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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Sam Correll, 38, and Spencer Claiborne, 30, who moved from Kansas City, Missouri, to Saranda, Albania, a coastal town about 30 minutes from Corfu, Greece. Correll and Claiborne moved to Albania in August 2024 and now help others relocate there. The…
When I left the US in 2018, I wasn’t trying to lose weight. I simply wanted to feel better in my body. Loading audio narration… After over 15 years of working in education, I felt undervalued, overworked, and mentally and physically exhausted. It didn’t help that I relied on fast…
Just days after graduating from college, my now-husband Scott and I loaded all our belongings into my truck and started driving south. Loading audio narration… We’d been spending our last couple of years at college dreaming about building an off-grid cabin so we could live a sustainable life close to…
Many California counties are still seeing more people move out than move in, unlike in Maine, new data showed. Loading audio narration… The Census Bureau’s population change estimates show how the country’s 3,143 counties and county equivalents grew or shrank between July 1, 2024, and July 1, 2025.Business Insider looked…
Our family’s first trip to Windermere changed everything.Sitting on the bank of a stream with my feet dipped in its cold, clear water, surrounded by trees budding for spring — even with the baby kicking away inside me at eight months pregnant, I felt a kind of bliss that’s hard…
In the age of AI, Silicon Valley’s “move fast and break things” ethos is proving to be literal. Loading audio narration… Earlier this week, Business Insider reported that Amazon set up new guardrails following a series of outages, including one primarily driven by its AI coding tool that led to…
Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya said he can’t believe how much his software startup is spending on AI. Loading audio narration… “Our costs have more than tripled since November of 25,” Palihapitiya said during an episode of the “All-In Podcast” posted on Friday. “Between the inference cost that we pay AWS,…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Rikki Dimitriadis, 31, an American based in Miami. The details of her planned move to Dubai have been verified by Business Insider. This piece has been edited for length and clarity.I have a one-way flight from Miami to Dubai booked for…
China’s navy is moving toward all-nuclear submarine construction, the US Navy’s intelligence lead said, describing a long-term shift in how Beijing builds its undersea force as it expands its capacity to produce more vessels in the coming decades.China operates one of the largest submarine forces in the world, but it’s…
Three-and-a-half years ago, my husband Brad and I moved from the Washington, D.C. area to Pittsburgh, where I grew up, in search of cheaper real estate and a lower cost of living. We also wanted to be closer to our families, as Brad is also from Pennsylvania. What we didn’t…
