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I work remote and it all comes down if you are single, with girlfriend or with children. If you have children then obviously you can't be nomad and cheap place
by Markoff 6y ago
I work remote and it all comes down if you are single, with girlfriend or with children.
If you have children then obviously you can't be nomad and cheap places like southeast asia are out of question, because you want your children to have best education, healthcare, enviroment etc. (which is reason why I moved from China ASAP after my first child was born)
If i were single young and healthy I would consider Southeast Asia - still externely cheap, good or reasonable internet, good cuisine, pleasant weather, you can find private hospitals with travel insurance, though you can get fed up with locals long term because of different culture (if you are from west)
Since I have children and I am EU citizen obvious choice was return to EU, my original intention was Vienna regularly winning surveys as one of most livable cities in Europe/world, though my budget didn't allow me to buy apartment without mortgage plus it's not that easy to find English speaking jobs there and I am not strong on my German (the one company I interviewed there offered me instead job in US, which I politely declined) and I have to consider also my wife's employment options in future, so I went for poor man's Vienna - Prague. Still extremely safe, quite reasonable prices.
My other options would be Bratislava, which is basically nontouristy small town suburb of Vienna less than hour way, Budapest is quite OK, but since Orban is at power that's not an option and we already see for years which direction they are hading, maybe Berlin (very cheap real estate to buy) although Germans are for my taste already too brainwashed with leftist/eco stuff and way too many non-adaptable migrants from different cultures.
Other EU countries have way too different culture for my taste with too many illegal migrants, not so safe and also not affordable or too socialist (micromanaging your life) for my taste.