How He Became a Digital Nomad and Moved to Mexico

The description of this 6-minute video on YouTube…

Isaac Galvan, 23 was living paycheck-to-paycheck in Port Arthur, Texas but during the pandemic, he taught himself how to code and landed a remote job as a website developer making $12 per hour, about $22,000 per year.

His newfound flexibility allowed him to relocate to Querétaro, Mexico. In April 2021, he packed up his belongings and began his new life.

With only $3,000 saved up, he quickly found how far the U.S. dollar stretched abroad. Shortly after his move, he made a down payment on a new car, signed a lease on an apartment and even saved a few hundred dollars a month.

🇲🇽 Isaac’s cost of living in Mexico is only $1400. He eats out a lot and has his own apartment.

He’s not exactly getting rich at $12 an hour, but he’s way better off now than before. 

And assuming he keeps improving his web dev skills, he should be able to charge much more for his services in the future 📈

(I used to charge $80+ per hour as a freelance web dev.)

Plenty more nuance to Isaac’s story in a video on his own YouTube channel…

He lists several resources there that he used to teach himself web development 👇

• freeCodeCamp
• Codecademy
• The Odin Project
• CodingPhase
• Code with Mosh
• Frontend Mentor
• Frontend Masters
• Udemy