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Re:Between Workaholism and Procrastination (2015) by ghaff on Thursday July 09, 2020 @12:39PM (#23782017)
Similarly, I've never thought of myself as a "digital nomad" and actually do own a house. But prior to travel shutting down, it would absolutely have been practical for me to put my stuff in storage, ask a friend or family member to let me use their address as my home address, and live at least around the Americas or Europe as I saw fit. Given that I was traveling 1/3 of the time anyway, what's another 2/3rds?
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Re:Between Workaholism and Procrastination (2015) by steveklabnik on Thursday July 09, 2020 @12:40PM (#23782030)
Yep, exactly.

What's kind of amusing/terrible is that while doing this I was almost always living in very high COL areas, while a digital nomad would be off somewhere extremely inexpensive. Oh well, money isn't everything.

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Re:Between Workaholism and Procrastination (2015) by ghaff on Thursday July 09, 2020 @12:51PM (#23782157)
I actually did this for someone who was basically living on the road for an aerospace company for a number of years. They shifted most bills etc. online and I kept my eye out for anything critical such as drivers license renewals and forwarded that kind of thing to her company's mail forwarding PO Box.
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Re:Between Workaholism and Procrastination (2015) by steveklabnik on Thursday July 09, 2020 @01:33PM (#23782706)
Yeah. Some of it I was only able to make work because a partner was willing to work with me on the money side. In the long term it wasn’t fair, though.
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Re:Between Workaholism and Procrastination (2015) by ghaff on Thursday July 09, 2020 @01:58PM (#23783030)
It's almost certainly easier than it used to be because you can do so much online, everyone has a mobile number, etc. There are even basically "address as a service" services for mail forwarding and the like. Still, there's probably more peace of mind (and it's probably somewhat more legit) to be officially living somewhere with someone reliable even if you just happen to almost never be there.

When I was doing it for my friend, it was never that big a deal. But stuff did come up every now and then that needed to be handled.

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