Is it a meme in the big globalized 2026 or do people make it work?
Why do you want to be a digital nomad
>>2865004Seems like a #VanLife kind of thing where few people actually do it but it gets posted about online constantly by "influencers" and LARPers and people who desperately want to live like that but can't. The one time I was allowed to work from home made the idea seem awful unless you were a freelancer or something where you could choose when you communicate with other people.
>>2865004the term is loaded with implications but really it is the person able to earn their money online while choosing where to live/moving around. so the term is a meme but obviously the possibility is still a realitypeople can do enough ad hoc tasks to get by in some 3rd world vacation spot - is that a digital nomador they have some white-collar wfh job they go abroad but maintain their fake inflated salarythey are self employed whether service provision of their skills or selling product or selling other peoples productsmaybe there are other ways people are making money to survive while abroad, whether or not they are making savings or just enjoying the moment.
>>2865004It's not for everyone. The loneliness builds the longer you geomax. It's also exhausting moving so much. Probably the best way to do it is find one continent you like, nomad for a year there, and then get a remote worker visa in the area you like most. Get a base and take occasional trips abroad.>t. lonely geomaxxer unc
>>2865004It's a real thing but afaik is hard to achieve. Overall I think the amount of people who are able to do it successfully long term is small. Seen a few people sitting on their laptops in hostel common rooms all day I assume were doing it.For a while I really wanted to do it too and certainly the lifestyle still seems appealing on the surface but there are a lot of drawbacks including loneliness and lack of community like >>2865103says. A lot of them either have cushy tech jobs or are scammers trying to sell "business courses". I think there's also a growing push back to it in some places where it's popular like Mexico City due to gentrification and pricing out locals for housing.
>>2865105>digital nomad>living out of hostelswew lad>pushback against nomadsIt's more of a pushback against tourists/non-locals in general. 99.9% of this is just seething online because prices are going up. I've never had any locals give me shit and I've been doing this since 2017.It's pretty dumb imo. My hometown got expensive as fuck too because of foreign tourists and locals moving there en masse. I didn't seethe, I just left for places that were more reasonable. I'm very sorry that Javier from Barcelona can't make ends meet anymore from his anti-fascist artist collective/record shop, but if some tourist from Sweden is willing to spend significantly more to live in the hip neighborhood, the free-market will do as it always has. Build your skills if you love it so much or gtfo. >Waaaaaa!!! I DESERVE to live in the most popular area of my country and pay a pittance for it because I moved here first!If you didn't buy a home there, you have no claim. If you did buy a home before the demand, congratulations–you made it.
It's a sloppy crowd. After 2 years as an expat worker in asia + 5yr as a digital nomad...(And one impregnated filipina as my backup server)The main thing i learned is what my team is and who has my back. Marco Rubio got it right. European heritage americans + europeans. I'll be returning home with an enthusiasm
Any digital nomad hub like da nang is full of drunks and impulsive subhumans. They are embarrassing representatives. There are some regular-ish peoole, but overall not a special community. Nothing compared to being a USA institutional profession on avg. Going to go back to making 300k in America alongside people that are disciplined like me. That think like me
>>2865111You sound like the exact type of deracinated rootless subhuman that's perfect for the digital nomad lifestyle.
>>2865103I made the OP for general discussion but for my case I have a country I built a network that I want to relocate too.
>>2865111Yeah spics and diet spics have zero right to even voice a word about changing demographics. Is it actually that much of an issue irl, outside of super touristed areas in Barcelona and the like? Like will some normies on the street squirt me with a water gun for clearly being a gringo?
>>2865004Before it really had this name I just ran websites and received ad revenue 20 years ago. Back then I just traveled around to diff countrys working from cafes if I needed to. Then saw the remote working digitral nomad niche boom and all the coworking spaces pop up. I truely missed the glory days of being a digital nomad.
It's a very real thing if you can get a wfh job that doesn't care and you can handle weird hours.The loneliness builds though and travel slowly becomes not as fun. That's the real drawback to it.
>>2865131Did you pack it up and head home when it went downhill as well?I was expat in HK 2016-17Then digi nomad (usa software job) spring 2022-spring 2026
>>2865112>who has my back>European heritage americansWhite Americans are widely known for throwing each other under the bus, even just for fun, and ostracizing others who trigger their commonly fragile and narcissistic egos. They're cannibalistic.>>2865114>in America alongside people that are disciplined like me. That think like me>Americans>disciplined>think like meWell congratulations on being able to come across and be around supposedly quality people. I've not had that pleasure ever and have been seething and feeling dejected because all the key people in my life have been awful and I've been pushed into isolation despite being the only one with my shit together. Being a decent person who works and improves their lot in life is grounds for antagonizing, harassment, and ostracizing.If you don't conform to their inferior ways and be part of the shitty group you get punished.
>>2865004I used to run in these circles.75% of actual 'digital nomads' are already independently wealthy or living on some type of entitlement like scammed disability or a settlement.Nobody gets any actual work done while 'digital nomading' unless it's maintenence mode of some existing venture.It's a big meme and unless you are established you will hurt your career by doing it.That being said if you are doing school online only, it's fine for that.
>>2865117>seething about traveling and tourism on a travel and tourism board>seething about nomads in a nomad threadwhat a massive faggot you are lol
>>2865100I love watching everyone on this slow motion train crash realising it's jut owning your own business If you cant make work for yourself then shut the fuck up and put the fries in the bag you utter fucking npc
>>2865282>t. Unemployed and living with parents
>>2865286time and family, two of lifes most valuable things
>>2865171Yep, I do still take short stints sometimes but you really-really need roots somewhere and a base to keep up this kind of life longer than a year.
>>2865009Because I'm a virgin manchild that can't handle responsibility
>>2865111>the free-market will do as it always hasThe "free market" aka unrestrained rent seeking has only been a thing fo rthe past 30 years, and see how rapidly it has snehittified everything. Before the Soviet Union fell, Western governments were incentivized to regulate capitalism as to make sure its worst excesses are avoided. Now that the fear of people going communist has disappeared, the shitslide was let roll. Your neoliberal blubbering is purely delusional.>Build your skills if you love it so much or gtfo.You will see that its not really explainable to people as to why they need to "build their skills" to afford the same lifestlye that their illiterate peasant grandfathers had.Its pointless aynways, because the group of people able to afford shit is constantly dwindling.What do you do if you end up bein gon the loser side? Which you inevitably will thanks to the law of capital accumulation, as (you) will never be a billionaire.
>>2865195>They're cannibalisticWe were a lot less of this back when each group of people in each state had their own collectively-shared identity, we just fought other states in the same way that European nations fought other European nations. You can actually see in older shows like Dragnet that in the 50s and 60s there was a growing fear that everybody moving around between states would create a huge problem with baseless citizens with no collective identity.
>>2865431>but muh illiterate peasant grandpaYou mean when the world population was a fraction of what it is now, and he didn't have to compete with foreigners willing to work for less?Cope about the state of things all you want. It won't change the trajectory of the way things are headed. The only thing you can do is try and stay ahead in the rat race. If that involves moving to a destination that is lucrative for you but drives up the cost for locals, oh well. They are free to do so as well. Trang or Pablo move to my country to make money and drive up costs, so I see no issue in doing the same in their countries.>pic related
>>2865539>He thinks that's Trang and Pablo's fault and not the billion dollar corporations buying up all the housing for profitGOOD GOY! VERY VERY GOOD GOY!
Ending the digital nomad meme as of this spring. Several years of it showed me that being an institutional professional is best done in your home country. It's too important for me
>>2865112>I'll be returning home with an enthusiasm>>2865114>Nothing compared to being a USA institutional profession on avg>>2865764>being an institutional professional is best done in your home countryHear that wagies, don't even think of leaving the plantation, there's nothing out there. This certainly isn't a weird psyop by people that speak alien English
Tons of people making it work but those people are poor and move to the cheapest possible places and pretend to work for 8 hours scrolling social media and maybe work for an actual one hour a day at most. The rent is a few hundred dollars, and some food, they are basically wagie bums.Source I've been in these towns and walked around the office to see people doing fuck all. I don't work online I just use the office sometimes to study or relax in the living room when nobody is there. There's free tv and video games, and a kitchen. I go with someone who pays for it, free for me anyway.
Done it for years, it can be done still be done it's just wild how people overexaggerate it. Typical work abroad from US based CST working in Asia-wake up 8-9PM grab a snack and a coffee-say hello to coworker or two to ensure they know I am alive/online-answer emails+check on projects-work from 10->4AM maybe sneak in a snooze or two (project based so not a big deal)-usually eat some bento or grab/uber-5AM head to gym(anytimefitness is pretty GOAT if you're DN)-workout till about 7am-grab breakfast or some post workout meal-8AM till about 1:30PM do some tourist shit-Head back around 2PM to be asleep by 3PM-rinse and repeatIt's fine, biggest issue is that Friday nights are usually a bust work gives me a lot of freedom to take fridays off/light "on call" but even then it's often still much more lacking than I would be able to have back home. Depending on your gig you might also have to spend more $ on proper places to stay, now that I am a Sr. Infrastructure guy I can't get away with private rooms in hostels anymore. My boss doesn't care that I work abroad just so long as I am not drunk and get my projects done on time.Also if you're a DN, get a USB-c monitor it makes your life infinitely better
>>2865103>Get a base and take occasional trips abroad.1000% thisfull time digital nomad will make you hate shit. Nothing like being 90 days in a new country moving on to the next and the next. More often than not you'll get full on hermit mode at some point, then you look back and realize shit you glossed over because everything was blurring together. So many times I look back at where I was months ago then realizing I was either too tired or too tied up on something completely missing events, people, festivals, etc because I had to hit the hay or still had to work. Your weekends get shafted no matter how you shape it if you're US working remotely.
>>2865733>immigration does not drive up cost of livingOh boy
>>2865792im a native born english speaker and i speak alien english
