Man Explains Working Eastern Time Means Nights and Absolute No Sunshine

KEY POINTS

•Francis Cloutier, a 39-year-old Canadian, left Canada in 2019 to embrace a remote working nomad life.
•After years of traveling across South America and running a Toronto furniture business, he settled in Bangkok with his wife.
•He works US Eastern Time from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. Bangkok time, paying about $900 monthly rent in a two-bedroom condo.

At 39, Canadian Francis Cloutier skipped snow shovels and started living the dream in Thailand after years of mushy South American empanadas and unexpected Buenos Aires tango invites. He sold his Toronto furniture biz, proving you can't fix chairs remotely, and joined a marketing startup with no office because cubicles died a quiet death. After ghosting his boss about working from Peru, Francis embraced nocturnal life in Bangkok, grinding from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. ET while his bartender wife clocks out just before sunrise. For $900 rent, $1,000 food inflation, and $200 air-conditioning bills (because Bangkok is basically an oven), he swapped Toronto’s one-bedroom basement for a two-bedroom condo with a pool gym and instagrammable rooftop views. Winter? He’d rather sweat like it’s an eternal sauna than scrape ice off a Canadian Tesla. Home visits timed around Christmas and mommy's birthdays complete this gloriously bemused nomadic saga.