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94: How to become a digital nomad in Europe

• Jordan Giberson

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Dreaming of working remotely from Europe? Whether it’s Lisbon, Barcelona, or the beaches of Croatia, becoming a digital nomad abroad is more possible than ever. In this episode, I’ll walk you step by step through:

  • The best countries offering digital nomad visas (Portugal, Spain, Croatia, Estonia + more)
  • The difference between digital nomad visas vs. freelance visas
  • How to find remote jobs or freelance work to support the lifestyle
  • The best starter cities for digital nomads in Europe
  • What the day-to-day lifestyle really looks like (the good and the tough parts)

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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Move Abroad podcast I am very excited about today's topic because we're talking about how to become a digital nomad in Europe. Imagine sipping a coffee in Lisbon, answering emails from a beach in Croatia on your phone, or taking client calls from a balcony in Barcelona. Being a digital nomad in Europe is a lot more possible today than it was many years ago. But how do you actually make this happen? Today we're going to walk through exactly how to become a digital nomad in Europe, the best countries offering digital nomad visas, what type of work you can do and how to pick your first city and the lifestyle you can expect. So let's go ahead and get started with today's episode. So what is a digital nomad and why? Europe? A digital nomad is basically just somebody who works remotely while traveling or living abroad, usually in a short to medium term stay. So normally it's going to be a few months, two, one to two years, but not a longer term thing. That's, normally the definition of a digital nomad. And why Europe? I mean, let's be honest, there are some amazing travel opportunities. You can easily train, hop across different countries or hop on a really quick short flight. There's a really high quality of life. There is amazing cultural diversity, affordable cities in Eastern and southern Europe. And there is a fast-growing digital nomad infrastructure where there's a lot of co-working options. There are many other people doing it. So countries and governments are really used to dealing with the visas and having people work remotely. There's great co-living opportunities if you want to do that. There's just a lot of opportunities to be able to. Live and work abroad in general a lot of coffee shops will allow you to work remotely and like I said, coworking spaces. Sometimes a lot of hotels are also really great places to work remotely. I've done that a lot as well, and there are a lot of countries that now offer digital nomad visas, which are quite. Easy to get. So if you're looking for an easier route to live and work in Europe without sacrificing your career and what you do, then being a digital nomad for a couple years might be a really great option for you. So is it right for you to be a digital nomad? I would say if you are location independent or you have the ability to be able to be location independent, like if you're a nurse and you need to physically take care of people, that's going to be quite difficult. But if you're able to work online to be a freelancer, remote worker or entrepreneur where all of your work is on your computer, then that's great. You could definitely be a digital nomad. It is also right for you if you crave adventure, if you like to have flexibility, if you're able to work in new environments, if you're okay with uncertainty and not always having a fixed home. Like I said, this is a more for people that are looking to live somewhere. Short to medium term, not necessarily long term. If you're thinking I wanna move abroad to Europe for five plus years, then this might not be the best route for you. But I think that it could be a great stepping stone and it's a great opportunity to live abroad for one to two years max, probably before you'd have to move to another country I mean, you could probably country hop and be a digital nomad in different countries around Europe, or if you wanted to use this again as a stepping stone, maybe you're a digital nomad for a year or two, and then you go into full-time employment or get an entrepreneurial visa or a freelancer visa, which is slightly different from a digital nomad visa. And, it's a little bit more difficult to get, not by much, but the digital nomad visa is going to be the easiest one to get. As long as you're just proving that you have money coming in, it's quite easy. So, those are all the reasons why it might be right for you, What is the real difference between a digital nomad visa and a freelancer visa? What's the difference of being a digital nomad versus a freelancer? A lot of people can use these and for a good reason, because they're quite similar, but they are slightly different. So let's chop through the differences between a digital nomad visa and a freelancer visa. A digital nomad visa is designed for remote employees or contractors working for companies outside the host country. So this visa is great if you have a full-time role where you're working for a company outside of the country that you're moving to. So let's say for instance, you're going to be moving to Spain. You might be working remotely for a US company or a company where you can work from anywhere. That's where you're gonna be a digital nomad, whereas a freelancer, you're really working for clients inside the country more often. It doesn't have to be a really strict requirement, but it does help if you're working for companies inside that country or if you have multiple clients in general. Whereas a digital nomad visa, it's whenever you're working for a company full-time or if you're a contractor where you're only working for one company, or maybe you have a few different companies you work for, but. It's all outside of the country. So that's where you can kind of choose between a digital nomad visa and a freelancer visa. They're gonna be quite similar. But for the digital nomad visa, you really cannot work with local clients. It's only money from outside of the country. Whereas for a freelancer visa, you can work with local clients or you can register as a business as well. The digital nomad use, that's often quicker to get approved and a lot. Easier to get approved if you meet the income requirements. Whereas for the freelancer visa it might require more paperwork, local registration, just a bit more that goes into the visa in general. But you can also hold the freelancer visa for a longer period of time. Whereas a digital nomad visa, it's meant to be a nomad, digital nomad where you're moving around. So you might live there for. A year or maybe two years, but a lot of times you can't extend the visa past that you'll need to get a different visa or move out. So, yeah, that's kind of like the difference between the two and there might be countries that have a digital nomad visa, but not a freelancer, visa or vice versa. Or a country might have both visas. So you'll have to decide where you're moving to and see if they have a freelancer visa and a digital nomad visa and see what, what the requirements are and how they differ that you can decide between the two. But I'd say that's kind of a quick. Overview of the difference between the two. So let's just give a quick example. If you are a US citizen working remotely for a US company, you're going to apply for the digital nomad visa. If you want to freelance for German companies in Berlin, you're going to apply for a German freelancer visa. So just to give a couple quick examples, but as I said, if a country has both visas, then I would just do quick research to figure out what the differences between the two in that country, what the requirements are they make a decision from there. So that's a quick difference between a digital nomad visa and a freelancer visa. So let's say that you now know exactly where you're moving to, and you know that you need a digital nomad visa in that country. So the next step is how do you find work? Let's say that you need to find remote work or freelance work, then this is the next most important step. Without location, independent income, the rest isn't really possible. So here's how to actually find work that supports the lifestyle. Really what you're going to want to do is find a remote job and to find some sort of online portal to be able to find that in full-time work, or perhaps part-time work, depending on what you're doing. If you want to do multiple different jobs and have multiple employers, or if you wanna have one full-time job for the digital nomad visa, and both are options for you. So some great job words to look into and in the show notes, we'll provide links for all of these. So, you can go look at the links, but also if you just Google all of these companies, it should pop up automatically on Google. So the best job boards that specialize in remote work would be, We Work Remotely, Remote Okay, Flex jobs, which is paid, but highly vetted jobs. Remotive Job Espresso, Working Nomads, Europe remotely, EU remote jobs and Remote in Europe. There are so many job boards. I was actually really surprised how many there really are. And you can always go on LinkedIn as well. But these are job boards specifically for remote work. So if you know that you want remote work, that you want to be location independent, then these are all really great job boards. So I would go take a quick look at those. I'll say them one more time quickly in case I didn't pronounce something well. And then we will move forward to how to apply. So the job boards that specialize in remote work are, WeWorkRemotely, RemoteOkay. Flex jobs, Remotive, JobsEspresso, WorkingNomads, EuropeRemotely. EURemoteJobs and Remote in Europe. Those are the great job words to look into first, and then some tips for applying. Just make sure that you're updating your resume and your LinkedIn that highlight remote working skills. You might want to make sure you include words like communication or time management, remote, distributed team time zone, flexible, things like that. Because one question that I. Potential employer is going to wonder is are they used to working remotely? Can they work in a remote environment? Are they going to be self-disciplined to get their work done? Are they gonna be online on time? So if you've never worked remotely, make sure you emphasize transferable skills, like independent problem solving or managing your own schedule. And if you do get an interview, then make sure you highlight those things as well. And then one quick bonus tip is that some US-based companies allow for remote work from Europe if you're a contractor, so check with your HR or legal team sometimes. They allow time zones to overlap. So if I were you, I would look into these job boards, but another option could be to talk to your current employer and see if it'd be a possibility to work as a contractor. I actually did that whenever I was living in London. I had to leave the UK for a little while, so I didn't wanna lose my job. I wanted to make sure I kept my job. So I asked my boss at the time if I could work, like keep my exact same job work by same hours, but to work as a contractor. So I would just be paid a little bit differently. But I was gonna continue doing my same work and I again, was willing to work in the exact same time zone. And then later on I ended up working from the us. So I was. Different time zone, six hour time difference, but I still worked in the, in the in central time. I would start work at seven or seven 30 in the morning and then I think I would work until. Like three or three 30 or something like that. So I was able to, do that and even now I work mostly with people in the US from London and I have normal 9-5 job so sometimes employers are willing to work with you. So it might potentially be a good idea to speak with your current employer and see if they might be willing to be flexible with you if you currently have an office job and to work as a contractor and keep your same work or to reach out to previous employers and see if they're willing to do that. But you could also apply for these jobs as well. So, just a few ideas there. So that's if you want a full-time job or a part-time job, if that's what you want. But you can also look at job boards for freelance or contract work specifically. So these are a little bit different because you might be paid by the project, you might be paid by the hour, for instance. That's more freelance style, whereas the remote jobs for those job boards that I was just talking about, those are going to be where you're gonna have more of a salary type of experience where you're not going to be picking up one project, but you're gonna be working for them full-time or maybe part-time 20 hours a week or something like that. So I have more job boards to tell you about for freelance or contract work, because you can be a digital nomad and be. Sort of like a freelancer, but also di like at the Digital Nomad Visa. And again, for the country that you wanna move to, you'll have to look at the specific requirements, but you might say, oh, I kind of wanna have some freelance work or be a contractor. And these are the job boards that are great for that. So the top platforms for freelance work will be Upwork, Fiverr. Toptal, which is great for experienced freelancers. This is like the top percentage if you're real experienced in whatever you're doing. So that's Toptal, T-O-P-T-A-L. The next one is people per Hour. Contra Solidgigs. I love that name, whoever came up with that. And malt, which is popular in in France and eu. So there are many different options for freelance work. These are just a few of them, and there might be specific ones for your industry as well, if you're more of a creative person or if you do web design or if you're more into engineering, there might be different job boards as well specifically for that. So it'd be something to look into. Yeah, these are some of the top job boards for freelance work, but these are also just a few, there are so many job boards out there. I did not even realize how many there really were, so it'd be worth kind of doing a quick Google and starting with some of these, but I. There are so many and there might be some that are specific to your industry. So it might be worth doing a quick Google to search for your specific industry, to see what freelance work is available for what you do. So some of the best fields for nomads for freelance work would be graphic and web design. That's a really typical one for freelance work. Writing, editing, copywriting, also really popular social media management, marketing strategy and SEO. So anything within marketing, coding and app development might also be really popular. Virtual assistant works, so if you're looking to be a va, that would be really great as well. Coaching, consulting, teaching online, so anything that's like kind of in the teaching realm of coaching, consulting. I'm actually looking to hire someone to teach me Spanish online, so that's. An instance where someone's being a freelancer and working remotely, project management in general is really great for remote work. So this is just to name a few, but these are some of the top fields that people work remotely in or people, become a freelancer for. But there are so many others, like I've mentioned, being a nurse. Earlier on and something that my sister has been considering doing is to work online, to take calls to, I kinda work from home. So there are other options as well where you might be able to work from home in an industry where you wouldn't have otherwise thought that that could be possible. So it might be worth looking into your industry and looking into what's remote. Work is possible in your industry, even if you haven't traditionally worked remotely. You might be thinking, oh, like I'm a lawyer, or I'm a teacher. But then you say, oh, actually someone can teach online. Okay, that's great. Or, oh, I didn't realize that someone could, you know, be a nurse, but do things that are online, taking calls or whatever that looks like. So there are options and a lot of fields that, those options didn't exist even a few years ago. But there are even more options to work online than there. Was a few years ago, and there's more digital nomads coming across to Europe, and you could be one of them. So anyways, those are a few different options for work. And then just a few different tips for getting clients for freelance work. I would say start by building a portfolio, even if it's one or two personal. Specific projects that you helped on? Even for me, whenever I was looking for work, I had kind of put together like a PowerPoint that was sort of my portfolio where I had highlighted big projects that I had worked on to highlight my experience and what I did. And I kind of would start by telling the story and then I would. Say what happened? Then I would highlight the results and specifically the numbers from the results. Like if I could state it increased, blah, blah, blah by X percentage, then I would highlight that. So, or if you have like a design portfolio or something, you could do it on a website or you could. Do it in a PDF of some sort that you design on Canva or something similar. But I would just say start by building a portfolio if you're looking to get clients, because they will want to see previous work that you've done, even if you have never been a freelancer before. Like I said, just highlighting specific projects that you've done. Like I did, I just put it in a PowerPoint and outlined my specific projects and I did screenshots to show what I did. They just wanna understand what work you've done. So regardless of whatever Formatting you do, whether you build a webpage or you build something like a PDF on Canva or you build a PowerPoint, whatever it is, to kind of showcase your work that you've done. I think it would be really helpful in getting clients. The next thing you're gonna wanna do is to reach out on LinkedIn to companies that you love to work with. Maybe it might be worth making a LinkedIn post about transitioning into freelance work and maybe even reaching out to previous teammates or managers to see if they need any support right now, or to ask them if they know of anybody that might need support and to reach out to you if they hear of somebody that's looking for help with things. So it might be worth doing some of those things to help find work, and then just joining some of these different platforms to put yourself on Upwork, Fiverr Toptal People per hour,Contra, Solidgigs, malt On those different options. You could also join different Facebook groups or, different online channels just so to showcase your work or to mention that you are looking for freelance work. So those are just a few options to help get clients. So I'm going to highlight quickly what no one tells you about digital nomad life, the pros and cons and what that looks like, and then tell you from A to Z exactly how to become a digital nomad in Europe and kind of run through the process with you. So I have. Not gone a digital nomad visa, but I did work remotely in Europe for the company that I mentioned earlier. I was working for a company in London. I had to leave London. I was working as a digital nomad. Like I asked my boss if I could work remotely as a contractor for a little while, and he said yes. And I think one of the reasons why was he always had that dream to work remotely and to live in Europe and kind of just take a laptop and bounce around from place to place. So I lived in Italy for three months. 2020 and it was the most incredible experience of my life. I loved it so much. I cried whenever I left because I loved it so much. And I actually did another month in Croatia too, working remotely. So I wouldn't say I didn't have a digital nomad visa. I didn't get a visa. I just worked remotely on a tour visa'cause I was only staying for 90 days. But I could have easily gotten a digital nomad visa in Europe if I would have applied because I had the right income. And it's quite easy to get a digital nomad visa, but. There were a lot of pros, but there are also some cons, that I noticed, so I wanted to just chat through that quickly. So some pros of being a digital nomad and working in Europe, working remotely was the freedom and flexibility that you get. It is incredible to have that freedom to work from any coffee shop. You want to work from an Airbnb for a little while if you wanted, or to work from home or to, like I said earlier, you can. Flip through your emails on your phone and and reply to people from a beach in Croatia if you wanted to. Or from a cute cafe sipping your espresso and having a croissant in Paris if you wanted to. So it's really nice to have that flexibility to work from anywhere really. And whenever you're a digital nomad, you can have a home base, but you can also bubble around Europe and you can work from really anywhere. I mean, as long as you have your laptop and you have great wifi, you can kind of travel a bit for a week or two. While you were on this visa, so it'd be good to have a home base, but if you're gonna be doing that for a year or two, you could also kind of travel and work remotely too. So I think having that freedom and flexibility is just incredible. To also just have the cultural immersion to be able to live remotely for a while to live abroad, I think is an amazing experience. Just the personal growth and confidence that you build. Whenever you move somewhere, you're by yourself. You kind of, Or working remotely. And I will also tell you I'm not special. I'm really not special. There's nothing about me that's really incredible where I could work remotely and. Go somewhere where I didn't know anybody. Like, if I can do it, you can do it. There's nothing really special about me. So I, I really enjoyed it. It was an amazing experience for me. It was a little bit scary, but sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump off the cliff. Like, don't overthink it and just do it. And it was such an incredible experience. Like I said, I cried whenever I left. So the personal growth that you have from that, from being independent and kind of figuring things out on your own and the confidence that you build, I think is, is bar none. It's also just. Beautiful to have work-life balance that works well. It's so nice to be able to have freedom of your own schedule, to be able to, um, you know, go to a cafe in the morning. And I do that even now. I'll go work from a cafe in the morning and. Answer emails and things like that. And then whenever I have calls in the afternoon, I'll go home and take my calls from there. So I think it's really nice that you have the option to live in Europe and to work remotely. And then you get to, do things in the evening, go watch the sunset somewhere, go for a walk, go, meet up with people that you had connected with in a Facebook group or in a running group or whatever community you're a part of. So I think that that was incredible to kind of experience a culture. Shorter term and to feel excited about traveling.'cause as you live somewhere longer, you don't kind of like get out and travel as much. So I think it's so exciting in the beginning to live and soak up the local culture and to be able to travel and work remotely. As long as you're getting your work done and it's totally fine. But some cons that I did notice was. A loneliness and a lack of stable community, especially if you're traveling a lot, it's takes a while to build solid community. So if you're never actually there, then it's difficult to build community because I was, staying one week somewhere in Italy and then I moved to the next city in Italy and then I moved to the next city. So I would kind of go one week at a time, sometimes three weeks at a time. And sometimes I would meet people in a week and sometimes I would. Not meet someone after being somewhere for three weeks, or I meet someone on the last day after I'd been somewhere for three weeks. And so I was a little bit lonely, but I feel like I also had the consistency of work. So I was chatting with my coworkers all the time because I was a contractor for one company. So I feel like I still connect with people daily and I'm also quite independent and I would call my parents on the phone quite often and I'd go for walks. I joined like online forums to try to meet up with people, or I would chat with people in coffee shops. I met people that way. Where I would kind of chit chat with someone next to me who also had a laptop and I'd be like, oh, what type of work do you do? And then we'd start chatting and then we'd say, oh, do you wanna meet up here tomorrow? And just kinda like, have a coffee and work for a bit. So it felt nice to kind of build community that way, or there are so many coworking spaces now, so I feel like it's, you're less likely to be lonely, but you do have to be disciplined to get out and to, put effort into meeting people, especially if you're only going to be. Digital nomad for six months to a year. You have to put yourself out there. There. The con could also be just time zones and burnout. There is potential for. Different people to be in different time zones that you're working with and to need to adjust that. I dealt dealt with that a little bit, but you also have to set your own boundaries at times. So just to be aware of the time zone, to block your calendar if you know that you have plans that evening. And sometimes, there are busier periods in work than others, so you have to be flexible with that sometimes. Another con just might be knowing that you can't hold the digital nomad visa for a long period of time, so you might be visa hopping and have the short term uncertainty, but it is also an incredible experience to have that option of just one year to two years where it's a visa. That's quite easy to get. And then once you're there, maybe you. Live in Italy like I did, and you, experience different cities and you thought that you actually, you thought that you wanted to move to Rome, but then as you live there longer, you realize that maybe Venice is a better fit for you or whatever that looks like. So I do think that it's nice to kind of dip your toe in the water to have experiences of digital nomad and then you can always transition to more of an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurship visa perhaps, or a freelancer visa as well. So I think that it is a great stepping stone, and like I said, you might be a digital nomad in Spain for one to two years, and then decide to move to Portugal for one to two years and then decide to move to another country and then move back to the US. So you can always kind of experience different countries in different ways of life and to kind of bop around to different countries. If you wanted, or if you really fell in love with Portugal, for instance, a country that has a digital nomad visa and a freelancer visa. Maybe you are a digital nomad for a little bit, and then you switch the freelancer visa after that. Okay, so now let's talk about the step-by-step how to become a digital nomad in Europe. The first step is going to be to figure out your remote work income. The options include freelancing for companies outside of the country that you're moving to for things like writing, design, marketing, programming, you name it, another option is remote work with a US or international company. So where you have a remote job or you can run your own business, for instance, like coaching, consulting, e-commerce, or you could teach online, to teach English, be a virtual assistant online, or to create content online. So all of these are going to be different options where you can be making income, but you have to figure out how you're going to be making income first. The next step is going to be to choose a digital nomad visa. The country's offering official digital nomad visas or remote worker visas are going to be Portugal with the D eight Visa or digital nomad Visa, Spain, Croatia, Estonia, Greece. Italy, Romania, Hungary, Malta, those are some of the main countries that have digital nomad visas. So you'll need to choose the country that you'll be moving to with the visa. So you're choosing your visa in the country that you're moving to. And then just make sure that you follow the basic visa requirements, like proof of remote work. Make sure that you're meeting the minimum income, which might be like 2000 euros a month or something like that, depending on the country and the visa. Just make sure that you are following the base requirements for the Visa. You'll want to make sure you have health insurance. Most digital nomad visas, you'll be required to pay for your home. You'll be required to pay for your own health insurance, but it shouldn't be too much per month, to be honest. It, it really won't be astronomical. It could be like maybe 50 US dollars the least, but probably no more than 200 per month or something like that. So you'll have to pay for your own health insurance and then just make sure you have a clean background check. But really it's gonna be quite simple to follow the requirements for the digital nomad visa. Then, you want to pick your first state that you're gonna move to and you might want to consider factors like the cost of living for how much you'll be making the internet speed and coworking availability for the city that you're thinking about moving to. Whether there is good community, that is something that's really important. You'll wanna make sure that there are other expats living there, that you're not the only American. Living in a tiny village, in southern part of Italy or something like that. So you wanna make sure that there is good expat community. You can meet people in so many different ways. Like meetups. I've been to lots of different, organized meetups on meetup.com from Facebook groups, people I connected to on LinkedIn or different groups that I joined, like a running group or, I just recently joined rowing again. So things like that where you can build community. And then consider maybe the climate, lifestyle, safety, different considerations like that. So figure out what's most important to you in the city that you're looking to move to. Some really great starter cities to move to. These are the cities that have a digital nomad visa in that country. So these are the great cities to. Think about starting with, so Lisbon, Portugal is a great one. Barcelona or Valencia, Spain Split, Croatia, Budapest, Hungary, Athens, Greece, Tallin and Estonia. Those are some really great starter cities to consider moving to for your first digital nomad Visa. And then the next step is just going to be planning out some of the logistics, like accommodation. Where are you going to be living? Are you going to do an Airbnb? Are you going to do co-living spaces like Selena or outside, which is really better for shorter trips to work remotely, or short term rental or sublease, which is probably going to be the most cost effective. So kind of depends on how long you're planning on staying in that city and what you're planning on doing, but I feel like a short term rental or sublease is probably going to be the best option for you. You'll also wanna make sure you get health insurance are many different options for health insurance online. So just do quick Google, for the one that you feel like you like the best. Banking and money transfers, you'll definitely wanna have a wise account. I use Wise all the time, like literally every week. I use it all the time. Or bank. RET where you can kind of switch different currencies. So you might honestly be able to get away with not having a local bank account as long as you have a credit card with a, without a foreign transaction fee. So I knew people that were living abroad and never got a local bank account. They just used their bank from the US and they were able to get by with that. Or you might need to get a bank account, but I feel like it's something that you can probably figure out once you move there. It's not an emergency item to get that done, ASAP, but that might be something to consider. And then things like taxes, it can be complicated. So just make sure that you talk with a tax advisor, especially if you're saying longer term, to just make sure that you're having your tax situation all kind of squared away. The last step once you get your work. So we talked about the different platforms that you can get work from if you're doing freelance work or full-time remote job. So I would make sure to look on those job boards, make sure you have your work., Make sure you get the visa, which you will have to have work, coming in before you can get the visa anyways, because you have to prove that you have remote work secured before you can get the visa. And then you move there. And, you also just want to, after you plan all the logistics, just make sure that you're building a digital nomad friendly routine. Things like balancing work and travel, making sure you're finding coworking spots, like cafes or coworking spaces with strong wifi. Join facebook groups meetup.com. Like I said, I use meetup.com all the time where you can meet fellow digital nomads. You can meet them in coffee shops or coworking spaces as well to make sure that you're kind of building community and then just make sure you're avoiding burnout by setting boundaries and making sure that you're taking rest days as well. So kind of build that plan for yourself of when you want to be working, when you don't wanna be working, where you're going to be working. Kind of build that before you. Move so that you're kind of easily settling into where moving abroad to. So there you have it. That is how to become a digital nomad in Europe. I hope that you found this episode helpful and if you are considering digital nomad life, I did it. I didn't get an official visa, like I said, and I did only three months. But I remember thinking to myself, I could definitely do this for a year. I was moving around to different, cities in the same country in Italy, but I feel like I probably could have settled in into one a bit more as well to build more community, which I feel like is one thing that's a bit challenging about being a digital nomad is if you are. Kind of like moving around a lot or traveling a lot. It's more difficult to build community, but I remember thinking to myself, I could definitely do this for a year and maybe I would've done it for two years and loved it. So, I definitely recommend it. It is an incredible experience and it is a great way to dip your toe in the water and living in Europe and. Maybe once you're a digital nomad and you're doing that for maybe a year, maybe it opens up your mind to a different opportunity to another city or country that you want to move to for a longer period of time. And maybe you never leave Europe and you love it way more than you actually anticipated. Or maybe you accomplish that dream of living abroad for a year on a digital nomad visa, and then you decide to move back to the states or wherever you're from originally as well. So. Anyways. I hope that you found this episode helpful. Thank you so much for listening to another episode of the Move Abroad podcast. I will catch you here again next week, same time, same place. I'll catch you then