Remote work is the best and I'm going to go over some of the best places that I've
worked remotely in the last five or so years. Since I've been a digital nomad
internet entrepreneur. So, I'm going to get into from personal experience what my
favorite place is and what the best place I believe are to work remotely. But
you know, I do need to give a quick shout out to nomads list because they have a
great resource that I've used of all the different site, all the different best
cities in the world rated by other digital nomads to work remotely. A little
bit about me. I've been an online entrepreneur for since 2012. And I've
traveled to over 40 countries in that time span. Just you know, working
everywhere around the world. Traveling was really one of my major goals, you
know. It was the reason why I started an internet business. It's the reason I got
into internet business. Because it was the only business that allowed me to be
anywhere in the world I wanted to be and still make money and still earn
something sizable for myself. So, a little disclaimer about this video is I'm going to
go over the best places in the world to work remotely. Not like the actual
specific... Like locations. And I actually will name a few locations. But one thing
you'll want to know is that wherever you are in the world you want to make sure
you have a quiet place. I'm putting quiet here, right? These are my 4 little tips
about working remotely. Quiet place is important because, you know, if you're... If
you're shooting videos or if you want to be focused, I think it's always good to
have a quiet place. That being said, here my other criteria of places to work
remotely in general. You need to be in cities where there's a fast internet
connection. Okay? Fast internet is so essential to working remotely. It's one
of the biggest problems that I ran into trying to travel the world and work. I'd
get to a country like Cambodia. And they have just absolutely awful internet
connections. You can't work. You can't get anything done. If you need
to upload video files, if you need to download videos, if you need to watch
videos. If you need to upload a website or download a website or you know, a lot
of just normal things I think that go along with running an internet
business. You just need fast internet. I think it's kind of the nature of the
beast. So, go to places where there's a fast connection. And I'm going to go over
a couple specific locations right after this of my... You know, the place at
the top my list. Kind of like right along up with a fast
connection as you want a steady connection. Now, I've gone to places like
Haiti or Vietnam or even... You know, even certain locations and in Thailand
and the connection is just on and it's off. There're brownouts. Because the
electricity infrastructure isn't you know, isn't built up enough. So you know,
the whole power grid Browns out around you know new or whenever you know...
Whenever people are using the most air conditioning. And that happened to me a
few times in certain places in Thailand. But you want to go place it where this
connection is steady. If you have to do a meeting, if you have to do a
business call or a conference call, you can't have that call drop in the
middle of your go-to meeting. And you know, the Internet's out for 5 to 10
minutes and then hop back back on and say, "Oh, sorry. The internet browned out
here for 10 minutes because..." Then they're you know they're just going to say,
"Why the heck did I allow you to work remotely in the first place? This is an
inconvenience to me." So, you don't want to do that if you have a remote job. You
don't want to be dealing with those issues. You're lucky enough to have a
remote job. You need a steady connection. So make sure to check the down
uptime and whatnot of the place you're at. The other criteria I give to working
remotely is cheap. Having a cheap place to work remotely is
a big benefit. You know, assuming that you've got that fast
steady connection, you can really work anywhere. And that's the benefit is you
can save a lot more money. If you have a job for a German or a British
or American company and you can work somewhere else in the world,
that's fantastic. Because you can take that extra money that you would be
spending up at your cost of living. And saving that up. Now, a few of my favorite
places to work remotely. The first one I would say is you know Chiang Mai. Chiang
Mai, Thailand. And there's a lot of good places to work remotely in Thailand. But
Chiang Mai is one of my favorites. Chiang Mai is great because it has a
great community of other expats. And expats means expatriates. People from
other countries. So, there's a lot of Westerners, there's a lot of people from
America, Australia and Europe that are hanging out in Chiang Mai. You
know, it's a lot of people that speak English that are from America. You know,
you can just... From Europe. You know, that there you can just connect with very
easily and they have a lot of businesses that just cater to Westerners. Which is
really nice. So, you're living in a very foreign, you know... There's... It's a jungle,
right? There's... But you know, there's businesses like rock climbing, you know?
Rock climbing is not something they do... You know, they naturally do in Thailand.
But you know, I'm a big rock climber and they have some great rock climbing areas
and they have people who will belay and assist you. And
they've holds carved out in place around there. So, that's what I mean
by you can get some of these really cool western things you'd want in these
foreign places, So, I like that about Chiang Mai. They have all sorts of stuff.
It's extremely cheap. It's in the north of Thailand. And that's very laid-back
vibes. And they have pretty consistent internet. So, that was a really cool
aspect of Chiang Mai. The second place in Thailand that I'm a huge fan of
and I believe you know many other people are. It's kind of what I call... Its kind of
the decompression chamber for all travelers in the world. I mean, this
is the... This is a spot where all roads kind of lead to Rome when you're
backpacking or when you're a digital nomad is Bangkok. Bangkok is you
know, that fast, steady Internet. And it's a big city with
literally every Western amenity you could want. And it's fairly cheap. I mean
if you're looking for some of those western comforts, it's not the cheapest
place in the world. I'm going to go over one of the cheapest places that fit these
criteria in the world. I've seen in a second. But Bangkok has a huge community
of Westerners that are there, they have a lot of businesses
that cater to Westerners. If you want, you know, it doesn't matter what you want.
Hamburgers, pizza. You know, if you want Fried Chicken. You know, they have KFC,
they have McDonald's. They have a TGIF there. You know, they have Chili's.
You know, they fat burger there. They have everything you would want. You could go
to Bangkok and nothing... You could have this totally foreign
experience because it's very culturally foreign. But you could hang out with all
Westerner. It's really great. I really like Thailand. It's got so much culture
and it really blends in foreign cultures very well. Now, the third place I'll
recommend is one of the more exotic places and it's extremely cheap. But they
actually have really good, steady, fast internet. They have a good community of
expats there. And they have a really cool culture. I mean it's really an just
beautiful. Beautiful countryside. You know, the city itself isn't that nice. It's
Medellin, Columbia. And I was in Colombia. I stayed 3 months in
Colombia when I was traveling. And you know, part of it was you know during... I
took a 6-week kind of intensive on salsa dancing. You know, I wanted to learn
the Colombian style of salsa dancing. It's a little different than the kind of
like straightforward way. And that was really fun. You know for me, I'm very like
left-brained thinking. So, I'm trying, you know... I try I wanted to learn
how to dance to like get me out of that. And I also really enjoyed their kite
surfing. And I went on some jungle excursions. And Colombia is really great.
And as I said, a lot of Americans lived there. There's a huge community of Americans
that live in Colombia. I'd say Costa Rica Panama and Colombia are like 3 major
hotspots for Americans outside of the US. So,
that goes into my fourth place which is Costa Rica. Costa Rica, massive community
of American. Very open-minded, self-conscious or conscious. You know, a
lot of conscious entrepreneurs. A lot of people run companies down there. You know
and hire people. So, there's a whole community down there. And there's all the
Western amenities you want as well if that's what you want. You know, if that's
not what you want, cool. But if you want your Heinz ketchup, you know, go for it.
You know, if you want your nice medical care... You know, it's there. So, you can get
all this stuff in Costa Rica. Costa Rica is a great, great spot to check out. And
the fifth place, last place after on this list is probably one of the coolest. And
one of the least known and they've got a great internet connection. And it's Taka
Suite, Morocco. It's this place on the seaboard of Morocco. It's inland from... I
believe it's somewhere close like Marrakesh or something. But there's this
co-working spot called Sun desk. Sun desk. S-U-N, D-E-S-K. And it's run by a German
woman. She was a traveler. She was a digital nomad and she wanted to settle
down, start a business. And she started this great co-working spot that has a
really fast internet connection. And you know, there's great surfing all along the
coast. Okay, it's like a Surfers... Morocco is a Surfers Paradise. There's so many
Germans that come down from Germany and surf there. It's like insane. I never
knew how many Germans there were in Morocco. There's more Germans than French
in Morroco. The French used to own Morocco. I don't know how that makes
sense. But it's a great spot for surfing. It's also a great spot for kite surfing
which is one of the reasons I was there. And they've got all these amazing like
hidden valleys and desert, oasis around there. So, fricking beautiful. I went on a
safari in the Sahara Desert. There's this you know, there's this big line of
mountains called the Atlas mountains. You cross over these mountains and
you're in the Sahara Desert which is huge desert that spans all of Africa. And
you know, I... We rode around on camels and you know, I stayed in tents and you know,
all of this was like 2 hours away from Taka Suite. You're in a
completely foreign. I mean, it was just... It was so awesome and it's so amazing and
very foreign. Don't have a lot of Western amenities in Taga Suite but you have
what you need and you have very fast internet. So, I really loved that place. If
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