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Lexi
Belonging is the invitation to be yourself.
Their Story
Lexi builds home through routine, familiarity, and repeated participation, often finding stronger belonging in Bangkok than in her U.S. hometown. Having lived across countries, she turns new cities into a home base by showing up consistently: regular events, repeat places, and shared activities that generate trust over time. For her, belonging is also reciprocal: learning language and customs is part of earning comfort, and her ideal home balances privacy with a lively, rotating social ecosystem.
In Their Words
"Home to me means familiarity, routine, and community."
"I grew up with a kind of rotating door of life with really interesting, empowering women from all over the world living with us... I think I was lucky early on to have exposure that anywhere can feel like home as long as I have strong connections with people."
"Usually I pick 1 to 3 events weekly… and I try to consistently go to those events for like at least a month… Because going to the same places consistently is how you build community."
"I put a lot of effort into learning Thai, despite the fact that when I no longer live in Thailand, it's not gonna be useful, but just the absolute joy of interaction that I get day to day from being able to chat with shopkeepers or restaurant owners or things like that."
"Sometimes I feel… alienated by a group that I would like to be my community… I don't identify with a lot of the surface-level, pop-culture aspects."
"What makes me feel a sense of belonging is when people start to invite you… First you're invited into the spaces, and then you can deepen the connection and feel a sense of trust."
"How much effort I have to put in is what makes me feel a sense of belonging… how accessible and available events are to me, how I feel… whether the thing is going to be in my language, whether the event is… accessible to my house."
Ideal Home
Paths
Lexi's ideal home drawing presents a small commune of houses among pine trees, where private rooms sit close to shared life and are linked by paths to an activity hub like a climbing wall and a nearby train station that keeps the community open and connected.
