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Not ‘Eat Pray Love’! Netizens slam American’s tweets on lavish lifestyle in Bali
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A woman walks along Kuta Beach on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Aug. 15, 2020. A US woman was grilled by Indonesian Twitter users for promoting moving to Bali amid the pandemic. (AFP/Sonny Tumbelaka)
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ndonesian 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 in her footsteps and promoted her US$30 guide on how to move to Bali. The book also contained details on how to get into the country despite the entry ban for foreigners, tips on getting a visa as well as lifestyle enhancement.
For anyone curious about the deleted/hidden Bali thread pic.twitter.com/FYA3mRcMNf
— Salt chip (@gastricslut) January 17, 2021
Indonesia has closed its borders to foreign travelers from all around the world for the first two weeks of 2021 amid concerns over the discovery of a more infectious SARS-CoV-2 variant. The government later extended the ban to Jan. 25.
