[atleastoptimal]

I admire digital nomads who stay in higher income countries over ones who move to the lowest COL country they can find to live like artificial kings. There's a certain sociopathy to white dudes who move to Thailand so they can enjoy the disproportionate sway of their 160k remote job + sexual privilege.

[ozr]

That's reading a lot into nomads that go to low COL countries. There are plenty of reasons to do it beyond an artificial crown and 'sexual privilege'.

You're able to take jobs that you may enjoy more for less pay. You can keep your personal burn rate lower while you're working on a startup. You might even just like seeing different parts of the world.

[hot_gril]

Yeah, way too many assumptions in that other comment. I know people who moved for lower costs, and it wasn't to act like a king.

[golergka]

So, you wish people from higher income countries would not bring their money to lower-income countries and boost those economies?

[hot_gril]

It doesn't really matter if only a few people do it. If it's a lot, I'm not convinced that it necessarily helps the area. In theory the influx of money should get distributed to the local market and ultimately be used to import more goods, but it's not that simple, especially if the influx is very sudden. Like, prior landowners win, but maybe just a small group (or the govt) controls the land rather than the actual people, so if the area is already dense then people are gonna get priced out.

I moved to Silicon Valley and lived there for 5 years, starting 2014. This was my example. It seemed like there were too many software engineers, myself included. Not enough people building houses or baking pizza. Everything tangible was under-supplied and overpriced. Yeah the economy was adjusting to it, but in 2020 it got jerked the other way.

[robocat]

There's a certain sociopathy in your assumptions. Making stereotypical assumptions based on someone's skin colour and even worse is your condescending "poor native" take.