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"I’ve kept this a secret for twelve years because I didn’t want to be attacked by those who might mistake my adventuring as insult."

I think he's speaking of you.

It's been 12 years. When do you think he'll pay the dear price?

Boris Johnson, Tina Turner, and Terry Gilliam are three of many people who have renounced US citizenship. It doesn't seem they paid a dear price.

Insulted? Where did I say that?

I am basing my "dear price" comment on his own words:

There’s always a chance I might never see my family again. Because of that, I often regret it.

It's pretty common for people to have a regret about moving.

DDG finds one site claiming "30% of Americans that we surveyed regret at least something about their move" and "Among those who regret their move, “moving away from their friends” (49%) and “leaving the area they used to live in” (40%) are the top regrets" - https://blog.hireahelper.com/2021-study-do-people-actually-r...

There's almost always a price to a move. But you said it was a "dear price", with rather little evidence for how dear this regret was to the author.

Personally, I don't get it. Even after renunciation you can still visit the US, just under the same constraints as a foreigner. It's not like Boris Johnson can't visit the US now.

Furthermore, your calculation would have to know how dear the price would have been to the author to not renounce, and the fact that he did renounce suggests it's pretty high.

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Are so harsh because you're so afraid of getting out of your comfort zone?

For one, you're reading into the essay things that aren't there. There's nothing about an 'addiction to the comforts of a settled society'.

Just because I'm scared of spiders and you're an arachnologist doesn't make you a nice person for belittling my attempts to face my fear.

You can have excitement without being an adrenaline junkie.

Honestly I think of renouncing my current citizenship and go “missing” in the forests. Just so I can live in a house off-grid with my family unbothered. Because the world ahead is scary. Scary I mean.