s 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.
Once Donald J. Trump was elected president, she made a common liberal refrain — “If Trump wins, I’m leaving the country” — reality, deciding not to return home with her daughters, Aubrey and Gabriella. After traveling through Asia and Europe, she is now figuring out how to start a business selling products through Amazon to finance the life of an itinerant-by-choice single mother.
“If the G.O.P. gets out of office, if our education system improves, if we get universal health care, I’ll move back to the States because we’ll get tired of traveling,” Ms. Quain said. But until that utopian day arrives, “We’re unplugging from the Matrix.”
The Quains are not the only family that has of late dispensed with the trappings of the American dream (house, school, career) and gone nomad. Hopping from one vacation rental to the next or piling into R.V.s, they have sold or rented out their homes and unloaded most of their possessions, financing their travels with savings or work done remotely.
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she is now figuring out how to start a business selling products through Amazon to finance the life of an itinerant-by-choice single mother.
Cognitive dissonance.
Good for her.
And us.
That’s right, the facts in the story itself don’t support the story line (narrative) . Makes you wonder how stories like this get manufactured. Did the reporter start with a desired narrative and then went looking for the closest thing that that might support it?
Meanwhile, it's a beautiful spring day here in NC. My plans today include mowing the yard and taking my mom for a drive in the country. After that, we might stop for ice cream. Trump's America sure sucks /s.
Glad to be free of her idiocy!!!
Good riddance.
If I were starting over with kids, I’d spend at least a year out of our country so they could all add a second language early on.
Done right, it can be pretty cool.
My son was born in Sweden and has travelled widely. He’s been in 20-25 countries including being north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Equator.
And yes, he speaks English, Spanish and Swedish.
But it is all for a reason. He is one of the most grounded, mannered and thoughtful kids you could ever want to meet.
The difference is the baggage you take along. You can either choose to listen and learn about cultures, differences and history, or you can keep the same thoughts and beliefs and stay closed minded.
We chose the former.
Probably more like couldn’t afford it.
Isn’t it incredible what can be published in the NY Times??
Maybe it’s not longer surprising, but still difficult to believe, that an allegedly great paper can be such fishwrap.
she is now figuring out how to start a business selling products through Amazon
Her and 3 billion others around the world.
Seeing Latin America has been eye-opening. When Mr. Trump was elected, “we both felt like, ‘Gosh, maybe we want to move to Europe,’” Mr. Jernstrom said from Chile. But “this trip has made me appreciate so much about how much we have in the U.S. It’s made me feel like I want to go back to the U.S. and make things better at home.”
It starts like an anti-Trump screed but really shows two things - 1) People dissatisfied with their lives can find a less-expensive existence in other parts of the world and 2) The internet allows people who can make a living through the web to live virtually anywhere and still make a living.
FWIW, I'm making plans to leave the country once I retire and move to Central America where I can live reasonably well on just my pensions and social security. I can spend more of my time serving Christ instead of serving an employer since I won't have to punch a 40-hour clock in order to pay rent and afford health care.
It's not about who is in the White House. It's about how I can retire sooner and not fall into debt in my "golden years".
That’s the lifestyle of a lot of RV folks too...most of whom are likely Trump supporters.
They should move to Venezuela where they should feel right at home.
“You can either choose to listen and learn about cultures, differences and history, or you can keep the same thoughts and beliefs and stay closed minded.
So on target. I have (and still do) love to travel but getting older, married to someone who hates and fears international travel and with a fixed retirement income, I don’t do as much travel as I used to. I have always said that 2 weeks in a foreign country is a better educational experience than a year at college.
Some Say They’d Flee Trump’s America. These People Actually Did
Doing their best to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.
Aren’t they retirees?
Are they claiming to be ridding themselves of consumerist AmeriKKKa?
The REAL question is: Has ANYONE missed her, or really give a sh*t?
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