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In this paper, we take the case of creative workers, originated from the Global North but living in the Mediterranean Europe (Greece) to explore 1) how privilege is being structured through their experiences living in Greece and working for the Global North 2) how their sense of belonging and attachment is being shaped by the local conditions 3) how policy frames the discussion around remote work and digital nomads producing a racial, gendered, hierarchy of foreigners in a society that bears high migration pressures. Drawing on qualitative research and social listening, the article demonstrates how creative entrepreneurial work and its qualities is being valorised as a superior form of work and thus, is completely detached from its local surroundings. We argue that sustaining a place to the digital creative economy constitutes a privileged regime that requires from contemporary workers the eagerness to relocate – if not, being always on the move. We call this creative work on the move as it describes the precarious working and living conditions of an ingrowing segment of creative workers from the Global North.