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As a digital nomad I have come to realise that tourist experiences tend to be very inauthentic for a number of other reasons as well. Cities like Prague and Bu
by vertis 7y ago
As a digital nomad I have come to realise that tourist experiences tend to be very inauthentic for a number of other reasons as well.
Cities like Prague and Budapest make for great photos, but if you go just 20 minutes in any direction life is very different. There is very little glamour if you're outside the old towns.
Being a digital nomad forces you to actually live in a city rather than just sweeping through it and staying at 5 star hotels. Even then, you can't fully experience a place if you don't speak the language.
In Munich there were so many events going on, but they were not really accessible unless you spoke German.
Even if you're not in a place to do the full time digital nomad thing, I highly recommend trying the live and work in a city for a month, it's highly educational.
- ixtli 7y agoTimely as I’m going to Berlin/Prague/Budapest in four days :) Not so much a counter argument but a different perspective: I live in lower manhattan and have for the past 8 years or so and the only way I ever see it is when tourists come and I can show them around. It’s a mistake to think a city represents the entire character of a country but it’s also not fair to think of it as fake or that no people from that country actually live there. I guess what I’m saying is that it sounds like you are just more interested in places that have a different class character which is totally fine. But it’s not the case that there aren’t city people who are proud of and would love to show off the beauty and history of the place they live in every city. (Also, if you’re showing up and staying at expensive hotels you’re doing it wrong. That’s for sure.)
- artiscode 7y agoRoughly same educational gains can be had by staying at an Average Joe Airbnb, where normal residents live. A week should be enough to get a glimpse of what cities are really about.
- vertis 7y agoThe length of time helps a little. You then have to do routine things like grocery shopping. But your point is otherwise true, it's about living where normal residents live.