{"id":44934,"date":"2025-10-09T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=44934"},"modified":"2025-10-02T14:12:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T21:12:58","slug":"size-of-africa-office-mandate-realities-cheaper-mexico-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/size-of-africa-office-mandate-realities-cheaper-mexico-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Size of Africa\/Office Mandate Realities\/Cheaper Mexico Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2><strong>The Real Size of Africa<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For reasons that would take too long to go into here, maps and globes often distort the size of some regions and make others seem smaller than they really are. As&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualcapitalist.com\/how-many-countries-fit-in-africa-visualizing-the-continents-true-size\/\">this graphic points out<\/a>, it\u2019s hard to fathom how huge the continent of Africa is until we see a visualization like this that overlays other countries onto it. You can fit China, the USA, India, and Iran on it like puzzle pieces and still have room for 21 more countries, including laying Turkey on top of Madagascar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Headlines vs. Reality in Return-to-Office Mandates<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The big companies forcing people back into the office are facing incredible headwinds, with widespread flouting of the rules and A-players testing how blatantly they can ignore the mandates while shopping for a new gig. Among the stats&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/founderreports.com\/return-to-office-statistics\/\">on this page<\/a>: \u201cWhile required office time increased by 12% from 2024 to 2025, actual office attendance only increased by 1-3%.\u201d If you\u2019re facing this kind of situation, see this list of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thenomadcloud.com\/skip-the-job-hunt-15-companies-always-hiring-remote-workers-work-from-anywhere\/\">15 companies that are fully remote<\/a>, though it\u2019s just a start. There are plenty more with hundreds of employees. Try&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dynamitejobs.com\/\">DynamiteJobs.com<\/a>&nbsp;where there are zero listings that involve key cards, commutes, or cubicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Cheap Flight Hack for Mexico<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>From many destinations you can get a cheaper flight to where you\u2019re going in Mexico if you are willing to fly to Cancun first and change airlines. That\u2019s because the two largest Mexican budget airlines, Volaris and Viva Aerobus, fly from Cancun direct to dozens of other cities. Breeze Airways in the USA just added&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rivieramayanews.mx\/breeze-airways-launches-winter-routes-to-cancun-from-four-us-cities\/\">four weekly flights to Cancun<\/a>&nbsp;and direct British service from Virgin Atlantic returns this month. This is on top of bargain flights from the likes of Frontier, Sun Country, Westjet, Flair, Wingo, and (for now anyway) Spirit. According to DirectFlights.com, \u201cThere are 124 airports with direct flights to Cancun from 27 different countries and 37 U.S. states.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>A Bad Week for Tight Layovers<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though one party controls all three branches of the U.S. government, they\u2019re not too keen on actually governing, so the whole federal system shut down at midnight on October 1 and isn\u2019t paying its bills. Government workers do a lot of airport work and if this goes on for more than a day or two, expect increasingly frequent delays, long security lines, and flight troubles. (And this will&nbsp;<em>not<\/em>&nbsp;be a good time to argue with that TSA agent about the size of your liquids\u2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nomadico issue #174<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"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\/44934"}],"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\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44935,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44934\/revisions\/44935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}