From coliving to house sitting: 10 ways to live while traveling

Living while traveling: new ways to discover the world beyond tourism

Rome, Paris, Lisbon, Bali. Places we once visited in haste, with folded maps and impossible schedules. Today, however, a new way of traveling is emerging: staying, living, experiencing a place not as a tourist, but as a local. After the pandemicThe world has changed the way it moves. It's no longer enough to see; we want to belong, even if only for a moment.

🏖️ Retiring under other skies

Every year, thousands of retirees choose move to Spain, Portugal, Italy or GreeceThe reason isn't just the climate or the sea. It's the possibility of a slower pace of life, of neighborhood cafes where greetings are repeated every morning, of open-air markets with olives, fish, and local cheeses.

🏡 Long-term stays: living like a local

Not everyone wants to move forever. Some people prefer six months in ProvenceA year in Normandy, half a year in Bali or Chiang Mai. They become temporary neighbors: they learn the language, buy tomatoes in the square, discover everyday walks, sit in cafes where they read the daily newspapers.

🤝 Cohousing and coliving: communities in motion

In Lisbon, Berlin or Barcelona the colivingsLarge houses where each person has their own room, but shares kitchens, workshops, and makeshift libraries. In Bali, young people from around the world rent communal villas where they work remotely during the day and share international dinners at night.

🐾 House sitting and pet sitting: traveling while taking care of homes

There is a curious way to travel the world without spending on hotels: house sittingTraveling families entrust their homes (and often their pets) to responsible travelers. In exchange for caring for a dog, cat, or watering the plants, the traveler enjoys a complete home.

🌱 Volunteering with accommodation

The volunteering have become another way of traveling. Through platforms like Workaway either WWOOF, those who travel offer light labor in exchange for lodging and food, coming into direct contact with the life of the communities.

💻 Digital nomads: working while traveling

Perhaps the strongest trend of these years: the digital nomadsAfter Covid, many countries created special visas that allowed people to live and work remotely from destinations like Portugal, Croatia, Mexico, and Colombia. Cities like Lisbon, Medellín, and Bali were filled with coworking spaces and international communities.

📚 Travel to learn

Some people travel to learn languages, gastronomy, or crafts. From cooking workshops in Tuscany to yoga retreats in Thailand, it's about growing with the place and taking away something deeper than a postcard.

🌍 New ways of living while traveling

1. Slowmads: digital nomads who travel slowly, going deeper rather than accumulating destinations.
2. Bleisure: extend a business trip to discover where you are.
3. Visas for digital nomads: live legally and work from countries that offer this possibility.
4. Nostalgic travel: reconnect with life without rushing, without the screen.
5. Remote Year: mobile communities that travel and work together for months.
6. HospEx: exchange hospitality and culture without a hotel ticket.
7. International voluntourism: tourism and volunteering in one trip.

Living while traveling isn't a fantasy. From retirees basking in the sun on the Costa del Sol to young cat sitters in London: everyone seeks not to be tourists, but to be part of it. Because more than collecting countries, we collect ways of inhabiting the world.