@superruserr Wow okay, of course that's a bigger burden when dealing with all those countries at the same time.
I was just studying in the US for some time and, except the visa, there was not much paperwork at all. But visiting student is very different from being a resident anyway.
May I ask why you're living in so many countries simultaneously?
@hcs @superruserr Nice, sounds like a very interesting lifestyle! I was thinking about some months of digital nomad traveling, even though I hate that term ;) So I can imagine living somewhere else (and liked it e.g. in the US) and it's tempting. But living in multiple places at once just sounds like stress for me haha
I was upstate New York, studying Computer Sciene.
@0x11de784a The residence part is pretty stressful because you have a lot more bureaucratic things to do (being a resident, paying taxes, proper insurance etc). Travelling in holiday mode is much better. Especially when in different timezones.
I also hate the word digital nomad and never used it IRL. I just tell people that I move or travel around "a lot". Before that term became popular, I was familiar with another one that basically is the same thing 'location independent' or LIP for short.
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The 'digital nomad travelling' is something that I want to do for more than 10 years now, the first time I tried this was 8 years ago in Canada when I was doing some online work while travelling for a couple of months. And then when I came back home, made the goal to go overseas again (even said goodbye to a cousin telling her that I'll see her in London - which I did 2-3 years later!).
@superruserr Canada is on my bucket list too! How did you manage to work while traveling? Always being on trains/planes or working from coffee shops wouldn't work for me. Did you stay at places (i.e. cities) for at least some time, to figure out routines etc?
So you're doing a mix of being a digital nomad and living in many places for about 8 years already?
Working holiday visa for two years. i lived in Vancouver and Toronto. Vancouver's really nice with the nature etc, but I already spent some time there and was ready to go somewhere else. Toronto was much more interesting - more opportunities, more multicultural, etc, has lakes and parks you can go to. It was good overall in travelling to the US.
Blog post with tags about Canada: http://hannahsuarez.me/blog/tag/canada/
I even went as far as compiling the paperwork to become a Canadian permanent resident but didn't go through with it last year since I had to stay in the country 3 yrs out of 5 and I don't really particularly find Canada that appealing, other than how multicultural is it.
re: DNs.
I don't move around a lot in the same way that other 'DNs' do. The big difference is that I've stayed long enough to be an actual resident (DNs work while on holiday, tourist visas), and am an actual resident but working from home. It's just that I also use the flexibility to be able to work remotely and travel when I want to (the exception is if I'm on holidays). This is because some remote jobs require you to be on a strict online schedule, or some jobs require a lot of hardware making travel difficult, or some jobs have security requirements against taking the work overseas. It's just a term/semantics used, the other term used is '#expat' (though not immigrant, since I'm not actually immigrating) but yes I don't do a lot of work in cafes etc, I find that a bit uncomfortable!
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@hcs @superruserr Thanks for those insights! I'll take a look into your blog :)
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Because I can and I want to :)
It's like travel and airports/airplanes. You can like travel but hate parts of it, like airports or flying.
How I deal with it - training oneself to 'accept and deal with the circumstance'. Or convincing myself anyway.
I haven't been immune to really bad experiences though so it gets tiring.
Where did you study in the US and what subject if I may ask?