<story><title>Benefits of a Lifestyle Business</title><url>https://bugfender.com/blog/why-a-lifestyle-business-beats-a-startup/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>greggman</author><text>Life on the road was not for me. Sure I loved seeing the world but ....&lt;p&gt;1. Always having to make plans for the next place to sleep was stressful for me. I&amp;#x27;d arrive at some city and have to start planning the next city else I&amp;#x27;d be homeless once my hotel&amp;#x2F;apartment term expired. I started booking longer (4 weeks, 6 weeks, more) but even then just the fact that I have a place I don&amp;#x27;t have to think about is less stressful for me.&lt;p&gt;2. No hangout buddy or really close friends. Some people are great at making new friends and I did make a few in certain cities but I&amp;#x27;m at least a little introverted and felt pretty lonely quite often.&lt;p&gt;3. There only so much tourism I can take. At some point it just got boring seeing yet another old church, yet another museum, etc. Some recent book claimed you should take several shorter vacations than fewer but longer ones. They recommended no more than a week at a time.&lt;p&gt;4. Not being able to buy&amp;#x2F;own anything. That might appeal to some but not to others, it means no shopping, something that many people enjoy while traveling. It also means no PS4, no Vive&amp;#x2F;Oculus, no gaming rig, no tools, no food supplies. Sure if I rented an apartment I could go buy a few things to cook but when I have a permanent residence I have tons of utensils and spices and other things in my kitchen that I just don&amp;#x27;t have the time to gather in a temporary place. Similarly I had drawers or closets full of parts and tools, something I didn&amp;#x27;t have digital nomadding.&lt;p&gt;Of course that&amp;#x27;s all just me. I&amp;#x27;ve met others who really enjoy that lifestyle. Good for them!</text></item><item><author>weeksie</author><text>Sure! Lifestyle businesses are great, and so is the whole digital nomad thing (I spent all of 2016 and a good chunk of 2015 traveling around the world).&lt;p&gt;There are a ton of upsides but I wouldn&amp;#x27;t go back to it full time. For one, it&amp;#x27;s surprising how few of the digital nomad types are really that interesting, and while integrating with local populations is fun, you&amp;#x27;ll still find yourself missing the familiarity of people from your own culture (or similar, Western cultures, assuming you&amp;#x27;re a Euro or American)&lt;p&gt;Once you get used to life on the road it&amp;#x27;s grand. Still, nomad nests like Chiang Mai are insipid and full of scores of people hustling their drop ship schemes. More power to them, but it&amp;#x27;s just not my vibe.&lt;p&gt;I dunno. Go nuts, travel, see a bunch of shit, just don&amp;#x27;t assume the beach is going to be as stimulating as the (very likely) metro urban environment you&amp;#x27;re living in now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dkersten</author><text>Number 2 is a big one for me. I&amp;#x27;ve considered a digital nomad life a few times because I love to travel, love to see new places, love to meet new people and all the rest, BUT...&lt;p&gt;I hate solo travel. I&amp;#x27;m naturally very quiet, introverted, socially awkward and get social anxiety, so travelling alone is stressful and I don&amp;#x27;t end up exploring new places much and meet rather few new people because I find it incredibly hard to just start a conversation with strangers (doubly so if there&amp;#x27;s a language barrier).&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d love to go on extended travels, working from coffee shops while exploring new and interesting places, seeing new things and meeting new people, but to feel comfortable doing that, I would need someone to join me and I simply don&amp;#x27;t know anybody who would do it with me. :(</text></comment>
<story><title>Benefits of a Lifestyle Business</title><url>https://bugfender.com/blog/why-a-lifestyle-business-beats-a-startup/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>greggman</author><text>Life on the road was not for me. Sure I loved seeing the world but ....&lt;p&gt;1. Always having to make plans for the next place to sleep was stressful for me. I&amp;#x27;d arrive at some city and have to start planning the next city else I&amp;#x27;d be homeless once my hotel&amp;#x2F;apartment term expired. I started booking longer (4 weeks, 6 weeks, more) but even then just the fact that I have a place I don&amp;#x27;t have to think about is less stressful for me.&lt;p&gt;2. No hangout buddy or really close friends. Some people are great at making new friends and I did make a few in certain cities but I&amp;#x27;m at least a little introverted and felt pretty lonely quite often.&lt;p&gt;3. There only so much tourism I can take. At some point it just got boring seeing yet another old church, yet another museum, etc. Some recent book claimed you should take several shorter vacations than fewer but longer ones. They recommended no more than a week at a time.&lt;p&gt;4. Not being able to buy&amp;#x2F;own anything. That might appeal to some but not to others, it means no shopping, something that many people enjoy while traveling. It also means no PS4, no Vive&amp;#x2F;Oculus, no gaming rig, no tools, no food supplies. Sure if I rented an apartment I could go buy a few things to cook but when I have a permanent residence I have tons of utensils and spices and other things in my kitchen that I just don&amp;#x27;t have the time to gather in a temporary place. Similarly I had drawers or closets full of parts and tools, something I didn&amp;#x27;t have digital nomadding.&lt;p&gt;Of course that&amp;#x27;s all just me. I&amp;#x27;ve met others who really enjoy that lifestyle. Good for them!</text></item><item><author>weeksie</author><text>Sure! Lifestyle businesses are great, and so is the whole digital nomad thing (I spent all of 2016 and a good chunk of 2015 traveling around the world).&lt;p&gt;There are a ton of upsides but I wouldn&amp;#x27;t go back to it full time. For one, it&amp;#x27;s surprising how few of the digital nomad types are really that interesting, and while integrating with local populations is fun, you&amp;#x27;ll still find yourself missing the familiarity of people from your own culture (or similar, Western cultures, assuming you&amp;#x27;re a Euro or American)&lt;p&gt;Once you get used to life on the road it&amp;#x27;s grand. Still, nomad nests like Chiang Mai are insipid and full of scores of people hustling their drop ship schemes. More power to them, but it&amp;#x27;s just not my vibe.&lt;p&gt;I dunno. Go nuts, travel, see a bunch of shit, just don&amp;#x27;t assume the beach is going to be as stimulating as the (very likely) metro urban environment you&amp;#x27;re living in now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbenson</author><text>&amp;gt; There only so much tourism I can take. At some point it just got boring seeing yet another old church, yet another museum, etc. Some recent book claimed you should take several shorter vacations than fewer but longer ones. They recommended no more than a week at a time.&lt;p&gt;I just finished a two week honeymoon less than a month ago, and we did it as a traveling and sightseeing vacation.  We started with a week in New Orleans and the surrounding area (and mostly did sightseeing instead of partying, it was a honeymoon), and were going to head up through Atlanta and see more of the South.  We decided after that first week we were not looking forward to more sightseeing in the humidity, so we made a beeline for Florida and went to Disneyworld for a few days instead.  Even though we were a little underwhelmed with Disneyworld after building up expectations for so long(we go to Disneyland often, and I would say they are comparable depending on the type of vacation you want), we didn&amp;#x27;t regret it.&lt;p&gt;Like many things, the wonder becomes commonplace if you are subjected to it consistently for long enough.  That seems to start happening for a lot of people around about a week.&lt;p&gt;We did spend a day in Savannah after that though, and that was gorgeous.  Mixing up the vacation probably let us appreciate it more.</text></comment>