Immediately following the last day of August, a remarkable transformation occurs. Virtually overnight, every city and town in Mexico is festooned with red, white and green: the tricolor of the Mexican flag.
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It is August—the rainy season in Oaxaca. The days are warm, yet pleasant: weather reports in the 90s and 100s from around the U.S. offer daily validation of our move.
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The frustrations of our tenuous living situation were making it hard to enjoy life in Oaxaca. Enough, we declared—let’s get out of here!
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Having received the unexpected news about the unavailability of our long-term residence, we now found ourselves waiting for our life in Oaxaca to begin.
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Although the many stresses of our departure from Seattle were behind us, we now faced a new challenge: finding a place to live.
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A helpful infographic.
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It turns out that having a picture in your head about living a fantasy life somewhere else is a different thing entirely from actually making it happen.
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Let me just say at the outset: this wasn’t entirely my idea.
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