also called family nomads · roadschooling · world schooling · worldschooling
Traveling long term as a couple or family, sometimes educating children on the road.
This is doing the long-term travelling life as a couple or a family rather than solo, sometimes schooling the kids as you go. It is the lifestyle, not to be confused with third culture kid, which is a term for a child who grows up across cultures; that is a possible result, this is the way of living. Every practical thing a solo nomad handles once, visas, insurance, tax, schooling, multiplies across each person.
You and your partner take your two children on the road, planning to homeschool. Suddenly every visa application is four applications, the insurance has to cover a family, and a country you liked drops off the list because it will not grant the right status to all of you at once.
It multiplies visa, schooling, insurance and tax considerations that solo nomads handle more simply.
The difference is the whole point, so here is each one in a line.
These labels differ by how settled you are and why you moved.
A digital nomad works remotely while moving between places, a slowmad does the same but stays months at a time, and a perpetual traveller keeps moving specifically to avoid becoming resident anywhere; an expat lives abroad but settled, and an immigrant means to stay for good.
Flag theory and base-building are strategies for spreading your residence, banking and citizenship across countries, while a third culture kid and nomad family travel describe raising children in this life.
Flag state is the odd one out here, meaning the country a boat is registered in.
Base-building strategy · Expat · Flag state · Flag theory · Perpetual traveller · Third culture kid
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