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The numbers certainly are low enough not to drive up rents, or create significant demand for fancy coffee shops or any other business. > In 2022, 2,305 tempora
by trabant00 3y ago
The numbers certainly are low enough not to drive up rents, or create significant demand for fancy coffee shops or any other business.
> In 2022, 2,305 temporary residence permits for Mexico City were granted to U.S. citizens
Mexico City metro area has 21 million people. And who can say what percentage of those 2.3k are digital nomads. Because you also have expats.
> Extrapolating from its user base, Nomad List projects that there are currently about 7.600 remote workers in Medellín
Leaving aside this is a gross estimation - 7.6k remote workers in a metro area of 3.7 million. Are all the 7.6k digital nomads or can they be local remote workers?
- codethief 3y agoNote that the article also says that many nomads switch places every month. Most of them won't need a temporary residence permit for Mexico. > Leaving aside this is a gross estimation - 7.6k remote workers in a metro area of 3.7 million. Are all the 7.6k digital nomads or can they be local remote workers? Given Nomad List's target audience, I think they mean digital nomads from outside Colombia. It's also very likely that the actual numbers are higher – I have met plenty of nomads in Medellín but, like me, many were not using Nomad List.