If it is not you, perhaps it is someone you know.
For some, remaining in a country-of-origin leads to unnecessary suffering—not just for themselves but for others as well. Taking action by stepping out and living differently can be transformative, making For some, remaining in a country-of-origin leads to unnecessary suffering—not just for themselves but for others as well. Taking action by stepping out can be transformative. Reclaiming space, reducing unnecessary expenses, satisfying the need for an end to things.
The need can continue to intensify, leading to setbacks, determined by factors such as economic stagnation, limited opportunities, societal pressures, or environments that foster unhealthy habits. For real change to take root, adjusting environmental factors—or relocating entirely—can be crucial. Meanwhile, the impact shaped by a stagnant life, one struggling with being fixated in impossibility, can be turned into an opportunity. Changing locations may be insufficient in itself, however the journey can be part of the solution.
A journey without a fixed return, except to the All. Dispossessed, instead able to spend time with the vast all-family, all those lives, on the planet, with whom various ancestral layers are shared—genetics, epigenetics, traditions, and shared wisdom. It does matter where you live and how you get there. The business wisdom of “location, location, location” can be applied not just in commerce but in reducing costs of non-monetary kinds. What if “location” could be redefined—or even removed to an extent?
Less – Greater Freedom
Whether seeking a new home, traveling temporarily, or heading out on the journey, digital nomadism offers an approach to covering costs while lowering resistance to letting go. While travel is often associated with financial expenses and a “carbon footprint,” well-invested expenses provide a path to causing less harm, reducing suffering, and lowering the overall negative imprint on the world. Combine ethical travel and a fulfilling lifestyle, and the personal growth may offer an alternative to reinforcing the same old, that lead to the same old outcomes.
Ultimately, the only entity of this world specialized in navigating itself—who truly knows what you need to do is you. Despite frequently misuse of ethos and induced proof amongst other means, invalidating personal agency.
Exploring Advantages
- Lower cost of living through financial wisdom
- Freedom from excessive dependencies
- Accountability making for ethical commerce
- An experience of being part of a greater reality
There are numerous co-living spaces worldwide that embrace these principles. A bit of research revealed skill-sharing retreats near Tenerife and nature-integrated workspaces in Bali. While retreats offer deep reflection and rejuvenation, rural co-living in a small village fosters a connection between structured work and nature. A globally connected co-living model offers seamless flexibility for remote ventures, providing a rejuvenating workspace in sacred natural surroundings. Meanwhile, an alpine-based community hub near Bansko prioritizes affordability, and an urban model near the cultural heartbeat of Mexico City caters to those seeking a dynamic city experience.
Collaborative Living: Strengthening the Nomadic Community
One way to enhance sustainability and reduce the footprint of travel is by sharing infrastructure, minimizing waste, and making the most of resources. The traditional work model involves separate residence and workspaces, achieved on-the go by combining stays with office-buildings such as co-working spaces. However, co-living merges these elements, providing immersive networking, community and an environment for like-minded individuals to share resources, lower costs, and boost creativity.
Co-living benefits:
- Shared security & resource consumption
- Lower financial strain compared to renting alone
- In-house network for collaboration and personal growth
Co-Living in Action
Nest Digital Nomad House – Istanbul
This nest provides a living and working space designed for professionals seeking an affordable, comfortable, and vibrant stay at the bridge between East and West. The area offers a rich culture, great meals, and was the center of at least two vast empires.
Features:
✔ Lively community
✔ Shared co-working space
✔ Private rooms, kitchen, and a budget-friendly laundry service
Enjoy a hospitable stay alongside the independent four-legged friendlies, whose silent paws frequently grace the garden – leaving no footprint.
Masaya Co-living – Network Across North-Western South America
A network of co-living hostels across Colombia, offering dormitory beds and private rooms alongside co-working spaces and on-site restaurants/cafes.
✔ Locations: Bogotá, Medellín, Cartagena, Santa Marta, and smaller towns such as Minca and San Agustín
✔ Prices: Bunk beds $10–$15 USD per night, private rooms $23–$50/night
Nine Coliving – Near Tenerife
A historic house transformed into a community-centric digital nomad hub, Nine Coliving fosters local engagement, and a socially sustainable experience of high-quality living.
✔ Shared & private accommodations
✔ Common work areas & community events
✔ Starter rate: 38 EUR/night (min. stay: 14 nights)
Valuation
While financial sustainability is critical, every transaction—every coin exchanged, whether gained or spent—comes with a cost.
Ethical banking can cut expenses otherwise added to the value-sum. Considerate financial sourcing reduce costs that cannot be measured in gold, trade currencies, or similar commodities. Reducing expenditures is not about frugality, “getting by” or adopting pious humility—it is about the basics of trade. It is the balance between value created and costs incurred in the process – the profit margin.
The approach of producing “more value”, not for the individual nor markets, but for the world itself, is despairingly super-abundant. Increasing net-value by carefully chosen accommodations, may increase personal surplus, lower stress and eliminate dependencies.
“Every penny saved is one earned.”
Settling for luxurious accommodations, necessitating heavier income-derivation, may be outweighed by pooling resources and reducing unnecessary expenses. Reaching past the spaces restricted to those with greater amounts of finances, can provide an enriching opportunity to connect with a broader segment of the world-population – with cultures whose measurement of wealth is harder to translate to monetary currency.
- A tropical co-living destination near Canggu, integrating nature with a strong community
- A dedicated skill-sharing retreat near Xàbia
- A globally connected co-living network
- An extensive list can be found here
Higher-End & Luxury Co-Living Spaces
Applying resources wisely reduces unnecessary setbacks. Instead of eating a home-cooked meal alone, opting to take public transport to a green eatery may provide a rejuvenating experience, outweighing the costs down-the-line. Similarly, choosing accommodations carefully can be a skillful way of managing accumulated resources.
✔ Exclusive co-living networks
✔ Urban residences near London & New York, integrating premium sustainability and work-life balance
✔ A rural retreat near Novi Sad – Mokrin House, offering deep focus
The latter provides meals made with local ingredients, and serene surroundings; great for deep dives into strategic planning, business-considerations and personal reflection.
While increased monetary costs may invite kinds of struggles, the barrier created can also provide distance. Sensitivities to the kinds of troubles that conflict with higher-cost accommodations, can be mitigated as a kind of pre-emptive medicare expense. Lowering costs, beyond decreasing spending, is about ethical investments – positioning resources for the least harmful impact.
A New Way to Move Through the World
Co-living spaces provide an affordable, secure, and community-rich environment for living and working abroad.
The idea of an uprooted life, always in transit, never at rest and struggling out of necessity – it is certainly an option. However, co-living and ethical approaches to travel offers a naturally lowered disconnect; avoiding personal thriving at unnecessary expense to other beloved beings.
Many may appear to leave because the weight of security, housing, and work—making it seem like an escape. Yet scooting over, making space and distancing to the fenced-in cut-throat competitiveness—shifting to resource-pooling—may be a harm-reducing lifestyle. It may be called another “new solution” or a geographical fix, instead of dealing with what lurks beneath the surface—but what if staying in the same stuck place is the fear-driven escape? Ethical co-living, responsible travel and wiser financial sourcing, in combination paves the path for reconnecting with the self, the “all-family” and life itself.
Co-living lightens the burden, and for some, beyond detaching, it is finding that you always belonged everywhere. Being less bound into the incessant drive to “more” as the solution, instead discovering the abundance there—surviving alone turning into thriving together. If the path ahead feels unclear, movement in itself can be turned into a force—and you can start this very moment.
Is there a café nearby, a space shared just for a moment?
* Prices mentioned may be subject to change, can be seasonally dependent and availability may vary