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Expats, repats, immigrants, TCKs, and other alien lifeforms tell their stories. Sharing feelings of foreignness and belonging, we delve deep into what it's like always checking the 'other' box.

Foreign, Or Foreign, Or

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Expats, repats, immigrants, TCKs, and other alien lifeforms tell their stories. Sharing feelings of foreignness and belonging, we delve deep into what it's like always checking the 'other' box.

    Scammed Abroad | Part 2

    Scammed Abroad | Part 2

    In part one we introduced some of your juiciest scammer stories.
    But in part two we had to ask ourselves: were these ForeignOrs really scammed? Or did they just learn some tough lessons about life abroad?
    Judge for yourself as Dill gets arrested, Renzo gets off scot-free, and Bob continues to twist trust in a fairytale place called Nomadland.

    • 33 min
    Scammed Abroad | Part 1

    Scammed Abroad | Part 1

    Living a somewhat disjointed life filled with translations and transient people ForeignOrs can make a perfect target— or unknowing accomplice— in a scam. 
    In part one we dive into pyramid schemes, a cariñoso con artist who cheats friends out of their money, and 'Bob-types'— enigmatic serial entrepreneurs who prey on digital nomads.
     

    • 27 min
    Tavey | A Beijing Bar Boss, Repatriated

    Tavey | A Beijing Bar Boss, Repatriated

    A Taiwanese-American turned Beijinger, Tavey Lin is the teacher-musician-bar boss who always comes correct in business casual.

     
    Now, a surprise move back to the U.S. has this pandemic repat reinventing himself once again.
     

    • 1 hr 14 min
    Dill | Whisky Orientation (NSFW)

    Dill | Whisky Orientation (NSFW)

    IrishBrit Dillon King spills on bootlegging in boarding school, starting  whisky clubs in China, and how independent cask trading actually works.
    Now Dill is a burgeoning viral video star spitballing on spirits in Mandarin.
     
     

    • 56 min
    Alcohol Abroad | Sovereign

    Alcohol Abroad | Sovereign

    ForeignOrs all over the world are drinking too much.
    By using alcohol abroad some find it easier to socialize, to relax, to escape.
    In "Sovereign" an anonymous expat abuses alcohol to free himself from the life he has chosen. 

    • 6 min
    Sofia | A Festival, Personified (pt. 3)

    Sofia | A Festival, Personified (pt. 3)

    If a festival could be personified, Sofia Ballon Hamann would be it. Escaping the gravity of home, Shifei has a hard landing back into the land of academia and finds herself working at a Dutch McDonald's. The struggle is real in this completely inconclusive conversation about a Foreign-Or life in medias res.

    • 25 min

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