Joe Parkinson
speaker
207 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 2d ago
Joe Parkinson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And as we went through that data, a historical pattern began to emerge.
This is not a new story entirely.
What's changed to magnify the numbers in recent years really are big shifts in technology and things like remote work that you can now work for an American company but be based in Lisbon, in Bali, Mexico City.
That wasn't really possible five years ago, let alone 20 years ago.
The kind of Americans that are doing this has really changed.
Once upon a time, it used to be very well credentialed people, perhaps on assignments for blue chip companies or retirees.
Now it's people of all stripes, young families, students, single people.
I think affordability is a big one.
There's also a sense of safety.
One motif that kept coming up with young families was the idea of gun violence, which has become more and more of a problem.
There was also the idea there weren't life balance.
They'd be able to get away from the perception in America that your time is very, very squeezed.
And then there's the unavoidable situation.
issue of political volatility.
You know, what is wrong to say, I think, is that this is just a very recent phenomena or a Trump phenomena.
That is a very partial and politicized kind of slant on this.
That is definitely a push factor for some people, but it does not explain the totality of this phenomenon.
You're seeing this in Portugal, Italy, places that have been popular for a long time, like the UK, Canada, Mexico, Ireland.
But it's also happening in places that you wouldn't perhaps know.
Record numbers we see in Vietnam, in the Philippines, in Bali, even in places like Albania.
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