Re: where to?

Wombat, I've thought about that a lot. My husband and I have considered moving to AK, which although it's not a foreign country, it's really quite separate from the Lower 48. We also came close to buying a farm in KS, we didn't do that because I got cold feet, and it just didn't feel like the right thing to do.

I have a customer who loves Brazil, the guy is quite wealthy, I gather he owns an airline, and he says you can live quite well there on not much. Brazillians also like jewelry, so we could probably make a living there. But I suspect that there will be no place where American expartiots will be welcome, we will be like the jews in WW2, hoping someone will take pity on us, and let us just eek out some sort of a life.

After a lot of thought, I think I'd rather just go through whatever is coming here, I'm an 'old' American, all grandparents and great grandparents born here, I'm nearly sixty, my family got here both sides before the revolutionary war, I just don't want to leave. I have no ties elsewhere. I tried to talk my daughter into immigrating to Canada, she's a tax attorney, and she could do that if she wanted to do so, but she wants to fight it out here, and I understand that also.

I'm not sure that I would leave if I were younger and had more options.

It is my country, whether it's recognizable at all to me right now, and who knows, maybe there will be something left after all of this worth rebuilding.

Julie Tweet