Let's jump into all your assumptions and how they don't apply (at least to me). > switching countries often means leaving behind your entire social network I

Let's jump into all your assumptions and how they don't apply (at least to me). > switching countries often means leaving behind your entire social network I don't really know anybody, so there's nobody to leave behind. > go out drinking with to the person who cuts your hair What? That's completely a foreign concept to me. > sports you grew up watching, foods you grew up eating, languages you speak - don't overlap Completely irrelevant. I can't understand somebody else because they grew up eating paella and I grew up eating hotdogs? > until you're tired, sick, or stressed - and just want the voice of a familiar friend. Voice is all? Voices work all around the world. tired, sick, and stress is the natural condition of life. It helps to be reminded we live a coddled cloud-covered existence. > you'll never really feel tied to whatever place you've moved to. I've lived in places for years and never felt tied to them. Irrelevant on scales of years or weeks. > "advice from rich people" tone it strikes. It's exactly the opposite. > certain amount of financial resources before you can do this kind of thing. Not really. It's easier traveling while you're either very poor or very rich. The problem is traveling while you have a lot of physical/capital/emotional baggage elsewhere. > fulfilling lives on a tropical beach working a few hours a week. Working on a beach is miserable. It's hot. It's cold. It's too sunny. Sand gets in every crevice of your laptop and yourself. Work at a desk, play at a beach.