Temporary Life

Welcome to Da Nang, the wild west of the digital nomads. Content creators, self-appointed self-help gurus, failed online entrepreneurs and American veterans gather in one of the world’s cheapest countries to erase their past and build a new character.

Young men in particular travel to places like Da Nang to seek their fortune and reinvent themselves — or rather, to escape the status they held back home. The phenomenon is global, from Da Nang to Medellín to Tirana.