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digital nomads

Posted inEditor's Pick

When Digital Nomads Come to Town

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands May 29, 2023May 29, 2023

“Cities from Canggu to Medellín are welcoming tech workers, but locals complain they’re being priced out.”

Posted inCulture, Essays & Criticism, Story, Travel

Home Is a Mug of Coffee

by Candace Rose Rardon October 1, 2018October 19, 2022

It takes a lot of percolating to become your own person.

Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quotes

The Placeless and the Privileged

by benhuberman February 9, 2018October 19, 2022

On the macro forces that have made digital nomadism something more powerful, and more sinister, than just another “lifestyle choice.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

When You’re a ‘Digital Nomad,’ the World Is Your Office

by benhuberman February 8, 2018October 19, 2022

On life at a Miami digital-nomad compound, which one resident describes as “a hybrid between a summer camp for adults and a reality-TV show without the cameras.”

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

An Expat by Any Other Name (Is Sometimes a Digital Nomad)

by benhuberman July 20, 2017October 19, 2022

When your Ubud neighborhood becomes a luxury tech bubble.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Unsettled

by benhuberman July 17, 2017October 19, 2022

In Ubud, Indonesia, Jessa Crispin looks at the impact of next-generation expats — Western tech workers and “digital nomads” in search of carefully curated, long-term authenticity.

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