The Digital Nomad Dream Is Growing Up: bunq’s Global Living Report Shows Freedom Is Not a Postcard, It’s a System

Thanks to bunq for sharing its 2026 Global Living Report: the new data shows that global living is no longer a romantic escape fantasy, but a mature and increasingly strategic way of building a life.

There was a time when the digital nomad story could be sold with a laptop, a coconut, a suspiciously photogenic beach and the kind of Wi-Fi signal that, in real life, would collapse the moment someone tried to join a client call. That version of nomadism was always more brochure than biography. It made for excellent Instagram content, less excellent tax…