Overview
- Wells’s interview, published Saturday, revisits her account of an October 2019 armed robbery in Atlanta that left her unconscious.
- She describes the attack by two gunmen as a turning point and says it underscored what she calls the insanity of gun violence in the United States.
- Afterward she sought treatment for PTSD, wrote From Attitude to Gratitude, pressed for home security steps like blocking their gate with a parked car, and moved back to Aspen.
- Reporters set her experience against Brookings data, reported by the Wall Street Journal, that the United States saw more people leave than arrive in 2025 for the first time since 1935.
- Coverage notes multiple forces behind recent moves out of the U.S., including economic shifts, remote work that lets people live elsewhere, and safety concerns such as school active-shooter drills cited by a Berlin-based U.S. real estate employee.