A little over nine months ago, my partner Anthony and I moved to Catalonia. Anthony had always regretted never studying abroad; when Trump won re-election, we stopped deliberating and started packing.

As a born-and-raised West Virginian who’d spent most of my adult life in New York City, much of what I encountered was a shock — and not just the things I’d expected. I knew going in that healthcare would be cheaper and the cost of living lower. What I didn’t know was how different the texture of daily life would feel: the pace, the way work fits into a life rather than consuming it, the low-grade sense of dignity that’s hard to name but impossible to live without once you’ve felt it.

These letters are dispatches from this journey—reported, specific, and grounded in what I’ve seen, asked, and experienced. They’re for Americans who suspect that some of what they’ve been told is inevitable is actually a choice—and who want to see what the alternative looks like from the inside.

I’m an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist who spent fifteen years at NBC, ABC, and Mashable. I know how to report. These letters are that—not a diary, not a hot take, but reported correspondence from a life being lived somewhere else.

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