PARIS — “When I talked about this before the pandemic, people thought I was crazy . Now they tell me I was right after all,” said Arnaud Wilbrod, a French freelance editor who moved to the Estonian capital Tallinn after his home country went into lockdown.
Wilbrod is just one of a surging number of people who, since the coronavirus pandemic struck, have turned to the dream of a “digital nomad” lifestyle — answering emails from the beach or a picturesque town square as remote working goes mainstream.
Once the preserve of freelancers, those with steady jobs are increasingly tempted to make the leap and some countries are eager to attract them — even as Covid-19 has made jetting o…
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