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created: 2024/03/04, 00:20.10
modified: 2024/03/04, 08:19.39

description

In 2018, after Hurricane Harvey destroyed Kema Ward-Hopper and Nicholas Hopper’s Houston home, a trip to Costa Rica became a permanent move.

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link

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/02/we-left-the-us-for-costa-rica-and-live-better-here-on-30000-a-year-with-2-kids.html

published_on

1709391901.000000

publisher

CNBC

title

41-year-old and her family left the U.S. for Costa Rica and live on less than $30,000 a year: 'We're a lot happier' and never moving back