{"id":6681,"date":"2026-03-23T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T03:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=6681"},"modified":"2026-03-24T22:15:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T05:15:04","slug":"another-nonsense-story-from-business-insider-we-moved-to-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2026\/03\/23\/another-nonsense-story-from-business-insider-we-moved-to-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Another nonsense story from Business Insider: We moved to France!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yes you too can leave the awful US and move to France! If only you’d married a French national too! A point they do not mention in this creative fiction: We Moved From California to France. We’re Saving Money and Working Less. – Business Insider<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was born in Singapore (which does not permit dual citizenship) and is a citizen of the US. Her husband is a citizen of France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As is the norm for this genre of BS stories, the US is awful – life in France is wonderful. If only you too were a global elitist married to a European, then you too can move to France!!!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another One!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The very next day, another one from Business Insider: <\/a>I Divorced and Left the US at 57 to Retire in Europe: Pros and Cons – Business Insider<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was already a dual citizen of Italy and the United States<\/a> – which is left out of the story. She also had extensive experience working internationally before this: (28) Experience | Lisa (Expat Whisperer) La Valle | LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another one!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Pros and Cons of Raising Children Abroad – Business Insider<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was already a dual citizen in Poland and her husband is a “native Spanish speaker” (Can guess why?) Duh. “In 2025, Oquendo and her husband decided to trade their American dream for a life in Europe and\u00a0moved to Spain<\/a>. Oquendo said she wanted to be closer to her Polish mother and to embrace a slower pace of life with fewer bills<\/em>.\u00a0“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Business Insider’s schtick is stupid stories about elite people, typically having immigration privileges, moving abroad and telling us how the US is horrible. That’s every BI “moved abroad” story!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Her husband is a French national and her visa was via the MRS VISA from marriage. They left this important fact out of the story, like all Business Insider “I moved abroad stories”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-globally-experienced","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6689,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6681\/revisions\/6689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}