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 suspect that it has to do with two things:
- You not having kids
- Your 'refusal' to settle down and develop ties to a specific place
People who don't procreate and who wander around rather than staying put solely identifying with one group identity are always going to be shamed. Wrongfully so, but still, it happens. It's a sad fact of life
You're so right! I feel so shamed that I don't want to buy an apartment and get stuck in one place.
Who buys an apartment tho?!
In my country it's like a must and a success. People take 30 years mortgage just to have 40 m2.
If i would buy something it would be a house but never an apartment, it is just throwing your money away. Yeah you can rent it out when it is paid but too much trouble for it
No, in my country actually renting apartments is a good business. Many of my friends have 2 apartments and they rent out one. We don't have buildings that are owned by one company and they rent it out. Every apartment is owned by a person. It's much different than in different countries.
I'm in the US and real estate is super expensive - a lot of people start by buying a condo and either rent it out later or sell for profit to buy a house.