Over There

Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 11.23.04 | 6:08 PM ET

For all the Americans threatening to move to another country in the wake of President George W. Bush’s reelection, Derek Denton has a simple message: “Living abroad is certainly worth doing; I wish more of our people would try it at least once,” he writes in Sunday’s Seattle Times. “But it ought to be motivated by curiosity, guts and a love of challenges. If you’re looking for an escape from your own current reality, stay home and take drugs.”