Gina, 25, left Buenos Aires for Patagonia: “I was getting used to a life I didn’t want”

Gina Ciccone had the kind of routine that might look ideal from the outside: a remote job for a U.S. company, flexible hours, good income and the freedom to organize her days. Still, she decided to leave Buenos Aires and start again in Patagonia.

The 25-year-old content creator and video editor now records each stage of the change online. Under the idea “Nomad in Progress,” she shares travel videos, landscapes and personal reflections, while also showing the difficulties that come with building a life from scratch. Her YouTube channel has more than 159,000 subscribers, and she has 30,000 followers on Instagram.

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I simply enjoyed creating.

Ciccone’s relationship with cameras began when she was 13, in 2012. She learned to edit videos and uploaded them to YouTube as a hobby. The channel gradually grew to 180,000 subscribers and generated income, although she never set out to become a YouTuber. The attention eventually made her uncomfortable, including the fear that people might recognize her, and she abandoned the channel after several years.

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So here I am, giving it a second chance.

That first experience nevertheless showed her that a creative passion could become a job. After finishing school, she opened her own production company and worked as a filmmaker for two years. Later, she returned to content creation without expecting her videos to become popular again. “So here I am, giving it a second chance,” she said.

The move to Patagonia followed a period when work had become comfortable but no longer offered personal growth. “I had a life I liked because it was calm, in the sense that I had a remote job. It was comfortable too, precisely because I worked from wherever I wanted,” she told La Nación.

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I had a life I liked because it was calm, in the sense that I had a remote job. It was comfortable too, precisely because I worked from wherever I wanted.