Every destination we cover

The nomad centre of gravity: cafes, coworking and condos within four blocks.

A 24-hour megacity where world-class infrastructure costs a third of what it should.

Low-rise, design-led and walkable along the canal. Tokyo at its most liveable.

Tokyo's young, dense centre and the base for most of its startup scene.

The most functional city on earth, now merely expensive rather than prohibitive.

Leafy, established and where the professionals actually live.

The original nomad city: cheap, cafe-dense, and unliveable for three months a year.

Unmatched infrastructure and safety, held back by a six-month nomad visa and a language wall.

Converted factories, speciality coffee and Seoul's current creative centre.

A 24-hour city with the world's best internet and cafes built for laptops.

The default Asian base: cheap, connected, and now with a five-year nomad visa.

Bangkok's design-forward quarter, where the agency and startup crowd lives.

A leafy, low-rise pocket that feels like a neighbourhood rather than a development.

A beach, a real city and fibre internet, for under USD 1,200 a month.

Young, cheap and awake at 4am. The densest cafe culture in the city.

Where the international community lives, with the most English in the city.

The best housing per dollar in Asia, in a city where everything happens in English.

Flat, leafy and Colombian. Where the community has been moving.

The most digitally advanced country you can live in, with a two-year workation visa since 2024.

The default expat corridor: maximum convenience, minimum character.

High-rise waterfront living with a beach and the city's only real promenade.

The Marina's cheaper neighbour, and where much of the founder crowd actually lives.

Tokyo's cheap, scruffy west: vintage shops, live music and rents you can live with.

The most underrated base in Asia: English-speaking, cheap, and foreign income goes untaxed.

Inside the moat: temples, guesthouses and the most walkable square kilometre in the north.

Tokyo's infrastructure at 70% of the price, with better food and looser manners.

Nimman prices minus the premium, five minutes further out.

The original core: surf, cafes and the only genuinely walkable stretch.

The developed end: best gyms, newest villas, worst traffic.

Between District 1 and Thao Dien, and the best value of the three.

The dense, convenient centre: malls, food streets and the widest rental choice.

Korea's second city: beaches, mountains and Seoul's infrastructure at lower rents.

The densest nomad scene on earth, built on rice fields that are disappearing fast.

The centre: most coworking, most serviced apartments, most noise.

Zero income tax and world-class infrastructure, at European rents.

A UNESCO heritage city with the best street food in Malaysia and rents half of KL's.

22C every day of the year, in the Americas' most established nomad city.

The expat family enclave: international schools, big condos, and a car.

The financial district: intense on weekdays, empty and cheap at weekends.

Zero income tax, first-world infrastructure, and a one-year remote work visa to make it legal.

The best cost-to-quality ratio in Asia, with a 90-day e-visa open to every nationality.

Dubai's quieter, cheaper capital: same tax position, less noise.

The foreigner centre: most coworking, most English, steepest hills and prices.

Vietnam's commercial engine: fast, cheap, and relentlessly entrepreneurial.

Where people move when Canggu gets too much, and rice fields still exist.

The leafy expat enclave: quiet, green, and a long way from the city.

The old riverside city: galleries, shophouses and the most character in Bangkok.

A separate town south of the city: quiet, Colombian and cheap.

Bali runs the region's biggest nomad scene; the rest of the country is barely explored.

Bali's inland counterweight: jungle, yoga, and a quieter kind of nomad.

Spring weather all year, a two-year nomad visa, and the best time zone overlap with the US.

An island with a real airport, real hospitals and fibre, plus a real traffic problem.

The old city across the creek: half the rent, ten times the character.

The Philippines' most workable city: real infrastructure, islands 90 minutes away.

Colombia's real city: bigger, greyer, cheaper and far less foreign than Medellín.

A surf island with a real nomad scene and internet that will occasionally ruin your day.

English everywhere, world-class islands, and tourist extensions that stretch to three years.