I noticed a lot of digital nomads have to take a pay cut or have money saved up. Is it even possible to be a US citizen and have a remote job with good pay? I say this because if I want to live in a foreign country for say 3-6 months and then return back the US I don’t want to be making only 30k a year.
The key is to get a good job and make it remote. I work as technical VP at one of the Luxembourgish startups, making around 120k€/year, which is more than enough in most of the remote places worldwide if you are careful spender. I travel back once per 2-3 months for a week or so to keep in touch with a team and give good impression on my own cost but it is good to see parents and old friends once a while anyway. I started with staying all the time in the country but working from home when traveling around Europe and coming back once per two weeks, when once per month and at now it is few times per year. It took me around 2 years to achieve that.