[0:00] 4 years that's how long I have been
[0:02] living as a digital Nomad constantly
[0:04] moving working remotely and experiencing
[0:07] life in different countries but is it
[0:10] actually worth it in this video I will
[0:12] give you my honest opinion on the pros
[0:15] and the cons of this lifestyle should
[0:17] you become a digital Nomad or would you
[0:19] be better off just moving abroad as an
[0:21] exper or in some cases is it actually
[0:24] better to just stay in your home country
[0:26] and travel occasionally by the end of
[0:28] this video you will know whether this
[0:29] life that is worth all the hassle or is
[0:32] it just an overhyped
[0:36] [Music]
[0:38] dream so first of all I used to think
[0:41] that just moving to my dream place to
[0:43] live it would just solve all my problems
[0:45] but that's definitely not the case and
[0:47] perfect place definitely doesn't exist
[0:49] there's different problems and your
[0:51] personal problems comes with you
[0:53] anywhere you move but definitely if
[0:55] you're like me and you don't really
[0:56] connect with the nature or the weather
[0:59] the people the mindset whatever in your
[1:01] home country it's really good idea to
[1:03] think of the different options for your
[1:06] life to live in different places and try
[1:08] different Lifestyles so let's start with
[1:10] my raw take on the lifestyle as a
[1:12] digital Nomad first for me this is quite
[1:15] perfect because definitely like as many
[1:17] people like I like to travel I like to
[1:18] experience new places and I get kind of
[1:21] like bored in one place like I notice it
[1:23] after many years now that anytime I'm
[1:26] more than like two three four months in
[1:28] one place I kind of all the days feels
[1:30] the same and I get like less inspired
[1:33] and like I I don't know like it just
[1:34] doesn't feel the most exciting in a way
[1:37] and that's why it's so nice to every few
[1:39] months move to a new place and get that
[1:40] feeling again that wow like I'm so
[1:43] inspired and excited about life and like
[1:45] experiencing these new things in a new
[1:47] placees new flavors new smells new
[1:49] tastes like it's just like new people
[1:52] also like you meet a lot of new people
[1:54] with different mindset like it's just an
[1:55] amazing lifestyle in this way and also
[1:57] the nice thing about the D nor lifestyle
[1:59] when you're moving around and like be
[2:01] free to go anywhere anytime is that you
[2:03] can avoid any like bad Seasons like most
[2:06] places have rainy season or typhoon
[2:08] season or something like that you can
[2:10] avoid all that like I do like I always
[2:12] go based on the season so I'm always in
[2:14] sunny weather most of the time not right
[2:17] now but like usually and also with this
[2:19] lifestyle you have a lot of freedom when
[2:20] it comes to like optimizing your taxes
[2:22] and your setup because you can be
[2:24] anywhere anytime and you don't need to
[2:25] be in one place for a whole year so
[2:27] that's a lot of the positives which are
[2:29] of course amazing but there's of course
[2:31] a lot of negatives also and the way I
[2:33] would explain this is that if I compare
[2:35] my lifestyle to someone who's an expat
[2:38] so they just move to a different country
[2:40] for example Indonesia they move to Bali
[2:42] and they just stay in Bali all the time
[2:44] what I'm kind of jealous of those people
[2:46] is that of course when you stay in one
[2:47] place all the time you get to like build
[2:50] connections and Community around you
[2:52] make good friends and like a friend
[2:54] group and have your routine and really
[2:56] learn so much about that one destination
[2:58] I of course have got a lot of those
[3:01] positives in Bali because I have stayed
[3:02] way more there but it's just that
[3:04] feeling always like you build your
[3:06] circle around and then you leave so
[3:08] that's sometimes that for all the
[3:10] positives I love leaving Bali and
[3:11] traveling and trying different places
[3:13] every year but also I feel a bit sad of
[3:15] like okay like now I'm leaving again and
[3:17] trying to find new friends in the new
[3:19] places of course you always meet so many
[3:21] people so it's not a problem but like
[3:23] having the Deep connections it's a bit
[3:24] struggle and by the way specifically for
[3:26] this problem I created my new school
[3:28] Community The Nomad TR to make a space
[3:30] that is more like for those deep
[3:32] connections with like-minded people so
[3:34] even if we travel around we always have
[3:36] one place to go to ask questions meet
[3:38] people on the calls and have meetups and
[3:40] just have like more deeper connections
[3:42] with people because it's definitely a
[3:43] struggle a little bit when you're digal
[3:45] Nomad this is what most people say so
[3:48] I've been thinking a lot lately that
[3:49] would it be just better to actually live
[3:51] in one place as an exper and lose some
[3:54] of the positives of the full digit NAD
[3:56] lifestyle but for example Bali like it's
[3:59] pretty good place to live long term like
[4:00] the weather is year around the best
[4:03] option and also for me like as a home
[4:05] base like it's my favorite with the vibe
[4:08] and the people and the culture and
[4:09] everything like Bal is really good in
[4:11] that way and there's a lot to do like it
[4:13] doesn't get boring and then every now
[4:15] and then I can still do like travel like
[4:16] I can still do trips from Bali like if I
[4:19] have home in Bali I can still do some
[4:20] trips anytime I want and I can go for
[4:23] month or two during the rainy season
[4:25] anyway so in that way you would get like
[4:27] most of the positives of the G noral
[4:28] lifestyle without getting so much of the
[4:30] negatives and I noticed also after a few
[4:32] years that I love the feeling of coming
[4:34] to a new even like a place that I have
[4:36] been before like dang like I just love
[4:38] the feeling coming back here like
[4:40] changing environment like is so nice but
[4:43] that feeling kind of like I lose it
[4:44] after one week two weeks and then it
[4:47] feels the same again like not so
[4:49] inspired so is it better to chase that
[4:52] new feeling all the time after year
[4:54] after year or is it better just settle
[4:56] down more in one place and still can
[4:57] travel and experience places without
[5:00] losing the community and the people side
[5:02] of staying in one place and by the way
[5:04] one of the best travel hacks I have
[5:05] found as a nomad is using eims Wi-Fi is
[5:09] still not always reliable and of course
[5:11] you need mobile data when going around
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[5:24] second you land in your destination no
[5:26] need to search for SIM card at the
[5:28] airport and deal with topups and by the
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[6:14] long time I noticed like if I think of
[6:16] like just staying in a home country in
[6:18] some cases like it's just so easy like
[6:20] you citizen in the country where you
[6:21] live like you're from there you know how
[6:24] everything works the taxi setups like
[6:26] you really save so much hassle when you
[6:28] just live in your home country like
[6:30] there's less risk and less like worry
[6:32] about like how things going to change in
[6:34] the world and in a way when you travel
[6:36] from your home country every now and
[6:37] then you really do enjoy the travel I
[6:39] remember traveling from Finland like to
[6:41] Bali or Philippines back in the day when
[6:43] I still lived there like I was just like
[6:46] it was amazing to travel like the best
[6:48] experience like I was just like happy
[6:50] tears almost like every day it was just
[6:52] amazing feeling you know to finally
[6:54] travel to a new place like that but when
[6:56] you do this all the time you kind of
[6:57] lose that like magic of traveling like
[6:59] it's still nice and it's amazing but
[7:01] it's not as like incredible like it was
[7:04] back in the day so I would say that if
[7:06] you don't have any place that you really
[7:08] want to live instead of your home
[7:09] country if you're kind of happy with
[7:10] your home country it can be even make
[7:12] sense to just stay living there because
[7:14] like yeah that mindset of like okay if I
[7:16] move to this new place things going to
[7:17] change and be so much better like it's
[7:19] not really like that it can be because
[7:21] you meet new people you get new
[7:23] opportunities you develop your mindset
[7:25] and all that of course but in a way it
[7:27] can be also pretty good to just stay
[7:29] your home country if you have your close
[7:31] friends and family and really enjoy your
[7:33] life there and have all the positives
[7:34] with that and also more about the topic
[7:36] of health of course when you move to
[7:39] these places in Southeast Asia for
[7:41] example in some ways you can be way
[7:42] healthier because you're in a like
[7:44] outside in nature with good weather like
[7:46] surfing or like eating nice food in the
[7:49] restaurants eily like really healthy
[7:50] options but of course there's also like
[7:53] the negatives like you can get food
[7:54] poisonings easier in Bali for example
[7:57] you can get like a tropical disease like
[7:59] dangi fever from the mosquitoes you can
[8:02] easier get like into scooter accidents
[8:05] or something so there's definitely like
[8:07] there's lot of like Risk when it comes
[8:09] to health also and I definitely have to
[8:11] say that I haven't always been the
[8:13] healthiest when I live in Southeast Asia
[8:14] because of all these things and that's
[8:17] why I would recommend get a good travel
[8:18] medical insurance of course when you
[8:20] travel the one I'll be using is Link in
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[8:24] like that's what I would recommend and
[8:25] nowadays I used to complete plan that
[8:27] means basically is best for this moment
[8:29] that are long-term living this lifestyle
[8:31] because you have more Comprehensive
[8:33] Health Care with that so it's not really
[8:35] a problem when it comes to Health Care
[8:37] like in Southeast Asia there's good
[8:38] hospitals so it's not really something I
[8:40] would be too worried about if you get
[8:42] this insurance for long term so my
[8:44] opinion based on my own experience I
[8:46] would say that it's really good be like
[8:48] it's been amazing to live this lifestyle
[8:49] for the past four years and I will
[8:51] probably keep doing it for at least one
[8:53] or two years more but after that yeah I
[8:56] based on everything that I already say
[8:58] like I've been thinking that would would
[8:59] be better to have a home in Bali or like
[9:02] in some place that I love the most and
[9:04] change the lifestyle a little bit like
[9:06] that especially if I build a family one
[9:08] day that I definitely looking forward to
[9:10] do and want to do it would be much
[9:12] better to stay in one place and can
[9:14] still travel but settle down a little
[9:16] bit and in Bali for example there's good
[9:18] international schools so that would be
[9:20] kind of like what I'm seeing for the
[9:22] future and by the way if you're getting
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[9:29] normal lifestyle in different places and
[9:31] of course one positive that I need to
[9:33] mention is that when you live this
[9:34] digital normal lifestyle you can live
[9:36] anywhere you can save a lot of money
[9:38] like cost of living is so much cheaper
[9:39] in some of the places in Southeast Asia
[9:41] for example compared to Western
[9:43] countries that obviously you will like
[9:46] you don't need to make that much money
[9:47] to live a really good lifestyle so
[9:49] that's the opportunity but of course the
[9:50] challenge is like can you make money
[9:52] online like without needing to be in a
[9:54] specific place because in most cases you
[9:56] can't really get like a job in b or
[9:58] something like that you need to work
[9:59] online and if you can make it happen
[10:01] it's really amazing setup but it can be
[10:03] a challenge of course and also like the
[10:06] world and the countries and you you
[10:08] don't really know how things going to
[10:09] change with climate change also like how
[10:11] different countries going to develop to
[10:14] better and worse conditions for living
[10:16] so that's why it's nice to have this
[10:18] freedom of like I can kind of just
[10:19] choose whatever makes sense for me
[10:21] whatever I see is the best option I can
[10:23] go there and have the freedom and
[10:24] flexibility so that's definitely a big
[10:26] positive about this lifestyle and one
[10:28] thing I have been thinking that it would
[10:29] be nice like if I'm getting a home in
[10:31] Bal of course would be nice to own it
[10:33] like would be nice to invest into a
[10:35] property but it's not that easy because
[10:37] inali is always lease hold so it kind of
[10:39] like lose value by time so it's not like
[10:41] a long-term investment in that way so
[10:44] that's one negative that in my home
[10:46] country of course I would buy a property
[10:48] it would be really good long-term
[10:49] investment so there's not really that
[10:51] kind of opportunity when you as a
[10:53] foreign or in a foreign country so
[10:55] that's one negative but of course like
[10:56] you can also make good business with
[10:58] properties opportun ities in Bali like
[11:00] you can build lot of properties and like
[11:02] have different businesses around that
[11:04] but for a simple investment as one
[11:06] person buying one house like it's not
[11:08] that nice that it would be in Western
[11:11] countries when you actually own the land
[11:13] and own the house so yeah every
[11:15] lifestyle every place have the pros and
[11:17] cons you just need to choose something
[11:19] that is like for you the pros are more
[11:21] important than the cons that's just how
[11:24] life works and for me dig nor lifestyle
[11:26] yeah it's it's been a good choice like I
[11:28] really I'm like I'm happy that I did
[11:30] this and I make all the effort to be
[11:32] able to live like this and for most
[11:33] people I would also recommend doing this
[11:35] at least for one or two years to kind of
[11:37] also see like you can't really know what
[11:39] is your favorite place to live before
[11:41] you try many like just moving to Bali or
[11:44] just moving to one place and just settle
[11:45] down there like how could you know that
[11:47] you wouldn't in actually living in
[11:49] Thailand way more so that's the positive
[11:51] of trying many places that you can
[11:52] actually find like what is the best for
[11:54] you where you feel the best where you
[11:56] meet the best people for you like most
[11:58] likeminded and then choose one place for
[12:00] long term because I would say that most
[12:03] people wouldn't want to actually live
[12:04] for the rest of their life digit nor
[12:06] lifestyle of course like most people
[12:08] want to build some kind of community and
[12:10] home and family in one place instead of
[12:12] always traveling like it can get a bit
[12:14] exhausting always changing place and
[12:16] never settling down somewhere so yeah in
[12:18] the end of the day I would always
[12:19] recommend trying to build some kind of
[12:20] business online to give you the freedom
[12:22] to choose because that's really the
[12:24] greatest feeling ever so yeah I hope to
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