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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_nomad

They are ones who use Internet to make living with little or no stuff. All you need is a laptop, Internet connection, Skype and willing (sorry, actually a list of customers who's willing to pay you xD).

One of the best known success story:



I'd enjoy such life but I am afraid of logistics (can't rent a lodging over Internet in new country, can't imaging what I should do in case of injury, don't understand how to pass saving across borders without loosing money on fines of payment systems).
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can't rent a lodging over Internet in new country
Why not? It's as easy as pie.
Millions people do it daily.
what I should do in case of injury
insurance
how to pass saving across borders without loosing money on fines of payment systems).
well,you'd have to pay a fee,witch could be as low as 3% or perhaps even less
"free" alternative : bitcoins/other cryptocurrencies

"free" because you'd have to pay fees anyway converting bitcoins into your local currency
tugriks,roubles, UAHs or whatever )

or just smuggle it )

succeeded -> successful
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tourist пишет: 13 апр 2019, 14:39 or just smuggle it )
Like O. Bender did.
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tourist пишет: 13 апр 2019, 14:39insurance
Probably not having developed insurance in Ukraine I expect it wouldn't work in other countries, especially cheap ones...
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>or just smuggle it )
If he smuggled rubles into the US (for example), he would still have to change them into US dollars. Today the rate is 1,000rub = $15.15, or just about enough to but a nice breakfast in a restaurant. But also a bank will charge a couple of percentage points for the conversion.
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Chaika пишет: 14 апр 2019, 04:35 If he smuggled rubles into the US (for example),
it wouldn't be very patriotic for a Ukrainian. :)
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acapnotic пишет: 14 апр 2019, 10:28 it wouldn't be very patriotic for a Ukrainian. :)
10000$ is a limit for amount in cash that doesn't require written registration when you pass Ukrainian border.

I suspect that other countries are not so generous and make such limit lower by forcing to use digital payment systems. In other words by enforcing control over wealth movement. Personally I lose fines with payment systems, though it would be probably safer to live without huge cash in your packet in a foreign country...
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