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What's keeping you from working remote?

In 10 years, we’ll look back and think it was crazy that we chose where to live based on an office.

For decades, we moved for work. The city, the apartment, the morning commute. We built our lives around where our company needed us to be. But luckily something is changing.

Companies like Deel, Shopify, Reddit, Airbnb and Spotify are either already fully remote, or shifting towards a more flexible way of working. More people are realizing that your job shouldn’t decide where you live. Your life should.

The world isn’t fully remote yet. But it’s tilting.

And the people who learn how to navigate this shift early will have something most people are searching for: freedom.

What's your ideal work spot?

Nobody questions that starting a business takes registration, accounting, legal, and a plan.

Nobody questions that learning to drive takes 40 hours of practice and a written exam.

Nobody questions that buying a house needs a mortgage advisor, a lawyer and an inspector.

But moving your life to another country, even just for a month, working remote?

Apparently that's something you're expected to figure out all by yourself.

That's the gap I've been living inside for 10 years. It's the gap hansthenomad exists to close.

If you could work remote from abroad, which season would you go?

I've saved thousands of dollars ($) on long-stay Airbnbs with one message, which you can use too.

It works because you're not asking for a discount. You're framing guaranteed occupancy as value for the host.

The exact script is in The First Move (waitlist open now).

The best part of working remotely isn't the beach. It's this choice.

What's your ideal work start time window?

Two years from now, you're either still talking about working remote from another country, or you've actually done it. Which one will it be?

You've been dreaming about it for years. Waking up in a new city, somewhere far from the office. The version of your life where Monday doesn't feel like last Monday.

But you haven't gone. Maybe you think you can't. Maybe going alone is what stops you. Or maybe nobody has ever shown you where to start. If you're still reading, you're not the average office worker. You have a dream that keeps you up at night. I had that dream too. For years. Then I went, and I've been doing this for 10 years now.

I work at Deel (3.5 years and counting), the company that built the infrastructure most of remote work runs on. 40,000+ companies, 150+ countries. I've watched this exact move play out from every angle. Yours. Your manager's. Your company's.

The excuses, the logistics, the fears. None of them are new to me. I know what gets people to actually go, and what keeps them stuck for another year. I'm here to help you turn that dream into a departure date.

The First Move launches soon, 2026

What's the one city you'd work remote from if your company said yes tomorrow?

Not just the aspirational one for an Instagram post. The one you've actually dreamed of for years. The one you've researched rent prices for. The one where you've already checked the time zone difference.

Drop the city below, curious to see your picks.

If your employer would let you work remote, would you?