The family relationships of people over 50 are in active reconfiguration in ways that rarely get the attention they deserve. Children who were dependent are now adults with their own lives, opinions, and families. Parents who were independent are now aging into needs that require attention and plann…
Friendship is the relationship category that adults over 50 are most likely to neglect and most likely to regret neglecting. Career demands, family obligations, and the inertia of established social patterns conspire to push deliberate friendship investment down the priority list for decades — and m…
Research is unambiguous on a point that popular culture tends to either ignore or treat as surprising: sexual intimacy remains important to most people well into their 60s, 70s, and beyond. A study of single adults aged 60–83 found that over 97% considered sexual intimacy important in a romantic rel…
Food is one of the dimensions of daily life that expats most consistently underestimate as a source of both joy and friction. The people who move abroad partly for the food experience — and there are many of them — find that the reality of eating in a new country is richer and more interesting than …
Whether you need a car abroad depends almost entirely on where you’re going. In most cities that attract 50+ expats — Lisbon, Barcelona, Mexico City, Chiang Mai, Medellín — a car is often more burden than convenience: parking is expensive and scarce, transit is functional, and the local rhythm of li…
The relationship between life abroad and life at home is one of the most underexamined aspects of the expat experience, and one of the most consequential for whether the experience is sustainably good. Move to Lisbon, and you haven’t just moved to Lisbon — you’ve also become someone who is no longer…