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Roam was one of the more popular co-living/co-working companies, with great locations and facilities. They apparently went under. I stayed at their Ubud locatio

Roam was one of the more popular co-living/co-working companies, with great locations and facilities. They apparently went under. I stayed at their Ubud location for a month once, and couldn’t get a reservation in Tokyo because they were full. https://roam.co https://roam.co Besides the significant hassle setting up legally in foreign countries, co-living places are a target for immigration and labor law enforcement, since the guests are almost certainly working without work permits. Harder to stay under the radar as a digital nomad when you’re living at a place that advertises as a haven for DNs. There’s no best place to work from. DNs tend to congregate more in some places (Chiang Mai, Ubud, Medelin) than others for various reasons, mainly price. Big cities are expensive, beach towns don’t have the infrastructure or can’t attract enough DNs.

anm89 6y ago
Roam was amazing. I stayed at the Tokyo location for a few months in 2018. I was so inspired by my time at Roam that I've spent the last few years trying to figure out how to start up a similar concept and I just raised about a million and a quarter dollars to do a prototype for a first location. I'm in the process of doing user interviews to learn about what people would want out of a similar space. Feel free to email me if anyone has experience living at a Roam or similar environment and would be open to doing a user research interview. Email is in my profile
beardbound 6y ago
I was looking at booking a month or two at the Roam location in Tokyo RIGHT when they went under. I was bummed. It sounded perfect. Although as I age I find that dealing with a 10+ hour time difference a pain. These days I tend to stay in the Western Hemisphere to avoid those issues. Also there's so many places in North, Central, and South America I haven't been.

anm89 6y ago

Roam was amazing. I stayed at the Tokyo location for a few months in 2018. I was so inspired by my time at Roam that I've spent the last few years trying to figure out how to start up a similar concept and I just raised about a million and a quarter dollars to do a prototype for a first location. I'm in the process of doing user interviews to learn about what people would want out of a similar space. Feel free to email me if anyone has experience living at a Roam or similar environment and would be open to doing a user research interview. Email is in my profile

beardbound 6y ago

I was looking at booking a month or two at the Roam location in Tokyo RIGHT when they went under. I was bummed. It sounded perfect. Although as I age I find that dealing with a 10+ hour time difference a pain. These days I tend to stay in the Western Hemisphere to avoid those issues. Also there's so many places in North, Central, and South America I haven't been.