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.
I was talking to a neighbor who couldn’t believe how much I traveled. Then she mentioned her trips to Disneyland in Orlando which cost her $6k and she drives! I don’t even spend half of that in 3 months. Vacations are alot more expensive.
Yeah, I get a lot of “how do you afford a hotel every night? Last time we were in Cancun it was $700 per night!”.
Ok but you don’t have to spend $700 in Cancun either.
So true. Im literally on vacation in Cancun right now LOL. We paid $60 a night for a 2 room suite with breakfast every morning (hot breakfast with a grill, etc). Huge room, 2 balconies, etc.
TBH if someone told me they spent $700/night in Cancun I’d immediately discount their travel advice lol
To be fair there are places that are worth $700 a night. Resorts including golf courses and fine dining options. Most people I meet spending that usually are first timers staying at the grand oasis though, but they had to book the same high demand nights that everybody else with a job and kids has to book.
Then I check in two weeks later, and pay a fraction a night for the same. Half priced airfare too, since they have to come on a Thursday or Friday and then leave on a Sunday nonstop to get home for work.