Country-specific VPN guides for expats living and working abroad.
Best VPN for digital nomads in Bangkok — Bangkok is Southeast Asia’s largest city and one of the region’s most popular bases for digital nomads, long-stay expats, and remote workers. Sukhumvit, Silom, and the riverside areas offer excellent coworking infrastructure, fast internet, world-class food, and affordable living by global standards. But Thailand blocks thousands of…
Best VPN for digital nomads in Bali — Bali is the world’s most famous digital nomad destination, and Canggu, Seminyak, and Ubud attract tens of thousands of remote workers every year. With excellent coworking infrastructure, affordable living, and warm weather year-round, Bali is the benchmark nomad base in Southeast Asia. But Indonesia actively blocks thousands…
Best VPN for digital nomads in Da Nang — Da Nang has rapidly established itself as Vietnam’s top digital nomad city, combining fast and affordable internet, a beautiful beachfront, a lower cost of living than Ho Chi Minh City or Hanoi, and a growing coworking scene in the An Thuong and My Khe beach districts….
Best VPN for digital nomads in Goa — protect your data from India’s CERT-In logging mandate, secure Goa cafe WiFi, restore BBC iPlayer and banking. NordVPN, ExpressVPN, ProtonVPN, IPVanish tested.
Pakistan has one of the most active and unpredictable internet censorship regimes in South Asia. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) blocks thousands of websites, has repeatedly suspended social media platforms during political crises, and in 2024 implemented deep packet inspection across major ISPs specifically to identify and block VPN traffic. If you’re moving to Pakistan…
Important Context (June 2026) Syria’s internet and political situation changed fundamentally after the Assad government fell in December 2024. Much existing information online, including older versions of this guide, describes the pre-2024 Assad-era surveillance state, which no longer fully applies. The transitional government’s policies are still evolving and not always consistently documented — treat anything…
Sudan’s situation has changed dramatically since April 2023, when fighting broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces. The conflict has caused severe damage to Khartoum and other major cities, displaced millions of people, and significantly disrupted internet infrastructure across the country. Most of the international expat community evacuated in 2023;…
Libya is unlike anywhere else covered in this guide. The practical challenges for expats aren’t primarily about what’s censored — they’re about whether internet infrastructure exists and functions at all. Since the 2011 revolution and subsequent years of conflict and political division, Libya’s internet infrastructure has been intermittently destroyed, diverted, or simply not maintained. Getting…
Iran has one of the most restrictive internet environments in the world — consistently ranked alongside North Korea and China for censorship severity by Freedom House and other monitoring organisations. Instagram, WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Telegram (partially), most foreign news sites, and thousands of other platforms are blocked. VPN use is technically illegal under Iranian…
Tunisia sits in an interesting middle ground. It’s more open than most of its North African neighbours — the country has a genuine parliamentary democracy, a relatively free press, and doesn’t have the blanket VoIP bans that define the Gulf states. But it’s not without restrictions, and it has something most expat guides don’t mention:…
