This chapter, “Border Life”, portrays the everyday lives of people who live at Kenya’s borders. It intends to create an initial understanding of different research settings, of their inhabitants and of the dynamics between them. All in all, residents of borderlands can be differentiated into locals and border officers. On the ground, border control simultaneously contains the work of “frontier-making” between state representatives and the public. At the border, this can also relate to the question of rightful citizenship, and national in- and exclusion. The chapter is structured in three parts. The first part describes everyday realities of Kenya’s rural and urban borderland inhabitants in Turkana, Busia, Kajiado and Marsabit County, and highlights the specific role of no man’s lands as ambiguous spaces. The second part describes the situation for non-local border officers working in unfamiliar environments, who are required to shift between deployment sites during their careers. It illustrates how state officials are locally considered as cultural “others” with contrary living conditions, who likewise distance themselves, for example, through discursive othering, from surrounding borderland communities such as the Maasai, Iteso, Borana or Turkana. Finally, the last part critically sheds light on the role of the anthropologist and includes self-reflexive positioning.