The Nerve! Immigrant Daughter Uses Vacation to Not Visit Parents
The entire city of Antwerp, Belgium, is outraged that Anita V., who now lives in Seattle, Washington, has chosen to make the 7,300-mile trip to Australia instead of visiting her parents who are only a 5,000-mile flight away.
“I don’t know where I went wrong,” says Sonja, Anita’s mother. “First she moved to a country that doesn’t even have universal healthcare, and now she won’t even use her 10-day annual vacation to visit her dear mother?”
Instead of spending two weeks hopping from relatives’ to friends’ houses, Anita and her wife Charlie have chosen to take their second post-pandemic trip to Brisbane.
“Of course, I love my in-laws,” Charlie points out. “But I also don’t want to spend my first year anniversary having to answer the question of when, and how, we’re going to provide grandchildren.”
Charlie and Anita have a full-packed trip planned in Australia, where they’ll spend 10 days in Brisbane visiting Charlie’s parents.
