{"id":41265,"date":"2023-06-08T03:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T10:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=41265"},"modified":"2023-06-06T15:42:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:42:10","slug":"live-in-uruguay-home-exchanges-budget-airline-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/live-in-uruguay-home-exchanges-budget-airline-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"Live in Uruguay\/Home Exchanges\/Budget Airline Fees"},"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:\/\/nomadico.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">past editions here,<\/a>\u00a0where your like-minded friends can subscribe and join you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>An\u00a0<em>Easy<\/em>\u00a0Digital Nomad Visa<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Government bureaucracy and \u201ceasy\u201d don\u2019t usually go in the same sentence, but we\u2019re cautiously optimistic about the new&nbsp;<strong>digital nomad visa for Uruguay<\/strong>. You can apply online and there\u2019s no income verification aspect, so right away this has leapfrogged over all others in attractiveness. Uruguay is one of the more expensive South American countries, but it is the most progressive, including a hands-off LGBTQ stance, full reproductive rights for women, and legal weed. Plus they have some nice beaches.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/2023\/05\/23\/want-to-move-to-south-america-uruguay-has-just-introduced-a-digital-nomad-visa\">See the details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>The Joy of Home Exchanges<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This past month I spent a week in a condo on the Athens Riviera coast of Greece, then a week in a fantastic house on the car-free island of Hydra, both times paying nothing but a small cleaning fee. Both came about because of my membership in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.homeexchange.com\/?sponsorkey=tim-6be4a\">HomeExchange.com<\/a>, where I\u2019ve belonged for years. We have done simultaneous swaps, non-simultaneous ones, and ones utilizing their points system where people can pay with points they have accumulated to stay in your house. Then we used our points to stay in both of those Greece places. It\u2019s great for travelers who have a home base they\u2019re often not in and it can save a small fortune on accommodation, with no pets to care for like house-sitting services usually require.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Laptop-friendly Public Spaces<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>File this under \u201cwork in progress,\u201d but the site&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/laptopfriendly.co\/\">LaptopFriendly.co<\/a>, mentioned in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.recomendo.com\/\">Recomendo<\/a>&nbsp;by Mark F., highlights good places for remote workers to get things done. It\u2019s mainly focused on big cities for now, with just 6 locations in Greece, 7 in France, and only one in a lot of other countries, but we hope they stick with it and widen the scope over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>A Quick Overview of European Airline Fees<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I could have made that headline a lot more provocative, with references to all kinds of things you are forced to do against your will, but I think we all now realize that budget airlines the world over are in the business of making money from gotcha fees added after the flight cost. You can figure out the rules and play them to your advantage, or you can come in clueless and get played instead.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingpedia.com\/2023\/04\/11\/airlines-with-the-most-hidden-charges\/\">Here\u2019s a good breakdown<\/a>&nbsp;of what you\u2019ll have to cough up after the initial fare that seemed so enticing. Add it all together to compare apples-to-apples when looking at other airlines or a train alternative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nomadico issue #55<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2385],"tags":[2386],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41266,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41265\/revisions\/41266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}