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What are the most common questions you get about your lifestyle?


by @gigigriffis 9yr  | 6 comments

Hey fellow nomads!

Iโ€™m working on an article and would love to know: what are the most common questions people ask you about nomading/travel/working from the road?

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Great topic! Some of the questions I get (which can also seem like statements trying to say this is not going to workโ€ฆ) are:

  1. When are you going to get a real job?
  2. When are you coming back home (home is everywhere and nowhere reallyโ€ฆ)
  3. How do you make money being a digital nomad?
  4. How can I become a digital nomad?
  5. Arenโ€™t you tired not having a car, not having more clothes, more stuff? (um, noโ€ฆthe whole point of living my life this way is because I do not want to get attached to stuff and I also donโ€™t need that much, plus I donโ€™t want to be defined by a car or other material assets. I enjoy the richness of discovering other places, cultures, eating different types of food from other nationalitiesโ€ฆ)
  6. When will you settle? (and be like you, so exhausted from life that you want to escape your cubicle and moan and complain all the time about work? In that case, never.)

Hope that helps :slight_smile:

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Few questions which always comes in my mind about

  1. Health and beauty while working/ traveling.
  2. Fashion during the period to become a nomad.
    I got an answer but I donโ€™t know that it will work or not. Because Iโ€™m yet to be a nomad (completely). Its about cellublue.
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@skatkov 9yr

Top questions for me:

  • Do people envy your lifestyle ? (they might, but there is nothing to be envy about )
  • So what do you do to sustain yourself ? (everything possible to survive and yeah, iโ€™m professionally trained IT guy)
  • How can I become a digital nomad? ( I donโ€™t know, i became one by accident. Maybe you should f*ck up your life same I did )

Also a lot of question about why I left Europe, but i donโ€™t usually answer those.

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@replay 9yr

I often get asked if I donโ€™t have family, because over the past 10 years Iโ€™ve only been to my home country once. The other question I often get is how I deal with the visas, but usually itโ€™s citizens of countries who donโ€™t get visa-free/visa-on-arrival entrance almost everywhere who ask that, and often I kind of feel bad to tell them โ€œI donโ€™t need oneโ€ because I know they would.

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I get the same. And when I say Iโ€™m not close to my family, I get a lot of panicked looks.

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@levelsio 9yr

Yay! Great question :smiley:

I usually get people asked how much I travel. Many have a misconception that digital nomads travel every week or so, but itโ€™s more like every 1 or 3 months.

Also people ask me if itโ€™s an amazing life, and it is but itโ€™s also not. Like every lifestyle, it has pros and cons :slight_smile:

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What questions should one ask themself before embarking into the nomadic lifestyle?
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