On Location Tips
24 Things We Wish We’d Known Before Becoming Location Independent
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Where & When To Go
1. Planning to travel through Dubai frequently with an overnight stopover? Get yourself an e-gate card and waltz straight through passport control bypassing all the horrendous queues. If you don’t plan to route through Dubai frequently, then consider booking the Marhaba meet & greet service which gives you a [...]
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Where & When To Go
1. Planning to travel through Dubai frequently with an overnight stopover? Get yourself an e-gate card and waltz straight through passport control bypassing all the horrendous queues. If you don’t plan to route through Dubai frequently, then consider booking the Marhaba meet & greet service which gives you a dedicated, quicker route through immigration.
Planning For Crises: What To Do When Your Dream Lifestyle Becomes A Nightmare, Part 3
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In the first part of this post, I covered what to do when you realise that you’re not enjoying the experience of your location independent lifestyle; we then looked at what to do when a lack of funds threatens to end your dream lifestyle and finally in this part, we’re going to take [...]
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In the first part of this post, I covered what to do when you realise that you’re not enjoying the experience of your location independent lifestyle; we then looked at what to do when a lack of funds threatens to end your dream lifestyle and finally in this part, we’re going to take a look at what to do if something awful happens.
This is a tactic your friends and family might throw at you when you’re in the exploration and planning mode of lifestyle design - particularly something as unconventional as a nomadic, location independent lifestyle.
They’ll invent all sorts of weird and wonderful scenarios to put you off taking the plunge…
- But what if there’s an earthquake/tsunami/other natural disaster when you’re there?
- But what if something happens back home that we need you for?
- But what if you get ill or have an awful accident?
So let’s take look at each of these in a bit more detail…
Planning For Crises: What To Do When Your Dream Lifestyle Becomes A Nightmare, Part 2
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The first part of this post focused on what to do if you get on the road and find you hate it. In this part we’ll look at what to do if you love your nomadic, location independent lifestyle but your money runs out and you can’t keep going…
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The first part of this post focused on what to do if you get on the road and find you hate it. In this part we’ll look at what to do if you love your nomadic, location independent lifestyle but your money runs out and you can’t keep going…
The Impracticalities Of Working From Anywhere
I bet that isn’t a title you expected to read on a blog where we mostly talk about how *possible* it is to work from anywhere, is it?
When it comes to the “live anywhere, work anywhere” lifestyle of a modern nomad, the usual images of tanned entrepreneurs tapping away at their laptops on the beach [...]
I bet that isn’t a title you expected to read on a blog where we mostly talk about how *possible* it is to work from anywhere, is it?
When it comes to the “live anywhere, work anywhere” lifestyle of a modern nomad, the usual images of tanned entrepreneurs tapping away at their laptops on the beach under a palm tree spring to mind.
The reality however is quite different.
Have you ever really tried working from a beach with your laptop? - where it’s so damn hot that the rivers of sweat pouring down your face make it impossible to see your screen, if that is, the sun weren’t causing such a glare that it’s practically invisible anyway.
