Woman Moves Entire Family To Florida, Discovers Cars > Walking, Panic Attacks Included
KEY POINTS
- •In 2004, the author moved from Sevilla, Spain to Florida with her children and then-husband, who had just lost his job.
- •She experienced culture shock, depressive episodes, and multiple relocations as her marriage deteriorated during early years in the US.
- •After separating in 2008, the author found new love 16 years ago, rebuilt her family, and eventually married on a Florida beach.
In 2004, a Spanish writer lobbed her toddler, 4-month-old, and shaky marriage into Florida’s sticky jacuzzi of culture shock, panics, and lost jobs—including her then-husband's, who couldn't hold the dream much longer. Trading walking-distance Sevilla’s penthouse for a car-hell gated community triggered full-on sobfests mid-preschool runs. The Great Recession’s 2008 throwdown left her a single mom on food stamps clutching a laptop like a lifebuoy. Fast forward 16 years, she finds the love of her life—also a washed-up bilingual writer playing long-distance weekend tag with a similar blend of baggage. They finally married on a Floridian sunset beach amid happy-ish chaos. Life lesson? Terrible decisions come with better love stories.
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When your husband loses his job before you move, and the car replaces walking, welcome to Florida—a gated community of panic attacks and food stamps disguised as opportunity.
Moved from penthouse strolls to gated car prisons, because nothing says "freedom" like Florida suburbs and recession blues.
They said Florida was opportunity. They didn't mention the part about live sobbing on the side of the road searching for preschools.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 12/27/2025 | Author: Lorraine C. Ladish
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