About.

Hello. Ciao. Olá. こんにちは.

Remnant is a collaboration by Malia Márquez and Wally Rudolph. We're writers raising kids in Los Angeles, where the cost of living is one of the highest in the country. Like a lot of people across the globe, we've done the thing many times where you click on a real estate listing in another country, late at night, when it all just seems like too much. The result is usually a rabbit-hole, spiraling on questions about risk, reward, what would be gained or lost if you actually picked up and left.

Remnant is one place on the internet where a curious person can begin to constructively imagine a new life. Maybe that ends with the fantasy of it — we all need a little escapism. Or maybe it starts a more serious conversation:

Would it actually be simpler to move somewhere else? And where?

What would that mean for a family, an older person, a single woman, a couple?

What we publish.

Every Sunday we publish a letter of curated listings from the parts of the world where people are making efforts to revitalize their communities — incentivized programs, abandoned properties, the kind of places where a different life is still possible. The full issue for subscribers includes featured properties, additional listings, some practical information about relocation programs, and a lifestyle section at the bottom with snacks, reading, and a look at our own group chat.

Editorial note on AI transparency: we are creative writers and artists whose personal work is unassisted by artificial intelligence. However, this project is different. AI is used as an editorial tool to assist with organizing and synthesizing large amounts of information. It makes the project sustainable, and our overarching human labor and touch keeps it real.

Your Ghost subscription includes:

— Access to every issue we've published, with a searchable database of all curated listings — filterable by country, region, price, and character.

— Country guides for moving abroad (coming soon). The buying process, residency requirements, what it really costs once you've added the renovation. The stuff that makes the 'fantasy' achievable.

— A running record of new incentive programs as they're announced. The number of countries paying people to move into empty houses keeps growing. We track them.

Thanks for reading and supporting our work.

— Wally & Malia