Living and Working Remotely in Georgia: A Personal Account of Mobility, Culture, and Timing

By Patric Tengelin I’m Patric Tengelin, a writer and long-term digital nomad who lived and worked in Georgia during the pandemic years. This article combines personal experience with practical insight into why Georgia became one of the most accessible countries for remote workers—and how global mobility quietly changed along the way. How Mobility and Migration Have Changed Over Time It’s Georgia—the country—where I personally had my most vivid and formative experience working as a digital nomad, and that’s why it has been a recurring theme in this blog. But to understand why Georgia felt so radical and memorable, it helps to step back and look at how much the world itself has changed—and how unlikely this lifestyle once was. When I was young, long before remote work was a concept anyone used seriously, I once skipped an entire day of high school to sit in the city library in Gothenburg, Sweden. This was the early 1990s. There was no internet access, no email, no search engines. If you...