Love all that valuable feedback. • Likewise I also do a lot of airbnbs in different countries too. In a new region though I usually encounter a kind of fishbowl syndrome - there's always some small area where people 'in the know' seem to congregate around - like the hindsight obvious neighborhood or cafe for get-up-and-running-quickly nomadding. Takes me days to find those locales from square-one in a new region because I haven't met the savvy folks yet, if the locale even exists in a given area. I often wish there was a go-to network for that (there is, it's just a bit sparse coverage still especially the more rural / developibg country you find yourself in.

• I love the articulating of tbe hard-to-be-productive-because-beacb problem. I definitely hit that in coastal Zanzibar earlier this year.I actually think that's a really worthwhile problem to solve, probably by siting a co-working / co-living community more inland.(Like, there's a reason why Obama wrote his book in inland Ubud of Bali rather than coastal Denpasar).