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Perpetual Travel is Almost Over and That’s a Good Thing
Perpetual Travel Used to be an Exclusive Club
You are Too Late to the Party That Once was Perpetual Travel.
There used to be an allure of mystery of how you financed frequent travel. When I moved to Australia in 2015 six months after graduation, people assumed I was rich and asked where I got all that money from. They couldn’t fathom how a 23 year old could fly one-way to one of the most expensive countries in the world. Little did they know about working holiday visas and staying in hostels. Fast forward to when I became a digital nomad in 2021, few were interested in what I was doing. People knew exactly how I did it, and how easy it was.
Remote Work Has Taken Away the Allure of Mystery to Perpetual Travel.
Any tech worker, virtual assistant, crypto trader, and online freelancer can show up with a laptop, post a few photos on social media, and brand themselves as a perpetual traveler. The hard truth about social status is that it requires you to do something hard that most people are not be willing to do. Once something is easily attainable, it is no longer cool. If people think, “I could do that very easily” they will not be impressed.
