TLDR; people who constantly travel (nomad) and constantly use computers (digital). The latter usually (but not necessarily) to generate income.
But there are these categories, broadly speaking. People who ...
1. ... have a remote job that they can do from anywhere who like to travel a lot.
2. ... have (usually new) money and confuse spending that on some sort of digitally administrable business that isn't sustainable with 'entrepreneurship'. While traveling.
3. ... scam other people by selling guides for how to become one of the above. While traveling.
4. ... record themselves buying, wearing, doing stuff that makes other, equally simple-minded people jealous. While traveling.
If they amass enough of aforementioned simpletons looking at their media, they may manage to generate an income from this.
Often people are in multiple groups.
Twenty years ago you would almost only meet digital nomads from group 1.
Nowadays they seem to be the minority.
Especially people who are rich often call themselves "digital nomads" because the following, better suited terms, sound way less cool:
affluent alien
made migrant
wealthy vagabond
But there are these categories, broadly speaking. People who ...
1. ... have a remote job that they can do from anywhere who like to travel a lot.
2. ... have (usually new) money and confuse spending that on some sort of digitally administrable business that isn't sustainable with 'entrepreneurship'. While traveling.
3. ... scam other people by selling guides for how to become one of the above. While traveling.
4. ... record themselves buying, wearing, doing stuff that makes other, equally simple-minded people jealous. While traveling.
If they amass enough of aforementioned simpletons looking at their media, they may manage to generate an income from this.
Often people are in multiple groups.
Twenty years ago you would almost only meet digital nomads from group 1.
Nowadays they seem to be the minority.
Especially people who are rich often call themselves "digital nomads" because the following, better suited terms, sound way less cool:
affluent alien
made migrant
wealthy vagabond
by moellernegger August 10, 2024

An EXILED NOMAD is someone who intentionally rejects the status quo to live simple, spiritually, and sustainably. Usually for the purpose of living authentically and creatively. Also called an Eco-Boho.
by The Hippie Moose March 10, 2022

A traveler of the self. Someone who doesn’t collect miles, but moments of presence. Someone who journeys through practices — art, craft, movement, ritual — not to find a destination, but to find themselves, again and again. Every act of expression becomes a stamp in the passport of who they are becoming.”
I don't like to think of myself as a one-trick pony, I'm more of an expressional nomad by the way my interest and hobbies fluctuate.
by chief_nomad August 23, 2025

A phrase used by Blade & Sorcery: Nomad players who cant see that they're on the wrong page of nexus mods.
by DUBSTEPUG March 26, 2024

Attractive people under 50 who have used Scandinavian minimalistic ideologies to decorate a space (sometimes a car) and vlog the idea that they barely work and change cities, or countries often, giving the bulk of overworked society a dream. NomadLife is the hashtag, changing hobbies for work is the norm and garnering thousands of followers for free swag is the goal. #NomadLife
Whatever happened to Amy? She get married?
Nope, she's on her third van and in Tulum living the Nomad Life.
She happy?
No one knows, but she's always doing yoga on a cliff
Nope, she's on her third van and in Tulum living the Nomad Life.
She happy?
No one knows, but she's always doing yoga on a cliff
by mgg January 12, 2024

by CopeHarderNoob December 28, 2022

A lifestyle in which one conscientiously rejects modern social norms for a more individualistic life of vagabonding.
by desertrang3r November 25, 2024
