The internet is not playing around with a college grad who fled the United States, defaulting on $60/month student loan payments.
Admitting she was “never financially stable,” 37-year-old Amanda Lynn Tully explained that she hadn’t made even one payment on her $65,000 federal student loan debt since moving to the Czech Republic. Less than a year after graduating with a degree in historic preservation from the University of Oregon in 2017, and failing to find a job that utilized such a skillset, Tully fled to Prague. She spoke to The New York Times about her decision, blaming her financial instability on never being “taught” better.
“I was never financially stable because I was never taught to be financially stable,” she told the outlet.
But the amount she was paying was minute compared to what others are expected to pay.
“Ms. Tully was on an income-based repayment plan, which allows many borrowers to have their remaining debt forgiven after 20 years of making qualifying payments. She was paying $60 per month when she defaulted. This amount, to many, may seem manageable. But for her, it remained psychologically burdensome,” the outlet reported.
“The payments weren’t even paying off the interest, so it was frustrating,” she explained.
X users weren’t exactly sympathetic:
A master’s degree in “historic preservation”. Shocking she couldn’t find a high paying job.
— M Napier (@MNapier31271384) April 4, 2026
As long as these deadbeats renounce their US Citizenship, I’m good with it… 😈
— Mr. Warm (@WarmLiveHands) April 4, 2026
If you can’t make a $60 a month payment on your student loan, your degree isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on!
Not to mention the 4 to 6 years of opportunity cost.
— Starship (@Starship13675) April 5, 2026
There are people who were enticed into student debt they didn’t understand and often never completed their degrees. The schools they went to bear some moral responsibility for their predicament. These are not those people.
— A$AP Bullwinkle (@rbcalvin) April 4, 2026
That’s weird. I was told people with degrees make so much more money
— Favorz (@Idofavorzforu) April 4, 2026
These are the same people lecturing everyone how morally superior they are.
— Kasper Jorgensen (@KJorgensensX) April 4, 2026
$60/month. so, she basically never wanted to pay them back.
— swp. (@sol2lifer) April 4, 2026
We should endeavor to drive more of these kinds of people out of the country
— TephrocactusGeometricus (@CactusGeometrus) April 4, 2026
$60 is psychologically burdensome only because she wants to pay nothing. She spends that much on frivolous things every week.
— UsRUs (@us712171) April 4, 2026
Enough money to relocate abroad and travel to the US several times but $60/mo was “psychologically burdensome.”
— Erika Sanzi (@esanzi) April 4, 2026
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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