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This article reads more like a trance traveler of 2 decades ago gone pop. Kho Pangan, meeting up with like-minded friends from around the world and just partying, basically, but with a 21st century instagram twist.

While one will certainly find plenty of community among well off folk and deliberate dropouts, it is distinctly an enclave community that risks the wrath of locals, were it not for the money such tourists bring.

OTOH, if you move to a party place on a permanent basis, you find another level of connection, and find yourself annoyed with the clueless noobs.

Every generation has such folk, it's just that modern job practices permit those from other economic classes to join, vs the necessity of being independently funded if you just took off to follow Osho back in the 80s or something.

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most actual digital nomads i know are less nomadic and more just about bringing a first world salary to places where it counts as higher income.

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The one person I know, didn't even leave the "first world". They moved from London to a small town in Australia. They are paying half the rent they used to for three times the space.