20-Something Digital Nomads Should Stop Going to Southeast Asia. Here’s Why.
Many end up bumming around without building anything worthwhile.
Are you considering moving to Southeast Asia to pursue the digital nomad lifestyle, working a remote job in a Western company while living your best life in a low-cost-of-living Southeast Asian country?
This 28-year-old Redditor from Spain wrote a popular post on r/Thailand claiming he wanted to escape the “superficiality, selfishness, and materialism” of the Western world and escape the “rat race with no good future.”
He believes he can leave his problems behind in his home country by teaching English in Thailand. Naturally, he received a lot of responses mocking his idea.
Moving to Southeast Asia would be a terrible idea for him. Southeast Asia will devour the unprepared and spit them out.
Here are a few reasons you should think twice if considering a similar move.
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