The BV

Picture your average Friday evening in Blackmore Vale around ten or so years ago. What did it look like? Maybe you drove into town for a film and checked the local noticeboard for weekend events. Home entertainment meant whatever happened to be on TV—or the DVD you’d already watched three times! 

Nothing online seems to cost much any more, yet the companies giving it away are worth more than ever. That contradiction has a straightforward answer. You are paying, just not with money, and what you hand over instead is a share of the few free hours you have in a day.

For millions of people, the idea of working from a beach in Bali, a cafe in Lisbon or a mountain lodge in Colombia sounds like the ultimate dream. Thanks to better remote working technology and a growing number of countries welcoming foreign professionals, becoming a digital nomad has never been more achievable.