Welcome back, Chris.

great points, probably the best long term life is a mix of fixed location and extended travel

Great points....I believe the real essence of being a digital nomad or just a nomad in general is being able to live where you want...when you want...sometimes that's at home for an extended period.......good stuff and welcome back.

I feel like I've never really understood why people put themselves into boxes like that. Why does being a DN need to mean constantly moving around? I'm of the mind that if you want to see somewhere new every 2 weeks then do it, but if you find somewhere you want to stay for 6 months, then do that. For me, the allure of the lifestyle is the freedom to be wherever you want to be, whether that's one place or many. Nice to see you uploading again :)

I relate a lot to the "feeling weird" part when speaking with some people 😔

For me, the ideal life would be moving every 3 months. Summer I would like to be on Mediterain, winter in Thailand, spring and autumn at home. Welcome back, Chris.

Hey Chris! My girlfriend and I discovered your videos exactly a year ago. You inspired us to start freelancing, and helped us through the tough times. Now we are finally in Koh Phangan living as digital nomads, and it feels amazing :) I appreciate the work you do with your videos, keep 'em coming!

I was a nomad for 5 years and it's fun but I just got so jaded after awhile. Now I have a family and a regular life and I really appreciate each little part of it. I still do my passive income and I spend my extra time with my wife and son doing fun stuff

Haven't seen a vid from this guy in a long time! Here before 1 mil views

You are still young. The older you get the more you want a 'normal' life, sleep in your own bed, be settled, be in a 1st world environment etc

Welcome back Chris! Been following your journey for a few years now and I love how transparent you are about your own life and how you live it. Happy to hear that the year off was productive, but sounds like you’re enjoying being back in CM 🤙

I totally get what you mean about not being able to relate about people back home as much as before. It's a feeling that's hard to put in to words but I definitely felt that too and know exactly what you're getting at.

Good to see you back man...fitter and wiser 😉🙂

It's Great to have you back on YT Chris. You're one of my fav digital nomad, straight forward and honest, not trying to sell something. I agree everyone is different, me and my now wife travel only part time now, but it's our balance that fits us. Hope to be back in SE Asia soon for a few months, it's a special place to us all.

I was so happy when you stood up to wrap up because the whole time I just wanted to see your place! Looks great! I think it speaks volumes that you went somewhere that felt familiar to you when you started traveling again, instead of somewhere completely new! Shows you're ready to focus on what you feel is important. Cheering you on from the other side of the world! 😊

One of the most thoughtful videos I've seen about living the digital nomad life. Nicely done, Chris.

Very good to see you back on KZfaq. Your comment about people not being interested enough to ask questions - about something that was a life-changing experience to you - really rings true.

Refreshingly honest as always mate, really enjoyed that. Keep it up 😎

Welcome back man!!! Chris, I missed your videos :D. Funnily enough, I was around there as a dn while you were back to Australia and now came back home for a few months to build a conference and some other projects related to remote work hee in Portugal. I absolutely love everything you said in this video as I am feeling exactly the same, nobody gets it, it's hard to relate with the locals the used to be my friends and it feels weird but it does have some advantages, I am back at volleyball for the year, and I love it. Keep it strong, at the end of the day it's all about happiness and fulfilment. ;)

Hi Chris, thanks for this video, it really resonated with me. My boyfriend and I were also traveling as digital nomads for a year in 2017, but then decided to go back home to work on my career. Now we live in Spain, work remotely and occasionally travel for a few months; that lifestyle works best for us. Keep up the great content, and all the best from Spain!

Happy to see you again! every stage of life brings us learning experiences and we need to push us more and more to discover what is best for us.

Welcome back, mate! I really missed your youtube videos. You're an inspiration!

I'm just about at my one year mark of "settled life" after about four years of nomadism. I have very similar feelings as you. It's been great to recharge and work on some issues I was neglecting, but the road has been calling.

Good to see you back on KZfaq Chris! I have the same experience with people who find it hard to relate or even get curious about my life abroad. I've been living home in Poland for a year now but feeling the urge to change the location again :) Good luck with your travels!

Great to hear from you again. Best of luck , and I hope we're able to continue tagging along on your journey! :D

Hi Chris! Thanks for sharing and being open. I do agree with other comments, you seem much wiser. Chris vol2! Good to have you back!

It's great to see you back with another video. I have seen all your videos and I think what inspires me the most with your lifestyle is that you are location independent. It must be a very cool feeling to be able to live and work from pretty much any place, no matter if it is your home town, Chiang Mai or somewhere else.

Great video, Chris. Really puts into perspective for me that there are so many options, and leaving the traditional lifestyle, and instead subscribing solely to a digital nomad lifestyle, also puts you inside a different box. Living your life the way that fits you, depending on where you are in your life at that time, is what it's all about.

I’ve returned home after being a nomad for 5 years. Totally relate to this. Feels like I’ve been in Narnia and home hasn’t changed, just me. Most of my friends have kids now and love their settled lives. I am torn between being a nomad and feeling settled; which ironically, is unsettling.

It’s good to see you back man! Glad your year at home was positive!

Happy to see you back online Chris! Looking forward to more content.

Nice to have you back Chris and some great insights and shared sentiments!

Oh wow, I can relate SO MUCH to what you're saying about people not relating to your experience back home, not being curious or interested... It's definitely a struggle when you're location independent. Loved this video Chris! There's no ONE way of doing this - I've done the "moving every couple of months" and "staying 1 year in a place", it's all about following where your energy and curiosity leads you. :)

I'm also taking a break from digital nomad life back in Australia to focus on a few things and can totally relate to everything you said. Good to know I'm not alone!

Welcome back, I really understand what you're saying.. People don't understand other people enough nor try. You're a good man! You're part of the reason I ended up in Thailand for a holiday last year, and I've been back 3 times already, I enjoy the pace of life there, I'm seriously considering a semi-permanent move over there sometime this year.

Thank you for this honest video, Chris! Very insightful for travellers, nomads and pretty much anyone into lifestyle experiments. More power to you mate. Cheers from India!

Great to see you back Chris, good to step back and look at your big picture, good luck with your future in whatever you do. You’ll be great at it! Just keep the content rolling!

Welcome back! Missed your videos !

Good onya Chris! We watched your videos when we were dreaming of being nomads! Early days but I can't imagine any other way

Your genuineness and honesty is what makes you connect with us I guess :) You're doing great buddy!

Thank you so much for this message. I've been working abroad since 2014 but been home in USA since last May. This video was exactly the answer I was looking for. I had all the same thoughts and concerns as you explained. I'm definitely spending the complete year home then back to Asia to my "normal life". I wish you and I can talk more about this like via email or something. You definitely just impacted my life just now. Appreciate you my man. Hope to see you this year when I'm back in Asia. -Darrion

We've been nomadic for the past 12 years. Sometimes we return home for 6-12 months, but pretty soon we feel like traveling again. Now we're traveling full time with our two young kids. I do look forward to settling down sometime soon and growing a little garden. It's hard to stick to just one lifestyle, so we oscillate between traveling and a bit more "normal" minimalist lifestyle. 🌺 Heidi

You look like a new person but by still being the old you. We are always gonna support you whatever the choice. I remember watching your videos like over a year ago and dreaming of travelling, got my courage and have travelled almost for a year now- been in ozzy as-well (Brisbane is beautiful by the way) and now i’m here in Thailand too.. who would have known. Really glad to see you back and being happy!

Thank you for sharing. In 2017 your channel was one of the reasons why I've decided to quit my job. 3 years later living in HCMC I realize that nomadic life is something that I love. Does it have problems? Sure it does! Is it magically making you a happy rich healthy superman? No, it's not! But it was one of those eye-opening steps that give you a perspective. After getting here I clearly see that I can move further from here. Thank you!

Awesome to see you making videos again! Your work ethic is inspiring :)

Great insight and video mate! It was a pleasure to meet you the other day, and I look forward to catching up again.

Thanks so much for sharing this! You explained the trade-offs really well and how your priorities shaped your choices!

Nice to see you back Chris 👍

Nice to see you back, enjoy your videos, can really relate, I'm 47 and just came back from travelling asia and central america for over a year with my children. Most amazing year of my life and then get back and people are like 'oh ok, then tell you about there work day!! Now moved to czech republic and settled, but already getting frustrated not travelling!

Just randomly thought of your channel. Glad to see you’re back bro. Stay safe during these crazy times

Appreciate the perspective man!

Great to see you back! I starting DNing mid-way through last year (for not dissimilar reasons in terms of being bored) and have been loving it so far. Curious to see where this new stage takes you.

It's all part of the journey - lots of lessons and learnings here in this beautiful thing we call life. Thank you for sharing!

finally, back brother

Thanks for being so open and real about this whole thing I totally feel you some similar things in life has been going on And enjoyed listening to your story Would be happy to see where you head next 💜

Well done. It’s such an important point to make that you don’t have to tie your identity strictly to being either a nomad or a settled person. Holding on to a narrative like “I am a nomad and therefor I should be constantly moving around” only makes your mind more rigid and less adaptable to the rollercoaster called life.. this is something that hit me like a sledge during the COVID lockdown :D I’ve now learned that I can thrive in either lifestyle and combining them makes life even more fulfilling.

Welcome back, Chris. I have been following your Vlog for a long time, and your video has inspired me to resign from my full-time job, which I can also travel a lot more. I'm sorry for your relationship, and also happy that the two of you can still be friends. However, do not forget that here is entering the burning season now. The air quality in Chiang Rai is still good. But I know that Chiang Mai is getting worse. I think you should move to the south in the next month, like Lanta island, Pha Ngan island, etc. Looking forward to seeing more your video soon!

I Really Liked this video. The key point of staying open minded and doing what works best is a great way to live. People don't get the point you put about people not undertanding it when you're back home, It's frustrating at times but takes alot of perspective shifting. I'm really glad it's not just a personal thing, it happens.

Thanks Chris. This was the first of your videos I watched and you really motivated me with it!

Appreciate the effort you put in to this video and the honesty. Good luck with things 👍👍

He's Back!!

Been waiting for a Vid!

Amazing video, maybe one of the best you ever made! I can truly feel that inspiration has come back :D

Very lucid points, Chris. Thanks for the video!

I recently started this nomad/ KZfaq journey and I have to say, it’s 1000x more exciting and fulfilling then staying put at home! With that said, there are definitely trade offs like you said. But then again I might feel differently in a few years 🤷🏻‍♀️

Brilliant stuff, a lot of what you have written here resonates, easily one of the best videos I have seen on any topic for a long, long time. Thanks.

Welcome back dude!!

Watching you from Germany..best videos on digital nomads lifestyles, you look an honest person

Really glad I found your channel. I want to be a digital nomad before settling down

I can relate to this video in so many ways. Came back to Australia from Tokyo in 2018 and went through the same thought processes and realisations. I'm moving to Bangkok next month and can't wait!

Love love love your last point. I know so many people who either never want to leave home or never want to come back home and it doesn't feel like there are many people in between. You can live abroad as an expat and also come back home to live for a while and then do it all again!

Great video, Thanks for fully sharing.

Really good points bro, relating to this a lot after moving back to melbourne after 3 years mostly in Thailand

nice to see you're back!

I totally understand! Sometimes you feel tired of traveling and you need to leave a normal life for a while. I stayed 6 months traveling and now I'm in home editing and working more to come back to the road.

Hey man- really resonate with this. I lived in Costa rica Dec. 2015- May 2016, then San Diego for a year then St. Croix in Virgin Islands for a year then San Francisco for 7 months before coming home for a year and ready to go out again. I so agree with how coming back for that year has been wonderful, and how I also now approach life with a much more opened mind, and just accepting what is, and being humble to realize I don't always know what I will enjoy most or what will benefit me most. Anyway man, glad you got some more growth and yes I think it's great to hustle for some years and focus on different things, and glad you're following your passions and are travelling again. I also completely feel you with some people back home understanding and others just not. It's what separates and connects and it just is :) but I feel you! Anyway mate thanks for sharing and for what it's worth>> no matter which way you branch out or grow "chris the freelancer", I watch because I like chris-- and you being a freelancer connected with me when I was freelancing in Costa Rica and you being a digital nomad connected with me as I depart to Bali, and you being at home for a year connects as I moved home for a year>> what I'm trying to say is "you're never pigeon held to one thing" and your followers are most-likely your followers because we connect with you in all of your different stages and chapters of life so don't ever feel like you have to be one thing for us. Be you. That's who we follow and you'll continue to touch many lives!

Nice to see you again, and good luck in lovely Chiang Mai!

Good discussion. I've been a "settler" for the last 10 years and I'm sooo ready to travel.

While raising 2 sets of twins I had no choice but to live the “settled/normal life.” Now my 4 kids are all over 18 and all I want is to keep doing the digital nomad life. Raising kids is very rewarding, but I’m most at home on the road, so this is it from here on out for me!

yeesss he is back and even looks better!! damn Chris

i'm really wanna to be a Nomado for find myself by travels. now in japan, it's a small islands and also Bali i've been there . i really think that things will be different by where i am even doing same thing u know, so what u doing which is Nomado is so beautiful life style for me. so pls keep going Chris!! life is once! respect u!!

Chris your story is really great. You're doing what you want. I agree sometimes you must step back in order to leap forward. The last thing to worry about is what people think. When you do something outside the norm, people have a difficult time understanding what you are doing. You can explain it to them but they usually just have their eyes glaze over and try to change the topic. I am currently anchored to home now but looking and planning my life on the road in the future. In order to travel I want to complete my commitments before starting my new journey.

Awesome Chris, I love your stuff and personality!

Love having you back in Thailand, brother. Super happy for you and your journey as well.

Thank you for this. Exactly what I needed to hear :)

I admire you for getting in touch with your inner self and traveling your own path, not that others want you to take. Also, you don't seem to be ego motivated which is a great spiritual growth achievement. I wish that I would have had enough courage to live like that. I did end up working many years as a kind of digital nomad traveling great deal for companies as an employee, but going the places they wanted me to go. Still had lots of fun. There is much to be said about enjoying another country on an expense report, he he, and not worrying about next client, just next assignment.

Welcome back to Thailand - we missed you. But the struggle is real. Went through the same thing too.

Congrats on the new body!! I could see it in your shoulders. But in the comparison shot you really see how you transformed your body. Your hard work paid off!

Hey Chris, thanks for the video and sharing your thoughts. It's a great help. !

yeah it's really all about finding your balance and making it work somehow, glad you're back on the road though, welcome back dude :)

Nice to see you're back

Looking forward to seeing more videos, a great inspiration. I'm getting ready to head back out to Asia, just waiting for this virus thing to calm down - maybe another 2 months??. I think I have finally found a solid plan to support myself financially when I am overseas.

Great to hear an update!

Solid video, welcome back! I've recently experienced Coco Kala with the crew, great spot for shooting.

Hey Chris, thanks for honest video. I've just returned from my trip to Thailand and Bali. It was vacation, but I was also looking at the opportunities to work, rent, as I plan to relocate there. As you described, everyone prefers different lifestyle, and for me personally, I feel more alive and passionate when I am in Asia - traveling or working then being at home in Europe. I found your channel inspirational and hope to make my move to Thailand/Asia this year.

Welcome back dear!

Welcome back bro!

Love your honesty and transparency with everything man! And congrats on all those GAINZZ lol dude what a transformation! We've just got to Colombia and for the meantime are loving the freedom, but definitely ask ourselves those same questions from time to time. Looking forward to your next vid - Nathan

Great perspective in this video! Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for the insight! Solid vid!❤