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If you start looking at resources for digital nomads, you'll start seeing how people live abroad for cheap. Here's a recent video on living in Bankso, Bulgaria in an apartment for 150 Euro per month => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_w28W1_4PY. Combine that with some online work, maybe teaching English, and you could probably do OK.

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I've been there and been that digital nomad. I have lived in cheaper countries. I've taught English. Those things sound romantic and if you are healthy and have special skills you can have a good life. If you are not healthy and are competing with every other gig worker who IS and is half your age, and every other native speaker, hustling in the grind every day it's not sustainable. It was quite hard even when things weren't as bad as now. It's exhausting and doesn't (in most cases) give you any of the stability,immigration requirements, access to systems, consistency you need to live when you aren't able to sleep on floors and rough life. It sounds nice and I know the advice is well meant. It's just not like people imagine in context.

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