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.
Well done for making it work btw!
So sick of questions from people I meet overseas and from friends and family. I think you have the answers in your comment already but I find it is really about owning it when you talk to others. For me, it's confidently giving them a quick laundry list: I live cheaply, in cheap countries, we sacrifice by not having kids, by not owning a car, I gave up a +10yr good corporate job and all the nice lunches and craft beers to do what I do. We do without a nice permanent house, we avoid being materialistic.
And then I state that I know I am lucky to be able to do what I do; that it's a mix of choice, hard work and luck