{"id":32481,"date":"2019-06-18T16:14:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T16:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indietraveller.co\/?p=32481"},"modified":"2019-06-18T16:14:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T16:14:30","slug":"estonia-e-residency-for-digital-nomads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boostyourblog.com\/estonia-e-residency-for-digital-nomads\/","title":{"rendered":"Estonia e-Residency: How Useful Is It Actually For Digital Nomads?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Digital nomading has quickly become one of the most common ways to travel long-term<\/a>. When you can do all your work on your laptop, you can theoretically do it from anywhere — and so you can travel the world while making a living online. <\/p>\n

But, as many nomads soon find out, things can get quite complicated when you start living a borderless life.<\/p>\n

Rules and systems often just aren’t designed with digital nomads in mind. Taxation, healthcare, or running a business remotely often become frustrating once you’re no longer living in — and working from — only one country.<\/p>\n

Lately, Estonia has been making some buzz with its e-Residency program<\/a>, pitching it as a solution to the digital nomad’s woes.<\/p>\n

But is it all that it is hyped up to be?<\/p>\n

What is e-residency?<\/h3>\n

The Baltic country of Estonia is famed for its advanced e-government systems that let its citizens do nearly everything securely online, including voting and managing their health care. In recent years, Estonia has allowed access to these systems to foreigners via the e-Residency program, inviting nomads, freelancers, and entrepreneurs outside Estonia to join this new \u2018digital nation\u2019.<\/p>\n

Since I became an e-resident a while ago I’ve had a ton of questions about it from digital nomads and remote workers. I thought I’d try to explain here what e-Residency is and isn’t, and to give you my take on whether it’s an attractive program for digital nomads.<\/p>\n

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I used to be a nomad for two years, during which I experienced first-hand how confusing it can be to manage such an international lifestyle. These days I have a permanent base again in Lisbon, though I still travel often, and I’m closely involved in the Lisbon Digital Nomad community. I’m constantly seeing the need among friends and colleagues for solutions to a location-independent life — and wanting some for myself, too!<\/p>\n

The e-Residency program has clearly found an eager target audience with digital nomads, but there does seem to be much confusion around it.<\/p>\n

While it can be a great tool, it’s not a complete solution for nomads. The name “e-residency” is brilliant from a marketing point of view, but it does imply it can do much more than it currently can. <\/p>\n

To be clear, Estonian E-residency does NOT<\/strong>:<\/p>\n