My first revelation of our incredible two-week holiday break on the beautiful Island of the Gods, Bali, the incredible value-for-money you can get in Indonesia, Thailand, and Southeast Asia, and why you should quit working for the man and go take advantage of geoarbitrage overseas.

Click here to find out why Erin and Simon at Never Ending Voyage find Chiang Mai, in the north of Thailand, to be their perfect, idyllic digital nomad headquarters, and why you might also, in this thorough and insightful city report.

This week I sit down with Chris Ducker of Virtual Business Lifestyle to chat with him about his businesses, how he turned his life around 180 degrees from near bankruptcy to thriving success, the key differences between hiring freelance virtual assistants and hiring an outsourcing service provider, and life in the Philippines.

Corbett Barr from FreePursuits shares his experience taking a 6-month sabbatical from work and from “normal life” and how it made a positive change in his life. Maybe now is the right time for you to consider a sabbatical or a gap year too?

Corbett Barr at Freedom Pursuits is hosting a survey to collect and analyze information about how Location Independent Professionals and Digital Nomads work and live. The purpose of the survey is to get a snapshot of the larger location independent community and understand how this growing trend is affecting people’s lifestyle, cost of living, and so on.