An Oregon University student with a specialization in Art History, Criticism and Conservation, Amanda Lynn Tully, left the US and moved to Prague to escape her student loan repayment because it was a psychological burden. The case came to the fore because of a New York Times report which elaborated how a record number of student loan borrowers became defaulters and then left the country to abandon their loans.
Tully graduated in 2017 with a master's degree with $65,000 in federal student loans and she had no job at hand. She did not wait more than a year to find a job and she decided to move to Prague, completed an internship, and became a loan defaulter. She did not make any payment in over seven years.
