'I have worked from home in 78 different countries'

Re:'I have worked from home in 78 different countries' by serjester on Friday October 21, 2022 @10:40AM (#33288461)

To each their own. Traveling isn’t about the act of traveling, that’s miserable for almost everyone, it’s about breaking out of your routine. Sounds like that’s precisely why you don’t enjoy it? Nothing wrong with that.

Personally I’ve had some of the most interesting conversations of my life on overnight trains, in random bars and in far flung corners of the world. I can’t imagine my life without it.

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Re:'I have worked from home in 78 different countries' by ThinkBeat on Saturday October 22, 2022 @07:25AM (#33297356)

I rewrote this a couple of times because I am trying to not come out as a put down. It is not intended that way. I am just curious.

Everyone lives in a bubble of some sort most of the time. Work, family, friends, sports,

Do you think then that most people who are interesting can be found on trains and obscure bars in far off places?

Or just that the "bubble" that is your more daily life just isn't conducive to meeting interesting people closer to home?

Or it might be that you meet people with some of the same priorities as yourself when you do meet follow travelers.

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Re:'I have worked from home in 78 different countries' by serjester on Sunday October 23, 2022 @03:01AM (#33305136)

People with radically different life experiences tend to be interesting. Traveling, by definition, makes you more likely to run into those kind of people.

My last trip took me to Georgia. As someone that immigrated from Russia as a child, meeting Russians that are debating a similar decision today was eye opening - they have the same hopes, dreams and fears that we had 20 years ago. In the US, I’ve never felt understood in that respect.

This is one of many. I can’t imagine my life without those experiences.

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