Instead Of Renting An Apartment, Sign A Lease That Lets You Live Around The World

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http://www.fastcoexist.com/3059469/instead-of-renting-an-apartment-sign-a-lease-that-lets-you-live-around-the-world

If you can afford the airfare, it's getting easier to be a digital nomad. Roam, a new network of co-living spaces, offers a lease that lets you continually move: After a couple of weeks or months in Madrid, you can head to Miami, or Ubud, Bali. By 2017, the startup plans to have 8-10 locations around the world.

These aren't designed as places for vacations. Instead, it's an alternative way to think about home for "location-independent" people who can work remotely. After living and working nomadically in his twenties, founder Bruno Haid wanted to make it easier.

"Just managing my stuff and going back and forth between Airbnbs and housesitting became more cumbersome over time," Haid says. "At the same time, I was involved in a couple of early co-living communities in San Francisco, and saw the cultural value of something like that."

By combining co-living with nomadism, Haid hoped to help alleviate the loneliness of showing up in a new city and culture, knowing no one. Residents each have their own private bedroom and bathroom, but they also have access to a coworking space and shared communal areas. The point is to meet as many people as possible.

more at link

https://www.roam.co/

[oldandhappy]

1. thank you lots. I love this!

[Agnosticsherbet]

2. I am showing this to a lot of young people I know.

If I were younger, I would be there.

[moondust]

3. I like it.

Preferring the lifestyle of an explorer, I've always thought that if I won the lottery or something and could afford it without working I'd move to London for a year, Paris for a year, Copenhagen, Berlin, etc. I don't know if the EU visa system would have allowed it but I sure would have looked into it.

[Lucky Luciano]

4. If I were single, I would be all over this. nt