How do we decide where to live next?

Bangkok, we'll miss you terribly

The question “How do we decide where to live next?” should quite rightly be prefaced and postfaced with “#niceproblemtohave #firstworldproblem”. Because let’s face it: we’re in a ridiculously privileged position to be able to ask that question – and we try really hard to remain aware of that fact. Plenty of soon-to-be-nomads and people-who-are-just-curious wonder the same thing though, and it’s understandable really. After all, we have the opportunity to go anywhere, and – again, not that we’re complaining – that’s a pretty daunting range of options. When we first…

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Tracking our spending as digital nomads… what does it reveal?

Damn you, New York and your irresistible breakfast-at-dinners: you’re ruining our spending patterns!

This week it’ll be two years since we started tracking our daily spending. An unusual anniversary, some might say, and one which has to be celebrated carefully if we’re to avoid any irony. Using The Birdy, we record not only how much we spend each month, but also what we spend the money on: we apply tags like #transport to a certain amount of spending, and (if we want) can also provide extra information too – like “Bonobus travel card in Valencia”. And now that we have data from 730…

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Tools we love, and tools we want to exist

When a number of readers emailed us to say “Where’s your tools page gone???”, our reply was “INTERestiiiing… we, erm, don’t know!” It literally disappeared from this site and we have no idea how to get it back again. Still, it was a good time to create an up-to-date list of everything we’re using right now, and remind ourselves just how grateful we are that they all exist. For example… Tools we love Without TorGuard, we’d risk our data every time we used a public wifi network. But more importantly,…

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Big fat update on all our businesses

Sorrrrry! It’s been a long time since we’ve written a blog post. It’s not that we’ve been out of ideas – just that we’ve been out of time. For the past couple of months we’ve been busy getting our acts together – focusing more than ever on doing the work that will be the most successful in the long term. When I last wrote an “update” on our lives and businesses, it was January 2014. So much has changed since then, and many readers have emailed to ask for a…

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10 more things I now know about Madrid

This time last year we spent a month in Madrid – afterwards declaring ourselves to be madly in love with it and predicting it to be the next digital nomad hub. Now that we’ve refreshed our memories with yet another month in the city (in exactly the same apartment as last time)… how does it rank? Is it just as good as we remembered? And how’s our prediction panning out? Here are some new things we learnt about Madrid this time around (or forgot to mention last time): The partying…

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