Jeannette Cooperman at The Common Reader:
“How would you feel about living in another country?”
My husband has been worrying for quite some time about—brace for the list—growing social and political instability, rising healthcare and food costs, vanishing protections (for civil rights, the environment, a free press, the arts, food safety, disaster relief, science, and education), and the increasingly atavistic attitude of many Americans. Besides, since boyhood my history-loving husband has yearned to live in a country with a slower pace of life, one that honored custom and tradition without being xenophobic. “A shame,” he used to mock-sigh, “that the Duchy of Grand Fenwick exists only in fiction.”
Now, though, Andrew is serious. And I am overwhelmed. Abandon our friends? Disassemble a house packed with books and the accumulated stuff of a lifetime? The farthest I have ever moved was a fifty-minute drive from our previous home. I am not the transient type.
And yet, in less than a week, I fall in love with the idea.
More here.
Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.