I think a lot of people are enamored with something more specific, like a "digital backpacker," someone who acts like a backpacking college kid, and then wonder

I think a lot of people are enamored with something more specific, like a "digital backpacker," someone who acts like a backpacking college kid, and then wonders why months of bus travel, hostel living and camping aren't conducive to knowledge work. I spent age 22-30 in remote coastal South America. I may have been a digital nomad, but I wasn't a backpacker. I always had a "home base." Having a "home base", and living somewhere for at least a couple of months (rent a place, or even buy a house, which is what I finally ended up doing in a little fishing village) is far from what some would consider being a "nomad," but personally I think it's more edifying. Why are you traveling? Is it really that you love packing and moving? Or are you trying to find great places to live in? Focus on the living part first.