Listen to this post: Log in to listen It was the summer of 2003, just weeks before I was set to move to Taiwan, that I decided to create a blog to document my journey. I had, at that point, had a GeoCities site, a Blogspot site, a site I

Lisa* is watching Scissor Sisters at a festival in the Lake District, a can of cider in hand, dancing along to the music on a sunny afternoon. The 30-year-old has a few days off from her job as a veterinary nurse in Gateshead, where she lives with her fiance. She

In the autumn of 2024, Annie was ready for something new. She was living in the southern United States when her husband received an unexpected job offer that would move them to a town just outside London. They were in their twenties with no kids. “We wanted to take a