Is digital nomad the new expat? Like we got a word for it: it’s immigrant.
Is digital nomad the new expat?
Kind of.
Think of it like a retiree trying to find a place to live where their salary isn’t tied to the local economy. It opens up a lot of places with a relatively low living expenses and high quality of life.
They are immigrants, but they are immigrants with money.
To immigrate anywhere you need quite a bit of money so immigrants usually have money. Like the travel alone is quite costly, not to mention housing.
you forgot: “who don’t pay taxes in the country they live in” :picard:
Definitely agree. Digital immigrant, reflects the reality more
Immigrant is the word for poor not-white people, silly. White rich people are called eXpAtS, don’t you know?
/s
My understanding is that digital nomads are basically just long-term tourists rather than immigrants; they don’t get visas that allow permanent residency or anything. Iceland’s digital nomad visa, for example, only lets you stick around for 6 months, and you can’t renew it more than once a year. So you really do have to be somewhat nomadic, and travel to a different country.
Denmark The Netherlands Germany Spain Sweden Portugal Estonia Lithuania Ireland SlovakiaCalling Germany the 3rd best for digital nomads is the biggest indicator that this list can go directly into the garbage.
Don’t come <3
North America: US and Canada… nope
South America: Err… Brazil’s political climate is sad, the rest…
Asia: Fuck Xi. Singapore’s expensive. SK maybe. Japan is conservative shit hole (am Japanese)
Africa: Not safe
Europe: okay-ishSo, definitely Europe for me.
Did I miss a continent?
How can Canada with its winter rank higher than France though.
Have you been to France?
Yes and?
Police and Firefighters beating each other up, Farmers dropping shit in city centers, high rate of poverty, crime and corruption. No safe drinking water from the tap in many areas in the south of France. Energy instability due to failing nuclear power in combination with electrical heating. Inefficient bureaucracy, violent and extremely racist Police…
I once worked with someone from France, while working in a German branch for a company, and they lived in Switzerland at that time, saying they just pay less taxes that way and take home more money.
Your post makes me think it wasn’t just taxes.
Yeah most definetely not. There is a lot of people from the surrounding countries working in Switzerland, but living outside of Switzerland to take advantage of the power of the Franken compared to the Euro.
Doing the opposite really weakens your income, so people in Switzerland tend not to work outside of Switzerland.
Ok, so you extrapolate from micro events to create a false generalisation.
Cool cool cool
This reminds me of the debate regarding racism, fascist extremism and violence in the German police. Whenever something happened it was deflected by politics as an “Einzelfall” a solitary occurence. When you keep seeing what you call “micro events” you should look into the underlying pattern.
