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Ever think about pulling up stakes and setting up somewhere new?

There has long been a small, robust community of new retirees considering life abroad in relaxed countries with cheap health care. Today it鈥檚 not just expat pensioners feeling footloose. As a young Monitor writer remarked recently in a meeting, some in his cohort see the unmatched 鈥渓and of opportunity鈥� label on the United States as fading.

While voluntary migration is sometimes oversold 鈥� and, for many, unaffordable 鈥� mobility seems more real. A recent national survey of some 6,000 U.S. workers had 78% indicating a desire to keep the option to work remotely for good. They point to pandemic-era evidence that knowledge work can be done well at a distance. Workers have leverage.

If they鈥檙e feeling about American opportunity, younger workers are also willing to rethink success and where to find it. First came a turning away from urban centers.聽Digital nomadism showed up in the forms of van-lifers and people lighting out for rural Zoomtowns. Vermont offers a relocation grant program. So do Tulsa, Oklahoma; Topeka, Kansas; and other .

Next, perhaps: a broader definition of home. As travel eases, borders blur, and not only for American prospectors. The knowledge-worker traffic is omnidirectional. Estonia welcomes innovators to its old world but highly digital hubs.聽Some European countries are seeking a return of top talent that had left.

Now Buenos Aires is touting Argentina鈥檚 weak currency to appeal to foreigners鈥� buying power 鈥� and offering a special 12-month visa to remote workers with income from abroad.聽The aim, according to : Attract 22,000 nomads by 2023.聽