What is the best location to start my journey as a digital nomad?

I highly recommend you to start your digital nomad journey in Southeast Asia.

There are many reasons why I think Southeast Asia is the best place to start, but here are the 5 most important ones:

1. It's very affordable;
2. Extremely easy to travel;
3. A lot of the locals will speak English;
4. There are tons of super cheap airlines (AirAsia, Scoot, Nook Air, etc.);
5. You can find at least a dozen digital nomad hubs in SoutheastAsia (the most famous of which are Ubud, Bali and Chiang Mai, Thailand).

Other answers by Jacob Laukaitis:

• How do you stay motivated when you come across obstacles in a country you're not familiar with? in category Travel
• Can you give some advice for someone who has absolutely no clue on how to start an online business? in category Startups
• How do you connect to the Internet while traveling as a digital nomad? in category Travel
• At the beginning of your digital nomad adventure did you find difficult to be on your own? If yes, how did you overcome it? in category Travel
• If you had to work a non-remote job, what would you prefer to do? in category General

Other answers in the category Travel:

• What is your favorite mode of transportation and why?
• Which cities in the world have the best digital nomad communities?
• What places have you lived in as a digital nomad and which one(s) did you like the best? Why?
• What are the best travel reward programs that you make use of frequently in order to cut down your travel costs?
• How do you manage your time between work and trips as a digital nomad?

Some random answers on our wiki :

• How do you think running a Facebook group compares to Slack groups? by Jill Stanton in category Communities
• Where is the best location to start as a digital nomad? by Jill Stanton in category Travel
• How many clients do you prefer to have at the same time as a freelancer? by Leo Kipfelsberger in category Freelancing
• How do you assure quality for your customers without doing it yourself? by Julia Shem in category Startups
• How did you launch your first business? by Lukas Paskauskas in category Startups
• Why do you think digital nomads are anarchists by definition? by Dan Lawrence in category Philosophy & politics of digital nomadism
• How do you stay motivated when you come across obstacles in a country you're not familiar with? by Jacob Laukaitis in category Travel
• How do you meet other digital nomads while traveling? by Jacob Laukaitis in category Travel
• As a freelancer, do you constantly get ideas for new services/startups/apps? by Thibault Lemaitre in category Startups
• What are the most surprising aspects that you learned about your own character since you started travelling/leaving your comfort zone? by Ella Gordon in category Travel