So today I'm gonna tell you what Remote Year is, how much it costs and why I chose Remote
Year to start my digital nomad journey.
And if you stick around to the end of this video I'll tell you the 12 cities I'm gonna
be visiting with Remote Year starting in March.
Greetings from New York and freezing cold Central Park.
My name is Kevin.
I make these weekly videos documenting my journey towards full time travel.
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So I'm back in my apartment.
It was just way too cold out there in Central Park.
I hope you don't mind but I'm gonna finish talking about Remote Year from my apartment.
I'm brewing up some coffee right because I'm freezing cold still.
There it goes so let me grab that really quick.
All right, now I feel much better.
So what is Remote Year?
In a nutshell, Remote Year curates work and travel programs for professionals to work
remotely as part of a community from different cities around the world.
Most people who participate in Remote Year don't quit their jobs like I'm doing.
They just become digital nomads and do their current job remotely.
In my case, I'm actually creating a job but we'll talk about that more later when I talk
about why I chose Remote Year to begin my digital nomad life.
So let's talk about how much Remote Year costs first and then I'll tell you what it includes.
So without any discount for 12 months, Remote Year costs $27,000.
That's a $5000 down payment and then $2000 a month for 11 months.
You don't pay anything additional for the last month and if you leave any time during
Remote Year you don't have to continue to pay $2000 a month.
They just keep your down payment.
That's kind of the purpose of the down payment, to protect Remote Year from people who leave
half way through the program.
In my case, I gotta discount because I committed to Remote Year in advance.
So my total costs will end up being $25,750.
I paid a $3750 down payment so I got a $1250 discount for signing up early and then I'll
pay $2000 a month for 11 months.
So Remote Year ends up costing me $2145 a month.
I know that sounds like a lot and I could probably do it cheaper on my own but I'll
explain later why I chose Remote Year.
So what does that cost include?
It includes the travel cost from one country to the next.
So 11 countries.
You have to pay for your flight to the first country.
So in my case the first country we're visiting is Lima, Peru.
I need to get from New York City to Lima, Peru by the date I'm supposed to arrive.
After that, all the costs associated with the other 11 countries Remote Year handles.
The next thing that's included in that cost is all your lodging expenses.
So sometimes you have multiple roommates, sometimes you have one roommate, sometimes
you have no roommates.
It just depends on the country and the availability of lodging but Remote Year books all of that
and takes care of the expenses.
The next thing you get is all of your co-working space fees.
So Remote Year either owns a co-working space or has a partnership with a co-working space
in all 12 cities that we visit.
The whole point of Remote Year is to work remotely and to live a digital nomad lifestyle
so it makes sense that that's a part of the program.
And the next item that cost includes is a program coordinator that travels with the
group and handles any issues that come up.
So if there's some kind of issue with the flight or getting the group to and from the
airport, all those kind of things, are handled by the program coordinator that travels with
the group.
In addition to that program coordinator, there is a local team of individuals that plan out
events during the event in each city that you live in.
That team also organizes social and professional events to learn new skills and to network.
I'm also gonna be traveling with a group of professionals that are working remotely so
I have a group built in of like minded individuals that I can use a resource that hopefully help
me learn and grow.
So in a nutshell, I'm paying for a company to coordinate flights, accommodations, work
spaces and local experiences, a staff to handle all the logistics and access to a large network
of traveling professionals.
So what did I choose Remote Year instead of figuring all this out on my own?
So I'm leaving my cushy job as a corporate lawyer in New York City because I wanna travel
and build something of my own.
I plan on focusing full time on this YouTube channel and my blog and see where that leads
me.
So Remote Year appealed to me for three different reasons.
The number one reason is they handle all the logistics.
I really like the idea that I can focus on just building my channel the first year.
The number two reason is I knew this program would force me out of my comfort zone and
I'd go to places that I probably wouldn't select on my own.
In this 12 month program, I'm gonna visit four continents and I'm gonna live in 12 different
cities, 10 of them I've never been before and three or four that I probably wouldn't
have even considered going to.
So I'm really excited to kind of get out of my comfort zone and document that journey.
And reason number three, I really like the community aspect of Remote Year.
I'm a pretty introverted person and it's already hard for me to meet new people.
So, again, I like that I'll be forced out of my comfort zone a little bit.
I'll be living and working around like minded people and it would have just been a lot harder
for me to get that exposure.
I've already virtually met many of the people I'll be traveling with and it's an amazing
group of talented and diverse individuals so I'm really excited about that.
I assumed I'd be the only lawyer but there's actually three of us in the group I'm traveling
with and there's also one other individual just like me that's going to be devoting her
time to building her YouTube, Instagram and blog brand.
So it's gonna be nice to have someone there I can bounce ideas off of.
So that's why I chose Remote Year.
I know there are gonna be a lot of comments that say, "Could have done it much cheaper
on my own."
And I definitely don't disagree with that.
Anyone who embarks on this type of lifestyle has to figure out what works best for them.
Remote Year might not make sense for people but when I factored in everything it made
sense for me, which is why I chose it.
I am not being sponsored by Remote Year in any way.
I plan on giving you an honest review of Remote Year throughout the months so other can use
that as a resource to figure out if this program is right for them.
Okay, so where am I gonna be going?
So I've already told you one place, Lima, Peru.
We'll also be visiting Santiago, Chile, Medellin, Columbia and Mexico City, Mexico before flying
over to Asia and visiting Hanoi, Vietnam, Chang-Mi, Thailand, the digital nomad capital
of the world, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, one of my favorite spots in the world actually.
I've been there a few times.
Then over to Kyoto, Japan and then we'll head to Europe and we'll go to Lisbon, Portugal,
Valencia, Spain, Split, Croatia and then we'll shoot down to Africa and go to Cape Town,
South Africa.
And then after hopefully I'll be traveling full time on my own and documenting my experience.
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