oh okay, cause I want to stay over night and it requires some reports to police once Im back, anyways thank you very much!!!

wtf?

Sounds like someone was having a good night 😂🎵🎵

Anyone knows of white label software for a one-stop-shop B2C online travel booking website?

Have anybody tried this website? Any experiences while nomading and house/pet sitting?

I see www.trustedhousesitters.com and some of the places say they have good wifi + you can use their car 🤩

Inb4 they're closing the service next week because massive amounts of nerds are signing up 😁

Anyone here trying to get World Cup tickets???

Yes I use it quite often, feel free to message me

Yes I traveled the world for 3 years - writing, editing, and publishing my book all the while - thanks to TrustedHousesitters! Had so many great sits. 😻💖🐶

I've tried it for almost a year, 0 sits

for man without reviews its much harder to get sits

That's why we get a wifey bro

can't get wifey so got money to pay for housing 😅

You need to start with less desirable sits, do random shorter ones in places that aren't main cities etc. For example there are a boatload of sits across the UK that receive little to no applications, it's easy to get one of those with no reviews, that's how I started. And make sure you write a nice intro message about yourself and your experience with pets (+make it relevant to the sit you're applying for). Offer to do a video call to chat

I did all of these, it didn't help

Oh that's a shame

Most people also don't know that house sitting as a tourist is illegal in most countries (although usually tolerated). It is, in fact, work even though you don't get paid for it.

Sure, kind of like working remotely from various countries 😉

You're not competing with the local market while doing that, so it's either officially allowed (like in the UK, Canada, or NZ) or usually de-facto allowed if your primary purpose of visit is tourism.
And housesitting is potentially taking someone else's job, so it's a different story.

FIFA ruined it as they do everything

Hi everyone, Mike here. I’m in my early 20s and planning to go fully nomadic next year. I’m exploring ways to live in different places around the world—especially options where I can volunteer, do work exchange, or help out in pop-up villages and coliving spaces in exchange for living expenses and food.

I’m not focused on earning money right now—my main goal is to get life experience, contribute, and learn as much as I can. Are there any other ways to live and move between places before finding a more permanent one and start a business?

Also, I’d love to hear about your experiences when you were starting out. What did you do in your first months or years of being nomadic or living abroad? Any tips or stories about work-trade, volunteering, or nomad life would be super helpful!

Thanks in advance for any advice or stories.

a lot of colivings/hostels have opportunities for volunteers

if you want to have steady remote job, you just need to start learning and working, preferably as early as possible

When working abroad remotely 99% of the time you're bringing in money from outside that country and spending it in the local economy on food, housing etc.

When house sitting, you're taking money from the local economy and doing work a local could do.

So it's really not comparable at all.

No money is exchanged when petsitting on trustedhousesitters, it's purely a mutually beneficial arrangement where you get free accommodation in exchange for pet care. A local doesn't really need free accomm if they already live in the place. So sitters are still spending their own money in a local economy, actually often in random towns and places that tourists wouldn't go to if it weren't for having a sit there. Your point might stand for other paid versions of housesitting, but that's not the case for THS.

You will probably end up working at hostels more than anything. I haven’t heard of that many coworkings with a volunteering program. There’s a few in Bali that used to import event managers from Spain.
But most of the ppl I know doing this are barely making ends meet so make sure you have savings

Ah well that's different then.

My parents get paid for house sitting / pet sitting.

I didn't realise it was done for free.

hey guys i am looking for someone who studied or works in animation, illustration/comics, fashion
my sister is now looking at unis in eu/uk and desperately needs to ask qs about industry, especially taking the recent ai shift. i've no idea about any of this stuff

is there anyone who'd be willing to spare 20mins to answer her questions?

If you were Nomading pre-Covid, do you find you use coworking spaces less or more since covid? What has changed for you? Why?

I still use them occasionally. Before Covid I used to buy monthly memberships in my destinations, e.g. Penang, Bali. Then I discovered community-centric colivings, and it worked better for me. I met my best friends in colivings. Now I'm engaged and work remotely with my partner from rented apartments while we're nomading. We'd opt in for a coworking only if working from an apartment would be impossible.

In short, we use coworkings less.

hey, is there a marketplace for tower apartments to rent out for like a month in bangkok?

airbnb

anyone have a fire flight ticket agent?

Hey there fellow nomads! Not sure what's the avg age/life stage here, but I'm looking for digital nomads groups for families with newborn. Any suggestion? 🙂

It's probably true right? The people here are mostly an exception, not the rule

And even so this chat gets a constant influx of people complaining about being lonely or not knowing what they should focus on or "how to get into DN"

Fortunately, I got that exposure early on.

On WFO: Needed, if you want to keep working till 45-50 years of age and rise up the corporate ladders

DN is suited if your priority typically is wellness, beaches/mountains/family (or be overemployed)

For Loneliness, YES. But fuck it, we can learn to pick hobbies and make friends. Always🫂

https://www.softwaregrowth.io/blog/how-pieter-levels-grew-nomad-list

Hello! I recently went on a cruise, and now I am so interested in moving to an isle of Santorini or Valetta! I am would love to receive input, advice, and experiences!

recommend asking in Greece or Malta-specific chats

I’m in Skopje! Couldn’t find a channel for Macedonia as well

Site down? Taking ages to load

matosfdm, to reply to your message it's fine for me

What do you mean by free of trouble?

Trouble as in running into legal issues like detainment/expulsion/fines for making money if I'm not supposed to be

Well nobody will be looking at your internet connection for that , in general you wanna keep a low profile if you are actively working for a remote company, what you have to think about is how long are you staying in the country and make sure it’s not enough to make you fiscal resident there otherwise you would have to pay income tax

hmm ok, with multi-entry tourist visas does that amount reset each time leaving the country?

it does not reset, it is usually the accumulated time, in most countries you are automatically resident after a total of 180 days in the country, the reset time varies but you usually have to stay away from 6 to 12 months

Ok thank you

Friendly reminder to stay vigilant.

My friend was drugged and robbed on a date in Mexico, so its not just happening in Colombia

Stay safe out there!

Unfortunately, that's all over LatAm :(

Nice, what kind of drugs?

I mean...

Incredible that these type of people are out there, wish him the best 😇🙏

who ever told you this was only happening in colombia?... :D

Which city

Oaxaca de Juárez

That’s disturbing because I was there a couple years ago and it felt safer than other Mexican cities in the tourist zone, always need to watch it 🤷‍♂️

Armenia Channel yet?

Something I got a good perspective on after spending this year nomading was that if you are unsatisfied with things in your home country, being a digital nomad won’t automatically solve everything. I read a lot online about people saying how once they left the US for Thailand or wherever, their issues magically vanished. Going from the US to developed countries allows you to live like the one percent in those countries which is the main allure. I saw a lot of nomads in a bubble in latam living lavishly and started to feel like I was taking advantage of my economic position, and it started to cause some guilt. Don’t know why I shared that it’s just been on my mind since returning to Florida

Interesting. Care to elaborate on "and it started to cause some guilt"?

Maybe guilt isn’t exactly the right word, I just noticed that anytime I would be in a city in Brazil or Colombia or whatever, digital nomads would be in the richest neighborhoods, and I realized I would definitely not want to live in a middle class area in those places. Just coming from a developed country allows you to occupy a high strata of society without working for it in the way locals have to earning a local salary

Of course, that's why we go there in the first place. Why would you take effort to downgrade your situation?

why are you feeling guilty for enjoying your life?

there are always people who struggle in life, it's important to understand so you can truly appreciate what you have

Sounds like you need to spend more time to absorb that truth, so where to, next? 😄

I know not everyone comes from a rich country, I was just pointing out a trend I saw a lot in latam, where Americans and Europeans would be in the most expensive neighborhoods, and it began to feel contrived to me. I didn’t mean to imply everyone was like that, I just saw a lot of it and it made me think about the concept more

A lot of digital nomads from America and Europe come from poorer backgrounds than the locals living in the in nice neighborhoods in latam

I didn’t say there weren’t wealthy locals, I’m just saying that it’s significantly easier for foreigners to live there earning dollars or euros. Making minimum wage at a remote job earning dollars will allow you to live significantly better than someone earning a Colombian minimum wage, who will be in extreme poverty

give all your money away and go and live in a poor neighbourhood, then you won’t need to feel guilty anymore

I never said people should feel guilty or jealous, just that there is an unfair advantage people have, like the example I used there

Yea life is not, has never been, and will never be fair, big news 😁

Hola amigos. Wondering if a site that groups people together for nomad trips would work? has anyone ever tried this? Is there someone doing this? I'm thinking of something like wifi tribe but just tech based and self-organized

Is there any groups for El Salvador? Anyone ever been?

I am constantly looking to join such trips from different companies, but it just doesn't fit my schedule

hello