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Do you ever sit at your office desk, or in your home, or in a coffee shop or restaurant wherever you live and thought to yourself, “maybe I should change my life?” Do you follow websites or social accounts dedicated to inexpensive and amazing towns or homes in countries that aren’t your own? Have you ever visited another country and wondered, “I wonder what it would be like to live here?”
A Year in Oaxaca chronicles the life of myself and my wife as expats from the United States who moved to a small town in Oaxaca, a state in southern Mexico famed for its food, art, and culture. In this newsletter I write about what life is like here, what it’s been like becoming expats and leaving behind our home country, about buying and renovating a house in Mexico, and about the incredible people we meet, places we visit, and food we eat.
A Year in Oaxaca is not a newsletter about hating the U.S., or about escaping from our old lives. Instead, it’s a story about adventure, and about leaping into personal growth and evolution as we entered middle age, with the realization that if life is about change, why not make a big change on our own terms?
Free subscribers to A Year in Oaxaca will receive one free newsletter entry per week with occasional bonus content. Paid subscribers receive the full experience: full access to the newsletter and archives, Close Friends Instagram posts, and additional bonus content like extra photos, video taste tests of Mexican foods, shopping and dining guides, and more.
Subscribing to A Year in Oaxaca also lets you post comments after every entry and engage both with other readers and directly with me. If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to become an expat, or to live in Mexico, and have questions, being a part of this community may give you the insight or answers you’re looking for.
Subscribing also means you’ll never miss an update, and all of my subscribers, free or paid, are deeply appreciated. But paid subscriptions help directly support my work and make it so that I can take the time from my schedule to write these posts.
