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You can extend the VoA once for 30 days but the process is cumbersome and can take up to 2 weeks. If I want to stay longer, things become slightly more complicated. As a tourist, you can enter Bali on a 30 day holiday Visa (VoA) (roughly $AUD50, $US35) which is available for purchase on arrival at Denpasar airport. As an author, I can of course write from anywhere.įoreigners can not live and work in Bali long term. As a coach, working online using Zoom is a breeze and has opened up my business to more offshore clients. No explanations required.Īs a speaker, I have delivered well over 100 speaking gigs and workshops online – prior to Covid, these opportunities would have been exclusively face to face. And then once things opened up a little, and then a lot, engaging with clients online was suddenly the new normal. For a period, it was literally impossible (at least in Melbourne Australia which had one of the most restrictive isolation protocols in the world) to work with clients face to face. More importantly, Covid has normalised the online service delivery for our clients. Thirty months or so after the pandemic commenced many of us – especially solepreneurs in service industries – are very adept at and comfortable working exclusively online.
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Moreover, while the pandemic was horribly challenging for many, many reasons, from the perspective of my business as a Time Management and Productivity Speaker, Author and Coach, it also had a shiny underbelly – helping to eliminate three of the biggest hurdles in realising my plan: (1) how to convince my clients to work with me online rather than f2 (2) how to stay in Bali long term and (3) how to choose where to live and work. The stories from the locals put the disappointment of my 12 month delay into perspective.īecause, to be fair, Covid only cost me a year. Everywhere I went the traffic was half what I am used to. The luckiest spoke of employers who kept them on at half pay or provided accommodation for free.
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They spoke of the devastation of the pandemic on their livelihoods – in Bali, if you don’t work, you don’t get paid. 96% of Bali’s hotels closed at least temporarily with occupancy rates less than 10% 70% of Bali’s SMEs from the food and beverages sector as well as from the creative economy sector closed 90% of tours and travel providers stopped their operation and 80% of informal workers were laid off.Įvery single Balinesian I spoke to – taxi drivers, waiters, the ladies offering massages on the beach, people selling sarongs from the road side, the operators at the tourist attractions, the hosts at co-working spaces, restaurant owners, villa managers, the motorbike rental guy, the men selling tickets to the beach – literally every single person thanked me for coming back to Bali. When the world closed, Bali’s tourism ecosystem was devastated. Prior to the pandemic, the UN World Tourism Organisation estimates that tourism directly accounted for 53% of Bali’s revenue. But recently I headed to Bali for a research trip to check out the lay of the land. With 2022 scuttled, I have pushed my plans out to 2023 to commence the dream. The plan was to base myself in Bali for 3-6 months of Melbourne’s colder months and in Melbourne for the warmer months. My oldest would be 22 and I figured I would have a good 8 years before a first grandchild came along to lure me back.
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My thinking was this – by 2022 my 3 kids would have finished high school, they would all be adults and I would have less strings attaching me full time to Melbourne. But, what if you want more than a holiday?Īs a ‘wanna be’ digital nomad, in 2018 I developed a 5 year plan that would see me living and working in Bali from 2022. The beaches, the rice terraces, the mountains, the beautifully kind people, the food, the vibe – there are so many reasons to make Bali your next holiday destination. There is nothing like escaping the winter of Melbourne, Australia, for the warmth and relaxation of Bali.