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Building Elsewhere

Home is not always where you were born.

I am writing my way toward somewhere else and keeping notes as I go. Some of it works. Some of it does not. All of it belongs to the same question.

Starting from the United States. Originally from Jamaica. Bound for elsewhere. Because I haven't found home yet.

The reason

I left one country (Jamaica) and spent the next decade learning that arriving somewhere is not the same as belonging to it. This is the record of what I found out, what I got wrong, and what I am trying next. There is no method here and no promise. There is only the work of paying attention.

G.S.R

Places

Where I have been looking so far...

These countries, researched properly, updated when the rules change. Not a ranking and not a recommendation. Just the places I research well enough to write about.

The letter

Once a month, when there is something worth saying.

Sometimes it is about a country. Sometimes it is about the question underneath the country. It arrives when it is ready rather than on a schedule I would only end up breaking.

One letter a month. Leave whenever you like.

There will be a longer letter later, for anyone who wants the full working. It is not ready and I would rather say so than sell you a date.