“Maybe it’s just wanderlust, but I realised lately that there might be places out there that have the things I love about New York, but are cheaper and offer more space,” he says.
His days now consist of hiking and trail running in the Rockies as well as logging on remotely for his sales job with a tech company. While some people, like Kalo, are using home swaps as a way to spice up their remote-work experience, other white-collar workers are using them to test out new cities now that they’re no longer tied to an expensive urban hub.īrendan Kelly recently swapped New York City for a month at a home in Longmont, Colorado, which he says is four-times larger than his studio apartment in Brooklyn. With more than half of all global companies either fully remote or remote-first, according a recent survey from Buffer, it’s no wonder that Google searches for “ home exchange” have grown substantially over the past year. Job flexibility has also turbo-charged people’s desires to blend the boundaries between work and travel. It’s a cost-saving scheme that has become particularly attractive amid the current travel boom, where the price of flights, hotels and rentals have all skyrocketed. By leveraging their own most valuable asset – a house or apartment – they’re able to stay in other comfortable accommodations around the world. Home swaps allow people to attain the kind of jet-setting lifestyle they desire at a fraction of the cost of purchasing a pricey holiday- or second home. “Since you’re not paying for accommodation, it makes travel so much cheaper,” she notes, adding that a two-week stay in an Airbnb would be prohibitively expensive in many of the destinations they’ve visited. The couple tries to stay in each place for about two weeks so they can have enough time to explore sites around their busy work schedules (Kalo is the founder of baby brand Zipster, and her husband works in sales for a freight-forwarding company). “So, you have this mutual understanding that you are both going to take care of each other’s homes.” “I guess what we love about it is that we trust people to be at our home because they are trusting us to be at theirs,” says Kalo (pictured above).
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Ever since, they’ve exchanged their two-floor apartment in an Amsterdam canal house for a series of “ workcations” at homes across Europe, including in nearby Rotterdam, on the beach in Barcelona and in the tony French Riviera resort town of Juan-les-Pins.Īll told, the couple have swapped homes five times since May 2021, when they first learned about home exchanges from their upstairs neighbour.
She and her husband are among the millions of global workers who became fully remote during the pandemic.
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Evie Kalo is what you might call a serial home-swapper.
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