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.
Police and Firefighters beating each other up, Farmers dropping shit in city centers, high rate of poverty, crime and corruption. No safe drinking water from the tap in many areas in the south of France. Energy instability due to failing nuclear power in combination with electrical heating. Inefficient bureaucracy, violent and extremely racist Police…
I once worked with someone from France, while working in a German branch for a company, and they lived in Switzerland at that time, saying they just pay less taxes that way and take home more money.
Yeah most definetely not. There is a lot of people from the surrounding countries working in Switzerland, but living outside of Switzerland to take advantage of the power of the Franken compared to the Euro.
Doing the opposite really weakens your income, so people in Switzerland tend not to work outside of Switzerland.
This reminds me of the debate regarding racism, fascist extremism and violence in the German police. Whenever something happened it was deflected by politics as an “Einzelfall” a solitary occurence. When you keep seeing what you call “micro events” you should look into the underlying pattern.
Yeah lmao our laws regarding the internet are utter bogshit. And I don’t mean censorship. We straight up have outdated copyright and usage laws made by geriatric old politicians who have no internet understanding
Our mobile contracts are a joke and absolutely unusable unless one pays absurd prices. And even then our “Unlimited” plans quickly get throttled into unusability.
The business offers are pretty good. Its like 15€/M for real Unlimited and full Speed. And even has 2 Sim cards included.
But the reception and speed you get are not very good overall once you leave cities, the best provider is only a bit better than the worst..
thanks CDU, having to spend lots of money for frequency rights really helped get better service.
It imporved, but new software also requires better internet all the time. Hence it has to improve much faster. The good part is fiber is starting to be deployed on scale finally. Also 5g is actually deployed much faster then the previous standards, which makes catching up possible. However a lot of service providers do not offer it and it costs way more then in other EU countries.
I remember my vacations to Finland in the 2010s. You’d drive 45 minutes on a gravel backroad, but you’d have LTE coverage and unlimited volume with some 20ish Euro prepaid card from a shop at the ferry dock. That was absolutely weird as a German to me back then and it still would feel unusual now.
This country has been clinging to the, I don’t know, 90s when things were remembered as somewhat okay and now there’s about 30% of the people trying to steer it back to the 1930s instead of forward. We’re fucked and on the best road to a has-been.
I’d actually argue against (at least Western and Northern) Europe for digital nomads, purely because you could move to somewhere in the developing world and live an incredibly comfortable lifestyle thanks to a much lower cost of living. Your mileage will vary based on what languages you speak, of course.
Living in the developing world brings its own kind of issues, medical emergencies for instance, as well as the English proficiency around you (which is probably one of the reasons the top 3 countries are DK, DE and NL)
Probably region dependent, but the cliche seems to be that when asked, Germans say “they don’t speak English very well”, while actually having a quite good level (based on what visiting English speakers say, anyway)
No, it is/was meme on the other site, in a lot of statistics Portugal aligns more with Eastern Europe. If you go far enough to the east you end up in the west, so Portugal is just a far eastern european country instead of western european.
Uh, yeah I’m gonna say this list can absolutely go into the garbage. Calling Denmark first is pure comedy due to the insane cost of co-working spaces, Denmark being the second worst country to integrate into after Sweden, insane rental deposits and the unreal taxes. (Researcher tax scheme excluded 😉)
Do you need a co-working space if you can just work from your flat?
Integration might be an issue, but I guess the foreigners population is enough to be able to socialise. I stumbled upon a channel by Americans explaining their experience in Denmark, they managed to make friends with other foreigners www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xMJWIExwgA&t=1
Yeah the rent/pay ratio for a lot of jobs won’t work great in the Netherlands.
Amsterdam is one of the most expensive cities in Europe, so an income from another nation won’t get you very far (unless you’re coming from Australia or London, where pay can be proportionally higher for some roles).
It would be like living off a small town salary while paying New York rent.
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