HeyJaredNew Ground
From Florida to Portugal at 50. On mindful immigration, empty nesting abroad, and finding new ground—geographically and personally. Vamos lá!
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Newflash: I Am The Main Event (opens the original)
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There were no cocktails served at the sunset silent disco. It was just headphones, three DJ sets to choose from, and a seaside cliff of strangers bouncing to music only we could hear. I was exposed. Vulnerable. No bar top to lean against. No husband to hide behind. No small talk (thank gawd).Other than the friend who had invited me to this event in our Portuguese village, no one knew my name or what language I spoke. They didn’t know what I did for a living or that I’m married with two grown kid
You Can’t Outsource an Immigrant Life (opens the original)
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Nicky Hackman paid a company called LuxNomads to help her move from the U.S. to Europe. NBC News reported this month that clients handed over as much as $20,000 for a “white glove” relocation service that, according to the contracts NBC reviewed, mostly pointed people toward attorneys and information they could have found themselves, for free, with an afternoon and a search bar.Hundreds of businesses sell some version of the same promise. Pay us,
Perimenopause in Portuguese (opens the original)
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In my home, there are two regular reminders of the truth. One is a digital photo frame in our kitchen that scrolls through nearly 30 years of me and my husband, starting back when we were dating. Those images catch my eye while chopping carrots, doing dishes, or waiting on the kettle. There I am at 29 or 34: bright-blonde, bright-skinned, with a face and body shape long since gone.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VB3n!,f_auto,q_auto:good,
Expats Who Pull Up the Drawbridge (opens the original)
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Two years ago, a few weeks before moving to Portugal, I read an article that made me want to throw my phone into the Gulf.It was written in an English-language digital magazine for foreigners living in Portugal by a man we’ll call Pat The Expat.Pat moved to Algarve (southern Portugal) in 2017. He wants you to know that. He opens by clarifying he isn’t technically a Baby Boomer, born one year too early for the label, and then spends the rest of the piece describing the exact life most Boomers got
The Immigrant U-Curve Has Four Legs (opens the original)
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Seventeen days after we adopted our timid Portuguese rescue dog, Costa, we sat in my backyard and watched the sunset like it was no big deal. It was a big deal though. Almost every human he’d met before us had given him a reason not to be trusted, yet there he sat, back turned to me, because he had decided, at least for the moment, that I wasn’t a threat.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Pg7t!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_prog
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