I need to vent.
Everyone all the time asks me how can I afford traveling all the time. I work remotely and have a corporate 10 years long career, I don't have kids and don't have a car or an apartment. I speak 2 languages and used to be the most hardworking person ever to make my career. Don't get me wrong, I'm still from a poor country and I don't make big money, I travel on budget, but in my country I would be consider above average in terms of money. I'm great in managing money, I provide for myself and am independent for 10 years and I used to live for only $275 a month.
Also as a digital nomad I travel to live in a country, I'm not a tourist that spends much money every day.
How do you deal with it? People tell me all the time that I'll get broke or that I should work more or that I have a sugar daddy. They ask me if this lifestyle isn't expensive. Obviously it is, but having kids also is super expensive.
The most funny thing is that I meet people that makes literally 10 TIMES MORE than me and they are jealous and ask me of I could advise them to make more and how much they should make to afford being a digital nomad.
That line right there seems to explain it most of the time for me.
No kids + decent paying job = perceived smashing success
It's not even needing a decent paying job, it's just needing one you can do remotely over the internet. I was making ~$16K USD a year less than ten years ago and was still able to travel around half the time.
I remember when it looked like kids weren't going to happen for us (we eventually got lucky, she starts school next year). And my beautiful wife and I sat down and had the heart-to-heart conversation about what life would look like in this scenario.
I said, "I guess we'll just have to be rich and happy travelling the world and sleeping in all the time." That softened the blow somewhat...