Mairead Finlay moved to the Portuguese island of Madeira to be part of a "digital nomad" village. Now, I'm living in Europe's first village for digital nomads on the Portuguese island of Madeira, thanks to an initiative set up by the regional government and Startup Madeira to lure tech and creative talent to the island. That makes me fairly typical: A recent study estimated that 83% of the world's 35 million digital nomads worked for themselves, and 51% were marketers, developers, designers, writers, or in e-commerce. The next month, the digital-nomad village on the tropical Portuguese island of Madeira opened. Inside the village's co-work space for digital nomads.

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