I never found the nomad life enticing; at first glance, it would seem that they sacrifice too much:
- A stable home
- A conventional worklife
- Access to some forms of medical care
- Choices for entertainment
- Paradoxically, mobility, since remaining within the camp is often prioritized for security reasons
However, I realized that my first impression was somewhat mistaken, when you take into consideration the state of Night City and its population recounted through experience:
- A stable home is no guarantee: corpos losing more than their homes, common people pushed out of their apartments due to gang or corporate activity, people living homeless.
- A conventional worklife is practically nonexistent: corpos killing themselves through 80 hour workweeks, mercenaries risking their lives, common people sacrificing income to gangs and NCPD for protection, people begging for money on the streets.
- Proper medical care is mostly inaccessible to the common folk, having to rely on the cruelty of affordability packages (think of David Martinez's mother).
- The latter two seem actual full sacrifices.
For the partial and complete sacrifices you get something that is not found in Night City: a whole community of people living under a culture of taking care of each other, disregarding if they know the other well or not, and the whole; instead of living under a culture of alienated individuals seeking to take advantage of the other for survival or promotion.
The nomad life of the Aldecaldos is clearly an anti Night City lifestyle, but more than aesthetically. I like also that according to the book "The World of Cyberpunk 2077" they are the most well-read and articulate population of the region.