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by lastofthemojito 1769 days ago
I think your list of countries is too long.

First off, North Korea - really? Is anyone seriously considering being a digital nomad in North Korea? There doesn't seem to be any information of value on that page. Same with other places like Vatican City where one isn't realistically going to go as a digital nomad.

I also see US territories like Puerto Rico, Guam, USVI and American Samoa as their own countries, but they don't handle visas/immigration. They're just part of the USA. I suspect the same is true of the British Virgin Islands, Falkland Islands, etc as part of the UK.

Rather than have a long, noisy list that seems like it's probably dynamically generated from something like an ISO 3166 country list I think it'd be better to only create entries for countries where you have meaningful content.

Outside of those objections, I do think this idea has value - it certainly is a nice idea to have this information in one place, presented in a consistent way.

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Speaking of silly data - the page for Antarctica doesn't render - I see "TypeError: t.selectedCountryData.cities[0] is undefined" in my console:

https://nomadvisa.io/antarctica

The countries at the top of the list are known for being nomad-friendly, so there is likely some curation going on there.