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One of Los Angeles’s ‘Best’ Streets Is a Terrible Main Street
Larchmont Boulevard offers the appearance of urban life without allowing enough actual urban life to happen.
Nov 3
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Rocco Pendola
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October 2026
What Happens After the Move Becomes Your Day-to-Day Life?
I know what this newsletter was. Deciding what it becomes next isn’t so clear.
Oct 28
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Rocco Pendola
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The Weird Thing A Gen X Childhood Can Do To You In Midlife
I feel a sense of urgency to live.
Oct 24
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Rocco Pendola
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It’s Pathetic That These Five Words Have Become So American
The United States conditioned its people to settle for less
Oct 20
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Rocco Pendola
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I Still Won’t Tell You How to Move Abroad
But I’ll offer a private written second opinion on whether the move you’re planning fits the life you say you want.
Oct 13
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Rocco Pendola
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Los Angeles Looks Better From 6,000 Miles Away
Memory has a way of cleaning the streets you were tired of walking down.
Oct 10
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Rocco Pendola
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Why I Cried When I Saw the Eiffel Tower
What we lose when every tourist becomes an easy target.
Oct 3
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Rocco Pendola
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Stop Moralizing. Let People Take Their Fucking Vacation
Tourists are easy villains in a crisis created by governments, property owners, markets—and the rest of us.
Oct 1
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Rocco Pendola
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September 2026
When Feelings Don’t Reflect Reality
The difference between processing a move abroad and turning your experience into a verdict on your host country.
Sep 26
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Rocco Pendola
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Maybe Spain Isn’t Inconvenient. Maybe You Just Prefer the Suburbs.
What a complaint about dryers reveals about the suburban baseline Americans carry abroad.
Sep 24
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Rocco Pendola
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Different Doesn't Equal ‘Inconvenient’
The most American complaint about life abroad almost always goes unchallenged.
Sep 22
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Rocco Pendola
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Why I’m Applying for My First Canadian Passport at 51
The beliefs behind it have been organizing my life since I was 15.
Sep 20
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Rocco Pendola
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