This June I did probably the craziest thing in my life and flew to Bangkok from Germany on a whim with just 500 euros in my pocket. I always dreamed of doing this, I was obsessed with YouTube travel videos as a teen, but I never thought I’d actually get to do it myself. I’ve never felt more free, nervous, and satisfied with life all at the same time, lmao. I’m currently in Busan, so these are my midnight thoughts. I know this kind of life isn’t for everyone, so I’m very curious what everyone thinks.
If you give me the funds
It costs about $500 USD per month to live abroad in most countries, a very financially attainable level, especially for fluent English speakers.
In monaco: per day
Monaco is 2500 a month for a cramped urban hellscape, definitely not somewhere i’d recommend.
Blech, good call out as a warning to travelers.
Maybe backpacking through and stopping at the museums could be interesting.
500 USD per what?
Per month, thanks, fixed.
You fixed the economy?
He’s the messiah 😳
Don’t need to.
Living abroad(rent, utilities, wifi, groceries) is a lot cheaper than most people expect.
$500 USD per month in most countries, $1000 in the others.
Does that include services like health care, insurance, etc?
Rent, utilities, wifi, groceries don’t automatically include health care or insurance, although they certainly can be included in a $500 budget depending on your circumstances.
Insurance can be an extra $10-20 per month but I find it largely unnecessary with the availability and affordability of medical services abroad; most medications and procedures are pennies on the US dollar for equal or better quality and care.
I know. I’m not from ‘the west’.
No. I am a home body who loves my things
just did quite similar but from the US to El Salvador, touched down last night :)
I’m still getting hit by “this is either the stupidest or the smartest thing you’ve ever done in your life” and really I think it’s a little bit of both
i need to get my Spanish together STAT, English speakers are few and far between here… going on a journey to get a sim card today, wish me luck!
Aha, adventure ! necessity makes learning easy and rewarding… keep a notebook… write down your day… and have a good one
It really depends on what you mean by nomadic. Moving every day? Totally not my thing. I’m happy to do it briefly for travel and sightseeing, but after a month it two I’m done (I did it once, I was happy to settle back down after).
On the other hand, I am far from sedentary. Since my adulthood I have moved on average every year. Every time from a place that I used to call home to a new one. After almost 20 years, I am considering setting down… for the next 5 years or so. I loved this lifestyle, both the small in-city moves and the intercontinental ones. Now that I have a family it just gets more cumbersome, so I don’t plan to move nearly as much.
I’ve thought about vanlife for a long time. If I can’t afford to live where I am now, I’ll sell the house, buy a van, and hit the road.
Seems like a great way to see the country. I very much like photography but it’s hard to get inspired to take a photo when I see the same stuff every day.
I love traveling but I also love returning home and having a place that’s my own where I can be comfortable and undisturbed. Traveling the world for a few months would be cool, but as long as I have a home to return to, I wouldn’t consider it a nomadic lifestyle. So no, not for me.
Nope. Usually when I heard it argued that humans are used to moving from area to area throughout the year, what gets left out of the discussion is that they were moving with their friends and extended family. I recognize my need for intimacy in a shared physical space to remain healthy.
I sold everything and flew to China about fifteen years ago for an English teaching job, and have been traveling since then after realizing I was finally in control of my own life.
Free and satisfied are certainly two of the adjectives I’d use, I’m really happy to hear you’re floating around out here in the big wide world, too.
No, I like routine. I find it more relaxing to sleep in the same place over and over
No. I dislike the actual act of moving my physical incarnation anywhere. Walk, drive, fly, train does not matter, there has to be a compelling reason for me to be at B when I’m already at A.
I could move once. But nomad? No-thanks.
Nice ! I traveled a bit, being plunged into an environment that’s different, requires learning the basics again, careful attention, and an open mind, brings about a wholeness of which I know no equivalent. My wife visited Korea, she loved it. Me, I’ve been to Japan but I’ve never crossed the channel. Have a good one!
In the long run I’d miss my loved ones too much. For a year or so? I’d love it!
How is your trip going? And how long did your 500€ last you? Assuming you already spent them, what are you doing now to sustain yourself?
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This summer I hitchhiked amd traveled around west europe for like a month and absolutly loved it. So now I am planning to do it again once I am done with uni just for longer. I wanna see the world and the stars and plan on being homeless and on the road for at least like a year or even five in the future. Amd in generell I like to move citiea regularly. I am still young but in my live around 4/5 years I like to switvh it up and move somehwre new. Currently planning on moving cities next year completely across the country, we will see how it goes.
I would like to travel, but take my house with me. Therefore, I want a sailboat.
Or become the first human-snail hybrid.
I wish I could just drop everything and do that, the nearest I got was just randomly deciding to go camping for one night in the summer. Me and my fiancée are vaguely planning a backpacking trip around the UK next summer but we’re kinda restricted on where we stay if we aren’t near any campsites. I’d be fine staying in hostels on my own I think but idk about both of us doing it.
