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.
I think it is because many people see digital nomads as freelancers with irregular income or self employed people trying to get their business off the ground. They think digital nomads are broke. That being said, many digital nomads don’t make a lot of money, to be honest. I don’t think the vast majority chooses cheap places like Thailand, Colombia, Brazil, Indonesia, Philippines, etc. just because of the great nature there; they can’t afford places like South of France.
And yes, some people are plain jealous. They are conditioned by the society to believe that only 9-5 jobs with commute to the office are legit. They even lash out of people working from home let alone work remotely and travel the world.
Let them struggle in their own misery…that comment about “sugar daddy” was utterly rude though. I’d have called them out on it.