Exploiting Foreign Labor: Qatar and Kuwait
Living in Qatar and Kuwait was a life-changing experience. We loved the stimulation of living in an environment where little was as we expected it to be. The sights, sounds and colors were stronger, attention-getting, and learning to think in different ways kept us alive and young in ways we never anticipated.
There were also challenges. While as white Americans, we were high in the pecking order, we also realized we were high in a secondary category; there were the nationals, and there were all the others. We qualified, along with all the other imported labor, as others. We lived a great life, and we never forgot that we were “the other.” We were blessed with friends whose families had been living there long before our own country was even imagined. It gave a new perspective to our lives.
I wish I had photos to show you, but there are moments where if you run for the camera, you miss the moment. I've had three moments in the last week that thrilled my heart. A week ago, after a big storm, as I pushed open the curtains I saw hundreds of pelicans, swooping and…
How to become a techpat – the new tribe of digital nomads swapping taxes for tans
From the ashes of office life laid to waste by the pandemic, a new breed of digital nomad worker has arisen
13 February 2021 • 5:00am
For many years, remote working has largely been the territory of digital nomads, technologically savvy entrepreneurs with a thirst for travel, but the arrival of Covid has given birth to a new way of working and a new kind of worker – the techpat.
A mix of grounded nomads and workers no longer tied to an office, the techpats are moving in and setting up base in countries offering warmer weather, a relaxed lifestyle and, quite often, more attractive tax regimes.
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