Open House: Let Me Take You On A House Tour

Step inside. Kick off your shoes. Let me show you around.

You’ve seen house tours — bright kitchens, tidy hallways, a well-placed fern or two. But this one’s different.

A home built from stories, not just bricks. A place where you can lay down your bags, catch your breath, and remember why you came all this way.

This space was made for you to find your own version of belonging — and to have something solid to hold onto when everything feels-in-between. Welcome. You’re right on time.

Be sure to subscribe so you’ll always be the first to hear when something new is cooking, simmering, unfolding or ready to explore in the house.

For this week only, enjoy 25% off all monthly and annual paid and Keyholder memberships. This offer won’t be around for long — grab your spot and make yourself at home.

🎥 Come Take the Tour with Me — LIVE Today

I’ll walk you through every room, point out what lives where, and help you find the bits that fit your version of this life abroad thing.

🕓 Time — today at 4PM Thailand time (10 am London time, 11am Paris time)
I’ll be serving mojitos (digitally, unfortunately). 🍹
Replay available for anyone horizontal at that time.

📍 Right here on Home Abroad

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The door’s open. Sunlight’s pouring in.

There’s a half-drunk coffee on the desk, a mural in progress on the wall, and Miso’s stretched out across the carpet like she owns the place. (She does.)

This house wasn’t built in a day — or for one type of person.

It’s for anyone who’s ever asked, What if I lived somewhere else — and actually made it work?

Some of us are already here, planting roots in unfamiliar soil.
Some are still circling the idea, waiting for a sign, a plan, a push.
This is the space between those places — a house for all of it.

Inside, you’ll find rooms built for different kinds of living:
The messy kind. The expansive kind. The kind that makes you cry and file forms at the same time.

And today, you get the full tour.

🎨 Scroll through the illustrated rooms
🎥 Join me live for the walkthrough at 4pm Thailand time (10am London time)
🐾 Miso will be joining, obviously. She has notes.

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🪞 The Living Room

This is the part of the house where we get honest.

Throw yourself onto the big squishy sofa, wrap up in a blanket, and scroll through the essays that name the ache you’ve been carrying. The Living Room is where feelings live. It’s where we talk about grief, identity, change, and midlife WTF moments — the real stuff we’re all feeling but don’t always say out loud.

📌 What lives here:

• Tuesday Threads (aka emotional dispatches in denim)

• Personal essays

• Second Look Sundays

• Mini vlogs

📝 Examples:

• Far Doesn’t Mean Free – grief, distance, and irreversible loss

• This Villa Nearly Broke Us – the mess + magic of building abroad

• The Digital Nomad Lie – the reality behind the lifestyle trend

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🗂 The Office

Where the grown-up stuff lives — but still with good lighting and the occasional breakdown.

This is your go-to room for visas, housing, digital work setups, and all the other delightfully overwhelming parts of moving or living abroad. But don’t worry — I’ll never throw you a 92-point checklist without also offering tea and commiseration.

📌 What lives here:

• Visa + bureaucracy guides

• Property & housing reflections

• Money/work talk

• Links to consultations

📝 Examples:

• Step-By-Step Guide to a More-Than-Tolerable Border Bounce — How to become a border bounce star

• The Astrology Tool That Helped Me Find Home Abroad — Study the stars to find your perfect place

• The Villa That Nearly Killed Us — The business of building a villa in Thailand

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🛏 The Bedroom

Lights down, truth up.

This room is for the things we whisper. Relationship stuff. Parenting overseas. Identity unravelling and re-stitching itself. Sex drives that don’t match. Letters to the people we love. Big life shifts in soft clothes.

📌 What lives here:
– Relationship essays
– Parenting stories
– Personal transformation and identity pivots

📝 Examples:
– How My Overseas Married Life Was Launched with Impossibly Romantic Courtroom Drama — The insane way I met my husband abroad
– Too Far to Hold Her Hand: The Pain of Losing Mom While Living Abroad — My gut-wrenching experience
– Raising Kids Abroad: What no one tells you — What I’ve learned raising my almost 6-year-old on a little island in Thailand

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🍳 The Kitchen

The heart of the house. And also where I hide my chocolate.

This room smells like garlic and adventure. It’s where we talk about food, rituals, cultural rhythms, and the weird joy of learning to grocery shop in a new language. It’s not a recipe blog, but you might get a recipe. Or at least a photo of something yummy I made.

📌 What lives here:
– Food + cultural reflections
– Rituals and routines
– Sensory memory and slow life

📝 Examples:

• A Day in My Life as a Canadian Mom, Wife and Content Creator Living on Koh Phangan, Thailand — See what I get up to in an average day

• Here's What I Spend in a Month Living on Koh Phangan — Go on, you know you wanna know.

• A Day in the Life of a Hustling Home Designer in Japan — A fun, witty account by my good friend Megs

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🌈 The Lanai

Wide open. A little wild. Great lighting for self-reinvention.

This is our creative, colourful, queer-friendly porch space — the room where guest voices take centre stage and stories get a little weirder, freer, and more alive. It’s where we host writers abroad, spotlight chosen family, and talk about big shifts and beautiful side paths.

📌 What lives here:
– Guest posts
– Queer stories and creative transitions
– Roundups + community features

📝 Examples:
– Lanai State of Mind — a playlist to set mood of our favourite room in the house
– Thinking of Moving to Portugal? These 24 Writers Are Living the Dream — Find Substack creators writing from sunny Portugal
– Word Game Time: TOM PLANKS IS BACK 🎲 — A bit of fun, with prizes to be won

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📚 The Library

Quiet, calming, alphabetised if I’m feeling ambitious.

This is where the practical magic lives. It’s full of the best tools, guides, templates, and downloadable resources to help you plan, prepare, and stay grounded during your big leap (or even just your Tuesday meltdown).

📌 What lives here:

– The full Dream Life Abroad Starter Kit
– Living Abroad Locales database
– Worksheets + workbooks + reality checks
– The Abroad Essentials Cabinet

📝 Examples:
– The full Dream Life Abroad Starter Kit — Get your hands on it.
– Quiz: Determine Your Destination Personality — Take it, it’s free!
– Dengue: The Complete Guide for 2024 — If you live in a Dengue zone, read this

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🔐 The Keyholder Cellar

This is the secret room. It smells like cedar and confetti.

The Cellar is for founding members — the first ones through the door. It’s full of little surprises: early access to new tools, voice drops from me when I’m feeling generous or unfiltered, and the occasional real-life treat in your mailbox.

📌 What lives here:
– Founding perks
– Housekeeping Council voting rights
– Snail mail packages + surprise gifts

📝 Examples:
– Direct voice notes from me in your inbox
– First dibs on new features + toolkits
– Founders-only shoutouts + early invites to events

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🗝 Thinking of Upgrading?

If this space feels like home, consider becoming a paid member.
You’ll unlock:

🔓 Full access to every post — from raw reflections to practical guides
📚 Full access to the Dream Life Abroad Starter Kit, including:
  – The Dream Locale Decoder Playbook
  – The Living Abroad Locales database (personality-matched)
  – Quiz + audio meditation + curated consult links
💬 Access to our private Substack Chat for paid members only — think pep talks, behind-the-scenes convos, and drop-in support
🎥 A first look at the Home Abroad video series, coming soon
🎧 Invitations to private Q&As, subscriber calls, and creative co-working sessions
🌱 Early access to new tools, experiments, and future member-only offerings

🔐 KEYHOLDERS

(aka our Founding Tier)

Everything above, plus:

🎙 A 30-minute welcome call with me — just reply to your welcome email when you're ready to book
📲 3 voice memos via WhatsApp with me — whether you want to ask a specific moving or living abroad question or just need a friend. I’m here.
🏛 A vote in the Housekeeping Council — help shape what we build next
🪧 Your name (and link) on the Living Room wall — a virtual plaque honouring our founders
🍷 VIP invites to future in-person events and intimate IRL gatherings
🐾 The occasional surprise — because you showed up early and that matters

⏳ Offer ends today!

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🎥 Come Take the Tour with Me — LIVE Today

I’ll walk you through every room, point out what lives where, and help you find the bits that fit your version of this life abroad thing.

🕓 Time — today at 4PM Thailand time (10 am London time, 11am Paris time)
I’ll be serving mojitos (digitally, unfortunately). 🍹
(Replay available for anyone horizontal)

📍 Right here on Home Abroad

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🐾 A Note from Miso the House Cat:
”Welcome to my home. I’m happy to share it with you in exchange for cuddles and pats. Now move over, that’s my spot.”

See you inside,

KKxx