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INDONESIA – Not ‘Eat Pray Love’! Netizens slam American’s tweets on lavish lifestyle in Bali

Gisela Swaragita The Jakarta Post / Tue, January 19, 2021  

Taman Ayun Bali temple Phooto: Bali Tourism Board

BALI  – Indonesian netizens have gone into a rage accusing an American woman of disrespecting the local way of life by promoting a lavish lifestyle in Bali and encouraging other foreigners to move to the resort island.

Twenty-eight-year-old Kristen Gray wrote on her Twitter account @kristentootie on Sunday that the decision to move to Bali with her girlfriend had been a game-changer after what she called the “hardship” of living as a Black queer in the United States.

 She wrote that she could afford an “elevated lifestyle at much lower cost of living” in Bali while living the life of a digital nomad.

“There was an energy about the [United States] that I had to take a break from. Bali was the perfect medicine,” she wrote. “I also wanted to get out of survival mode and tap into how I could thrive.”    
Gray encouraged other Westerners to follow.

 https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2021/01/19/not-eat-pray-love-netizens-slam-americans-tweets-on-lavish-lifestyle-in-bali.html.
SOURCE: The Jakarta Post, Indonesia Tue, January 19, 2021

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