How Useful Is It for Digital Nomads? • Indie Traveller

Digital nomading has quickly become one of the most common ways to travel long-term. When you can do all your work on your laptop, you can theoretically do it from anywhere — and so you can travel the world while making a living online. 

But, as many nomads soon find out, things can get quite complicated when you start living a borderless life.

Rules and systems often just aren’t designed with digital nomads in mind. Taxation, healthcare, or running a business remotely often become frustrating once you’re no longer living in and working from just one country.

Lately, Estonia has been making some buzz with its e-Residency program, pitching it as a solution to the digital nomad’s woes. But is it all that it is hyped up to be?

What is e-residency?

The Baltic country of Estonia is famed for its advanced e-government systems that let its citizens do nearly everything securely online, including voting and managing their health care. In recent years, Estonia has allowed access…