Some people value experiences more than money.

I clicked it. He called us nerds in the first sentence. Nerds!

Not sure why the downvotes. I totally agree with this.

Such a shit take. Seems to think his life applies to everyone. We don’t all come from New York (a city with a million things happening already) and/or have close connections to our families anyways. If you’ve had a privileged life to begin with, then yeah, maybe traveling Europe is a downgrade. For others it’s a dream come true. Get some perspective.

Just looked him up to check and yeah, you’re right. Not sure why I thought he was bald. I thought he had a Jason Statham thing going on but nah.

I like that intense bald South African guy in a suit whose wife is a doctor and lived in China and now makes all these scandalous videos about life over there. Forget his name. Cantankerous yet likable fella.

Damn I need an American employer. I had the total opposite impression.

As a guy in your 30’s who is single you will have way more fun in Barcelona than Lisbon. Greece and Italy I have no idea about but Barcelona is great.

It’s crazy how much work people put into Reddit posts. You’re a legend. This is amazing.

Yeah I get the sense that there’s a ton of Americans here as well. Americans themselves can be cool and there are definitely cool things to see and do in America but going there for an extended stay as a digital nomad? Hell no. Like you said, the money is appealing but otherwise it’s super dull. Australia (where I’m from) is the same.

American culture is at best boring and at worst terrifying. There’s the obvious things, like guns, violence, racism, police brutality, politics, nationalism and celebrity worshiping that make it pretty low on most people’s lists of places to go.

When bother when the world has so many cool places?

Uh, no. Most of the people I talk to don’t really have a strong interest in going there for the above reasons. Maybe New York for a visit, but that’s it.

Not a culture I’m particularly interested in but you do you.

People usually go to places that:

1. offer good value for money
2. offer an exciting, culturally-rich lifestyle.

The US and Canada offer neither. They’re expensive and the only culture they offer is capitalism.

I’ve been in a similar situation to you, with the ability to pretty much go anywhere.

I’d say go to Bangkok.

In the past year I’ve been to Lisbon, Porto, Madeira, London, Birmingham, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Barcelona, Paris, Toulouse, Marrakech, Düsseldorf, Bratislava, Budapest, Vienna, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Shanghai and Perth.

Out of all those places I spent longer periods in Lisbon, London and Bangkok.

In my opinion Bangkok is the best because it’s a friendly cyberpunk jungle with great food, interesting nomads and a shit load to do. It also won’t kill your bank account like London. The biggest downsides are the traffic and heat but you can work around the traffic and you get used to the heat.

But yeah, obviously it depends on your personality… am just sharing my experience! Bangkok is awesome and my fav for living. If it were just a week (totally different criteria) I’d go Paris, London or Hong Kong.