O ne of the drawbacks is a sense of rootlessness. The belief that you belong simultaneously everywhere and nowhere. They learned to transcend rootlessness is to feel at home wherever they are, regardless of environment. Home is reframed to include the world. A nother problem is trouble with intimacy.
Global nomads know how to be mobile.
Traveling for business or fun poses little problem. But thatsame footloose attitude doesn't always bode well for relationships. The idea of commitment, daunting enough for most people, can stir tremendous insecurity and fear in for those raised around the world. Trusting a relationship to stay the course through the joy and the pain of life flies in the face of accumulated global nomad experience. Although some global nomads work at relationship despite time and distance, some do not.