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Some Say They'd Flee Trump's America. These People Actually Did
New York Times ^ | 04/12/2018 | Ronda Kaysen

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: america; colombia; flee; lizzquain; medellin; trump
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To: a fool in paradise

“Where is Mr. Quinn?”

A window opened at the fertility clinic and “he came out in a plastic cup along with a turkey baster!”


61 posted on 04/14/2018 7:48:50 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: SeekAndFind
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.

Thereby increasing the average IQ of both the United States and her host countries.

62 posted on 04/14/2018 7:49:56 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Psephomancers for Hillary!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ms. Quain is a terrific role model and more Progressives should follow her example. Buh-bye!


63 posted on 04/14/2018 7:52:13 AM PDT by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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To: SeekAndFind

“Mom, why do we live in a sh**hole?”

“Can we go back to America now?”


64 posted on 04/14/2018 7:52:55 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (My "White Privilege" is my work ethic.)
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To: goldstategop

Stay Gone, honey. You are part of the PROBLEM-—NEVER part of the SOLUTION!!!


65 posted on 04/14/2018 8:01:45 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: a fool in paradise

In a turkey baster somewhere in her sock drawer.


66 posted on 04/14/2018 8:02:37 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s ridiculous to leave because the head of a semi-democratic state changes. I guess they’d be pretty happy in Russia or Venezuela.


67 posted on 04/14/2018 8:04:16 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: SeekAndFind

Who cares? Get out and stay out. By the way, turn in your passports. What a loser and hypocrite.


68 posted on 04/14/2018 8:06:11 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: MAGAthon

Wow, that is sad. Worse than watching it is having to PAY for that caca.


69 posted on 04/14/2018 8:06:12 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: SeekAndFind
said it is fed up with what it described as a stifling consumerist culture, is now figuring out how to start a business selling products through Amazon to same said consumerist culture...

what a douche

70 posted on 04/14/2018 8:11:57 AM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: SeekAndFind

She couldn’t take one of America’s liberal bastions, Seattle.


71 posted on 04/14/2018 8:26:10 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (DACA is going to be a riot!)
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To: 2banana

Funny how they are not traveling in the middle east, africa or central america..
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I moved to Central America right after Obama’s second election, but not BECAUSE of his election. I voted for Trump, and will again. I have been disparaged innumerable times, often on this forum, for that move. I’ve been called un-American, un-patriotic, a tax evader, a narco, even a child molester for my decision. None of those are true. I moved because half my family live here, and I’m in a better position to help them if needed from here than there.

I’m an American, and will always be American.

Contrary to the arrogant belief of some, people here are not frothing at the mouth to get into the United States. Most of those who are frantic to enter the US “paradise” are not the people you would want anyway, but they are the minority. I live in a beautiful rural setting among the Lenca/Maya people, and live much as they do, which would not suit the vast majority of Americans’ choice of lifestyle.

Please don’t berate ALL emigrants and expats merely for their choice to leave, not knowing their reasons and circumstances. Not all are raving leftist loons.


72 posted on 04/14/2018 8:59:29 AM PDT by Gideon300
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To: SeekAndFind

When will all of the celebrities who promised to move leave too?


73 posted on 04/14/2018 9:18:50 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: SeekAndFind
if our education system improves

She can thank liberalism, which is fueled by mindless bots known as democRATs, for our failed educational system.

Third world mongrels who have flooded our system, entitlement ghetto rats who cannot be disciplined, the equivalent of "participation trophies" in academics so that all students get to have a healthy self-esteem....... All this is because of liberals high jacking our schools.

She's a typically stupid liberal, not understanding what she's saying.

74 posted on 04/14/2018 9:46:19 AM PDT by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Slacker socialist seeks new grounds the hunt for free stuff never ends dies hungry.


75 posted on 04/14/2018 10:04:30 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: SeekAndFind

bump


76 posted on 04/14/2018 12:57:23 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (We're even doing the right thing for them. They just don't know it yet. --Donald Trump, CPAC '18)
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