Sitting in a bright, plant-filled coffee shop in the town of Písac, Peru — natural light filtering in from a skylight above — Grayson Allen explains that he’s always wanted to work abroad.
The 30-year-old content creator from Vancouver is a self-described digital nomad, a term for people who perform their jobs remotely from anywhere in the world.
For the last two and a half years, he has worked remotely in the U.K., Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and, most recently, Peru — first for a Canadian company and now for himself.
“It seems like the dream, you know? You get to kind of save money, it’s [a] cheaper cost of living, you get to travel on the weekends still,” Allen told CBC News via Zoom.
“The country’s happy because you’re spending money there. Canada’s still happy because you’re paying taxes even though you’re not using any of the services there.”
Faced with the high cost of…
