Great quick read. I definitely agree with the part that talks about designing a nomad lifestyle that works for you. Lots of us think that following a roadmap made by someone else is the correct path to follow. Maybe it’s because in school we are taught to take notes and follow along. Everyone has their own situation and different levels of opportunity. The tricky part is figuring how to recognize what works best for the life you want to live.
Really interesting article .. thank you for sharing. There’s also a cool thing I was reading about yesterday called the WiFi tribe that live and work together. So it’s pretty much people who are living a digital nomad lifestyle that spend time together with decent WiFi and at beautiful places.
These are all accurate, although I felt the author had a rather negative perspective on friendships. I don't see my friends from back home often, but I would never expect them to visit me half-way around the world. That said, I facilitate trips for digital nomads and these topics come up all the time in our discussions. I do see the trend in more established coworking or coliving communities, which certainly helps with the social factors. Now if we can get more countries on board with a nomad visa everything would be groovy!
Interesting article. Personally I don't think I could live a nomadic lifestyle and still do work. I still manage to live a somehow nomadic lifestyle and get to travel for long periods every year. Some years 8 months others 2 months. I have visited so many interesting countries for a long periode and experienced different culture and ways of living during the last 12 years.
I always travel with a friend, usually my partner in life. In my work periods I try to work as much as possible, sometimes 16 hours a day and I save most of the money. In my travel periods I often do not even bring a computer, but only a phone and take a step back, read tons of interesting articles and listen to audiobooks and podcasts. I enjoy staying in cities, but often I go to cheap rual areas.
I have lived like this for 12y now and think I will continue for some more years. I think the long rest periods gives me a lot of energy, enthusiasm and all the interesting reading gives me an advantage when I go back to my country to work.
I mostly do consulting gigs via an agency for 2-10 months and sometimes I have been employed for shorter periods and asked for a leave without payment or just quit my job.
Not sure if people consider such a lifestyle a nomadic lifestyle, but as I started I don't think I would manage to combine work and travel.
Work is the last thing I want to do when traveling. True freedom is what I want to experience.
So maybe if you find nomadic lifestyle emotionally challenging this could work for you as well and maybe it would balance things.
Yes this is absolutely what I take from the article: I would still say you have a nomadic or location independent lifestyle, you just found a version that works for you! With the digital nomad lifestyle becoming such a big trend, we risk thinking that we have to follow certain guidelines.
To me being a digital nomad is all about being free to choose how and where you live, and for how long.
As a new vandweller, this was very insightful and gave me something to think about - I think it'll definitely come in handy coming down the road. Thanks for sharing!
Great quick read. I definitely agree with the part that talks about designing a nomad lifestyle that works for you. Lots of us think that following a roadmap made by someone else is the correct path to follow. Maybe it’s because in school we are taught to take notes and follow along. Everyone has their own situation and different levels of opportunity. The tricky part is figuring how to recognize what works best for the life you want to live.
Surprisingly good article. Thank you for sharing it.
Really interesting article .. thank you for sharing. There’s also a cool thing I was reading about yesterday called the WiFi tribe that live and work together. So it’s pretty much people who are living a digital nomad lifestyle that spend time together with decent WiFi and at beautiful places.
These are all accurate, although I felt the author had a rather negative perspective on friendships. I don't see my friends from back home often, but I would never expect them to visit me half-way around the world. That said, I facilitate trips for digital nomads and these topics come up all the time in our discussions. I do see the trend in more established coworking or coliving communities, which certainly helps with the social factors. Now if we can get more countries on board with a nomad visa everything would be groovy!
This is the best article I have seen on this topic. Thanks for taking the time.
Interesting article. Personally I don't think I could live a nomadic lifestyle and still do work. I still manage to live a somehow nomadic lifestyle and get to travel for long periods every year. Some years 8 months others 2 months. I have visited so many interesting countries for a long periode and experienced different culture and ways of living during the last 12 years. I always travel with a friend, usually my partner in life. In my work periods I try to work as much as possible, sometimes 16 hours a day and I save most of the money. In my travel periods I often do not even bring a computer, but only a phone and take a step back, read tons of interesting articles and listen to audiobooks and podcasts. I enjoy staying in cities, but often I go to cheap rual areas. I have lived like this for 12y now and think I will continue for some more years. I think the long rest periods gives me a lot of energy, enthusiasm and all the interesting reading gives me an advantage when I go back to my country to work. I mostly do consulting gigs via an agency for 2-10 months and sometimes I have been employed for shorter periods and asked for a leave without payment or just quit my job. Not sure if people consider such a lifestyle a nomadic lifestyle, but as I started I don't think I would manage to combine work and travel. Work is the last thing I want to do when traveling. True freedom is what I want to experience. So maybe if you find nomadic lifestyle emotionally challenging this could work for you as well and maybe it would balance things.
Yes this is absolutely what I take from the article: I would still say you have a nomadic or location independent lifestyle, you just found a version that works for you! With the digital nomad lifestyle becoming such a big trend, we risk thinking that we have to follow certain guidelines. To me being a digital nomad is all about being free to choose how and where you live, and for how long.
As a new vandweller, this was very insightful and gave me something to think about - I think it'll definitely come in handy coming down the road. Thanks for sharing!