The Shortlist: Curated Stays for Your Next 6 Months

Midlife Nomads' members-only calendar of vetted stays, six months out. Curated for people 40+ who are still working and want quality stays, reliable internet, and community when they need it.

The Shortlist is Midlife Nomads' members-only calendar of vetted stays.

This is where you’ll find colivings, city stays, nomad trips, cruises, and the occasional artist residency for people in their 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond who are still working, value reliable internet and real comfort, and occasionally want to drop into a community without dorm energy.

The picks below are starting points, not a closed list. These are organized by region and timed to when each destination is at its best. I look at dozens of options — places I've stayed in or had recommended by friends and communities I trust — and surface the ones I'd actually send a friend to.

The hope is that even the places you don't book teach you something about what's out there: how colivings vary, what residencies cost, what's possible at a price point in a location you perhaps hadn't considered.

The more of these you read, the more your sense of the landscape sharpens.

Not everything on The Shortlist is a coliving. You’ll also find long-stay city apartments, hotels with workable wifi, artist residencies, nomad group trips, and the occasional cruise or conference event.

After several years of moving between all of these options myself, I appreciate there are seasons for both the comfort of community and solo time to recharge your social battery. The picks each month are chosen with that in mind.

Some months, a region has multiple options; others get one or none. Forcing recommendations into every cell of the matrix produces filler, and filler is what makes most travel resources useless.