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.
People don’t understand what they don’t know. My friends go away for two weeks in the summer and blow 5-6,000 dollars in a couple of weeks. They extrapolate that to the whole year and think you must spend the same. They forget that many countries are way cheaper, that when they are at home they don’t eat out three times a day and get hammered every night and that I don’t do that when traveling. The main thing is that people are jealous and they try to create a reason why it’s not possible for them, or why they are not doing it. The real reason is they are too lazy or scared or something else but it’s easier to put a very high financial obstacle to show that it’s not their fault and use this to explain it away. Honestly anyone I care about doesn’t ask the question