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Bansko: Bulgaria's unlikely new digital nomad hub
30.10.2023 - 20:56 / bbc.com
Arriving in Bansko for the first time, you might feel you've been transported back to a simpler age. Storks nest on telegraph poles, gaggles of head-scarved grandmothers gossip beneath apple trees on street corners and Roma on horse-drawn carts whip their steeds along the road. Above the red rooftops, the marble peaks of south-west Bulgaria's Pirin Mountains march over pine-clad slopes, looming over the town and its ski resort like the outstretched wings of a crouching dragon.
But on a warm day earlier this summer, more than 700 entrepreneurs and freelancers packed the cafes of this provincial 10,000-person town in south-west Bulgaria, as languages from Hebrew to Japanese filled the air. Inside a building on the central square, a young German extolled the virtues of a four-hour work week to a packed auditorium, while in the local park hundreds of digital nomads watched their peers speak on topics ranging from AI to networking strategies to health tips. In the evening, a heaving mass of festivalgoers danced and drank into the night at an outdoor bar.
Now in its fourth year, Bansko Nomad Fest has grown from a small gathering into the world's largest annual celebration of digital nomad life. This week-long jamboree features dozens of live-streamed talks, group dinners and activities such as bonfire parties and rafting, all organised by a small army of volunteers.
Bansko's growing digital nomad population is at its most visible during the festival, but that's only half the story. According to online resource Nomad List, the town is the world's "most-consistently growing remote work hub" of the last five years. Since 2018, it has grown by 231%, more than Warsaw, Madrid and tech media darling Tallinn.
This seems somewhat anomalous: surveys suggest digital nomads generally favour coastal cities (Lisbon, Barcelona), islands and beach destinations (Madeira, the Canaries, Bali). So, why are more and more people heading for a small inland mountain resort in Bulgaria?
The story begins with Matthias Zeitler, a German entrepreneur who came to Bansko in 2016 while researching places to set up a coworking space. Zeitler was attracted by the area's natural beauty and its practical benefits: fast Wi-Fi, affordable living costs and low taxes – which, at just 10% personal and corporate, are among Europe's lowest.
"We came here in the summer with a few friends, rented a house and decided this could be a good place for us to have a base," said Zeitler. In 2016 he opened the town's first coworking space, Coworking Bansko, which grew rapidly, and in 2020 he launched Bansko Nomad Fest, whose 729 available tickets sold out in 2023.
Bansko is now home to more than 300 remote workers in any given month, with the population
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