{"id":40598,"date":"2022-12-08T01:09:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T08:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=40598"},"modified":"2022-12-06T13:12:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T20:12:13","slug":"value-japan-fast-lao-trains-italy-incentives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/value-japan-fast-lao-trains-italy-incentives\/","title":{"rendered":"Value Japan\/Fast Lao Trains\/Italy Incentives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A weekly newsletter with four quick bites, edited by Tim Leffel, author of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/cbjyU?utm_campaign=Nomadico&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Better Life for Half the Price<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The World\u2019s Cheapest Destinations<\/em>. See\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.getrevue.co\/profile\/nomadico?utm_campaign=Nomadico&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">past editions here,<\/a>\u00a0where your like-minded friends can subscribe and join you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Value in Japan<\/strong><br>Nomadico partner Kevin Kelly traveled to\u00a0<strong>Japan<\/strong>\u00a0soon after it reopened recently and says, \u201cEveryone thinks Japan is expensive, but it is not really. And these days with a\u00a0weak yen, it is definitely not. It might even be cheap for some.\u201d\u00a0 Most articles you\u2019ll find about traveling there are pre-pandemic, but the blogger behind Never Ending Footsteps recently\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neverendingfootsteps.com\/cost-of-travel-japan-budget\/?utm_campaign=Nomadico&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">documented every 100 yen<\/a>\u00a0and ended up spending US$95 per day herself (after halving the shared accommodation with her boyfriend.) Not so painful for a 16-day itinerary with a lot of moving around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>High-speed Rail Comes to Laos<\/strong><br>The Southeast Asian country of\u00a0<strong>Laos<\/strong>\u00a0has long been one that generated interesting stories about getting from A to B, but\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/travel\/article\/china-laos-semi-high-speed-train\/index.html?utm_campaign=Nomadico&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">now they have high-speed rail<\/a>. There\u2019s some controversy about the Chinese involvement (and Lao debt) behind the project, but this is a major improvement for travelers who have dreamed of getting around Laos in a fast and reliable manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A U.S. Bank for Nomads<\/strong><br>One point of friction for digital nomads is that they still need a real-world bank to process their money, usually in their home country. We\u2019re watching the development of a new\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usesammy.com\/?utm_campaign=Nomadico&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">banking company called Sammy<\/a>\u00a0that promises to offer\u00a0<strong>FDIC-insured U.S. bank accounts to digital nomads<\/strong>\u00a0who are not American. So far it\u2019s an \u201calert me when it\u2019s available\u201d sign-up list though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Get Paid to Buy in Puglia<\/strong><br>The trend of Italian towns\u00a0<strong>paying people to move there<\/strong>\u00a0keeps accelerating and the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/daily_brief\/travel\/paid-move-italian-town?utm_campaign=Nomadico&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">latest offer from Puglia<\/a>\u00a0looks especially attractive. You get 30K euro in a town where many houses are going for less than that, plus a bonus if you have a baby there. They supposedly have a million euros a year to hand out. Get Starlink internet set up from the start and it\u2019s possible to keep working from there at high speed while being in a historic center going back centuries.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nomadico issue #29<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2385],"tags":[2386],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40601,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40598\/revisions\/40601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}