A Black American woman is being deported after boasting of living in a resort in Indonesia during the COVID-19 pandemic. On Twitter, Kristen Gray wrote that she and her girlfriend booked one-way flights to Bali in the winter of 2019 with a goal to stay in the country for six months to “stack some bread and elevate our lifestyle,” according to The Jakarta Globe. “I was broke, struggling to find work the entire year of 2019 and I wanted to take a stab at entrepreneurship,” she wrote. When the outbreak of COVID-19 hit, she said that they threw out the six-month plan and buckled down in the Indonesian province. NewsOne reported that the Los Angeles, California, resident drew attention from many and skepticism from local authorities with her Twitter thread that detailed how she was able to move from her studio apartment to a Bali treehouse for a low cost. “I was paying $1,300 for my LA studio. Now I have a treehouse for $400. Dec. 2019 on the left... Jan 2021 on the right,” she wrote in...
