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Paris

12°C

France

18 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

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18 Mar '17

Reims

France

15 Mar '17

18 Mar '17

18 Mar '17
15 Mar '17

Paris

12°C

France

13 Mar '17

15 Mar '17

15 Mar '17
13 Mar '17

Aachen

10°C

Germany

10 Mar '17

13 Mar '17

13 Mar '17
10 Mar '17

Berlin

10°C

Germany

9 Mar '17

10 Mar '17

10 Mar '17
9 Mar '17

Cologne

11°C

Germany

8 Mar '17

9 Mar '17

9 Mar '17
8 Mar '17

Aachen

10°C

Germany

2012

2 Aug '12

7 Aug '12

7 Aug '12
2 Aug '12

Stuttgart

25°C

Germany

29 Jul '12

2 Aug '12

2 Aug '12
29 Jul '12

Grenoble

29°C

France

24 Jul '12

29 Jul '12

29 Jul '12
24 Jul '12

Paris

25°C

France

1 Jul '12

23d

24 Jul '12

24 Jul '12
1 Jul '12

Seville

31°C

Spain

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What kind of work do digital nomad web developers do?

by @cryberg | 4yr 3 years ago | 8 comments

Hi everyone! I’m thinking of making the jump from being an office-bound web developer to freelancing instead. I was hoping to talk to some of you who do freelance web dev while living a nomadic lifestyle.

I’m at a bit of a loss, because when I’ve tried looking for posts about this kind of lifestyle, the majority of what I’ve found is for web designers or Wordpress developers, which are both pretty different from being a developer who likes to work with React or whatever other framework.

So for those of you who are living my dream right now:
Are you usually building Wordpress sites, or more often using a framework like React or Ruby on Rails? Or something else entirely?

What types of contracts do you take on? Ecommerce? Building blogs?
Are they on-going, or one-off projects?

How do you get clients while on the road? Is it mostly Upwork or word of mouth?

I have a ton of questions, and would greatly appreciate hearing about your experiences. Thank you!

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This is an algorithmic recommendation based on @cryberg's trips history to find places they haven't been to yet that other people with similar travels as them also went and liked.

Lisbon

Portugal

It's great if you're woke, young & artsy. If you're just a regular guy in your 30's with no connections, you'll have a miserable time. Especially during the pandemic. It's not inexpensive and you get offered cocaine every 200 meters in the city center.

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🌥 Feels 19° 66° 19° 66°AQI 45

$2,130 / mo

28Mbps

Bangkok

Thailand

Don't believe the prices on here for an apartment. 686 usd/month refers to an apartment in a high class condo, right in the city centre and seconds away from the BTS(train station). Just remember this, people working at supermarkets make 2 usd/per hour. If you want to live like a local, then you can save a lot of money. If you don't mind a 5-10 minute walk from the BTS, then you can easily get a one bedroom apartment for 300 USD per month, in a high class condo, plus with free golf cart ser

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🌧 Feels 38° 100° 32° 90°🥵AQI 55

$1,421 / mo

27Mbps

Singapore

They say you get what you pay for. After having traveled the previous 4 months in India, Cambodia, VietNam, Myanmar and Thailand, Singapore was so easy! The subway system is a marvel, streets signs were easy to read, everyone speaks English (that just makes it easy for me as an English speaker) it is safe, clean, and parks are gorgeous. I was there as COVID 19 was breaking out fairly fast and that put a damper on my time but I was so happy to be there anyway and plan to go back. For digital

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🌥 Feels 38° 100° 31° 88°🥵AQI 42

$2,906 / mo

86Mbps

Budapest

Hungary

I stayed here for a month in July last year. There's lots of cool aspects to the city but I hated it when I was there. The city has a problem with British stag parties, so if you look like you're a British male and speak English expect to be treated with disdain (it's fair enough) The Hungarians can just generally be unfriendly, especially bartenders. It's a weird experience waiting to be served while 3 people ignore you. Or buying the same drink and getting charged whatever they want (700-1500

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🌧 Feels 13° 55° 13° 56°AQI 43

$1,515 / mo

35Mbps

Chiang Mai

Thailand

Chiang Mai used to be N.1 for the digital nomad life. It is still great and you can find really cheap apartments (300-400$) and restaurants (2-3$ for a main). Wouldn't recommend staying there during the burning season. The best area is Nimman, but it's also the most expensive. You can stay in the old city that's very nice but that gets noisy during the weekend for the night markets. Last but not least, very safe city. All in all would go back in a heartbeat.

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☀️ Feels 39° 102° 32° 90°🥵AQI 88😷

$1,101 / mo

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Prague

Czechia

I visited Prague on more than one occasion and tried something new each time. I really wanted to enjoy it, but unfortunately it turned out to be one of my least favourite cities. Perhaps it was just me, but there was an overwhelming sense of distrust and dislike towards foreigners, you have to try pretty hard to blend in if you want to experience the life of a local & avoid the tourism. I met some wonderful people and and there’s some cool communities to be part of, but another extended stay

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🌥 Feels 14° 57° 14° 57°AQI 44

$2,234 / mo

36Mbps

Barcelona

Spain

Lived in Barcelona for a year and a half. I would agree that the weather is perfect and Barcelona does have a great tech scene as well as food and has everything landscape and lifestyle wise that you could think of. Bureaucracy isn't too bad if you nip it in the bu** early and have patience. Also, some clubs are free. (Jamboree!). The metro is also, very efficient with red and purple being the busiest lines. Very walkable city too. Plenty of opportunity to meet people as well. The beaches are ok

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🌤 Feels 18° 64° 17° 62°AQI 30

$3,164 / mo

31Mbps

London

United Kingdom

How did you guys classified Penge as rich? It is one of the worst neighbourhood I have ever been in London, the ammount of people I know that have been robbed there is appalling.

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🌥 Feels 15° 59° 15° 60°AQI 88😷

$4,270 / mo

23Mbps

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Spain

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🌥 Feels 20° 68° 19° 66°AQI 34

23d

$2,836 / mo

30Mbps

France

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🌥 Feels 17° 63° 16° 61°AQI 46

17d

$3,670 / mo

29Mbps

Germany

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🌥 Feels 15° 59° 15° 58°AQI 28

12d

$2,956 / mo

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Paris

France

Super fun and beautiful city. I find Parisians are actually very patient and warm if you at least attempt to speak French; in my experience, most people who complain that they're rude are the ones making zero effort to speak the language. Expensive though and not very easy to meet other nomads.

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🌥 Feels 17° 63° 17° 63°AQI 49

$4,119 / mo

32Mbps

Aachen

Germany

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🌥 Feels 14° 57° 14° 58°AQI 31

$2,664 / mo

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Seville

Spain

Well, SEVILLE is definitely my favourite city from the ANDALUSIAN region of SPAIN. The old town, the buildings and the view from outside is quite marvelous. It has a typical imperial feeling when you walk over there, or maybe I was too drunk. :) For nomads, it might be the place where you can stay for a longer period of time.

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🌥 Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 42

$2,426 / mo

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Grenoble

France

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🌧 Feels 18° 64° 18° 64°AQI 32

$3,170 / mo

28Mbps

Stuttgart

Germany

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🌥 Feels 14° 57° 14° 57°AQI 63

$4,977 / mo

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Cologne

Germany

Although I would not praise Cologne as the top destination for digital nomads I have certain doubts about some negative aspects listed here. Hospitals: How can hospitals be pretty bad if Germany has one of the best medical systems in the world? This judgments compares it with remote 3rd world cities which is by definition not logical. Germany, and therefore also Cologne, has most likely the best emergency system in the world (ambulance must arrive within max. 12 minutes - independent of traffi

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☀️ Feels 16° 61° 16° 60°AQI 29

$2,743 / mo

38Mbps

Berlin

Germany

Berlin is overall a great city to be. Food is cheap and everywhere, easy to go out and have fun/meet for business. Rent has crept up but still far better value than where I came from. Internet: 36 EUR/month get me 450/40 mbps (cable -> DOCSIS 3.0) Public transport is 2.70 EUR/ticket. No woman I know has said they felt unsafe. Some really odd, xenophobic sounding comments on here. Biggest downsides IMO: service quality at restaurants - not that people are rude, but they don't seem to particular

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🌥 Feels 15° 59° 15° 60°AQI 24

$3,020 / mo

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