Written By @levelsio
Last updated About 2 months ago
While most of the internet describes the amazing freedom of a location independent life where you can work from anywhere, go anywhere and live anywhere, and it is pretty nice, like anything there's downsides to it too:
One downside is that with all the freedom comes analysis parallysis. If you can go anywhere, where do you go? If you can live any type of life, which one do you choose? You can get parallyzed and just not make any life decision whatsoever. Side note to that is that maybe it's not necessary to make a choice, and a life is better lead by steering and readjusting while your living it vs. making decisions that might make you permanently stuck.
Another often discussed downside, especially by traditional people, is the lack of building up roots. If a person moves around a lot, it'll be hard for them to build up long term friendships in a specific place. And that can create isolation too once the novelty of a new place wears off. That's why most people start off traveling fast and then slow down to live in a few or a single place away from home. Because it gives them a chance to build up some roots. Then again, loneliness and isolation is a general disease of our time even for people who live in their home country in cities.
While you're on the other side of the world building up a new life away from your home country, it's probably your parents still live at home. And as your parents get older, the risk that they'll have some kind of ailment increases. You'll probably want to spend time with your parents before they pass on and that gets harder being away from home. On the other hand, many people that do live close to their parents hardly visit, and having the freedom of being anywhere, means you can also spend long stretches of time close to your parents, whenever you want.
It'd be silly if there were no downsides and it's up to you as a person to choose a life that fits your personality best and makes you satisfied.