The Nu Nomad

A westerner flies to Thailand with his notebook computer and starts working at what he or she did back in the west and makes a living off of it in Thailand. Is this possible?

Westerners who instead of perhaps getting their jobs outsourced by Asia in the West anticipate the future potential of outsourcing, jump ship, fly to Asia and outsource themselves.

Some westerners are already doing this with varying degrees of success.

Now there are two special websites for them NuNomad (http://www.NuNomad.com) and a companion site called LaptopHobo (http://www.LaptopHobo.com)

Bangkok Post Database's Tony Waltham observes:

Indeed, they tend to find that the money they earn goes a lot further when they are based in Asia and NuNomad (http://www.NuNomad.com) and a companion site called LaptopHobo (http://www.LaptopHobo.com) cater to this audience as they espouse remote working, offering many tips, a blog and links to valuable resources for the independent mobile worker.

Visitors to these two web-based communities are nomadic professionals with the world at their fingertips and who include freelance web designers, translators, investors and educators. They maintain contact with their clients via email, teleconferencing, VoIP communications and other technologies. (Wednesday April 25, 2007, INTERNET SITE OF THE WEEK, TONY WALTHAM)

Also read a recent Business Week article on the subject.

Could this innovative approach to life and making a living perhaps be adopted by young Thai people moving, let's say, from crowded and often unpleasant Bangkok to an idyllic provincial town like Chiang Rai.

Perhaps there is a natural symbiosis between His Majesty the King's Self-Sufficiency Philosophy and such a rural lifestyle.