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 don’t have an answer, I just wanted to say that I can empathize, since I had the exact same experience when I talk about my bike touring.
“Hey, I’m cycling a year across Africa, wild camping” (spending ~$10 a day) - Me, on a bike.
“wow, must be nice to be rich, love I could live like that” - grumbling person with more comfort and money than I’d ever have on tour.
damn that bike tour sounds hella cool & inspiring. i gotta really work on moving from thought to action and your post is helping, thanks.