Digital nomads over-emphasize freedom—and misunderstand the tradeoffs| www.russellmaxsimon.com
A full cost accounting: more than I'd hoped, for a variety for a variety of reasons| www.russellmaxsimon.com
See the full builder's quote, plus: lots of dirty work ahead, if I can get unstuck on the Spain project| www.russellmaxsimon.com
It's always there when everything else falls apart| www.russellmaxsimon.com
Anxious times, property headaches, and what matters when everything feels fragile| www.russellmaxsimon.com
Two of my favorite movies are about the Russian Revolution.| www.russellmaxsimon.com
How a writer chooses what to write about| www.russellmaxsimon.com
Grappling with my role in Barcelona gentrification| www.russellmaxsimon.com
You can have everything you want here... almost.| www.russellmaxsimon.com
Nesting in my new apartment, in the middle of a heatwave| www.russellmaxsimon.com
Spain's big, beautiful, messed up immigration bureaucracy, plus: the saga of my Spanish driver's license| www.russellmaxsimon.com
An epic conclusion to the hardest thing I've done since moving to Spain| www.russellmaxsimon.com
Things solid can suddenly break: reflections on citizenship, identity, and inheritance| Post-Nomad
Stuck in permit limbo while Spain complains about housing shortages| Post-Nomad
Construction and content marketing, language learning and financial advice: how LLMs have transformed my life—and why I keep them away from this newsletter| Post-Nomad
Dancing salsa on the beach in Mexico, and the post-nomad dilemma| Post-Nomad
Wine at breakfast, empty houses at night, and wrestling with Spanish time| Post-Nomad
Work is halted, plus: my interview on "Dirtbag Rich," with Blake Boles| Post-Nomad
Being committed to place means thinking differently about your home| www.russellmaxsimon.com