Since 2019, Sedaris has lived in Rackham, West Sussex, England, with his longtime partner, painter and set designer Hugh Hamrick. Sedaris mentions Hamrick in a number of his stories,[57][58][59] and describes the two of them as the "sort of couple who wouldn't get married."[60][61]
Sedaris is known to regularly wear a headlamp at night and spend hours removing litter from roads and highways near Rackham.[58] Because of this hobby he is known locally as "Pig Pen" and has a waste vehicle named after him.[62][63]
