One of the nice things about America is that you have the freedom to rearrange your priorities however you want. Personally, I value travel enough to have put

One of the nice things about America is that you have the freedom to rearrange your priorities however you want. Personally, I value travel enough to have put myself in a position to do as much of it as I like. The cool part is that as geeks, this is more true for us than for anybody else. Everybody here is capable of making 2-20x the standard American salary, and most of us are capable of doing that remotely. That means that anybody here can, if so inclined, take between 6 and 10 months off to travel every year and still bring in the same salary (or more) than your typical office worker. Better still, we can do our thing remotely for the most part, so there's nothing to stop anybody here from setting up shop in the South of France and writing code with a view of the Mediterranean and a bottle of wine close at hand. So yeah, if you want you can live the lifestyle described in the article. But as IT folk, it's nice to know we don't have to. More here: http://www.expatsoftware.com/articles/2007/02/two-weeks-vacation-is-only.html http://www.expatsoftware.com/articles/2007/02/two-weeks-vaca...