How do you actually afford being a digital nomad?

Bit of a loaded question I know, but I've always been fascinated by the entire digital nomad lifestyle, however, actually working for a living and being a remote worker doesn't automatically qualify you for being a full time digital nomad. <br><br>I'm a software engineer and I have 100% remote work with a decent salary, but that salary is in US dollars and I have to pay US taxes, and right now, any place I am interested in visiting/ moving that is fully open for US citizens is either going to have a tax hit (revenue based income tax as well as being taxed in the US) or needs a ton of paperwork and bureaucratic approvals to work there. <br><br>So let's assume I can actually work there, that still leaves the actual logistics, and money, of actually being able to visit/ move to a destination and truly immerse yourself in the culture. Maybe I'm just being overly pessimistic, but I would think that this would all be quite expensive. <br><br>Furthermore, a lot of the digital nomad content you see is either created by influencers, people who are salaried workers, or entrepreneurs. There are plenty of people who do this lifestyle on a shoestring budget and while they are always fun to read about, its just as unrealistic as imagining you can live off of Instagrammable digital nomad content. <br><br>So, do you have to be rich? Or what are specific jobs, careers, and circumstances that have lent themselves to being a digital nomad?