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.
Publisher
Jef Taylor
Category
society & culture · society & culture · society & culture
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 they stayed for six months. Mike has spent at least half of every year in Mexico since 2020, and now plans to put down roots here with his wife. We talk about the community he found, what draws him to Mexico City, why he calls himself an immigrant rather than an expat, and how he thinks about gentrification and belonging.
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15 Oct 2026
From Hollywood to Mexico City
Growing up in California, Frank Dutro never imagined living outside the States. Then, in the early 1990s, Televisa brought him to Mexico City to teach digital video production, where he met the woman he would eventually marry. The two spent the next two decades going back and forth before moving here for good in 2016. We talk about his years as Hollywood’s computer guy, why he calls this place Tope Town, and what he says when people ask him if Mexico is dangerous.
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8 Oct 2026
Born American, Raised Mexican
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 about his childhood and abusive father, the friendships and relationships that shaped him, the realities of class in Mexico, and the strange experience of being both deeply connected to Mexico and permanently marked as American.
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YouTube views
3,610,750
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Apple Podcasts (US)
5.0 / 5
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Podcast Authority Score: 62 / 100
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91
YouTube
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Engagement
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