Millennials are traveling more than any other generation, thanks to the freedom and flexibility of the new digital economy.

A recent poll showed that 43% of employed Americans worked remotely last year at least some of the time.

If the adventurer within you has been itching to roam the world, you are out of excuses, here are some helpful tools to make it happen. 

Where will you work out of?

The remote work trend has given rise to the coworking space—office space you can rent for temporary use in the U.S. and all over the world, this does not only give you internet access but a place to engage with other professionals.

  • Work Hard Anywhere, offers a user-ranked directory. The app offers 13,000 ranked and crowdsourced “laptop-friendly spaces” in 100 countries. These include cafes, coworking spaces, and even libraries. Spaces are ranked by users according to Wi-Fi quality, outlet availability, seating, parking, price, and other benefits.
  • Hoffice, which is a cross between a coworking directory and AirBnB. The site enables people to offer workspaces in their homes, and for digital nomads to rent them.
  • CoWorking.Coffee Coffee joints are ranked by quality of Wi-Fi and friendliness to coffee-shop camping (where you sit there working for hours on end)
  • wework is probably the largest international co working community with offices all over the world and their own online network that connects you with other members in any industry, oh and did we mention they have a  free beer tap for members.

If you need to find a coworking space on the fly, you can also take advantage of directories like the Global Coworking Map, Desksurfing, Workfrom, Conomads, and Sharedesk.

 

I don’t have enough savings, how will I support myself?

For many, the biggest barrier to living nomadically is occupation. How do you find a location-independent job, here are some ways to find work that can be done remotely.

  • Jobbatical connects developers and other “knowledge workers” with one- or two-year jobs all over the world.
  • Modern Day Nomads curates mostly non-tech, temporary, seasonal, and part-time global jobs.
  • Upwork is a freelancer’s paradise with jobs ranging from administrative work, programming, design and many more. If you are looking for work or looking to outsource your work to others, it’s worth checking out.

 

Home is where……..it’s where ever you want it to be

The housing needs of digital nomads are different from the average traveler. You will need fast Wi-Fi. And often need something longer-term than a hotel room but shorter-term than an apartment.

  • Roam offers “flexible housing” for digital nomads in cities like Bali, London, Tokyo, Miami, and San Francisco that can be rented week to week or month to month.
  • Outsite offers something similar. It’s a kind of subscription service where you pay monthly, but can move around to their various locations. They also promise coworking space.
  • Colive is a user exchange for finding temporary roommates and shared housing while traveling abroad
  • Nestpick is for when digital nomads want to live in a specific place for six months, a year, or a few years, they need a furnished apartment. This app partners with apartment rental sites, extracting only furnished apartments for digital nomads
  • And of course you always have airbnb, couchsurfing and vrbo

What about having a community? friends?

As a digital nomad, community is not just about socializing, but brainstorming, collaborating, and learning. It’s an important component of productive work. Here are some tools to connect with likeminded people.

  • Nomadbase is an app-based social network for digital nomads using iPhones or Android smartphones. MagPie is a social network for female digital nomads. And Flylancer enables members to schedule meetups.
  • NomadPass recommends digital nomads with similar personal or business interests for you to live and travel with.
  • Nomad Soulmates is a dating site is for location-independent nomads looking for love

 

Flying can get expensive so here are some ways to save

  • Fly Onward lets you “rent” a refundable return ticket for $9.99. (you might be flying with a one way but need to show a return ticket to get your visa).
  • Air Wander enables digital nomads to take advantage of their travel flexibility by giving you two or more destinations for the price of one by figuring out extended layovers of days, weeks, or even months. You can fiddle with cities and dates until you get an extremely low rate.
  • Hitlist is an app that sends you alerts when airline flex pricing drops below a user-designated fare.
  • Skiplagged : A hidden-city flight is a flight where you get off at the layover rather than the final destination. For example, a flight from New York to San Francisco might be $300, but a similar flight from New York to Seattle with a layover in San Francisco might be $200. If you’re going to San Francisco they’ll show you both flights, and if you choose the cheaper one, you get off the plane at the layover (San Francisco) rather than going to the final destination (Seattle). There are some fallbacks to this which you can read more about on their site.