Why I Went Straight Back Home After Becoming a Digital Nomad
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- Опубликовано: 7 июл 2024
- Many of you still remember me being a digital nomad. Heck, reading our current about page still sounds like we’re having coconuts on the beach every day (note to self: rewrite). But actually, that’s all a bit outdated. In fact me and Mariah, we’re as un-nomadic as it gets nowadays. And enjoying it over coconuts. Here’s why: metamonks.com/no-more-digital-...
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I'm glad there is someone who lives somewhere in the middle. The nomad life is very appealing to me, but all nomads seem so extreme. I feel like I could do it for 1-4 months, but not having a true base, always just floating around and never having true roots, seems uncomfortable and unappealing. Thanks for sharing.
I prefer to have a home base preferably in a place where the cost of living is more manageable (outside of the states). I loved Thailand but preferred to find a base and take smaller trips. Slow travel worked best for me and gave me time to sit down and focus on work.
The main question is this: what do you want to do with your time, how do you want to live your days. Each of us has individual needs, desires and pleasures. What you want to do will tell you where to do it, and the degree of stability necessary.
I love to travel, but I also enjoy gardening, sailing, building furniture in my woodworking shop, and playing several instruments. Traveling with a table saw, banjo and guitar, a 16 foot daysailer and a patch of soil is difficult, to say the least. LOL So I travel for a while, and enjoy the pleasures of home for a while.
There is a price and a pleasure to each choice in life. You pays your money and you takes your chances. You have the satisfaction of having found success in the nomadic life, and of having refined your search for happiness. I see you as a success on both counts.
It's always good to see some with a different perspective on this kind of life style. Some many vloggers make it seem like it's the best life ever and that there are very little draw backs but in reality this kind of life style really isn't for everyone but I think it will take going and trying it to figure that out. Thanks for the honesty.
I think you've chosen the best route. I can't imagine not having a "home". You're still independent as far as work is involved, so you are free to travel if you want. There's no reason you should have to travel if that's not what you really want. Good for you, knowing your own mind! :)
Lots of traveling gets old after a while, just like anything can. Traveling with little money sucks possibly more than just staying put with little money. Either way, money will definitely flavor your experience wherever you go. Travel on your own terms and be where you want to be.
Thanks for saying all this stuff metamonks. I thought I was the only one having the same problems because no one else was talking about it.
I am very intrigued by the idea of location independence and being able to choose to work from your own home town is still location independence because one can move at any time. Many digital nomads do have a "home base" which they often move back to. It can be either your home town, Bali or any other place. I think that most people get tired of routines and moving constantly becomes just as much of a routine as living at home eventually. This was great insight , thank you!
Everyone's situation is unique - there is no typical or one way to do the digital nomad lifestyle.
Interesting hearing your thoughts on this. We've just started the digital nomad lifestyle and we find that generally when we hit the 3 month mark of moving every few days or weeks we do desire a more stable base. Plus you lose at least half a day each time you move location, which can make it hard to establish a good routine in terms of things like meditation.
Hey Philip - Love this thought provoking chat. I totally agree with you on the challenge of traveling and having a schedule. Everything becomes so much more challenging. The idea of living at home seems like a romantic idea now. The hard part is balancing the desire to travel and itchy feet with having a home base. I'm sure you know that feeling well. :)
Maybe use two places as home? I have an apartment that i own in my hometown in Norway that i spend the warm season in Norway, the six monts with spring, summer, and autum in my hometown in Norway. During that time i apply for a 6 month multi entry visa that Brett Dev has a video on, and i use that for the winter season in Thailand. I have a Travel Insuranse that cover me for 120 days, so i have a short Christmas visit in Norway after staying 60 days in Thailand, and then i go back for 120 days. totaling 6 months.
That helps for the restlessness quite a bit and gives some stability into my life :)
Well considered and insightful comments from someone who has truly taken time to experience the lifestyle. You've laid out your topics well and communucated those with clarity. Thank you!
Location independence is the key element. With location independence you can live wherever you like for as long as you like. And when you want to go home, you can go.
Location independence, in my opinion, really means what it says on the tin: You can go wherever, (basically) whenever. If that means you want to spend 9 months in your home town, great!
you bring up some very good points about the headaches of travel versus being grounded.
I'll tell you how to reset a router: just pull the plug, wait a few seconds and plug it back in. Has worked for me anytime. ;) I have been travelling for three years now and the things you mentioned never stressed me out too much. I just go with the flow and take things as they come and I feel absolutely amazing without a base. But people are different and people should live their lives as it suits them best. There is not only one way to live but many of them.
It's great to have different perspectives on these topics.. thanks for the insight :)
Thank you! I lived in Thailand years ago and have an advantage of many Thai friends speaking the language. I think being in Thailand part time and USA part time may be for me. Great video
Helpful. Thanks for sharing.
I totally understand what you are saying! I describe it as being able to have both roots and wings! I would like to maintain a reasonably priced home in a sophisticated city (I currently live in NYC), yet have location independence so I can also travel as much. as I want.
So glad I found your video. I also decided to settle down and put roots :)
+Isabelle Rizo Cool - which location did convince you? :)
Romania
Lovely, actually one of our team members is based there :)
Makes perfect sense to me.
hi, my name is Jonathan, I'm from Strasbourg, Asldace, but ive been living in Chiang Mai, Thailand since the age of 13, when i moved with my parents from Alsace to Thailand, now Im 37 and you have no idea how this video rings so true in my heart!. I use to think i could become one of them (asian), i learned the language fluently, as well as english, but now that many many years have passed, and many illusions and dreams have passed, and my marriage here with my high school love has ended, i feel i have no plave in that country no more, and like you said, i'll always be a tourist to them, i miss my culture, my Alsacian culture which is very close to yours in Munchen, which i know pretty well myself, because i have some friends there! Anyways, the fellings of belonging somewhere, of having that base, and missing your loved ones and your friends and family, well, that has never been so much more the truth than now! Tchuss!
oh!, by the way its been 12 years since my last visit to Europe. i didnt go for all that time more many reasons, most of them i realise now were stupid,and now i regret it badly, for i missed my grandpa and grandma's funeral, my own father passed away 5 years ago, and i couldnt go, he left us years ago, now its just my 70 year old mum , my 7 year old son and me
There is a middle ground too. Stay in one place for 1-6 months. We'll probably stop and stay when the place feels right.
Being German would probably be the exact opposite of much of SE asia lives if on a scale. Germans plan their weekends away from work lol, most people in SE asia dont plan for tomorrow.
B Styless yeah.Living in Germany now I find the Germans incredibly boring and square ppl.Just fucking relax and live!
Admit it. Cheap oats and dairy from Aldi/Lidl, together with rye bread and all the other things that aren't obtainable at any price, are considerations!
i thought the big payoff is that digital nomads liked being where you could work a lot less and still have enough money to live well.
You have each other why do you need more?
You are not the son of Mc Guyver, LOL
because you cant find the router or the kitchen knife? loool
indeed. bit ocd there, but some people are. my sis never moved more than 5 min from my mom whilst i've been all over the world and love it.
Complaining about laundry and the lack of printers? WTF?
I think this guy spent way too much beyond his means and failed to adapt to the environments he found himself in. It's a huge reason why people can't make it when living in this type of lifestyle.
Plus, digital nomads sound like dbags, so its good to distance yourself from them a little