[HN Gopher] My 3-year experiment as a digital nomad
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My 3-year experiment as a digital nomad
Author : justswim
Score : 85 points
Date : 2024-01-03 20:31 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| Ciotti wrote:
| This is pretty cool. I enjoy my routine so I could probably only
| enjoy this for a smaller stretch of time, but I'd like to try
| someday.
| lp4vn wrote:
| It sounds pretty nice but also exhausting to be honest, I don't
| think a lot of people would be able to have that lifestyle.
| Throw839 wrote:
| It is very easy lifestyke, just use a van with proper
| equipment, not freaking tesla.
| davio wrote:
| My wife and I worked 150 days in an RV last year and both agree
| it's easier to be on the road than at home. The small space
| living forces both minimalism and being outside.
| wesleytodd wrote:
| Of the past three years we have spent about half of it (full
| time for the first year and a min of 4 months each year
| since) traveling with our daughter in a 40ft fifth wheel. The
| small space has been even more impactful with a small child,
| it was GREAT! Between waking up and being able to walk her
| out to the beach, or when it is rainy not having a mess of
| toys all over a house, lots of things balance out the effort
| invested in the traveling portion. Especially when you get a
| rhythm with it like we did while we were full timing.
| hot_gril wrote:
| I used to travel a lot while working, and yes it sucked unless
| I was not really paying attention to my work. What I'd rather
| do is stay in some other place for 1-3 months at a time, which
| is what actual nomads did.
| ghaff wrote:
| When I traveled a lot for work I was mostly doing some small
| percentage of my immediate day job that needed to be done. I
| certainly didn't try to do what I'd have been doing were I in
| the office all day.
| mrb wrote:
| " _With the extra weight, a charge will only last about 60 miles,
| rather than the standard ~300 it normally gets_ "
|
| A 5-fold difference?! Towing a trailer makes the Tesla use 5
| times more energy per mile!? This can't be right... Author must
| have a trailer loaded with a literal ton of cargo.
|
| Edit: a Tesla Model Y is 4200 lb. The trailer is about 3000 lb
| empty (thanks LukeShu), say worst case 4200 lb loaded with cargo,
| so at most the weight difference can account for a doubling of
| the energy per mile. It seems hard to believe drag alone can
| account for another 2.5x increase in energy per mile, which is
| why I think there must be even more cargo. If not, I guess for me
| this highlights how good the aerodynamic design of the Model Y
| must be. This also means the author could get a significant range
| increase simply by choosing a better trailer with a lower drag
| coefficient. Or my preference would actually be getting a vehicle
| designed for that lifestyle in the first place, an actual camper
| van. One could even use the comfortable driver seat as the office
| chair, instead of transporting an actual office chair. Swivel it
| toward your desk behind it and, bam!, instant office desk:
| https://www.thewaywardhome.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Sw...
| asynchronous wrote:
| As a Tesla owner this makes sense. The cars are highly
| optimized to stock configuration. Doing any sort of extra load
| or mods quickly diminishes range.
| jdminhbg wrote:
| > I have a kitchen, a full bathroom with a shower, two beds,
| and even a whole office space inside the trailer.
|
| With all that plus the extra drag, I'm not too surprised.
| LukeShu wrote:
| The trailer itself is about 3000 lb. (2023 version of that
| trailer: https://forestriverinc.com/rvs/ozark/1530VBK/6564 IDK
| what model year OP's is). Plus lotsa added drag.
| Throw839 wrote:
| A literal ton of cargo in a trailer is nothing extraordinary.
| Did you ever lived on a farm?
| whalesalad wrote:
| ya but not when your tow rig is an EV SUV
|
| a heavy duty diesel tow pig usually has an auxiliary fuel
| tank in the bed and can do 1000+ miles in one go.
| xp84 wrote:
| Also:
|
| > _Recently, I was hopping back and forth between Grand
| Junction, CO and Moab, UT--a distance of 113 miles. I had to go
| about halfway, stop, unhitch the trailer, then go back and
| charge the Tesla up again before finishing the trip. It makes
| travel days very slow._
|
| I'm sorry. I could never be that committed to the ideology of
| EVs to do something that preposterous even once. The second I
| realized that was what would be needed, either the trailer idea
| would have to go, or the Tesla's being traded in for like, a
| Ford Ranger.
| readthenotes1 wrote:
| Well, he could get a Ford ev truck and make that commute in
| the spring and fall
|
| https://youtu.be/76l6lJhrgbc?feature=shared
| petsfed wrote:
| That sticks out to me too. You're already _very_ constrained
| about where you can go because you need charging stations.
| But to then shrink that "only routes with chargers at least
| every 50 miles" wipes out huge portions of the US, or you
| have to resort to stupid hacks like the above.
|
| And honestly, I'd be very wary about dropping my trailer in
| like Cisco or wherever. Its not quite the San Rafael Swell,
| but the Colorado Plateau is rather famously deserted. If my
| entire life was in that trailer, I'd really hesitate to drop
| it in a place that has signs that say "next services, 70
| miles".
|
| At what point do you accept that your EV ethos is
| incompatible with the rest of the lifestyle you want to lead?
| Either the lifestyle needs to change or the ethos does.
| fragmede wrote:
| Or we applaud the author for his commitment to the ethos.
| Lesser men would give up and get an ICE, so the author's
| dedication to EVs is commendable.
| ace2358 wrote:
| Let's not, maybe. This person is cramming a 4d tesseract
| into a 2D circle hole. There is very little to praise
| about this ethos, it's simply more consumerism, not
| environmentalism.
| haliskerbas wrote:
| Heaven forbid individuals use the right tool for the
| right job.
|
| Meanwhile we fund governments and corporations to be
| careless about any ethos except profits.
| hot_gril wrote:
| Lesser men would stay in a normal house and not use
| energy to move it constantly.
| autoexecbat wrote:
| Perhaps they could also put a gas/diesel generator on the
| trailer, and use that to charge the car when not driving
| thomastjeffery wrote:
| The route from Grand Junction to Moab is an infamous decline.
| It's pretty trivial to believe the greatest inefficiency is
| drag. The second worst would be traffic.
|
| I'm definitely surprised that they wouldn't recoup most of
| the energy loss through regenerative braking, though.
| mmcclure wrote:
| We got a very small, teardrop trailer as a gift from a relative
| a couple of years ago. It's awesome, but I was absolutely
| floored at how badly towing it killed our mileage in a Y. We
| went short distances so I wasn't too scientific about it, but
| I'd wager it cut our range in at _least_ half.
|
| Our friend borrowed it to take a small Uhaul trailer to pick
| something up from family and had a similar experience. At one
| point he called us asking, cryptically, "how low was safe to
| plan to get to a charging station." Turns out he was on a
| longer stretch between chargers that he'd handled fine on the
| way out, but, like the author, ended up having to leave the
| Uhaul and come back for it on the way back.
| tacker2000 wrote:
| Yes this is true. I once saw a TV show where they tested the VW
| ID (SUV type) with a normal caravan/trailer and they had over
| 50% less mileage.
| lini wrote:
| Perhaps this YT video[1]? Range goes from 231 miles @ 60mph
| (best case) down to 100 miles @ 60mph when towing a small
| caravan.
|
| [1]: https://youtu.be/mmQJUW-VyRY?t=1162
| quartz wrote:
| Re: drag having such a large impact-- the aero wheels alone
| account for a 3% range improvement [1]. Everything about a
| tesla optimizes range, so it's probably extra-impacted by
| anything that doesn't (like a big trailer).
|
| I also wonder if the regenerative braking is less efficient /
| engages less often when dealing with larger weight.
|
| [1] https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a30169467/tesla-
| model-3s-a...
| Damogran6 wrote:
| Towing really is an EV use-case that is no where near ready for
| primetime. There's several Youtube channels that have spent
| time playing with it (JerryRigEverything, BigTruckBigRV), but
| it really is early days.
|
| We have a 1 ton dually that pulls a 5th wheel when we camp.
| Yes, we're at the far end of the camping spectrum, but it's
| what we've evolved to over time, and it's finlly a safe
| combindation. There is nothing that approaches a diesel pickup
| for it's ability to haul cross country with relatively rapid
| refuelling, and many Campers go through an iterative process
| where their Tow vehicle isn't adequate to the trailer they were
| sold, they upgrade the two vehicle, then outgrow the
| trailer...rinse-repeat.
|
| It's been said plenty of times before, but gas and diesel's
| biggest problem is that they're just so energy dense and easy
| to transfer.
| blacksmith_tb wrote:
| Biggest problem in the sense of making them oh-so-hard-to-
| resist? Otherwise I would have thought their biggest problem
| is emissions (CO2, and particulates for diesels...)
| treprinum wrote:
| Aerodynamics at play? Tesla is fairly good but any trailer is
| really bad which could lead to a much lower efficiency than
| anticipated? Also brakes might be half deployed on older
| trailers with bad tire geometry etc.
| cameldrv wrote:
| Most of the energy from driving at highway speeds is coming
| from aerodynamic drag, and as you say, the Teslas are highly
| optimized, and the average camper trailer is not really at all.
| With a gas vehicle this isn't too big of a deal because you
| only use the camper a couple of times a year, and there are gas
| stations everywhere, and it only takes a few minutes to fill
| up.
|
| This suggests to me that there's an emerging business in camper
| trailers designed for EVs. Make aerodynamics a priority (which
| also does increase costs and potentially make the living space
| a less useful shape). There are also trailers starting to
| emerge that have batteries in them. I've seen some where you
| can charge the car from the trailer's battery (not sure if they
| work while the car is moving though), and there are even a
| couple where the trailers wheels are driven, but I'm not sure
| how much of that you can really do and keep the vehicle stable.
| hot_gril wrote:
| I have no experience with EVs, but one other thing to check
| would be the gearing on the Model Y. I know electric motors'
| torque curves are forgiving enough not to need more than 1-2
| gears, but maybe that changes with a heavy load uphill.
| SkyPuncher wrote:
| Frontal Area is an absolutely massive factor.
|
| We have a 6x12 trailer that we've done a minimal RV conversion
| on. It rings in at 1300lbs empty. Maybe 1500 loaded. However,
| it's 6.5 feet tall.
|
| Towing that cuts our SUVs fuel economy from 25 mpg to 10 mpg at
| highway speeds. In the winter, we've had it drop as low as 6
| mpg.
| JoshGG wrote:
| Some thoughts:
|
| - aerodynamics make a huge difference. Even in a light trailer.
| Especially if it has a significant frontal area. That's for
| sure.
|
| - towing a trailer may reduce energy recovery from regenerative
| braking.
|
| - when towing, power requirements on the motors and batteries
| may move them away from optimal efficiency and design points
| (that's a guess).
|
| - the model Y is probably not significantly more aerodynamic
| than comparable sized car models. But it's a lot more
| aerodynamic than a trailer.
| tayo42 wrote:
| Still car limited. I like doing work-cations but I have a similar
| issue with the working space. A real chair, external monitor, key
| board is really essential for work more than a week. Flying
| anywhere with that is unrealistic.
|
| Ive never seen an airbnb or vrbo listing with office equipment in
| it. Would be cool and useful. It would probably get robbed
| though. My wife and I usually go through tons of listing photos
| looking for an somewhat adequate working space.
|
| Im curious how other software people do it.
| bethekind wrote:
| Wouldn't this be the ideal solution for we-work? Digital Nomads
| come and go as you please office solutions? (We-work doesn't
| have beds and the like tho)
|
| I know that most hotels have a survivable desk and chair, but
| that probably isn't an optimal solution.
|
| What would an idea solution look like? Airbnb but with a gaming
| setup room?
| xp84 wrote:
| WeWork is great and would be far more economical than paying
| day-pass rates _assuming (big assumption)_ you are okay with
| working in major metro areas only. For instance there is 1
| location in Sacramento and nothing else in Norcal outside the
| _immediate_ Bay Area. For me I kind of like cities, but I
| suspect the author of this piece would feel pretty hemmed in
| by that footprint since he seems to like to actually be in
| nature daily (which is cool!).
|
| I haven't tried to do any coworking in smaller cities or
| towns, but I guess maybe there are indie coworking spaces in
| places like say, Santa Rosa or Auburn.
|
| TBH if I was designing a nomad project for myself (and
| wanting a significant nature/non-urban aspect to it) I think
| i'd do a literal van and have a real desk and chair in it. 5G
| internet isn't the greatest but I think it'd be easy enough,
| armed with a van, to seek out places within the area I want
| to visit with a good enough signal to make it workable.
|
| (Obviously add rooftop solar panels and a Jackery or whatever
| to satisfy power needs all day.)
| fragmede wrote:
| With Starlink it's workable.
| wesleytodd wrote:
| I full time'd for nearly a year with just three cell
| devices and the Open Signal app. The only time I had issues
| was when we watched some shows and used our bandwidth "cap"
| on our unlimited plan and it throttled me the next morning.
| I picked up the third device (an att mifi type thing) after
| that and haven't had a problem since. The only restriction
| was that we check cell coverage where we were planning to
| stay before booking if I was going to be working and
| without easy access to a coffee shop or RV park WIFI.
| zztop44 wrote:
| Most coworking spaces or serviced offices don't have external
| monitors included, unfortunately. And of course, you're then
| limited to cities and have to commute.
|
| Airbnb but with a gaming room (or two?) and fast internet
| sounds ideal for my needs.
| zztop44 wrote:
| I have the exact same problem. I've tried carrying portable
| monitors and VESA mounts but it not the same. And it doesn't
| solve the desk and chair problem. That's the main thing
| stopping me and my wife spending half the year remote.
|
| The two options I've thought of are (1) buying a couple of
| houses in different parts of the world (maybe with
| friends/family who want to do the same thing) (2) start a
| specialist Airbnb-style marketplace for working-focused holiday
| homes where desks, external monitors, chairs, cables, wifi
| speed, etc are listed in detail.
| jauntywundrkind wrote:
| I use a x86 tablet or two and a gooseneck arm (Tryone brand
| has been reliable) for cafe coding. 2880x1800 12" screen, but
| I can position it perfectly floating above my keyboard
| (Lenovo Trackpoint BT keyboard).
|
| I don't find the coffee shop tables to be problematic
| (although the gooseneck will shake some if the table doesn't
| sit well) but yeah nicer chairs would be nice, for sure.
| There's a lot of nice venues around me with picnic table
| style benches, and folks doing work but usually fairly
| hunched over: I strap a Crazy Creek camping to my pack so I
| can lean back/have back support, and that makes a
| surprisingly decent all-day setup of it. I'd love to see a
| high tech version but just adjusting the chords giving you
| adjustable lean-back is surprisingly flexible.
|
| Not a huge fan of keyboard typing on the lap but parks with a
| Moonlite collapsible chair can be fine. I'll lay my bike on
| it's side & clamp the gooseneck to that.
|
| I could probably go a couple weeks with these setups, but
| yeah, the chair situation seems the hardest to deal with to
| me. Portable monitors seem to have gotten a lot better
| (thanks INNOCN &al) but mounting them still seems super
| shaky; I wish these gooseneck arms and these panels would
| work better together!
|
| I really _really_ like the idea of the flying desk the author
| tried out here. A good chair, a sunshade, and some kind of
| adjustable desk would be great. An old house of mine had a
| great umbrella and I used to love computing or gaming under
| it while it was raining. The author complained about
| brightness, and that seems like a very real issue, but with
| mini-led 's we are seeing even consumer gear capable at 1500
| nits and more. Cinema monitors are pricey and usually only
| 1080p and 19 or 24 inches, but are built for outdoors, over
| 2000 but. Commercial signage is often $6k+ but how awesome
| would a 75" 3000 nit 4k display (Philips 75BDL3003H) on the
| back of your cae with a floating desk be?
| soupfordummies wrote:
| small external kb/mouse and then hdmi it to the TV? IDK, just a
| thought. I'm mostly content to just use the laptop as is
| though.
| gsa wrote:
| Airbnb has a "dedicated workspace" filter which is actually
| worse than not having the feature. Most of the listings I have
| come across are properties that have nothing more than a dining
| table, often a round one and paired with really awful chairs.
| Airbnb could _make_ it work properly, but it doesn't seem to be
| their focus.
| ghaff wrote:
| I'm not sure how realistic a "real" office space is in the
| general case. A digital nomad feels much more like a laptop
| wherever you are. That's certainly been my situation when I've
| taken multi-week business trips.
|
| That seems like part of the trade off. I don't expect my home
| office wherever I am in the world.
| hot_gril wrote:
| I use a 16" MBP without peripherals even though I'm often at
| home. Basic wooden chair or whatever the common spaces in the
| office have (which I'm not required to go to). Software doesn't
| really take multiple displays, it's a distraction if anything,
| but you do need a good laptop.
|
| I've also traveled while working for some time, it wasn't
| great.
| rgmerk wrote:
| As much as I can't stand full-size pickups, a Chevy Silverado EV
| has the towing range to make towing the trailer a lot more
| practical.
|
| One potentially interesting option that the author hasn't tried
| is a yacht. Anybody seen any accounts of a cruising digital
| nomad?
| mcrwfrd wrote:
| Hundred Rabbits[0] have been an inspiration for me for a while.
| They work from their sailboat!
|
| [0] https://100r.co/site/off_the_grid.html
| aiiane wrote:
| You might be interested in Hundred Rabbits (https://100r.co/).
| atrus wrote:
| 100 Rabbits are fairly well known, and they use a boat to sail
| around the pacific.
|
| https://100r.co/site/home.html
| wffurr wrote:
| Microship is the OG digital nomad and switched from bicycles to
| boats at some point: https://microship.com/
|
| Sarah Steenland the Cruising Cartoonist has been working a
| digital artist job and raising a family on sailboats for years
| in the South Pacific: https://www.sarahsteenland.com/
| jiveturkey42 wrote:
| So much wasted energy from the source of generation to the EV
| motor.. Diesel engines are optimized for towing
| wesleytodd wrote:
| We full time'd for a while towing a 40ft trailer with a
| diesel f250. While it is obviously not "efficient" relative
| to smaller rigs, it is way more efficient than living in a
| house and commuting daily even with an EV. This is one of
| those things I don't think people realize about "low carbon
| impact living" (or whatever you would want to call it), you
| likely get 80% there just by not heading/cooling a 2k sqft
| house all the time.
| rgmerk wrote:
| There really isn't.
|
| US grid losses are about 5% [1] and charging loses another
| 10-15%, and the motors are at least 90% efficient.
|
| Meanwhile, automotive diesel engines lose 60% straight out
| the exhaust pipe, and that's not counting the energy required
| to refine and transport the diesel.
|
| [1] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=105
| shrubble wrote:
| I tried it with both a van and a trailer but ultimately I found I
| wanted 'too much stuff' around me to make it practical, like
| retrocomputing stuff.
|
| If I was younger and truly had less stuff, no reason it wouldn't
| work.
| devoutsalsa wrote:
| I spent 4 years traveling as a digital nomad where literally
| everything I owned fit into a carryon suitcase and a backpack.
| You'd be surprised what you can get rid of.
| ghaff wrote:
| In general if you're traveling, you're not bringing much in
| the way of non-essential physical gear like retro computing
| equipment. Maybe it's more than a couple of bags especially
| if you're camping but you're probably not carrying a home lab
| with you unless you have a trailer dedicated to that purpose.
| cwiggs wrote:
| Very cool stuff. This type of life is why I originally got into
| tech. Few thoughts:
|
| - I wish this guy had a personal blog that I could subscribe to.
| I like that post, but I could care less about the rest of the
| blog posts on his employers site.
|
| - I'd be interested in why he has stuck with a Model Y, seems to
| not be a good fit. I'd love to see him switch to something better
| (probably an ICE even though I know tech people love EVs).
|
| All in all kudos to this guy for all the work he has put in to
| make this life work, love the iterative approach.
| davio wrote:
| That hitch mounted floating office is hilarious. I'm in the RV-
| based remote work universe and I've never seen anything like
| that.
| Aperocky wrote:
| Even the good old steppe nomads did not uproot their yurts all
| the time, usually just a few times per year or at the far end a
| dozen times a year.
|
| This is rather more like full time traveling setups.
| 627467 wrote:
| Was he really sleeping in a model Y over multiple days?
| dollyworld wrote:
| really cool photos of AK and CO. surprised OP didn't get more use
| out of the Tesla display
| Animats wrote:
| Kapwing. Hm. Bing search for "Kapwing layoff" returns this, from
| Glassdoor:
|
| "Kapwing Reviews: What Is It Like to Work At Kapwing?
|
| Oct 18, 2023 * I joined a company in August, but soon after, they
| started big layoffs. My team was scattered, and my boss, who was
| supposed to find me a project, didn't. Four ...
|
| But the link from Bing doesn't lead to that review. It shows only
| three reviews, two of which are from the CEO (!).
| callalex wrote:
| Glassdoor is in the same category as Yelp: less than useless
| because of all the lying.
| puttycat wrote:
| Is there a reason you insist on Bing? (asking honestly)
| lifeisstillgood wrote:
| The issues of finding shower and basic amenities in / near work
| spaces is, I think, a growing issue for commuters as well as
| nomads - basically most of us will be doing some form of mixed
| remote / office work. And trying real hard to give up petrol
| cars. Just being able to cycle / run some of the way, train or
| otherwise some of the way is a real freeing option
| karaterobot wrote:
| Feels like the Tesla is the weird part of this. I suppose that
| having an electric vehicle was important for philosophical
| reasons, or he just thought they were cool, but they aren't the
| most practical choice. Today, there would be a few more options
| for a vehicle you'd want to live out of even with the restriction
| that it had to be all-electric. The E-Transit, or even the F-150
| Lightning come to mind, but I bet there are even better ones.
| flashback2199 wrote:
| F-150 Lightning is no better for pulling a trailer.
| karaterobot wrote:
| Seems like it's almost twice as good, given the weight
| estimates I see in this thread (~115 vs. ~60 miles)
|
| https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/ford-f150-lightning-
| elect...
|
| But I was really talking about the car camping phase of his
| experiment--the part where he's living out of his car, not
| the towing part. I didn't make that clear enough in my
| comment.
| flashback2199 wrote:
| Ratio. I'm pretty sure I've seen it has a roughly equally
| large decrease in range as a percentage.
| paxys wrote:
| Agreed. It's weird to live this way with a Tesla and a storage
| trailer and then having to find charging spots and shower at
| gyms. There are plenty of vehicles that are specifically built
| for this lifestyle.
| adam_arthur wrote:
| OP should try a "truck camper"... basically a living quarters
| that sits in the bed of a pickup truck rather than towed. Seems
| like it would be a lot more functional than his current approach.
|
| Though I found the article and evolving process very interesting!
| fragmede wrote:
| Now that the Cybertruck is out, maybe!
| callalex wrote:
| The bed in the cyber truck is not big enough for one of
| those.
| atleastoptimal wrote:
| I admire digital nomads who stay in higher income countries over
| ones who move to the lowest COL country they can find to live
| like artificial kings. There's a certain sociopathy to white
| dudes who move to Thailand so they can enjoy the disproportionate
| sway of their 160k remote job + sexual privilege.
| ozr wrote:
| That's reading a lot into nomads that go to low COL countries.
| There are plenty of reasons to do it beyond an artificial crown
| and 'sexual privilege'.
|
| You're able to take jobs that you may enjoy more for less pay.
| You can keep your personal burn rate lower while you're working
| on a startup. You might even just like seeing different parts
| of the world.
| robocat wrote:
| There's a certain sociopathy in your assumptions. Making
| stereotypical assumptions based on someone's skin colour and
| even worse is your condescending "poor native" take.
| aaronrobinson wrote:
| I don't understand why he didn't invest in a van equipped with
| shower, kitchenette, bed and working area. What a restriction the
| EV was.
| dcdc123 wrote:
| Spent three years as an AirBnB nomad with my wife. We are back in
| our house between tenants getting ready to start out as van life
| nomads. We've also spent months at a time overseas and will again
| but don't want to do that full time. This article has very little
| depth but it does give a decent high level view.
| gwbas1c wrote:
| Seems like a small RV that can tow the Tesla would make a lot
| more sense.
| paxys wrote:
| It's refreshing to see a "digital nomad" experience that isn't
| just moving to a cheaper fully urban area in Mexico/South
| America.
| belter wrote:
| I am highly skeptical of this story, even if am all for the
| principles behind the lifestyle. Issues I did not see mentioned
| that make me skeptical.
|
| Lack of Permanent Address: Difficulty in receiving mail, opening
| bank accounts, or completing certain official documents.Lack of
| permanent address and the legal issues that come with it. If do
| have a permanent address then you are not a digital nomad just
| somebody who travels a lot
|
| Sleeping in a Vehicle in Cold Temperatures: Risk of hypothermia,
| vehicle battery drain, and legal issues in areas where it's
| prohibited.( Most of them) Sleeping in a common transport vehicle
| (Tesla or not Tesla) under negative temperatures sounds
| challenging.
|
| Mechanical or Electrical Issues: I have heard of Tesla owners in
| Europe at least having to wait for weeks for repairs due to lack
| of spare parts. Due to increasd stress on the vehicle any minor
| problem will send you out of your "home".
|
| Inconsistent Internet Access: Reliability and speed issues will
| cause work productivity and communication impact. It is already
| challenging when travelling between business hotels.
|
| Healthcare Access: Navigating healthcare provider support across
| large distant locations.
|
| Legal Issues with Remote Work: Withing the US some specific laws
| regarding remote work for non-residents in a certain state can
| impact your tax liabilities. Heck New York can even create tax
| liabilities for you even if do not live or work in the USA...
|
| Security and Privacy: Out in the wild outside of camping parks? I
| see untold risks.
|
| Maintaining Work-Life Balance: Blurring lines between work and
| personal time, I would look like a load instead of a relief...
|
| Equipment Safety and Maintenance: Risk of damage or theft to
| essential gadgets like laptops and cameras.
|
| Accommodation Issues: Unreliable bookings, substandard living
| conditions, or scams.
|
| Travel Burnout: Constant moving looks like physically and
| mentally exhausting.
|
| Insurance Coverage: Ensuring adequate insurance for health,
| travel, and equipment.
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