Married for 37 years and approaching retirement, Dorsie and Dan Schmitz found themselves worried about U.S. politics and their own finances. They owned a large house on a 31-acre spread, in the rural, no-stoplight town of Blanchard, Michigan (population 3,100), an hour north of Grand Rapids. The cost of living there is 20% below the national average, but they wanted a different lifestyle, one they weren’t sure they could afford in the U.S. Moreover, as an interracial couple with a liberal bent, they didn’t like much of what they saw happening politically on a national level. “We couldn’t find the kind of life we wanted in the U.S.,” says...
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