Disingenuous and Hyperbolic Counterparts Explained
They are almost as disingenuous and hyperbolic as their romanticizing counterparts
Elizabeth Silleck La Rue
2/5/20261 min read
I saw another one today. I’m not going to link to it, because it proclaims to be based on data and research, but does not link to any of its sources.
It claims to have interviewed hundreds of “expats,” but we have no way of verifying that. The author also claimed to interview relocation companies — none of which were quoted or identified — who were couched as dishonest and evasive, except for anonymous whistleblowers who admitted their whole business models were scams.
The author does not regularly write about emigration, does not seem to have ever actually emigrated, and has no cohesive theme to any of his writing besides clearly being very interested in AI, money, and stoicism. I’m not sure how or why he would have committed this much time and energy to such a research project, if it is true.
Yet, he felt comfortable warning people who want to emigrate of the possibility of failure (returning to their original country) and waste (spending money on the emigration process and living abroad).
The framing of the purported expat interviewees’ emotional states was one of shame — people quietly returning to their home country with tails tucked between legs, embarrassed and broke. Naive hopefuls who depended on grifters for good advice and lost everything. The warning flashed red.
