hey everybody I thought I'd do an impromptu live stream here tonight in Krabby and uh yeah feel free to chime in I know it's gonna take uh take some time for people to join in as I didn't announce
this one but thought I just try doing a live stream at a different time you can see it's the sun is just set and it's just a beautiful night it's been uh been pretty uneventful here in Krabby just
give it some time to let folks join I was on Philippines Antics earlier today uh really enjoy Heidi and George and then also some of their guests are good some their guests are not so good unfortunately um it's
not a critique of of them but uh some guests can be quite mean Spirit at at times um but learned a lot you know I always learn a lot from them I always learn a lot from when they
have a mic on and yeah I just I try to look at things in the positive way and I feel like it's a real privilege to be able to live in this part of the world as a foreigner
to be able to just learn about these cultures and these people and yeah I just it feels wild to be able to ask people who have this depth of experience but then also can speak really great English about
their countries it's just um you learn a lot when you don't have the local language but you're fortunate enough to know somebody that speaks your language and uh really look forward to going back on there hopefully there's uh
you there's some of the other guests will be nicer next time and we can have a more productive conversation I do apologize for this being kind of a slower month on uploads especially the last week or two I
have been dealing with some issues with my neck and um that's kind of set me back a little bit but my neck's feeling better and I should be getting back on a better upload schedule SCH next month I
have a Some solid topics I want to cover in fact one of the you know sometimes I'll have a topic that really sticks out to me like man this is going to be a really good one I've got
one that I think is gonna be really good that I'll probably shoot tomorrow and I'll I'll try to have it done by tomorrow night may have to come out Monday if uh if I have to stay up too
late working on it tomorrow night um well and yeah I may be busy tomorrow but it'll come out this week I I'm really looking forward to that one I think it's GNA I think it'll be valuable for a
lot of people I am going to Bangkok next week for my B6 sension and I'm trying to decide how long I want to stay in Bangkok uh this time anywhere from three days up to a week and I
go back and forth on it because sometimes Bangkok can be overwhelming you stay there for a while just the the hustle and bustle the population the smells the sights The Sounds it's like sensory overload and um it's nice
because I get to see some of my um Thai friends that live in Bangkok but it does take a lot out of me and I'm trying to figure figure out where I want to go after this final V
extension if I want to go down to hen um but I've heard hen is pretty spread out and it's not so friendly to uh somebody who like me is preferring pedestrian way of doing things I'm looking at changmai
but the API the air quality index is still not looking too good for changmai um my first time in changai was in May of 2018 and I remember that year it seemed like things had improved but right now
it's still pretty Smokey I let's see here CH my yeah it's pretty pretty rough um I think the rain will hopefully bring it down some the next week or so um but Bangkok is is significantly better right now
and yeah I just have a lot to think about when it comes to next steps and where do I go next I'm just basically down to planning my last stretch of time here in Thailand for I'm not sure
when the next time I'll be able to be back in Thailand will be my plan is to go to Vietnam uh when my Visa final visa extension expires in mid July I'm looking at flying to Vietnam never been
to Vietnam but I've had a lot of friends go to Vietnam over the years really enjoy it and I think that's going to be a really interesting place to be um I've heard it's different uh you know more
more so different than Thailand because Thailand is in the indosphere I mentioned this before but it's more influenced by India whereas Vietnam is in the sinosphere it's more influenced by China so it has kind of a more Chinese
roots in its culture and the way they do things and I think that'll be uh I think that'll provide an interesting contrast to Thailand welcome we got a viewer and a thumbs up feel free to chime in with
any questions or thoughts or comments that you have happy to answer or respond to whatever is on your mind um but yeah and and you know something else that I'm dealing with right now is that I need to
R my US Passport and I don't want to wait until the next time I'm back in the States because the renewal takes about four months if you're back in the States but if you're abroad they can get it
done in like a few weeks and so I'm trying to decide do I want to do that in Vietnam uh do I want to because I've never been to Vietnam I don't know if I'll enjoy it or not
do I want to go through that process in Vietnam and need to you know be kind of diligent about being by the mailbox mailing because I'm looking at dang but the places where you can do that renewal are
in Hanoi and then also in huchim Min City so I'm like okay well I want to go to dang I'm not as interested in the big cities um but I need to get that done and so do I
want to go get a place in dang for a month then as soon as I check in mail my passport up and pay the renewal fee online and then wait for it to come in to then make further
plans um but there's always something that feel like I know it's normal thing there's always that nervousness in the back of your mind or like okay I really need to have my passport on me at all times but
I've got to also renew it and so being kind of pass supportless I could imagine will be a bit of an anxious feeling even though everything will go smoothly I'm sure and I don't anticipate any major issues but
I think just woke up from a nap I think that that would be a good feeling when I have that done because that'll you know that'll give me of course a passport with 10 years of validity as opposed
to my current passport which is down to a little more than a year validity and um to me it's like I look at it as one of the most valuable or important things my country's ever given me and
so um yeah I need to get that done and then it's kind of a decision-making process like do I want to stay in Vietnam after I get that done I'm looking at the 90day Visa uh e for Vietnam
runs about 50 bucks and that's I think it's 50 bucks for the multiple entry I think they give they elect to give you 90 on arrival so I think maybe I'll have to ask for it I need to
do a little bit more research on that Vietnam has the trickiest kind of Visa process in Southeast Asia for Americans like Thailand 30 days on arrival Cambodia 30 days on arrival or you you pay you pay $35 which
you can basically buy the VIS on arrival in Cambodia uh Philippines of course 30 days and you can extend it as much as you want Indonesia you get 30 days to arrival um but with Vietnam you have to
apply in advance and you have to fill out your forms exactly right because if you mess something up then um you're not going to get the visa and I've heard a lot of people say that they have to
pay like a rush fee where they're they're paying a pretty high fee on arrival like hundred and hundreds of dollars to be able to get in because if they don't pay that then they'll need to I guess either
go back home or go to another country but that's something I want to avoid and so I'm going to be sending my visa application probably late next week after I get my final visa extension Thailand and I know
I'm good to go for the next two and a half months in Thailand then I'll apply for that Vietnam Visa get it approved and then buy my plane ticket to Vietnam I book all my accommodation up and I
still don't have any leads on a new job and so depending on how long that stretches out in Vietnam uh I'm trying to think of where I might want to go after Vietnam and that's something I'll discuss down
the line but it's it's really an interesting time and I'm I'm loving my my time in Southeast Asia I don't want it to come to a close because it's just such a happy part of the world for me
and it's uh I feel so much calmer over here so much healthier so much happier I imagine that now I know for a fact that if you guys see me back in the work grind I'm G to just
be tired and kind of uh a burnout feeling to be honest but it is necessary until I hit certain wealth numbers to just keep it up and keep making an effort and just yeah going all in feel free
to to jump into discussion we got not not a lot going on in the chat so if uh either of you folks wants to share anything on your mind or thoughts then I'm always happy to uh engage in
and discuss it's about 700 pm here in Krabby Thailand and uh yeah this month is flown by I just can't believe how fast it's gone by I'll be flying up to Bangkok uh Wednesday and I'll have to get
up early Wednesday morning and grab a cab to the Krabby airport and then fly to Bangkok I'll then go to my language school I'll take the BTS from savan pum airport and uh well no I'll take the MRT
yeah I'll take the MRT um and then I'll I'll get off in like uh fire tie go to my language School get my paperwork and then I'm trying to decide like it depends on the timing there I think
I get to Bangkok around 11:30 a.m. I'll probably get my paperwork around noon 12:30 and then I may go down to Tom B I've been wanting to check that neighborhood out for a while never been down there before
I've spent almost all of my time in Bangkok East of the river and I've spent like several months total in Bangkok so I really want to do some stuff west of the river before I leave Thailand because there's
this whole other part of the city over there that I feel like it's it's rare for tourists to get to see and it's going to provide an interesting contrast to the bent line that a lot of Tours SE
probably a lot of you guys if you come to Bangkok that'll be your first area that you're exposed to because that's where they have uh it's really like one of the busiest or most like Dynamic parts of the
city you've got all these shopping malls on the line you've got all these big condo buildings you've got all these different soy you've got uh it's just really vibrant and it's really interesting and uh but you know there's
other parts of Bangkok as well like one area that I become more familiar with just due to immigration runs is the north side of the city and that's that's kind of interesting and um just haven't seen much of
the west of Bangkok I did have an what I call an ldr uh with the tioman in South Bangkok but never made it down there before things ended with her that was kind of disappointing I would like to
see South Bangkok at some point uh do you know when you're leaving Thailand great question THC 11335 so I'll be leaving Thailand on July 15 so I've been in touch with my school and I'll just go ahe and
throw it in the chat there um that's the last that's kind of the last date of my Visa validity so that's a Monday and I'll have to go in in probably the Thursday or the Friday beforehand go to
immigration and well first I'll go to my language school and get a letter I'll take that letter to immigration immigration well I don't know if they do what kind of background check they do I guess they just scan
my passport name and number in the system make sure nothing is coming up out of the ordinary and then once I get that letter from them basically it's like exit I don't know if you call it exit clearance
I know that's what they call it in the Philippines but they give me that exit permission and I take that exit permission with me when I go to the airport um and then I can show that that's immigration
when I go to fly to Vietnam great question and I got here uh let's see I got here June 30th so uh June 30th of last year so that'll Mark a year and two weeks uh this this time
around in Thailand and just have so much gratitude to be able to to have been here for that amount of time it's just been such a special experience Trey Graphics FTE says hey bro appreciate your videos thank you
so much Trey I really appreciate that I want to ask do you think a month allowance of $5,000 can afford an upper middle class lifestyle and a major in Thailand yeah $5,000 you're falling out I mean uh you
could wreck a really nice place in Bangkok for that you could have let's see that's about let's say $160 a day you're talking about 6,000 bot per day something like that and with that amount yeah I mean the
the challenge there it depends do you want to do one month in one city or do you want to do like 10 days in three different places if I had the 5,000 budget for one month and I was
here on vacation um yes you're not into partying and drinking but just want a nice area safe and Chill Lifestyle yeah you'll be fine on that amount right uh I don't know if that's including I don't know if
that's including your flight price I guess I'm assuming not but you'll you'll be fine with that amount I would struggle I would outside of Bank Co I would struggle to spend that amount of money actually like when I
first went to chenai I spent around 2,300 in a month and that was me going out of my way to spend money I was consciously because I knew I was just there for a month and I was like
ah this is so economical compared to the Bay Area that I'm just gonna go out and try to spend money so I get a massage every day i' have sushi every other day uh sometimes I have sushi five
six days in a row until I got tired of it and without amount of money you'll be fine uh yeah I think I'm more of a settling for six months out of the year and maybe go back to
us for the other half you'll wna Trey you will want to look at um you will want to look at some kind of language Visa uh maybe a mu Tha visa for six months I know for Americans we
can get I think it's it's like three months I think you pay you get your initial uh 30-day tourist visa and then you I think you can extend it once for 60 days I'm not 100% certain so you'll
want to just get clarity on the Visa situation before you plan for that um and I know sometimes I've heard after so much time they're not as much of a fan of people doing the EDB year after year
uh but yeah it's it's definitely at that price point you you'll have no issues you'll be able to live in a really a really nice modern building uh you'll be able to eat whatever you want you'll be able
to um have plenty of entertainment I think you'll be fine with that I think you'll really enjoy it if I were you and on that amount I would look at some of the um I would look at some
of the city center neighborhoods in Bangkok like on I'd even look on the suum bit line I mean without amount like and then you could be in some of the most convenient neighborhoods in the city that have a
lot of the things that you'd like to spend money on but you'd also have a base where you could travel out to different parts of the city very easily on the BTS or the MRT so if you wanted
to go check out um you know some other parts of the city you want to check out Chinatown you want to check out there's there's some weird places I've been in Bangkok that don't really have any tourist value
but just really cool to me turn it out like B CI not really a place I would send tourists out in kind of East Bangkok but a cool neighborhood nonetheless um with that amount you know you you'd also
consider that yeah you could afford to take a lot of taxis but sometimes something I keep in mind is that traffic can get so bad in Bangkok that it times it will be much faster for you to take
some kind of like Metro Rail or BTS system DH Kim says you love chain my but the air quality there is Big worry yeah the air quality is only an issue dhkim a few months out of the year
um to me it's perfect because like I I like vacations and breaks anyway I tend to get some Cabin Fever if I'm in the same city for too long of a time without a break so for me it's
like okay if I were to live in changai Long term like let's say I get to 50 I think at 50 qualify for retirement Visa this would be about 18 years from now for myself then what I would
do is I would rent a place in changmai and then every February I would go off and travel either outside of Thailand or I'd travel to the south of Thailand I'm in Krabby right now the air quality is
great let me look that up actually kbby aqi yeah so it's like 63 so much better than shangai right now um but yeah that air quality thing to me it's somewhat overblown I guess it would suck if like
you have kids and they're in school and you can't just leave for that time but for me I don't have kids I don't have a significant other so I don't look at it as a big impediment at all
I love Chang Ma I miss changm but uh it's nice to get a break from that it's nice to see something different um I've been able to meet some interesting people here in Krab that I wouldn't have met
otherwise like my roommate is actually from Japan it's been and he speaks fantastic English so I've been learning all this stuff about Japan from him and really really just enjoying that time and he's somebody who he's been to
changai but he prefers to live here and so I get it really a different perspective on the country and I also get out of that sort of Cabin Fever sometimes if from the same place I got this in
the San Francisco as well for too long without a break without seeing something different doing something different then I just get stressed out bored kind of listless every day kind of looks the same especially in a tropical environment
where the weather doesn't really change as much or a Mediterranean climate like back in California the weather just doesn't change much so I need to break up my routine and fortunately a Thailand it's very cheap to fly to
other parts of the country my flight from shingai To Hai was like 2,000 bought uh so under $60 to fly from almost the far north of the country to almost the farthest Southern point of the country and it
was very different hot Yi and shangai are very very different hot has like tons of tourists from Malaysia you have a Chinese population that I think is bigger than the Chinese population in changai and I learned a lot
I mean I learned a lot from getting out of changai even though it's like my security blanket it's my place where I feel happy I needed to needed to see something different uh Trey Graphics FTE says would you
prefer Bangkok to Paia absolutely um patio to me is like has a Las Vegas Vibe um and if you're into partying I think there's probably there's arguably no worst city or there's no better city in the world for
partying and having a good time and P I mean pattia it's in some ways it feels more 247 to me than Bangkok because I would go out walking in Patia at like 1 two in the morning and sometimes
just going out for a bike to eat and uh you see there's in Padia it's still lively late at night there's still people walking around I remember going to the convenience store at like two o'clock in the morning
it'd be full and so ptia you have such a party atmosphere that you can there's always something to do there's always activity there's always people hanging out but I'm not as much of a partyer these days 10 years
ago I think I would have loved Patia when I was in my early 20s I was kind of a uh I don't know if I'd say wild but I really like to go out and do a lot um
and so I would say if you're but if you're not into that you're G to find a lot more variety in Bangkok when I was in Padia I felt bored at times because that's not as much for me
and I didn't feel like I could really take advantage of the lifestyle that Patia offers um Johnn is a bit better Jen is not quite so party Centric so party focused it's a little bit slower but it still
has some of that like atmosphere that I think people either love it or hate it I didn't like the the some of the aspects of patio where you're getting you're not going to feel like a local person and
it's not that I feel like a local in Bangkok but in Pia it's such a it can be such a transactional city that you're not gonna you're gonna you're probably gonna struggle to make some of those connections that
I think are easier to make elsewhere in Thailand I found that when you are in ptia people assume you're there to party and spend money and so you're always going to have people coming up to you asking hey
do you want to come in this business hey do you want a massage hey do you want to eat this food do you want to go this do you want a tour and that kind of like constantly getting
solicited for tourism I understand it like the city runs on tourism I do not fault them at all Patty is one of the most popular places to go in Thailand even in the world and in Southeast Asia uh
but I think if you're wanting a more normal lifestyle you're gonna have an easier time in Bangkok because in Bangkok you've in Bangkok you've got a world City in Bangkok you have people there for all all kinds of
different reasons you have people coming there for International Business you have people coming there for romance or trying to meet a significant other you have people that are there because they're you know they're really into Thai culture and
Bangkok has a ton of really cool unique Thai culture that is concentrated because you have people that come to Bangkok from all over the country and they bring their unique elements of Thailand to the capital city that's why
in Bangkok you like I I have some friends in Bangkok that originally they're from Chang Rai and so her family moved down to Bangkok for a work opportunities uh so even though she's technically tied she's technically in Bangkok
she looks more like a person from changai and she has a Ching Rai accent and she's she's a nice person yeah a lot of travel bloggers go to Paya or paa you know I think it's it's you know
it's a place where you're guaranteed to get some level of Interest a lot of people Thailand attracts a lot of different apologize a lot of different kinds of people and and so some people they're going to fly to
Thailand and they're going to head straight down to Paia because they want to as soon as they get here to Thailand be having that kind of party atmosphere that kind of party lifestyle and a lot of vlogers are
attracted to that and I partied some when I first came to changmai six years ago but after a while like you know back home I was often partying to escape my problems I was stressed out didn't like my
job I didn't like my relationship I didn't like um whatever was going on in my life at the time and so on the weekend I'd party and blow off steam but as I've gotten older I found better ways
to cope with stress and better ways to uh meet other people and I'm just happier on my own than I was when I was younger as well and so that's where pattia loses some of that appeal is that
it doesn't it so westernized that it doesn't it's almost like if you go to the United States and you go to Disney World there's nothing wrong with Disney World I I've been to Disney World as a kid several
times it's a lovely place for people who want to have a good time I struggle to see it as friendly as being as friendly to long-term stays sure some people love it I know some of my Subs they
they love Patia and they love spending time down there but it kind of wore on me after a while just a constant party atmosphere where I lose track of Thailand a lot but in pattio I really lost track
of time because it's a party atmosphere every single day I mean I was in there in the slow season last summer and even in the slow season it still has that kind of party atmosphere and it's also you've
got a lot of people coming to Patia to make money because they're from a place in Thailand that doesn't have as much industry and like a lot of the massage therapists that I worked with in Padia that that
helped to do sports massage for me they were almost always if not always from other parts of Thailand so they came to patio specifically to work and to earn money and it does have a kind of a lonely
vibe to be honest Paia does have this kind of lonely Vibe under the surface it's such a transient place too like you're you'll notice a lot of the people are coming in and coming out they're coming in having
a great time for a week or two and then they're leaving to go back home to their home country or maybe they're going to a different country and uh yeah well I will say you know TR Graphics Patty
is not really I'm not sure where you're from by the way if you're from the US or perhaps Australia uh UK the how to I explain this it's not necessarily a place where you want to go swimming um
it's you might want to just take a look at some of the um the water quality because it's not going to be like Florida I've been to Florida a bunch and spent a lot of time at some of
the beaches in Florida and uh in Thailand you have to be at least in Patia you have to be a little bit more careful about the quality in the water I'm not and by the way I'm not here
to crap on Patia a lot of people do criticize Patia and and CR critique the people that live there because of the night life scene um I I admit because I've been to so many different beaches that it's
not a place that I would want to to swim in the water but that doesn't detract from The Nightlife scene um to be honest I feel like we're spoiled by beaches in the United States America has some of
the nicest beaches in the world whether you're in Florida you're in Hawaii you're in California pristine beaches that are gorgeous to look at like something out of a movie and um you know and pattia just well you know
they're super developed right so like the beaches tend to be a bit more crowded and then also um you're not too far from industry uh and and so I wouldn't necessarily recommend thinking that you'll go down there and
go swimming if you're wanting to get more in the water I would say looking at other places in Thailand like Thai Islands um also areas near Krabby where I'm at now uh pattio the bigger appeal is is The
Nightlife the entertainment the party scene it does have that Vegas feeling um not so much kind of like a tropical Beach destination I was surprised by that by the way I've never been to ptia before last summer and
I was kind of surprised that you don't really see people swimming a lot you don't really see people in the water as much I saw it a bit at colon I will admit like colon is uh this island
where you go to the pan Patia and it's like 30 body each way it's definitely subsidized which is really wonderful that they make it subsidized and affordable but you could take that 30 bot bus or ferry ride over
to and uh I did see people swimming over there and it just it's something where it's like would you want to rent to play some Patia and then be going back and forth all the time to colon I
don't think so um but uh yeah feel free everybody no we got eight folks on here feel free to chime in with any thoughts or questions that you have just enjoying a nice evening here in Krabby I've pluged
my laptop in to charge yeah I I spent so I spent was it August yeah I spent August in Padia and it was definitely slower than um my condo or my apartment I rented was cheap it was like
I think it was the cheapest place I've rented in Thailand it was it was 5,000 bought for a studio um and this was this was in between Paia and J Tien uh right on the B bus line so
really can me and could hop on a 10 bot bus to go to either Paia or down to J Tian and uh Kip pay is the best beach in Thailand but it's a pain to get I believe that
my favorite one of my favorite bloggers Gabriel traveler he loves Kip pay he's done some videos on Kip pay and uh that's definitely on my list dhkim Co repay I don't know if I'll make it to the islands
this trip that maybe something I do for my next trip is next time I come to to Thailand focus on uh some of the islands because I don't know to me like I've heard that uh some islands can
be quite touristic and I tend to get a bit of bit a bit of Island fever as well like I spent some time in on an island in Mexico and after a while I feel like I tend to
get a little bit trapped feeling like ah where am I going to go I'm on this rock and um that's where Islands sometimes can be a little bit claustrophobic feeling to me but that being said they're gorgeous and
I didn't feel that in the Philippines I don't know if it's because the islands are bigger in the Philippines um personally I think that this is like one of my I don't know if I can call it a
secret but my favorite islands in the world that I've ever been to or place that has that Island Vibe is to fil it's you have so many pristine untouched beaches and they're gorgeous like something out of a movie
um I'll actually share really quick I'll share uh K again this is one of my favorite places in the world that I'll share with you this island is uh is gorgeous I you so that's this is the main
island in the background here Kenan and then you take like a h a little you take a little boat over this island and you go swimming in the waters here and I saw all kinds of fish I mean
it's uh I saw like clown fish and and a lot of other species I didn't recognize but it's it's incredible um this like this tops anything I've ever been to anywhere in the world and a lot of places
I've seen as well and it's just so undiscovered and I think the future of this place will become super popular like it's just you take these are the boats that you ride on it kind of changes shape a
little bit like as the tides change and it's just so beautiful and uh I hope to go back at some point to Kem again it's it's really stunning uh Trey Graphics says what part of Thailand has the most
English-speaking population I do plan on learning the language but would like to have some wiggle room as I learn um I would say Trey Graphics Bangkok the islands and Paia as well um Bangkok in the south of Thailand
broadly speaking are going to be your best betat uh hot y well I wouldn't recommend it for your purposes has a lot of English too because of the proximity to Malaysia where they do have a lot of English
in Malaysia but I would look at if I were you Bangkok or the islands I think those are going to be your best betat and Patty as well but if you're not as much of a party guy then
Bangkok and the islands are going to offer more of that English without necessarily that party atmosphere that you may just not be as into uh DH Kim says I heard H is good for a weekend I you know
that's kind of my my I'm interested in my next as my next spot I am uh seeing that it's it's a popular place for tyres but that there's not as much going on I've heard it's kind of like
uh the anti- Patia in a way and that it's also on the Gulf of Thailand it's across the gulf they used to have a ferry that went from puen to patio which I think would be kind of interesting
to take it's not currently running I think they closed it after Co during Co but uh I want to go check it out see what it's about but I worry that I'll get bored there after a week or
two because it's one of the more low-key places in Thailand but I mean I feel the same way about changai and changai is like I said one of my favorite cities so I don't know if I will consider
it a downgrade or um not as good but yeah great great point is a really popular beautiful city and I think it'll be interesting to see just like you know do I like that slowed down Vibe I think
it'd be a great place for me to make videos right because if it's quiet then I have a lot of places I can go check out and shoot whereas times here in Krabby it can be a little bit
harder to shoot because I'm had like there's a main drag from where I I'm staying in Al down to the beach and walking along that main drag there's a lot of traffic and so that could kind of make
it hard to shoot because I I don't like listening to super loud videos where you hear a lot of stuff going on in the background so I don't like to make super loud videos and so some of those
can be a little bit more challenging to make um here in Krabby whereas I feel like if hen is not as busy then it'll provide more opportunities to shoot Trey says thanks for the info everyone just looking for
a place to semi-retire at low cost of living clean air and decent internet is are my main concerns yeah in that case you know you mentioned uh clean air it seems like to me just based on what you're
talking about that the islands are going to be your best bet I would look at some of the different Islands I'd research search um you can pull this back up tie I'd recommend checking out places like KET uh
this is KET U Kos you have kind of a scale where you have the least touristic islands and then you have the most touristic Islands I would say suu is up toward the top as far as being more
touristic and there's a scale and as you go down the scale you would get less and less touristic um those are what I would look at for you because you're going to have clean air you're going to have
more English you're gonna have a lot of conveniences that are catering to Western tourists on the islands you're going to have like if you want to train Muay Thai um you're going to have plenty of that if you
want to have western style food you're going to have that uh some of the bigger islands you'll have an airport so if you want to Jet away for a quick weekend go check out Ching maai or check out
um make a run up to Bangkok um what else um some of the popular things maybe check out a national park if you want to get away some of the bigger islands are going to offer you an airport
where you're able to fly to these places and some will also offer fairies where if you want to see a different Island you could hop on a ferry and you'll go you'll be able to go and see something
quite a bit different hi Jay salute nice to see you Jay I hope you're doing well tonight or today I'm not sure what time it is in your part of the world but yeah feel free everybody to chime
in and um share any questions or or thoughts that you have I think we'll go for another 20 minutes or so for and feel free to uh yeah I kind of wondering if my signals hi Pinto how are
you doing tonight feel free to chime in with any questions or comments or thoughts that you have just here in Krabby here for a few more days I want to check out Riley Beach Monday probably go down to
rile on Monday and that's like a it's like a you take a a longtail vote uh over to actually why don't I show that it's yeah so this is where I'm wanting to go on Monday and um you
just take one of these longtail boats over there and it's supposed to be really beautiful and uh gorgeous they are having some jellyfish issues right now so not a place you'd swim but really stunning and you can only
access this beach by boat so it's not a place you can just walk over to you have to take a boat around this uh these Cliffs here and then you get to the beach and they've got like some
bars and um some resorts and some restaurants and uh just a nice place to go it's just super hot right now that's part of what's been keeping me indoors this month is just how hot it is here in
Thailand right now April and May are the hottest months in Southeast Asia and I'm definitely feeling it like just walking down the street I be covered in in sweat and so it can be a little bit intimidating or
overwhelming for people who aren't aren't accustom or acclimated to Ty but yeah any throw any questions or comments thoughts you have down in the chat I'm always happy to engage or respond to uh whatever anybody shares I think
we're starting to see the start of the rainy season here that's that's been interesting um and the rainy season will help things cool off because the humidity and the temperature seem to come down after a hard rain we
had some rain at night a couple nights ago it hasn't rained since then but hopefully we'll start to see more rain in the coming weeks a lot of beautiful lightning too I've able to watch from my uh place
here in Krabby just like look out the window and see the beautiful lightning strikes and it's uh yeah Thailand is just so gorgeous and it's such a pleasant place to live it's peaceful in a lot of ways I
mean it's um it's special and I'm really glad that I I've committed to a year over here for how long are you in Thailand so I came here last summer and I'll be here until this summer and then
this summer I'll be headed out so when I leave I have been here for a little over a year and uh this has been my I guess this is my third well third or fourth trip to Thailand I
first came about six years ago fell in love with the place I was thinking what can I do to live over there how can I change things up or learn new skills or save some money to go stay
in Thailand for a while I had some friends my age from America who were living here and are still living here actually we're here six years later and they still love Thailand and they've been living here the whole
time they do periodic trips back home to see family but um you know the first time that uh the first time that uh I came here um you know that was six years ago for a month I came
here in 2019 at late 2019 um then I came here in early 2020 this was uh I was actually here at the start of covid and then uh I came back last summer so 2023 so I guess this
would be my fourth time in Thailand and a total of one year and I'm so glad because it's it's just such a beautiful special place where did you go Pinto where did you go in Thailand for one month
yeah demy um I don't know I don't know if I I blocked Nat at some point I'm not seeing his messages I have had some trolls and I'm I'm pretty quick to to cut them out just because I
I see where tolerating trolling leads and doesn't lead to a good place a lot of people think oh well they're just disagreeing I'm not picking on that by the way but like I don't I have a low tolerance
for it because I do this channel for fun I don't actually haven't actually made a penny from this Channel and uh it's it's cost me I I don't know when it will will turn profitable so to speak I
mean I I spent quite a bit on equipment and things like that and uh just a passion project of mine to connect with people and to meet people and so anything that can kind of sour the experience I
want to I enjoy doing this and I I'm willing to to kind of um I'm just put willing to put my foot down as needed because uh if I stopped enjoying it I wouldn't do it and I actually
enjoy this I enjoy connecting with a lot of you and uh and I also have seen like Heidi this morning you she was upset because they had this awful Troll and uh he just went off on her like
first he started making fun of One the guests Bruce who's a nice guy uh he was insulting Bruce about his teeth and then he was insulting Heidi about her weight and uh there's a lot of crazy expats out
there I never run into issues with ti people really nothing's major um the issues that you're going to run into in this part of the world you're going to deal with expats most of the time um I you
know I was watching One Channel I'm a fan of and he said a Tai person uh a cab driver might overcharge you a little bit a foreigner will sell you a business that does not exist um so if
anybody is there person for you to watch out for I would say be cautious around the foreigners that you encounter and abroad uh and demry says Honestly though the time it takes to learn these languages is not worth
it yeah demy I don't have like the capability I'm 31 now I'm just not as quick at grasping languages I put a lot of effort into my Thai classes but it's just very difficult it's very very difficult and
you're talking about a language that can't really be used outside of Thailand and so if I was going to learn a language I would learn I would either go in for Spanish classes which I already have some basic
Spanish from living in Latin America for about six months or I learned Mandarin Chinese or i' learn like Hindu I would learn one of the most popular or most prevalent languages in the world maybe Japanese because I am
part Japanese but um I I think that it's best to just go for the bigger languages because those are going to get you more bang for your buck Tai is a very beautiful and interesting language but if my
fortunes change if things change if I don't settle down like if I get to the age of retirement and I don't retire in Thailand then I wouldn't be able to really use the uh the language Pinto says I
took one month I went to Bangkok Pia Kos kosui and chenai that sounds wonderful Pinto what uh what was your favorite what was your favorite of the four places that you went to was there a place that really
stuck out to you was this your first time in Thailand I'm always curious about my viewers and subscribers experiences Dem says I'm with you man I'm in Korea and I know a decent amount that it takes intensive study
to get fluent yeah and and I find too even with intensive study then the characters are very difficult to learn so to actually be able to write the language is quite difficult and I just struggled with it it's
also the pacing I felt like the classes they're I would need to invest in private lessons and I don't know if I'd be willing to make the time or the time or money commitment to private lessons um to
get that strong understanding of tha and I get some Basics like I have Thai friends that teach me some basic Thai and help me learn and I'm able to get by on some basic words like um Nit Noi
which is a little bit uh of course I know how to say thank you I know how to say delicious um you know a few words will go a long way in Thailand there's a lot that I could
express in Thailand with very very limited Tha um I use delicious more times than I could count because I'm trying this delicious fruit and smoothies and food and all this stuff but I just constantly find people aryy mm
delicious it's delicious yes first time there changai was amazing very spiritual Place yeah pinto the temples are incredible in changmai did you visit doap doap is one of the most beautiful temples I've ever been to in the world
it's it's just gorgeous on the side of a mountain why don't I pull that up for everybody actually some folks may have not ever seen doys suap yeah absolutely stunning there hundreds of years old and you learned so
much about the history of Thailand through the context of Buddhism and you get a beautiful view of the city so about cost is I have some friends that live in kosun they've been living there for about a year
and they've invited me to come stay with them and I'd love to go see them but for me want to place this too oh no um I'm sorry to hear that I'm kind of wor one it's connection issue
um I'll stop sharing oh okay so okay I I'll I'll go back and share it again it may be some uh some lag for my internet connection yeah so with kosamu you know I think my concern is just
like how to explain it I worry that if I go to uh I live in places that are too touristic I will lean too much on that tourism aspect and I won't have as much time to research the
culture and the history and also um I like variety I like a lot of variety in my experience and I find that when I focus too much on the tourism destination I don't necessarily get the amount of variety
that I want to experience not to cut down coia one of the most beautiful islands in the world you've got people from all over the world that are living there and spending time there another another part to be
totally fair is I'm not a motorbike driver so I've heard for a lot of the islands you really need to be we can go ahead and pull up Co here you really need to be willing to on a
motorbike and that's something that I'm not willing to do and so uh you know while it is very beautiful and and you've got a lot of Nature and a lot of interesting things to see then you're a little
bit limited if you're not willing to ride a motorbike and I don't feel that is much the case in a place like changmai where I can hop on the song towel or I can just go walking um I
have friends that have cars in shangai too so if we hang out I'll just hop in their car and ride with them and costu if you're not willing to ride you're kind of limited there and it can be
very dangerous for inexperienced people like myself to be riding a motorbike Pinto says yes I also didn't rent one when I was there it's very very popular you know it's very very popular to to rent a motorbike uh
for tourists that are coming to Thailand but I also think it can be really quite risky in and not good for inexperienced drivers and uh yeah so you were dependent on the bot tracks and some people feel like
it's a little bit of a bummer to to Ry to have to be dependent on B on the bot truck but for me my safety is most important I want to come to Thailand for many many years ahead
it's easily among my most favorite countries in the world I don't want to get in a rush I'm not in a rush to see Thailand I feel like even after a year here I've just scratched the surface there's
still some places that I really want to see that I haven't seen Chang Rai some of the islands um and also some of the cities that are not as popular for tourism one of my subscribers mentioned that he
lives in K Kane I'd like to go see K Kane at some point not a place with much English not a place with as much of the tourism but a very interesting City a Thai City that will provide
me yet another glimpse into this kind of mysterious place uh I haven't lost Magic by the way Thailand to me is even better than when I got here a year ago because I'm learning more about the culture and
the people and I just love it and I think some people do lose to Magic but that hasn't been the case for me at all I noticed with a lot of long-term taii expats like my buddy uh here
you know the magic just grows for them like they just like it more over time they connect with more Thai people they see more of the country they learn more about the culture the language the way they do
things here and it's um it's just such a special place I mean Ty people are among the nicest people I've ever met in my life and they have so much to teach me coming from the west where we're
always in a hurry we're Rush we're trying to get things done and move things forward and be productive we have all these things that we have to get done and we're hurrying around and you come here and people
are laidback and calm and they still work hard but they don't always they just don't have this nagging kind of agitation that we we see in the west at times there's so much for us to learn from Thai
people and the way that they conduct themselves and the way that they're close to their families the way that they make the best of difficult situations the patience that they extend to everyone the non-judgmental attitudes that they have
um I could go on and on about how much I enjoy being here and how much I've learned from being here and it's Thailand will always have a piece of my heart let me put it that way well
we're getting you know we're getting past the hour mark I did want to uh move toward wrapping things up I appreciate everyone who's joined us tonight thank you so much for helping me with this wonderful discussion I hope
it's been helpful for you as well um definitely give us a thumbs up if you haven't already it helps to get this out to more viewers and if you haven't subscribed you're watching this on a replay would love
it if you'd subscribe and join us if this content is valuable You' like to see more content like it um but yeah feel free everybody uh Pinto demy uh anyone else watching to chime in and share any thoughts
or or questions in closing happy to tackle remaining topics for everyone any weekend plans anybody have any uh interesting oh sure Pinto feel free to drop your question below happy to answer it for you for regarding one year
trying a new place I always wonder if it is feasible with a small budget Pinto depends on how small your budget is um I estimated around $20,000 for the year in Thailand uh I that's not all the res
sources that I have I'm not going to specify my assets or netw Worth or anything like that um I probably undershot that a it to be honest I'm a pretty frugal frugal traveler I have very basic needs I
enjoy having a quiet place to read and and to learn online to study um I enjoy a fairly simple lifestyle um so 20K may seem like not much at all to some people I know one viewer mentioned he's
planning on 5,000 per month over here uh whereas other people would say oh wow how could you spend 1,500 per month that's so much money uh so small is It's always important to quantify small and and jumen seemed
very cheap when I was there yeah I'd say juman probably has the cheapest rents of anywhere I've been in Thailand tons of options tons of choices especially in the low season um this City seems to be built up
for peak season to have as much opportunity for people to come in and enjoy themselves in peak season but uh certainly in low season you've got you've got cheap rents but yeah I I would say you know quantify
your small budget for me I I felt fine saying you know what I've got this 20K I can afford to spend it I may not spend all of it but it's there um I've gotten a good variety of
course I'm not as I'm a person who needs to be in Bangkok if I needed to be in Bangkok I would want more than 20K I'd probably want more like 25k for a year if I wanted to live
in the islands I'd probably need more like 25k a year uh you're gonna have more expensive rent and food in the islands in Bangkok not to mention Transportation will also be pricier but uh I found I I found
it to be um I found it to be you know this 20K Mark is fine for Patty assuming you're not super in NTI or changmai or Ching Rai um I think you could do just fine with that amount
here in kbby as well hot Yi you could do hot y on that amount um a UA if you want to go up to UA these are all places I've been and I would feel fine on that amount
there um your Basics aren't so expensive in Thailand I found it's really the level of luxury that you want right if you want to have Western food that's imported that's going to really Jack your budget up if you
wan to be engaged a lot in the night life scene partying a lot with uh people then that's going to cost a lot I'm not a drinker so that helps you know that helps me cut down some but
if you're somebody that likes to go out for drinks that's going to cost more I I I look at it this way your cost of life is low in Thailand your cost just to exist is very your cost
of living can be as high as you want so depending on how you quantify uh how you qualify living like what a quality life looks like to you Thailand can be pricey um I yeah I would say it
can be pricey demry says is it super hot there absolutely it is extraordinarily hot it's with the real feel with humidity it's been like 116 117 Fahrenheit um here in Krabby and that's during the day at night it'll
be around 80 fenit so yeah super hot super super hot I've been drinking a lot of smoothies a ton of smoothies like I'm drinking smoothies sometimes several in a day and drinking a ton of water drinking a ton
of electrolyte I get this electrolite powder at 7-Eleven I don't have any packets with me but um I'll pour that I'll get a like B of water at 7-Eleven pour the electrolyte powder in and then I'll drink it
in there um April and May are the hottest months in Thailand so if you're somebody that is averse to extraordinary heat I would recommend looking outside of May or April a lot of people that are really well to
do from what I've heard that are long-term people like they stay in Thailand long term in April and in May they'll go to Europe or they'll go to Japan or they'll go somewhere else that does is not not
quite so hot similar in Philippines I think Philippines also has April and May as the hottest months of the year so a lot of people are spending a lot of time indoors and they just kind of chill like
if they're not leaving Thailand for April and May they're spending the day inside you know they're staying out of the sun uh maybe they have things they could do online I certainly have a lot of chores I could
catch up on on my computer like uh I got a tax extension I got to finish that so I can get my refund um what else there's there's a lot that I I need to do um that I
can make time for in these months but yeah as far as going out and doing a lot it just takes so much out of you I mean I've walked around In the Heat of the day and the hottest
part of the day tends to run from like 2: to 4m and when I'm out during those hours I'm just done I mean it just sweating so much and exerting so much energy that I don't want to do
a lot um if I go out during the day so I've kind of learned to try to take a more of a siesta kind of similar to a style that they have in Mexico which neighborhoods do you recommend
in Bangkok do you recommend not touristy but close to BTS markets um BTS or markets uh that's a good question J um oh and Heidi says cool oh GL great to see you Heidi uh Al was just on
Heidi and Georgia stream recommend checking out their Channel I'll throw the uh name of their channel in the in the chat so you can check them out they're they're great and they cover a lot of interesting topics and
they uh Heidi and George both like have a lot they have an interesting perspective and they there in a um there's a lot of vloggers out there with an agenda and I just don't see that with them I
feel like they're really trying to help people and they're they're trying to um they're trying to share a lot of value and and really um cover things how they are like they want to they want to be honest
and they want to share with you that the the reality right because I think a lot of people they come in and they're trying to like sell you on something and I don't get that impression from them at
all I think they're they're trying to really share the realities of life in the Philippines life in Southeast Asia and to me like I I I get a lot of value from them I recommend everybody watching to go
check out their Channel and uh from time to time you'll see me pop up in their live streams as well they they've always been welcoming to me as a guest and and welcoming of my perspective as limited as
it is uh so a lot of gratitude for for George and Heidi uh but yeah getting back to your question jinsa which recommend which neighborhoods in Bangkok do you recommend not touristy but close to BTS markets uh one
that I would say that you might look at jinsa is chatu chak um chatu chak has the largest market perhaps in all of Thailand let me pull this up for you actually and some people might call chat [
__ ] touristy but you know it can be tourist state but there's also um there's also kind of a lot of twisting Alleyways and a lot of places to get lost it's not as touristy as suit and I've
noticed that you know chatak it's busy with tourists on the weekends but throughout the week it's just simply not as active and you're in the north part of the city but you've got an MRT line there I don't
know if there's BTS you may have to transfer to BTS uh actually why don't we pull this up uh we'll just go to tomb um so chat check is up here this is chatak uh up here in the
north part of Bangkok and it's a really popular place for taii people to visit and really popular among foreigners as well but you're not away from the touristic area if I was going to tell you what to avoid
you don't want to be as much around tourists you'd want to avoid this this area here um you know through here you're just gonna have a lot of tourists and it's convenient right I mean I I'm a fan
of this area due to convenience but if there somebody who doesn't want to be on that as that tourist line as much I'd say looking at the North coming up here to chat check um I'm also a fan
I mean it's not really centrally located at but uh some like kind of on the outskirts of Bangkok are getting BTS lines and so you're seeing places that formerly seem to be kind of cut off that are really
easier and easier to get to over time like I'll show you another neighborhood I'm a fan of I know it's still kind of out of the way but Bon Capi is is really cool this is Ban Capi and
they have like my favorite Hospital in Thailand uh long story but a great Hospital vegani let's see here vegani yeah way over here so vegani actually this is where I stayed so this is where I was at when
covid went down is I was living in uh a condo around here so I was living in this neighborhood in March of 2020 and eventually I was using Airbnb to stay in a condo around here or an apartment
building around here and eventually the uh building manager said hey we're no longer allowing foreigners to stay here through Airbnb and that's when I booked my flight out of Thailand this was end of March 2020 but yeah I
I have some fun memories of wandering around this neighborhood wondering if the world was ending very fortunate that it did not um and this so it recently got a BTS stop so you've got this BTS station right here
it's brand new like they just recently finished it um but if you want to do something less touristic course not everybody's a fan of it you see down here you could walk down here and you've got these canals
so you could take this canal boat all the way down here and you can end up like right very close to the city center so I would say those two banapi a little bit different kind of far out
e um but still part of the city and not quite as far as the airport uh you have savan pum out here so you you know you're not quite all the way out there but it's not going to
feel as teristic you're not going to see when I whenever I've been in banapi and I've been there this time this trip as well rarely see any tourists people it's where a lot of Thai people live I have
Thai friends that have never even been to this neighborhood I have friends who grew up in Bangkok who are my age in their early 30s that they're like I just have never had any reason to go out there
so part of what I would suggest in your search is um looking away from sukumvit and just kind of like looking at some random weird places like um something that some people would benefit from is if they were
to come to Bangkok for a month book A Week in four different neighborhoods so uh pick like four different neighborhoods or you're like okay I'm G to try this one for a week that one for a week and
we'll see uh what all they have going on and maybe I like this one because they've got uh certain certain mall that I really like maybe I like that one because they have the certain style cuisine that I
really like um it's there's so many layers to Bangkok and and for me i' I've discovered more and more of these layers over every visit where I I started off by being in some of the tourist areas and
branching off like oh that looks cool what's over there or uh you know what I need a break from this crowd of tourists where can I go where I'm not gonna have as much of that and uh so
you have so it's safe that's the thing about Bangkok is it feels like a very safe uh City and so it's one of those and like Bangkok p is the same way I've wanted around B Capi at like
3:00 in the morning with no issues um when I was staying out there my sleep schedule got messed up where I was like going to sleep at 5:00 p.m. and waking up at like 1 or I was going
to sleep at like 5: am waking up at 1 am 1 pm another one I would say this one's kind of this is close to the city and it could be ConEd as touristic but I didn't feel like
that was as much the case uh this is you're not far from Cowan Road which is admittedly extremely touristy but here it doesn't really feel that way it feels very tied like it may have just been that I
was here around the time of the pandemic but got a bunch of late night scenes here I I remember staying up till five o'clock in the morning um working on math I was taking some math classes online and
uh wandering around this neighborhood bo bay market area and finding like this lady serving pad tie she stayed up all night sprayed pad tie um you are in the city center or closer to the city center where if
you want to go check out different stuff you're not far like I've walked from here to um to MBK right I've walked from here to CM mall or taking a bus it's a short cab ride taking a motorbike
taxi H but you don't feel quite as slammed with tourists because they don't have as much hotels like they've got Alice Hotel um but aside from the prince Palace I didn't really notice a lot of big hotels around
here um but you got proximity to some of the attractions like you've got the Grand Palace is around here somewhere let's see Grand yeah so you've got the Grand Palace over here so um some of these in between
places some of these places that uh they don't have the tourist attraction they might be close by uh but they have a lot of local flavor they've got people that live there um this uh going back to bo
bay there's like a there's like a textiles Market here too so this is one of those design districts of Bangkok where you see a lot of people that are in a textile business uh some of these businesses or
former businesses are being converted and that's something that I stayed in I stayed in this big like four story complex where this guy own this big building that I think used to be a place where they made clothes
and he was turning it into condos oh this is a different one B There we go we need to go back up um that's anyway yeah so you've got a lot of variety here but um any other questions
or thoughts is pattio pollution better than Bangkok yeah I would say so Jay I would say overall it is um it is better than um than Bangkok Jensen says I like that idea so many nooks in neighborhoods so
I appreciate these initial suggestions yeah Jensen you can't go wrong in my opinion Bangkok is such a cool City there's so much to do there's so much to see I feel that if I spent a lifetime in Bangkok
I still would not see and do everything that I wanted to see or do I've spent several months there and I'm just starting to feel like I have a layout of the uh main the eastern part of the
city so like I have a a somewhat general idea of what most of these areas look like U one of my favorites is saon actually it's very convenient um it's not quite as busy like especially you get a
little bit further away from sukumvit uh you still have proximity to downtown like downtown and all these areas but you're not quite like you're Nana or uh you know uh you're not near Kon Road and so you still
have accessibility though with MRT and uh but yeah so I've seen most of the East part of east of right but I haven't seen much of all this like all this is totally new to me so this may
be where I spent my last month in Bangkok I may get a place here in tombur and uh and then use this to explore banga and uh azy shaon and um ban I've heard some stuff about some good
stuff about ban uh but this this area is I mean we're talking about the entire Western half of the city is really appealing and interesting to me of course my thae friends may just be by nature of who
I've met and hung out with most of them do live east of the river so most of them are in this part because they need to commute to uh the city center and it's easier to commute to the
city center if you're coming from over here planning to go in late June and hopefully not as hot as it is now if you're still around in Bankok still will reach out that sounds great J say yeah I'll
still be here as far as I know mention coming up next week and I should be here until mid jly um but yeah I think we're going to wrap it up I appreciate every tonight uh thank you so
much for everything and look forward to more streams in the future this is a much better time I think for a lot of my audience so I'm going to aim to shift to be doing these in the evening
as opposed to midday but yeah I hope everybody has a great weekend and lovely travels be safe and we'll see you soon
