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[00:01.38] Julia: So talking of working overseas, how does that work? How do set that kind of lifestyle up?

[00:06.88] Todd: You mean like the nomadic lifestyle?

[00:08.39] Julia: Yeah, yeah, when you want to travel and just be free and how do you go about that?

[00:12.38] Todd: Well, it's interesting. Like I think people get the wrong idea about working that type of life, being like a nomad.

[00:18.13] First of all, you're actually not a tourist and in a lot of ways, you're not a traveler.

[00:21.88] Like I actually worked and oddly enough, you know when I was just traveling and just living from city to city and working digitally from my computer, I put in more than forty hours a week.

[00:32.88] I actually probably put in maybe fifty or sixty because I had so much time. I had nothing to do usually so I would work usually five to six days a week and usually ten hours a day.

[00:49.13] So the first thing is that you work a lot and because you work a lot, you have to look for places that are conductive, conducive I'm sorry, that are conducive for working.

[01:02.38] So the first thing you need is you need a hotel or like usually a short term apartment because it's usually best to stay in one place for about a month and you need a place that has a good desk and a good chair.

[01:18.13] I cannot emphasize the importance of a good chair. A good chair is actually so much more important than cable TV or a nice bed or a pool or whatever because you're going to sit in the chair all the time. So when I would travel, I would go to a hotel and the first thing I would ask is can I see...

[01:30.38] Julia: The chair?

[01:31.13] Todd: Can I see the chairs in the room and if I didn't like the chair, I'd say like look I'm going to be here for two weeks I'll stay but you gotta get me like a nice chair.

[01:41.38] So that was one thing. So usually you want to get like a short-term housing. You look on the internet, you know, two weeks at a time and usually you can find something cheap.

[01:56.63] You usually want to be in a major city because you need to have the internet and that is the most important thing. You'd be surprised at what countries have fast internet.

[01:59.14] Like Vietnam really fast and you can work wireless from the beach. I used to sit on the beach with my laptop and have high-speed wireless in some of the cities in Vietnam.

[02:07.39] Julia: Wow.

[02:08.14] Todd: Yeah, it's amazing. You know, Thailand, Bangkok, it's surprisingly not that fast. So Bangkok wasn't that fast but if you went to a smaller city like Chiang Mai, the internet was really fast.