Expat life in Mexico City: interviews and solo dispatches about language, culture, and what it really feels like to leave your life behind and move to CDMX.
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Signup to Generate a PitchExpat life in Mexico City: interviews and solo dispatches about language, culture, and what it really feels like to leave your life behind and move to CDMX.
Recent episodes include "A Barber, a Spider & Pepe the Squirrel" (29 October 2026, 30 minutes), "Six Months in Sayulita as the World Shut Down" (22 October 2026, 54 minutes), and "Born American, Raised Mexican" (8 October 2026, 60 minutes).
onefjef publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 48 minutes.
Booking probability for onefjef is 42%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. onefjef requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. onefjef's contact route on record: verified email.
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Episode #66
After months of putting off getting a haircut because of my limited Spanish, I finally found a supposedly English-speaking barber in Mexico City. What could go wrong? Also, the math on how few Americans actually live...
Mike Moll spent most of his adult life in Toronto, building a business he could run from anywhere. In 2019, he and his partner came to Mexico to try working remotely. When COVID lockdowns began they were in Sayulita, so...
Episode #63
Keo grew up in Mexico City without an easy answer to the question of where he belonged. Born in the United States and raised in Mexico, he spent his life moving between identities, social classes and cultures. He talks...
Episode #62
I met Ted in Spanish class. He grew up across the bridge from Boston in a neighborhood where, as he puts it, everybody was a car thief, and that's where he says his fascination with beating the system started. It took...
Episode #61
I explain why the mezcal glasses in Mexico City cantinas have a cross on the bottom, why my apartment 601 is on the seventh floor, and why I'm not buying the Green Grow the Lilacs explanation for the word gringo. I also...
I met Fernando Marquez at a Wednesday night language exchange in Condesa, talked to him for about half an hour, and decided that was enough to have him on the podcast. He grew up in Del Valle and still lives there...
Today is my six-month Mexico City-iversary, which I celebrated by locking myself out of my apartment twice in as many days. I also finally rode the Metro, heard the loudest clap of thunder I've ever heard while lying in...
I met Jonathan Wiest in a dysfunctional Spanish class in Mexico city, soon after he hitchhiked from the Texas border to Vancouver with $500 and a sign reading "north and west." We talk about what he found — conspiracy...
The joys of Oaxaca and the horrors of dental anxiety, with some foot fingers, excessive girth and a Rumi poem about teeth along the way. Please show some support for the podcast and get access to some extra content by...
Episode #56
I hire a Mexican lawyer to get my deposit back, visit a dentist I found on an expat forum, and spend an entire day trapped at home waiting for Amazon. Plus: I investigate the mysterious strings on Mexico City's garbage...
I met Gary in a Spanish class in Mexico City. I didn’t learn much Spanish, but I did make a friend who was riding a bicycle from Alaska to Patagonia. We talk about that, his old life on oil rigs, and eating guinea pig...
Chris Ryan is the author of Sex at Dawn and host of Tangentially Speaking . We talk about living and traveling abroad, what happens when you get outside the American bubble, and how seeing other places can change the...
Anastasija grew up in post-Soviet Lithuania, got a green card at 18, and spent years bouncing between Columbus, London, Edinburgh, and Norway before eventually landing back in Ohio and becoming a somatic therapist and...
Jason Wachtelhausen has lived one of the most unconventional lives of anyone I've interviewed. As I've been living in Mexico this year, I found myself thinking about his years in Guatemala and hearing this conversation...
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I settle into my new apartment (and terrace) in Mexico City while Jonathan's voice memos chronicle the final stretch of his hitchhiking journey across the United States. We end up landing on many of the same questions...
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The odd reality of building a life somewhere new is that eventually you end up homesick no matter where you are. I'll be back to normal episodes next week, whatever normal means. Please show some support for the podcast...
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I return to the United States for the first time since moving away and quickly remember what America does—and doesn’t—feel like. Jonathan continues hitchhiking toward Canada, collecting stories that range from deeply...
Episode #52
I end up in a World Cup celebration unlike anything I've ever experienced, get spectacularly lost wandering Mexico City after my phone dies, and share audio dispatches from a 20-year-old German hitchhiking across the US...
I'm in my last week of six-hour Spanish days, packing up the apartment I can't wait to leave, and negotiating my deposit back over WhatsApp with a landlord who's taking my early exit personally. Also: the Fungi...
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I got sick, got antibiotics from a tip-jar doctor, and came back to life right as the World Cup kicked off here in Mexico City. The city went dead quiet, then erupted. I Watched Mexico win from a cantina with free...
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former Lululemon Mirror trainer and founder of the Chris Ryan Fitness app, Universal Preservation Hall
professor of economics and Canada Research Chair in Energy Economics and Policy, Australian Institute of Traffic Planning and Management
Group Head of Learning and Development, Carlton Town Football Club
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