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How disconnected can boomers be from reality for her situation to be something she'd feel legitimately entitled to complain publicly about? How disconnected is the Business Insider journalist that heard her and thought "wow, that's newsworthy"??

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[-] leadore@lemmy.world 68 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I mean, she had a remote (US) job and lost the job, and is now having trouble finding a new job at age 55. She'd still be in the same situation even if she was still living in CA except she'd be worse off in CA from the higher cost of living. So this story doesn't really have anything to do with the implication in the headline that moving to Panama was somehow a mistake.

[-] paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago

Thank you for reading the article (or making up a cool counterfactual, I don't know which because I didn't read it)

[-] gramie@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 years ago

In 3 years, she hasn't learned enough Spanish to be able to work. I wonder if she spent her time hanging out with other English speakers. And of course her visa probably doesn't even allow her to work in Panama.

I was looking at moving down to Panama, and I even visited a few times. But it certainly isn't a cheap place to live any more. That would be especially true if you expected to maintain a North American standard of living, like she probably does.

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

Sounds like she wasn’t ready to retire then

[-] Assman@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 years ago

Learn to code bitch

[-] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

60 years old isn't a boomer.

[-] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

Boomers are born 1946-64, youngest boomers are age 60

[-] Mannimarco@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago
[-] DrBob@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Was an independent contractor working for a single company. Only joined LinkedIn in the past year.

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