This story is part of an ongoing series of profiles by CNN about economic survival in this time of financial crisis. Leah Bird and her husband Ed Wright stand in front of their new home: a 1974 Airstream trailer. (CNN) -- They bid farewell to their beloved trips to the opera and museum, the beach and Buddhist temples. They ate one last time at their favorite restaurants serving Indian curried chicken and warm bowls of Vietnamese pho. Leah Bird and her husband, Ed Wright, have traded their comfortable two-bedroom apartment and jobs in Beverly Hills, California, for life in a trailer on a five-acre Oregon farm.
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Leah Bird and Ed Wright have have traded their Beverly Hills life for a trailer on a farm
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Wright, who once made $100,000 a year, was laid off from an insurance firm
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They feed animals, clean manure and fix the landscape
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"I feel like a fish out of water. I'm so out of my element," Bird says
"It's not necessarily a lifestyle that has ever seemed attractive to me," says 28-year-old @placeholder, between tending to the farm animals: two sheep, two Nubian goats, miniature horses and geese.