Digital nomads

Mexico was already a popular destination for location-independent workers, digital nomads, snowbirds, and backpackers before the pandemic hit. With Mexico being one of the few low-priced countries that stayed open, it saw a flood of new visitors coming who wanted to stick around a while. It also got more interest from retirees and remote workers …

Lots of major news outlets have covered the recent growth in countries offering some kind of digital nomad visa. As many people with “normal” jobs have become remote workers who could potentially live abroad, countries are waking up to the fact that it’s not abnormal anymore to work from a laptop. Traditional media editors love …

What’s the cost of living like for expats in Ho Chi Minh City—Saigon—in Vietnam? I got on a call with James Clark of Nomadic Notes before the first edition of A Better Life for Half the Price came out. Now that I’m researching the second edition, I wanted to catch up and see how things …

If you’re looking at moving abroad or becoming a digital nomad down the line, you’re going to become very concerned about which cheap countries have the fastest internet so you can get work done and do video calls. You may need to run an online business via Wi-Fi and do bandwidth-heavy activities like uploading videos. …

The word “expatriate” or the shorter “expat” can mean a lot of different things depending on who it is applied to. Whenever I go to the Travel Bloggers Exchange Conference in Europe or Asia I meet loads of people who are not living in their home country. In one day when it took place in …