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Alice Goldbloom's avatar

Please Americans VOTE. So you are not faced with this type of decision.

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We were expats with permanent retirement visas living in Nicaragua when Trump was elected. We were in New Zealand for a month the night he won. It was such a total shock and all the locals were as surprised, too. Unfortunately, we had to escape Nicaragua in 2018 because of a political rebellion…over 300 people were killed and many escaped to Costa Rica and the U.S. Our house is still on Ometepe Island. We turned it into a successful Airbnb for digital nomads, but we won’t return there if Trump would be elected. Nicaragua has a dictator, too, so we would be jumping from one fire into another.

Honestly, we are too old to jump into residency in another country again. We just because first time grandparents, so our best bet would be to sell our houses in Nicaragua and the states and move to Yosemite National Park with our son, daughter-in-law and new baby Theo. We can buy them a house and build a tiny home for us and continue to travel. Maybe CA would separate and become its own nation. Dreaming of course…I don’t expect much to change for us, but I fear for our children and grandchildren. I am hopeful that he won’t be elected. Cutting the cable and only reading independent journalists on Substack like Jay Kuo, Heather Cox Richardson, and Joyce Vance give me hope. We can do this!

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