If you spend enough time scrolling through social media, you’re bound to see a filtered picture of a laptop on a sunbed with the caption “Happy Monday” or a campervan parked up a mountain titled “office for the day”.
This is the life of the digital nomad: a specific type of emigration where someone lives in one country but works in another. These workers do not rely on the country where they live for work, but instead remain economically tied to their home country, using the wonders of technology.
The lifestyle has become increasingly popular in recent years and particularly after the Covid pandemic created a boom in remote working.
According to the research company Public First, about 165,000 Brits lived and worked abroad as digital nomads last year, spending an average of seven months every year outside of the UK.
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