HeyJaredEdgewalkers Collective
For global citizens 5+ years abroad through the "no longer new, still not home" phase, navigating the edges of identity, home, and belonging. Written by a counsellor-in-training (CPCAB) living abroad 16 years.
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What Five Years Abroad Actually Looks Like (opens the original)
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Last month, I was in conversation with Vivian of The Expat Diaries here on Substack, as part of a live panel discussing life abroad in Spain. (Note: I’m by no means a moving to Spain expert, but you’re welcome to watch the replay if you want to hear my long-term life abroad stories.)Afterward, Vivian shared <a href="https://substack.com/@howtostuffyourhome/note/c-317260797?r=30y4x5&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_m
When You Can’t Reach Family Members Overnight (opens the original)
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In conversation after conversation in my long-term life abroad research, the distance from aging parents or family members eventually enters the room.It’s not necessarily a crisis. Sometimes it’s a passing mention — a small fall, a slower voice on a call, a detail in a photo, or a voice note that lands harder than it should. And then there’s a private arithmetic that starts running in the background: how many flights away, how many hours until the next one, how much of a parent’s actual daily li
When Staying Abroad Starts to Feel Like a Decision You’re Avoiding (opens the original)
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A few weeks ago, I read an essay that stopped me in my tracks. It was by Alejandra Hagedorn, and it was called Why So Many Expats Stay in Countries They Secretly Want to Leave.Hagedorn writes about living in Germany for almost a decade while privately questioning whether she still wanted to be there. Her life — like that of many long-term expats or globally mobile folks I speak to — looked good from the outside: a job, an apartment, friends, a language she had learned, and a country she had work
Long-Term Life Abroad Research Update: Four Patterns from 40 Interviews (opens the original)
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You don’t usually get asked how long‑term life abroad has shaped your inner world.You’re asked for dates, job titles, cities you’ve lived in. You’re asked whether you’re “settled,” how the kids are doing, whether you plan to stay. On paper, the story looks straightforward. In your nervous system, friendships, and sense of home, the picture is more complicated.From January to July 2026, I sat down with 40 long‑term expats, immigrants, migrants, adult TCKs, and returners, to ask about that inner p
The Friend Who Crosses Borders With You & What Happens When No One Can (opens the original)
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Many people living abroad long-term have all imagined a version of this: the friend who knew you “before” and then visits you “after,” in a different country — walking with you through your current neighborhood while also being able to picture the home you left.In a comment here on Substack, a reader put words to this wish more clearly than I’d seen before. They said they were okay having multiple communities in different places who didn’t understand certain parts of them. What they longed for w
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