>That's partly why Brama now splits her time between the United States and Europe
I wish I was broke enough to split time between two continents.
But even setting that aside, the article goes on to mention Albania (low CoL) and access to healthcare. The latter, in particular, checks out. I have great insurance, but my out-of-pocket max equals somewhere between 5 and 10 round-trips to Europe. It's not hard to imagine there exist people who can setup the circumstances such that working in the USA part of the year and living somewhere else part of the year is massively more economical than staying in the USA.
Actually, doesn't that exact situation describe a huge fraction of the US agricultural labor force?
I see this less as how inexpensive things are elsewhere and more how excessively expensive they are in the US. In the Bay Area for example the housing stock is incredibly expensive but relatively low quality even compared with other US cities.