Ask HN: What's your experience of living nomadically as a tech worker?

Re:Ask HN: What's your experience of living nomadically as a... by ken_downs on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @11:01AM (#27689381)

I did this during the Covid lock down for about 7 months. My target environment was the western USA. Optimizing the uncertainties and necessities led to the mode of a single hotel m-f and moving on during the weekends. It was simplest, lowest capital investment, highest flexibility.

The big downside was overall loneliness and lack of connection - but it is hard to tease out how much of that was Covid. It was no more or less isolating than the first months of covid when I stayed put.

The planned plus was seeing places I always wanted to see. That worked out fine. It was the unplanned sights that make up most of my stories - sunset over the Sangre de Cristo while gloom rises out of the plains, freezing fog, driving into a white out in Santa Fe and many more.

The final result was the most surprising. I moved back to my hometown that I left decades ago. Having followed my whims I like now a reestablished home base, from which I can depart again for any period at any time.

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Re:Ask HN: What's your experience of living nomadically as a... by BoxOfRain on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @11:57AM (#27690082)

Thanks for your reply! It's interesting how you found yourself moving back to your hometown, I've always thought if I ever settle down properly it'll be in the coastal town where I went to uni. I went back to my hometown after graduating as the job market is better there, but it's a bit too landlocked for my taste and housing is nightmarishly expensive (the cost of living generally is about as bad as London but without the London salary adjustment).

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