This month Amazon announced it's bringing employees back to the office five days a week.

And on the far other end of the spectrum, there's still a ton of Americans working remotely from exotic locales.

Let's move the year off, oh my God, you know.

We hit up a digital nomad happy hour in Lisbon to find out why that super remote work life

still hits now that we're post-pandemic.

A ton of nomads which is nice to have a community of other people that made the same decision.

And here rents are obviously more affordable and health insurance is so much more accessible. The weather, the food, I think

the laid back culture. And I love the cost of living, the lifestyle, it's a lot more relaxed than

New York.

On today explained, we're going to figure out how the dust has settled on American work-life

balance post-pandemic, and we're going to start in Portugal.

Miss the United States at all? Not at all.

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I've compared Lisbon to like Paris in the 1920s.

Lisbon in the 20-20s is like Paris in the 1920s.

In like 40 years you're going to be sitting around a table

and people are going to lean in and be like,

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