stackyFACTSModern influencers love to call themselves nomads while typing on laptops in cafes, but the Greek root 'nemein' literally means 'to pasture'. Unless you are actively wandering the earth to find a suitable patch of grass for your flock of sheep, you are technically just voluntarily homeless.
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