Every year more and more digital nomads are choosing to live abroad rather than stay behind in the home country, and every year more and more regular people are trying to determine why exactly this is happening. After all, the traditional way of thinking is that your home country is just that: a home. And for traditionalists it is this concept of home that keeps them tied down to a singular location for the duration of their life, trading a lifestyle of continual adventure and exploration for one of domestic bliss. But for many expats the domestic lifestyle is not their ideal way of living, as they would rather enjoy a life of continual exploration on the road where the horizon is always pulling them to the next adventure.
Living as a full-time nomad does not mean trading in a life of domestic stability in exchange for a life of continuous travel. However, it doesn't mean that a domestic existence is completely off the table, because you can choose to have a flexible type of nomadic existence where you utilize several different countries as bases of operations, for example, simply changing every few months so that you never grow tired of a single place, and instead can benefit from the best aspects of each destination depending on what time of the year it is.
For example, a full-time expat might choose to have a winter home in Cancun so that they can spend December through March on the beach, and then have another home in the countryside of Italy for the spring and early summer months, and then another house in the mountains of Colombia for the late summer months when it is exceptionally hot, thereby allowing you to keep yourself in a continual state of perpetually perfect weather because you are simply changing locations before it gets too hot or too cold. This is the flexibility that the nomadic existence provides.
Living as a full-time nomad does not mean trading in a life of domestic stability in exchange for a life of continuous travel. However, it doesn't mean that a domestic existence is completely off the table, because you can choose to have a flexible type of nomadic existence where you utilize several different countries as bases of operations, for example, simply changing every few months so that you never grow tired of a single place, and instead can benefit from the best aspects of each destination depending on what time of the year it is.
For example, a full-time expat might choose to have a winter home in Cancun so that they can spend December through March on the beach, and then have another home in the countryside of Italy for the spring and early summer months, and then another house in the mountains of Colombia for the late summer months when it is exceptionally hot, thereby allowing you to keep yourself in a continual state of perpetually perfect weather because you are simply changing locations before it gets too hot or too cold. This is the flexibility that the nomadic existence provides.
For more information on what it means to live the life of a digital nomad, you can either read the blog at Marginal Boundaries by clicking on the link in the upper right, or you can read The Expat Guidebook (http://www.theexpatguidebook.com) for anything and everything related to the expat lifestyle.
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