Given the title of this article, you might be expecting to read a clickbait post aimed at bored startup founders in Chiang Mai, written by a freelance copywriter who’s never been to Yerevan and has dashed this piece off after an hour of Googling.

Nope.

I’ve been living in Yerevan for so long I feel more at home here than where I was born. And I’ve quite literally written the book on travel in Armenia.

Over more than a decade, I’ve watched Yerevan come into alignment with the needs of the modern-day digital nomad. And now, purely in the spirit of sharing something good, I want to tell you what I know, lest you be looking for somewhere off the beaten track to spend a few months.

Here, then, are nine reasons you might consider making Yerevan, capital of the Republic of Armenia, your next basecamp as a digital nomad: