• I lived in New York for eight years, but moving to Colombia felt like a breath of fresh air. • My dollar stretches further in South America. • I've moved internationally before, and the decision came easily to me.

When I first moved to New York in 2017, I drank the Kool-Aid: work hard, play hard. I had just finished university and another journalism internship in Vienna, and flew across the Atlantic with one suitcase and my résumé in hand. It felt like a scene from a movie.

For eight years, I lived a Sex and the City lifestyle on a budget: strutting down the streets in high heels, heading to my first corporate job with fire and hope in my heart. I left for a scrappy PR agency, of which I'm now the Vice President. I also kept writing — not at a chic desk facing the window like Carri

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