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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Uh well - bye1
Where is Mr. Quainn?
Good to know one Trump-hating family punched their exit card.
66 million plus to go.
Stock up on your tuna fish.
>>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
If you can afford to go “hopping from one vacation rental to the next” then you are already independently wealthy and living an American dream.
Bet you she still votes in 2018 from abroad.
Doesn’t sound like she changed her citizenship.
Just hysteric about Trumps hiding under her bed in America.
Talk about cognitive dissonance. Hope it lasts 8 years.
For the record...I just returned from a 4 month stay in Colombia. Most I know and have met are pro Trump. A common saying is “we need a Trump”.
I was driving thru some mountains..coffee growing region and stopped for lunch at a roadside joint at an intersection. The owner spoke perfect English! An American from NJ....retired in her old home country. Very pro Trump!
Her poor kids will grow up brain washed beyond help. We can only hope they rebel sooner rather than later.
Trash this trashing venue.
I have watched some episodes of House Hunters International on HGTV.
It has given me the idea that some people just want to uproot their kids because they view it as a status symbol, something to check off on their parenting resume.
(”Oh yes, Johnny and Sally speak perfect Spanish/German/Mandarin because we tore them away from our comfortable neighborhood when they were a very vulnerable age!”)
Gee...we’re so much the poorer having lost these fine people!
Funny how they are not traveling in the middle east, africa or central america...
I keep telling Trump hating liberals that Germany, Sweden and England are wonderful diverse places to move to... but they keep not going over there...
I feel glad that we are rid of this clown and her traveling circus, but I suspect the NTT means for us to feel bad or sad that they left.
The quains lived in a progressive utopian Seattle and they couldn’t take it! Hope they enjoy Venezuela
Does anyone really care? I’ve never heard of her even after looking up her name....some kind of world traveler.
Trump has been in office one yer and three months. How many "annual" conventions have these people had?
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