Igor Kukolj

What I do here

I compile and maintain Nomad Almanac. Every country page and every city page on this site is researched, written, and kept current by me, working from primary sources rather than aggregated travel content. The job is less about opinion and more about reading the actual rules, the immigration statutes, the tax codes, the residency requirements, and then translating them into something a remote worker can act on.

Nomad Almanac is built on two layers for every place. The country layer covers the legal reality that decides whether you can stay: visas, taxes, residency, and the path to permanent status. The city layer covers the lived reality once you arrive: what renting actually costs, which neighborhoods work, how the internet holds up, and how people meet. Keeping those two layers honest is the whole point of the project.

Why this project

Most of what is written for remote workers falls into two buckets. One is marketing dressed as advice, country roundups that exist to sell a relocation service or a visa agency. The other is forum lore, useful but often years out of date, where a tax rule someone quotes was repealed two budgets ago. Both can cost a reader real money or a rejected application.

Nomad Almanac is the version I wanted when I started looking into this myself: a single reference that states the rule, dates it, and sends you to the government page it came from, so you can verify it before you book a flight or file a form. You can read how that research process works on the methodology page.

How I work

Every legal or tax claim traces back to a primary source: the immigration ministry, the tax authority, the official visa portal, or the text of the law itself. Where a country publishes only in its own language, the page links the original alongside the explanation. Secondary sources are used for context and for the lived-experience sections, never as the basis for a visa or tax claim.

Two things this site does not do. It does not take payment from visa agencies, relocation firms, or tax advisors in exchange for coverage or a higher score. And it does not present itself as professional advice. Immigration and tax rules turn on individual circumstances and change often, so every page is marked as pending professional review and points you back to the source to confirm before you act. Errors get fixed fast: if you find one, the contact page is the way to flag it.

Focus areas

• Visas and entry, including digital nomad and remote-work permits, income thresholds, and how each route is actually granted in practice
• Tax residency, how days of presence, source of income, and special regimes decide what you owe and where
• Residency and permanent status, the timelines and requirements that turn a stay into a base
• Cost of living and housing, what renting, working, and daily life genuinely cost in the cities worth considering