That's not what I said and I feel like you've take this personally.
You have an idealistic view of tech communities, but the reality is that most communities of western digital nomads or tech workers, like those in S-E Asia and other parts of the world, are more like gated communities or private amusement parks and less like communities in the traditional sense that benefit the local environment long term, like you usually see in smalls European cities. Even techies in the west don't create great living communities when in large numbers in the same place since what you usually get is booming housing prices, NIMBYISM, elitism, and a constant pressure to keep up with the Jonses.
I'm not gate keeping anyone, I'm just telling it like it is in reality.
I've moved around every 3-4 years between being in the military and building a career in tech. I moved out of my home state because wages for tech workers where I lived were dismally low. I was rapidly approaching the point where owning a home was difficult, so I left and came out West. I'm here because I have to be. That hasn't prohibited me from joining and participating in communities. Maybe you'd be surprised to find out that most local communities are connected to larger communities; in fact, if you're someone who moves around a lot you often depend on these to land in places without feeling lost. All of what I've described here isn't unique to the states.
I did all of this so that I could actually afford to put down roots somewhere that I can sustainably have a job as well too. Turns out that's expensive and I'll go where I need to go in order to make that happen in the future.
You are gate keeping, you're just hiding it behind very charged rhetoric that sounds progressive.
If you read my posts, I wrote nothing that matches what you just wrote about yourself, so I doubt that. Plus, I cannot control how you choose to fit yourself to my descriptions as I don't know you.
>You are gate keeping
I'm not gatekeeping anyone. You are free to move wherever you want and do whatever you want.
I just said that large numbers of digital tech nomads moving to a place, especially one where the locals earn a lot less, doesn't improve the local community there, but quite the opposite. Whether this applies to you or not I can't say or control.
I will stop talking with you here, as I feel like you have an axe to grind and this conversation will never end.
> everyone treats the place like a holiday amusement park. Not learning the local language, not integrating with the locals, not adapting to local laws, customs and traditions, they're just there to have their fun of being the top 1% earners there, consume, party, Tinder around, and once the novelty wears off, move on.
I don't see how that matches your description of yourself in any way? It sure sounds like they're describing a very different group of people who have just a single thing in common with you, and then you've gone out of your way to misread that as an insult to you.
Hubs and communities are two vey different things in my book.
And major tech hubs with top paying jobs or a concentration of rich tech workers tend to score poorly at anything related to the sense of "community" as you have major gentrification issues from the giant wealth disparity and a caste system of those with tech jobs and money and those without. And the modern, compensation oriented tech workers, have rarely been great at forming any kind of community together, let alone with others, being more individualistic and preferring always to do things each their own way. Just ask them to unionize and see what happens.
>even if those are revolving doors
And "revolving door" communities are the worst. S-E Asia and Latin America are full of these gated communities of western remote workers and digital nomads and it kinda sucks, as everyone treats the place like a holiday amusement park. Not learning the local language, not integrating with the locals, not adapting to local laws, customs and traditions, they're just there to have their fun of being the top 1% earners there, consume, party, Tinder around, and once the novelty wears off, move on. That's the worst kind of community I can think of.
For me, community, is what I see in small european villages/cities with small family businesses going back generations and everyone investing back into the local community and in the local environment for the future generations in the long run.