Some American writers prefer to live in Ireland because of the following reasons EXCEPT that
A.they don't have to pay income tax in Ireland
B.they can get away from an increasingly violent America
C.the Irish leave them to get on with their own business
D.they can experience the real expatriate writer ethos that Ernest Hemingway had
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