If you follow any digital nomads on Instagram, you probably assume that they are pretty wealthy. Flying to beautiful international destinations every month, staying in incredibly beachside hotels or jungle treehouses, and taking in local adventures. This can make the...
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Schengen Survival Guide: Mastering the 90/180 Rule for EU Travel
If you are a citizen of a third country and you want to travel to the European Schengen area, you get one tourist visa that lets you travel to all 27 Schengen countries. It allows you to spend up to 90 days in the Schengen area every 180 days. If you have a visa, for...
The Advantages and Challenges of Remote Work for Psychologists
Psychology used to be a job that required professionals to establish a permanent office where they could see people in person. While many psychologists and patients still prefer this arrangement, even before the pandemic, psychologists started to consult online. The...
Are Digital Nomads Really Homeless? Debunking the Comparison
A swathe of recent articles have compared the experience of being a digital nomad to being homeless. One LinkedIn writer suggested that: Being a digital nomad is a lot like being a hobo. You have no home, drink too much, and often get stared at. When you speak, nobody...
Why Locals Hate Digital Nomads: Exploring the Concerns
As South Africa prepares to officially launch their digital nomad visa, debate rages in the beautiful city of Cape Town about whether the digital nomads who have already descended on the city are a boon or a burden. Cape Town is not the only city to start to complain...
Balancing Freedom and Stability: Navigating Remote Work and Digital Nomadism
There is a growing trend for clear-cutting of work life and personal living areas. The upcoming trend of remote work and the feature of digital nomads operating outside an office and from anywhere around the world allow people to get out of the office working routine...
Should Remote Workers be Paid Less than In-Office Staff?
The question of whether companies can or should pay remote workers less than their counterparts in the office is not a new one. But the debate is boiling up again after a survey published by the spend management platform Pleo in February 2024. Their survey of small...
Is the Digital Nomad Lifestyle Right for You? Pros and Cons
For years, digital nomads have been praising the lifestyle and telling others that it is the way to live while posting fantastic photos from impossibly beautiful destinations. This was definitely the general consensus when the digital nomad lifestyle was aspirational...
Digital Nomad Salaries and Income: Myth vs. Reality
Many myths circulate about how much money and how well you can live as a digital nomad. But is it realistic to imagine that you can earn US$50,000+ per year working only a couple of hours a day while spending only a few hundred a month living in a beach paradise and...
Profile and Motives of Digital Nomads: Debunking Stereotypes
We often have a very fixed idea of what a digital nomad looks like. Perhaps a man around the age of 30 from a wealthy country who works in an area such as programming, probably single and without kids. But how accurate is this description? Many digital nomad...