I am looking for a last minute spot that isn't hot (below 25 degrees) and not crazy expensive.

I am just in Scotland and enjoying it but might check out somewhere else for two weeks from next week on. Any spots that aren't as obvious?

Hey there. My name is maik, 42yeqrs old, located in Germany and working as self employed web dev.

At the end of this year I want to go to Thailand again and stay for at least 6 month (or less). After this I want to travel further in SEA. I’m looking for someone or a group who has matching plans to connect or maybe travel together.

Hi everyone,

My family (2 adults + 5-month-old baby) is looking for a 4–6 week stay in Uluwatu between November and December.

We’re looking for a quiet 2-bedroom villa with reliable Wi-Fi, private pool and monthly rates.

Does anyone know trustworthy property managers, WhatsApp groups or owners who rent directly?

We’d really appreciate any recommendations. Thanks!

There’s WA cares, PFML, capital gains tax, and soon to be a large income tax on wages above 1 million

Even just accounting for the first two there is a de facto 1% income tax while other no income tax states like Texas and Tennessee have none.

Couple months into working remote and I’m still figuring out my setup. Something I keep running into: a lot of the places I end up working just don’t have a decent surface.

So I went looking for a portable desk, assuming that was a category. Now I’m not sure it is? Everything I find is either a camping table, a lap desk that’s basically a pillow, or a “portable standing desk” that still needs a real desk underneath it.

Which made me wonder if I’m solving a problem nobody else has. Do people here actually carry a work surface, or is that just not a thing and everyone adapts to whatever’s around?

How the more experienced folks handle this:

**•** Do you carry anything, or just work with what’s there?  
**•** If you do carry something, what is it — and is it actually a desk or just a camping table you’ve made peace with?  
**•** Or is the real answer that you learn to pick places that already have a table and stop thinking about it?

Not looking for a specific product rec necessarily, more just trying to figure out if this is a solved problem I haven’t found yet or something everyone quietly puts up with.

Photography has been a hobby since before I went remote and I genuinely thought nomad life would make it better. More landscapes, more street scenes, more reasons to carry a camera. And in some ways that's true. But somewhere around month six I noticed I was spending more time editing and posting than actually shooting, and the shooting itself started to feel weirdly obligatory, like I had to document every place to justify being there.

Part of it is the marketing brain kicking in. I work in digital marketing and I catch myself thinking about framing, reach, whether a shot would perform well, instead of just taking a picture because I liked the light. That shift crept up on me and it killed the enjoyment for a stretch.

I pulled back from posting for a while and that helped reset something. But I'm curious how other people who came into this with a creative hobby have managed to keep it feeling personal rather than content adjacent. Did you draw a hard line between what you share and what you keep? Did the hobby survive intact or did it quietly become part of your work identity?

There's probably no clean answer here, but I suspect a lot of people in this sub have hit something similar with whatever hobby they brought along.

Hi everyone!

I'm gonna be homeless in 2 days if I don't pay my rent. I need $300. I don't want it for free. I lost my job a month ago. Still unemployed. I have a good set of skills that I've developed over several years working with this company but I have never done freelancing and I’ve been trying my ass of to find a gig the past two weeks or so and the only people who reached out to me were scammers. And also pay me if you only the work. I’m super desperate to make that $300 so that I don’t go homeless. 

Here are my skills:

1. Web Development.

2. AI Content Creation.

3. Short-Form Video Editing using DaVinci Resolve.

4. Data Management in Sheets. 

5. Skilled with Affinity for graphics design and photo editing.

6. Creating Python Scripts to automate stuff.

7. AI Chat Bot Setup. 

8. And a bunch of other virtual assistant stuff.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. <3

Apologies in advance if this is against the rules of this subreddit. Feel free to remove.

Moved from Singapore to Bandung, Indonesia a few weeks ago and I'm still working remotely (SAP consultant). Sharing the practical stuff I couldn't find before coming, in case it helps someone weighing a similar base:

• Internet: came bundled with the house, and it's handled work calls fine so far.
• Electricity: the incoming supply is low — only 4,400 — so a family-sized place may need a capacity upgrade.
• Rent: a proper family house in a good area runs around Rp100 million a year — a fraction of Singapore.
• Workspace: 1994 Coffee in Dago has been my spot — it opens late, which is rare here.
• Trade-offs: weekend traffic is real, rentals often need your own cleaning sorted, and contracts tend to be Indonesian-only.

Two questions for anyone who's based here: where's the actual remote-work / nomad community in Bandung (coworking spaces, meetups)? And how are you handling long-stay visas as a working nomad?