karaoke is not so loud here on the boulevard we'll see if that lasts but anyway um yeah I'm actually moving locations here in dumag Getti and um checking out well I checked out an apartment today and it's looking
really good so I think I'm going to take it and I'll actually be in the city as opposed to being on the outskirts of the city and that should be really convenient for trying to get around and trying
to do stuff um that's yeah that's going to be a lot more convenient to meeting up with people and hanging out with people collabing with people should be able to put out a lot more content uh being there
and um yeah I'll just have more access to a lot of the places that I want to go and some quiet spots that I can film and record looks like we got a viewer hey what's up um so
yeah I'm I'm looking forward to that I think it's just going to be all around a better fit for my purposes uh compared to where I'm at also let me know if you can hear me I don't see
any um like I don't see a like a mic gauge that kind of lets me know if I'm audible but uh yeah feel free to chime in with any comments or thoughts that you have so yeah I'll be
I'll be moving this weekend to the city as opposed to being on more of like the edge of the city and I think that'll be a good fit should be interesting okay wonderful hey good to see you gen
xat um welcome to the stream yeah it's uh so I'm gonna be yeah I'll be moving there probably on Friday is when I'll actually make the move from where I'm living currently south of the city to the new
spot uh which is more like not too far from the city center let's say it's you know it's just going to be a lot more conducive to hanging out with people being more social I'll be able to easily
get rides home so if I want to go out late night I can do that uh if I want to get up early and go meet people downtown a lot easier to do that where where I'm at now
I'm actually working on a video it's almost done I just need to edit like a section of it where I talk about the the social element of being an expat and some of the tips or suggestions I have
for how to maximize your time and one of those things that I suggest in the video uh you heard it here first gen Xpat is the benefits of living downtown or close to downtown sometimes in some places we
want to like be on the outskirts of the city and there's nothing wrong with that but I think there is a social benefit to being more in the city and and being closer to uh close to the action
right close to the places that like we want to be or the places that our friends are at you know that kind of thing so yeah by the way guys please give us a thumbs up it helps with
the algorithm but um yeah that's what I'm looking forward to is being downtown where I can uh you know I can more easily get to different things and meet up with different people and there's some places that I
like to frequent that are harder for me to get to where I'm at they're just more time consuming and I'm take hey Chris good to see you welcome welcome yeah so I found a spot that I think is
going to be a lot more conducive to my needs I'm just sharing with the audience that was Lightning by the way in the background guys I'm here on the Boulevard in dag Getti and uh yeah so being like
closer to downtown I should be a lot more productive we'll see how it goes but I think it's just going to be better for that I should be able to put out videos faster more frequently better quality uh
than where I'm at now because one of the challenges of living where I am hey Nicholas good to see you from Bangkok um one of the challenges of where I'm at now is that it's a solid like I'd
say 40 minute ride to the city and then at the end of the day a 40 minute ride home so that uh that chews up like an hour and a half of my time but yeah how's every uh
that that should be reduced um by being closer to the city hey Dina good to see you welcome welcome how's everybody doing tonight it was raining and it really uh put a damper on the festivities down here at
the Boulevard um and I'm doing well I just went and had uh some chicken wings at this place I like to go called Scoville they do like unlimited wings and so I really like going there sometimes when I'm
in the area and uh so tonight I happen to be um you know later in the evening I happen to be in that area so I stopped by there really great wings like if you're a fan of wings
like I am the Philippines it seems like every city of substantial size here in the Philippines has uh has a great Wing Spot Not the chain Wing Spot but a place you can have uh chicken wings in yeah
they're they're really really good so um but yeah the Philippines is going well I need to go get my ACR card I keep forgetting to do that I well I tried to get it done Friday but or Thursday
but they happen to be close for a holiday so I'm going to go back tomorrow and get that ACR card uh foreigners we got to have the ACR card I think it's called alien certificate of residence or residence
something like that I'm going to go get that tomorrow uh and then I'll have probably a couple weeks before I need to go uh renew my or extend my Visa so I've got to go do a visa extension
here in a few weeks and uh yeah that'll be that'll be normal you know I've done that several times now uh so I'm kind of accustom the process you fill out a form and uh you explain to you
know immigration what you know what your purpose is for extending your stay and uh really routine stuff you know not something I'm I'm worried about so blood king I'm actually on the Boulevard in dumag Getti and this is
if you've ever uh seen Vlogs and doag Getti like Mike's done Mike's Philippine retirement he's done videos down here uh s sizzy Kelly does her uh interviews down here there's um yeah there's a lot of vloggers that come
down here to make content and uh and uh sorry I got some some people um and uh yeah so there's a lot of people that you know come down here to Vlog and uh you know make content um
it's kind of windy right now I don't know if you can I guess you could see my hair uh being a little bit you know in my shirt being a little bit blown by the wind but um yeah
it's it's a nice public space here a lot of people like to come down here and go running a lot of people also like to you know kind of Walk The Loop and get some exercise there's some great
restaurants and both on the Boulevard and then kind of on the street lining the boulevard there's like uh what's it called there's uh you know there's a Starbucks and there's what else there's several good like I like Cafe
filomina you can't really see it behind the pirate ship but behind that pirate ship there's this hotel called the bethl guest house and over there they've got a cafe on the first level and they serve nice food and
uh they're really popular for like desserts people go there and they have Holo Hollow they have I like cake and that kind of thing also it's popular for coffee but you know that's just one of the places that
they have here that's really nice and it's you know it's a really good place to be a blogger if you you know you're interested in getting to vlogging it's a great place to level up there's so many vloggers
here that you could that I've learned from um that really helped me learn a lot and been really good to me as well so I do MTI definitely has a special place in my heart and I'm I'm happy
to be here I think I'm gonna be even happier being in the city you're a student blogger what do you blog about yeah yeah I mean if you're trying to learn how to Vlog or blog um there's a
lot of people here I found the majority of them to be friendly and kind and uh you know encouraging and really have they've a lot of them have taught me a lot most of them don't see other vloggers
as like competition and you know most people here are nice is everybody nice uh you know maybe not but hi you won good to see you uh where are you joining us from but yeah there's a lot of
great great folks um great folks here uh Nicholas how does Duma compare to changai um that's a great question Nicholas advantages of dumag Getti over changai more English uh more I think there are more foreigners here I think
there are more foreigners here um they're more concentrated here I think just with the prevalence of English uh more guys like more people in general like hey if I'm concerned about English I can come here to do MTI
where changmai the English is improving but I don't think it's on the same level as z meetti um I think that over there you've got it's just like I don't know how to explain it you've got it's not
so it's I get a I think that the foreigners in changai are a little bit more isolated uh comp compared to here where everybody seems well not everybody but most people seem to have a crew that they hang
out with most people find a group centered on a certain topic or like shared beliefs or whatever it may be so I think here there's more groups and more people getting together in groups I've got a group on
Wednesday that I meet with now every Wednesday and I've got two groups on Thursday that I could meet with every Tuesday there's more than that uh out there that I kind of sprinkle in get together with but you
know it's just very easy to find uh I'm going to move down here a little bit guys one second there's uh there's just more there's more uh sorry guys sometimes you got to be willing to to move um
but uh there's more yeah there's just more groups I think in dag Getti changmai I think uh you know it's a bigger city so you have certain big city conveniences that you're not going to have as much of
here there's I think changai airport has more international flights I don't think dag Getti airport has international flights they are building an airport that can um do international flights but yeah I really like the social I like the
um what else about DTI versus J uh I think it's you know I think the the ocean the proximity to Ocean destinations is a big one changai is not close to any beaches so if you're a beach person
or you like The Aquatic activities I think they're just to be harder for you to have access to in changmai uh changai I think is a little bit more expensive not significantly so but a bit more expens expensive
as far as rents go in my personal opinion I think Western food is a little bit more expensive there too um I think the big thing is like the Visa is more straightforward here in dumag Getti at least
for Americans where the Visa and changai you've got to you got to sort some things out and your time frame I don't think is quite so long as things stand today things may change I'm not sure how they
may change but as it stands it's easier for Foreigner to maintain a Visa for an American to maintain a Visa here in dumag Getti um uh blog about the same things kind of what you do kind of excellent
I'll check your blog out king I'm from Malaysia wow go back to Malaysia at some point it's so beautiful and like developed and I likea a lot I go back there at some point um I've only spent time
qual koala Lampur in the suburbs but Kale's awesome super modern city convenient public transit I love the food there I like that it was more like lowkey and more laidback it didn't really have uh the party atmosphere that
you find in some other countries in Southeast Asia it's uh to me it was a super productive City I felt like wow I can just get a lot done there so I like Malaysia I'd like to see malaka
next time I'd like to see panang Lan kawi and uh there's a couple other places is it EO so yeah there's like four other places I want to see Malaysia that seem really interesting to me um that'll be
next time I go there I think Americans get like 90 days on arrival so that's plenty of time to see um you know see a variety in Malaysia Rosario good to see you Rosario uh yeah it's nice it's
really cool and Breezy here it's not like hot muggy it's now that the rain has come down it's really cooled off a lot it's definitely my favorite weather that we get here in dag Getti is it's cool the
sun's down it's Breezy but it's not raining anymore the rain was short uh didn't last long tonight so that was really nice um Nicholas says uh how did you find these groups yeah so for me Nicholas it was
kind of organic I have certain places I like to go hang out um coffee shops like in town Ground Zero is really popular for a lot of bloggers uh so I'll go there I end up running into people
I've also had friends introduce me to other friends of theirs and it sort of happens organically that I get introduced to people and then they invite me to the group the other day I was filming it uh one
of my my favorite Hotel here in town and then a group showed up there and I just uh I ended up recognizing one of the group members because one of the group members is my friend ended up sitting
down with them and hanging out with them for a while really got along with them they ended up inviting me to a group the following day so these kind of social networks seem to form organically here uh and
you have to you have to follow up you know you have to ask about details but going to certain places here in dumag Getti I can't speak for other cities but certain places seem to attract uh crowds you
know Western people we like certain Western foods and we like certain you know western style coffee shops I go to the mall too I don't know why I'm pointing there's not it's you can't see it from here but
Robinson's mall where I'll meet some guy and they'll tell me hey some of this is tempered by the fact that I don't not a judgment against people to drink some of my good friends here like to have a
few now and then uh but I'm I'm not going to like xat bars right which kind of which could possibly be a little bit disappointing because um you know some of them show like UFC which I'm into by
the way guys I may have to cut the stream soon because I'm hearing some Amplified music I thought it might be done for tonight but if they play it too loud I could actually get a copyright violation for
that so I have to be very cautious about the Amplified music that I'm around but um yeah great City to meet groups I'm not sure uh you know I'm not sure how it is in the bigger cities but
um definitely definitely a lot of opportunities for socializing here I think more so that in changai I'm not gonna say changai doesn't have those groups but I didn't really see them as much groups are centered around like digital
nomad life where dag Getti doesn't seem to have as much of a pres the crowd here skews a little bit older older retired guys that have the free time to get but yeah feel free guys to chime in
any questions or thoughts you have uh I'm just going to keep staying here in dag Getti it's a good fit for a lot of different reasons for the time being and uh yeah I've got I hope to have
something out tonight we'll see how it goes I've been editing it for several days and adding trying to go for more long form video because some of my friends have suggested that as long as I have value to
add um then you know the longer form videos are are uh you know worth a shot but uh yeah feel free guys to chime in I I saw the numbers drop so it's ating between 10 Watchers and one
Watcher so I'm not sure how many folks are watching right now but um if you are watching give us a thumbs up it helps with the algorithm to distribute the video to more people um yeah people more folks
are definitely coming out I guess the rain was pretty shortlived so I don't think it'll be as busy like if you come here to do magetti and you like to come to the boulevard the rain tends to really
uh dissipate the crowds I think a lot of the crowds here they don't want to get their hair wet they don't want to get their clothes wet so when that comes down a lot of folks end up going
home calling it a night early um so that's something to be be aware of um now we've got 13 people watching that's interesting um where's everybody watching from I noticed somebody said they're in Malaysia we got somebody in
Thailand uh we have some folks back in the States I think one of my friends he's uh in another Southeast Asian country it'd be interesting one day to get somebody from each country in Southeast Asia on a live
stream that would be really neat but um yeah man those those wings really hit the spot I uh I did some uh just walking around town kind of exploring I found a new it's kind of like a department
store with it's like four stories here in town called uh uh comms and I like it a lot it's uh you know it's very convenient it seems like it's going to be a good place for me to go
to work sometimes like just work on editing I didn't see that I didn't see charger ports readily accessible but I could go with a Charged Up laptop and work for a couple of hours editing until it's uh you
until my batter is low and then maybe roll over to uh another location um but yeah feel free to uh you know chime in with any questions or thoughts that you have [Music] I don't oh no I'm scrolling
down I'm not seeing him but yeah guys it's uh it's a nice evening here the weather is really nice and I'm I'm enjoying it um but yeah as far as finding rubs my next video should cover that should
cover that topic I I need to add well I don't know I think it it does it covers some of the basics maybe I could do a deeper dive or like a part two or a follow-up video because
I think a lot of guys you know I talk about this where guys and I I say guys because my audience is heavily male but there's some gals out there I'm watch that are watching I'm sure uh but
you know they're used to back home where they've got work and they've got their family they might not be close to their family and their co-workers are not their friends so they're not really used to having people that
they hang out with just for the sake of hanging out with like I often say this my co-workers are there are people that I make my money with doesn't really matter if I get along with them or not
I don't have a choice and who I work with if I'm employed by a business the business owner makes that determination or they've got a HR department that makes that determination but for me as an expat I choose
who I hang out with and that choice I think can cause some stress for a lot of people like who do I want to hang out with do I want to hang out with people who are uh have
a similar diet that I have do I want to hang out with people of a certain Faith do I want to hang out with people that you know who do I want to hang out with because I have
so much Choice over here as to how I spend my time that it's uh I think it could be really overwhelming for some people to have so much choice and and also to know hey who do I not
want to hang out with because once again you know when you're working you got limited choice of that unless you're an entrepreneur uh you can you know if you're an entrepreneur you can certainly fire customers but if you
are not not an entrepreneur then um guys I'm gonna have to pop in but um yeah let me know if you if my audio went out I'm not sure haven't done the vertical live stream too much but it's
uh yeah there's a lot of choice that goes into that and it takes a lot of thought we'll go down here a bit maybe it'll be quieter um you know there's a lot of choice that goes into that
and a lot of thinking about who do I want to hang out with right like who do you know I want to down here maybe we could do but yeah what do you um what do you guys up
to I'm a little bit sleepy it's been a long day I I recorded for a couple hours earlier and then I went to check this apartment out and uh yeah I think I'll go home soon so I think
after the stream I'm going to head the trikes down and catch a trike uh back home I had a pretty big dinner I did some fasting today I don't know how many of you are into fasting but did
some fasting today and uh that was kind of unintentional but just the way scheduling worked out that's what I did I um feel less achy I noticed when I fast it seems to reduce the ination for me and
uh something I need to you know consciously you know incorporate more in my week to we um and uh yeah so what do you guys what are you guys doing uh this week any plans for this week [Music]
it's charging a little bit slow I'm I was hoping my airpods charge a little bit faster but uh whatever um can't with them all so maybe we'll go for a few minutes few more minutes I'm not seeing any
new comments so um this might might be the most exciting uh and yeah with with more folks coming out it may not be the uh ideal you know anyway um yeah I just wanted to do an update stream
and hope everybody's having a good week good start to their week it's uh yeah it's nice weather I'd like to do some more walking before I go home get some more exercise get my steps in I um yeah
I try to try to be pretty good about that try to get a decent amount of steps in and I'm kind of curious let's see if I can I'm going to gotten almost 20,000 steps in today that's way
more than I thought so maybe I don't need too many more steps actually um that's fine that's not a big deal but that's that is kind of surprising you know that's more than what I thought I thought I
maybe gotten it like 10,000 in cuz my legs don't feel that sore but uh yeah almost 20,000 steps that's really that's really a lot of steps um so easy to do here in dag Getti I know so many
guys who have come here and lost weight uh because you know they're getting so much more activity than they were back home but um yeah I may go ahead and wind down is I think there's only one Watcher
now and uh you know it may not be a great time for you guys as the audience and oh we got four more well maybe a couple more minutes if anybody's got any questions or or thoughts to add
uh you know happy to talk about happy to um happy to answer those um what do I want to say in closing yeah I'm looking forward to to being in this new spot by the weekend should be a
lot more productive space for me there's a desk in there I can work at uh you know it's not going to be in a provincial area that just takes me longer to get out there there's less likely to
be um just I think friction to being productive or there's going to be less friction to being productive and hopefully I could do more streams there too I'm not sure how the noise will be there's uh oh no
I got to block this guy excellent well um yeah so this this new building um you know it's it's definitely it's like close to some of the universities so there's uh you know there's more of a kind of
a student population and uh hopefully you know these people are aspiring to something better it's going to be you know more and more kind of conducive to um you know just to getting things done but um yeah well
guys I think it's probably good time to wrap up it seems like this may not be the uh you know the most opportune time to to uh to a stream thank you all so much for watching if you're
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