It only costs me like 150-200$ to fly from USA/Canada to Central America sometimes, and once you get there it's really cheap, so you'd be surprised! You do see

It only costs me like 150-200$ to fly from USA/Canada to Central America sometimes, and once you get there it's really cheap, so you'd be surprised! You do see people making proper bank out there living in stupid overpriced condos for sure, but I would fathom they're the minority. On the lower end of the income spectrum for digital nomads, you do see a lot of people who do stuff like corky little wordpress sites, copy writing, translation work or whatever on fiver.com making like what you'd make for that, who can't even write code and just outsource it to other people on fiver in India or whatever, living comfortably in cheap hostels and stuff on under 1000$/month. This is comparable to the middle class income in Costa Rica which is around 750$/mo. I don't even think people making this much money abroad are going to be paying taxes back home on what you would basically be making doing spongebob squarepant's job, which is interesting because as far as I know Costa Rica still doesn't even have an income tax despite measures to try and introduce them, which was met with widespread protest. Of note is that the people on this lower income tier of people who travel on a low budget while working are going to be on tourist visas. Costa Rica's tolerated this for many years now but I think they're pretty much officially encouraging more people in the higher income bracket to come through too.