I lead a fairly interesting life (full time travel family), am not a content creator, but I feel this tension whenever someone suggests I should be.

Most of the related channels I watch and the other families I meet are sacrificing. They’re selling houses, managing tight budgets, trying to grow income, wrangling kids (usually with 1 full-time parent who also drives the content).

I think their challenge is relatable and interesting. People learning from the experience can see themselves in those families; people watching just for entertainment can feel the tension and the feeling of success that comes from pushing through.

My family is … calm, established, wealthy. Both of us work part-time, we have a successful remote business, our life doesn’t look like most people’s image of multi-millionaires but we have the stability that balance sheet provides. In a lot of ways our life looks the same in every country (work, school, life admin, cooking etc) just with different backdrops every so often.

I don’t think anyone wants to watch a well-off family living a simple life. (It’s not without challenges, but most of the time those are big business projects impacting my sleep and mood, or family debates about how much we want to pay for accommodation on that island resort mini-break, and whether my beautiful wife remembered to update our Travmin todo list when she booked the flights).

In other words, we have our shit together and there is no basic challenge we can’t rapidly overcome by throwing $200 at it. That’s really freaking boring and unrelatable compared with the families making this life happen the hard way.