Think of it like a retiree trying to find a place to live where their salary isn’t tied to the local economy. It opens up a lot of places with a relatively low living expenses and high quality of life.
They are immigrants, but they are immigrants with money.
My understanding is that digital nomads are basically just long-term tourists rather than immigrants; they don’t get visas that allow permanent residency or anything. Iceland’s digital nomad visa, for example, only lets you stick around for 6 months, and you can’t renew it more than once a year. So you really do have to be somewhat nomadic, and travel to a different country.
Is digital nomad the new expat? Like we got a word for it: it’s immigrant.
Kind of.
Think of it like a retiree trying to find a place to live where their salary isn’t tied to the local economy. It opens up a lot of places with a relatively low living expenses and high quality of life.
They are immigrants, but they are immigrants with money.
you forgot: “who don’t pay taxes in the country they live in” :picard:
To immigrate anywhere you need quite a bit of money so immigrants usually have money. Like the travel alone is quite costly, not to mention housing.
Immigrant is the word for poor not-white people, silly. White rich people are called eXpAtS, don’t you know?
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My understanding is that digital nomads are basically just long-term tourists rather than immigrants; they don’t get visas that allow permanent residency or anything. Iceland’s digital nomad visa, for example, only lets you stick around for 6 months, and you can’t renew it more than once a year. So you really do have to be somewhat nomadic, and travel to a different country.
Definitely agree. Digital immigrant, reflects the reality more
Immigrant suggests desire for permanent residence though.
I’d rather say “long term” than permanent.
You can immigrate to a country, work there for 10 years, then emigrate again.
Most of the digital nomads I know end up settling somewhere at some point, moving around all the time gets tiring after a while
Then at that time they become immigrants.
I always thought it was about being Nomadic, so you’re constantly moving.
So more like a permanent tourist, who is just doing their working hours during the holiday.
One week here, two weeks there etc.
I work with people who do this, so I know it exists.