In a follow-up to the last post, I got the chance to nomad around for about five months of last year (longer, depending on your definition) between a combination of couches and house-sitting gigs. It actually took me writing the last post to realize why this lifestyle seemed so familiar to me....

I take this moment to emphasize that urban nomadism, despite its connotations, is a perfectly valid state for valuable, productive members of society.

In the case of house-sitting it was always a mutually beneficial arrangement. (I cared for cats and houseplants, and in turn got to stay in swell places like this.)

It came to a close when the upheaval of moving every other week (and not knowing whether I would have a place the next) became too much between school and work. I wondered at the time, however, whether there wasn't some system out there that would take those barriers out of the equation.

There are in fact a few. It makes sense that when there's a value-creating opportunity, a business will arise to facilitate it. This is yet another model that has sprung up around our growing familiarity with impermanence.