Thanks to everyone who joined my live chat this morning with
of Living Elsewhere! We had a great turnout. This was the first livestream for us both—wow, what cool energy out there!Gregory and I had a blast haggling through some big questions: the flexibility of national identity, the search for home, and the complicated Americanness of leaving America. With shoutouts to fellow seekers
, , , Walt Whitman, Paul Theroux quoting Henry James, and One Hundred Years of Solitude.The time stamps:
03:45 | What does it mean to be an American?
13:30 | On a scale of 0-100, how Portuguese does Gregory feel?
15:00 | “I came out of the airport and I inhaled and said, ‘Oh yeah, this is Sweden.’”
25:00 | Can we decide whether we’re American?
32:00 | Would you retire in Mexico?
35:50 | “The most American thing in the world is to say that the most American thing in the world is to leave America.”
36:00 | Will we die as Americans?
47:30 | “Maybe you don’t need to decide, with finality, what you are.”
48:00 | The rightward shifts in NZ and Portuguese politics.
55:00 | Cosmopolitanism, food, and your life’s total of good margaritas.
Hope you enjoy! Too much fun, y’all. Next time we’ll get that new American Pope. //
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