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Live from Da Nang, Vietnam - Southeast Asia Discussion

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Da Nang is a rapidly developing, safe, and vibrant coastal city in Vietnam that offers an excellent alternative for expats seeking a balance between urban convenience and a beachside lifestyle. Unlike the hyper-touristic hubs, Da Nang provides a more authentic experience with a lively evening culture, affordable living, and a booming local economy.

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Use a bicycle to navigate neighborhoods for a more authentic and convenient local experience.
Prioritize safety by staying sober and alert in traffic, as local driving habits are unpredictable.
Look for direct rental arrangements with hosts to potentially secure better rates compared to third-party booking platforms.
Be skeptical of invitations to bars from strangers, as these are often designed to target expats for inflated drink prices.

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Stepping into the vibrant streets of Da Nang feels like a true immersion into the heart of modern Vietnam.

The city pulse is palpable, offering a refreshing blend of beachside relaxation and an industrious, fast-growing economy that differentiates it from the quieter corners of Southeast Asia.

By navigating the neighborhoods on a bicycle, there is a genuine sense of discovery as one avoids the tourist traps, connects with local hosts, and observes the authentic daily rhythm of a city on the rise.

For the adventurous expat, Da Nang provides a unique balance of accessibility and mystery.

While the language barrier and unpredictable traffic present a learning curve, the overall feeling of safety and the welcoming nature of the local youth create an inviting environment for long-term exploration.

It is a place where you can find yourself enjoying a midnight snack by the ocean or working out in a local gym, all while gaining a deeper appreciation for a culture that is both busy with progress and deeply rooted in tradition.

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Is Da Nang safe for solo expats and digital nomads?

How do I find affordable long-term housing in Da Nang?

What are the best tips for navigating Vietnamese traffic on a bicycle?

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AI-Generated Is it easy for foreigners to meet people in Da Nang?

AI-Generated While the younger generation is often eager to practice English and engage, the older population is typically focused on their own businesses and families, making for a respectful but somewhat reserved social environment.

AI-Generated How does the cost of living in the Philippines compare to Vietnam?

AI-Generated Vietnam generally offers more competitive pricing for daily expenses, whereas the Philippines is often seen as a mid-tier cost destination, falling behind Singapore but sometimes ranking higher in price than parts of Malaysia.

AI-Generated Are there many foreigners living in the residential areas of Da Nang?

AI-Generated Outside of specific expat-heavy zones like My Khe Beach, the foreign population is quite sparse, allowing for a much more authentic look at how the local community lives.

hey everybody hope you're doing well tonight I am live from dang and yeah just been running around checking out the city um mostly exploring the city by bicycle kind of my immediate neighborhood I've got a sense of the layout it's super convenient because it's one of those cities let me pull up dang here and we'll give a little bit just to make sure people have a chance to get on I'm G to run over to my phone just to drop a note in the Discord if you're not in the Discord you're welcome to join I may have to do some kind of like premium version I'm trying to think of a more focused offering uh because I'm having some issues with the spammer that keeps jumping in my Discord and then when I ban him he like makes a new account and uh wants to jump in try to sell me Services I told him off and I I guess he may have uh taken that as a challenge to try to convince me to hire him I'm not interested in hiring him at all um and so to filter it I may have to do some kind of option where I have a public Discord um and then maybe do some kind of private Discord where we can chat a bit more I don't know something where like I you know there's some kind of like fee and then we can just hop in there and chat I give it out only to people who have uh you know join the program or whatever because I want to be able to connect with you guys but as the channel grows and there's more and more you guys I've got to focus on being able to provide value for the people who most need it right and somebody who's trying to sell me stuff when I've clearly told them um not interested in their services then they're not probably in a position to be able to travel um so yeah that's just kind of a brief discussion hey Christopher welcome good to see you tonight um I hope you're doing well in your area I was just talking a bit doing a bit of housekeeping I may have to with my Discord to turn down my air condition too I should have prepared a little bit better better tonight I'm sorry guys been a hectic day so um yeah I've just been dealing with some ants today in my apartment and tomorrow hopefully I'll be able to get some insecticide to handle those ants because they're they're wild I'm learning a lot about getting rid of ants I've never dealt with them before so uh yeah ch chher um great to see you in here dang is going overall well like I said been dealing with some ants today I found out if you take them out that they emit some kind of odor that I can't smell but that attracts more ants that want to come and try to handle the problem so the more I take out the more swarm in and it's a they're kind of chilled out because it's night time I guess they're not nocturnal they're more active during the daytime uh but it's certainly something I wasn't anticipating because never dealt with that in other parts of Southeast Asia so there's definitely a learning curve to living over here I dealt with some pests in California but not ants and Southeast Asia is even more hospitable to some of those creepy crawlies compared to California California doesn't really get an extreme winter but it's also typically not super hot uh Christopher says just returned from Manila a few days ago back in Indonesia now that's wonderful Christopher how was your trip to Manila I'd love to hear more about it we can chat a bit more about it um I'm starting to like try to figure out what I want to do in a few months whether it be more time in Vietnam which has been great I've really been enjoying being in a new country doing some different stuff of course there some similarities to uh Thailand but it's you know it's just got a different feel and it's um there there's definitely a sense of optimism here that I'm noticing like the economy is growing really fast in Vietnam and you could definitely tell just like it's Lively it's there's a nice atmosphere there's a cool kind of a nighttime Scene It seems like there's more going on in the evenings even in a city this for dang which we can go and pull that up actually I meant to do that earlier just so everybody can get a sense of the city so um but yeah Christopher feel free to chime in about your Manila trip I'm sure a lot of people are curious about the Philippines I know it's at the top of mine for a lot of people looking at southeast Asia because of things like the English the prevalence of English makes it so easy for a lot of folks that are primarily concerned about language barriers uh ronell says what up bro how you been we need to link up boss Hey Ron are you in dang right now um or are you coming soon I do apologize I think you might have let me know my channel has been growing so fast I added like 125 people in the last week uh because my video about happiness and unhappiness and Thailand really took off and so okay so you're headed to the Philippines yeah that's what I was thinking is I recall you being more of a Philippines guy based on our conversation I know somebody else mentioned they're coming to dang soon I've already got a friend here right now and we've Linked UP which was awesome first time meeting a subscriber which was super cool um and yeah I know if you I know somebody wanted to meet up in Bangkok last month I ended up getting sick with the pandemic stuff and having some immune system issues feel recovered from that now but uh that definitely interrupted those plans um Manila Christopher says Manila was all right but it had some pretty gnarly traffic I think I've seen enough of Manila and we'll try SIU next so yeah I totally agree with you Christopher in relation to traffic in mil Manila my experience in Manila airport was that I had a layover there I was flying either to Japan or back to Southeast Asia from Japan I can't recall which this trip was about four years ago four and a half years ago and I I'm walking through Manila airport and a guy had just like polished the floor and I had to walk through it like Manila airport one is very dense it's one of the busiest airports in Southeast Asia Manila is the most dense City population wise in Southeast Asia so I have to walk through it and this cleaner guy like tries to like like bark at me a little bit about walking through the area he just cleaned and I'm like dude there's nowhere else for me to walk like I've got a transfer here the nature of your job is that people are going to have to walk through this airport and it has to be cleaned on a regular basis whether I walk through it right now or somebody else walks through it in five minutes um so my experience in Manila was that it's just a very very busy City people are like you said in traffic a lot they're trying to get to work they're trying to get home uh imagine there's a lot of what you call like super commuters people that commute several hours one way to work so uh it's you know there's a lot to admire about Manila and I don't certainly don't want to trash Manila I think uh there's a lot to love about Manila especially if you're an expat you want a big city uh you want the conveniences of a big city you want English you want access to the Philippines right because you could fly all over the Philippines from Manila uh there's there's a lot to like about it but it does come with some tradeoffs that I would say apply to most big cities I don't know that I could ever live there I'd be happy to visit there in the future but for me SIU is awesome SIU is I really liked it a lot to me it felt like an American city uh it reminded me of like almost like a Los Angeles in a way uh you got the hills you got the lowly areas you got a lot of interesting development interesting architecture sure it's not quite on the scale of La uh but it maybe like somewhere halfway between like an LA or Miami or something like that and yeah I like SIU a lot I felt like it had a lot of hospitality and the conveniences that you'll get in like a manila but it's not quite as extreme people talk about the traffic in SIU I found most of the traffic in SIU to be going T and from the airport so when I was in SIU proper I I didn't have any issues with traffic I could imagine for people that are commuting from other parts of the island or a little bit further out that they'd have some issues with that uh but I lik ceu a lot I'd be happy to go there again um for me the mo the best part of the Philippines is the nature if I had to select one thing but yeah SIU awesome City I've I had a great time when I was there I felt like it was just a good balance between big city having conveniences without being on the scale of Manila Ron Ron says going to the Philippines or Thailand and soul those are great choices Ron I think those are two of I guess I'd say the most popular countries in Southeast Asia like most people um I hear more about Philippines and Thailand than it seems like anywhere else and for a good reason like Thailand has a long history and then the Philippines has English um I've been to both I've spent a lot more time in Thailand to be fair but I have some great friends in the Philippines and a bunch of people I want to meet up with there so yeah happy to meet up if we cross path I don't know if I'll be going back to Thailand in the near future because I just finished up a year there I love Thailand but I do want to spread my time around because part of this trip is doing more Discovery trying to uncover could I live in this place so I know all these places I love to visit I love to spend time there it's a lot of fun you know we talked a lot about vacationing in Southeast Asia but I'm trying to figure out okay of these places that I like to visit which of these places would I actually want to live long term uh and soul seems super cool like when I go back to America maybe next spring I'd like to do like a week in Soul um because I've definitely interacted with some people from there seems like a cool City very very modern um yeah interesting City and I think you can't go wrong there plus this might be kind of a dark topic but with the Aging population in South Korea South Korea is one of those countries I want to get to before too long because I do suspect that those demographic uh issues that you know the media likes to dramatize will have more impact in the coming years and I'd like to kind of get a capture a sense of what it's like before those continue to kind of compound brown puppy this is my first time interacting with brown puppy um great to see you tonight hi brother how is the dating in dang so far well I have mixed experiences so far um one woman that I started chatting with turned out to be a professional no judgment on her you know I totally get it that's not what I'm seeking out and so I went back to co oh okay okay your name is is code we've chatted a lot in the past okay great very good um yeah nice to nice to catch up it's uh I appreciate you letting me know you you went by a different name just because it's uh yeah it's getting tough to keep up with everybody I do appreciate the longterm subscribe longtime subscribers so uh yeah so she turn the the woman I initially started chatting with she turned out to be a professional which is not what I'm looking for no judgment to anybody watching this that that's their preference that's just not what I'm interested in right now and so I you know I match with some other women and we've just been kind of chatting um in a cursory way like nothing super serious just getting to know them I think one of them is indicated on her profile she's interested in friends not romance which is totally fine by me I like it when people are upfront about about that and I'm not really in a rush um it's it's uh let's see here but yeah it's You Know da dating is is is all right you I think the language RoR can make it a little bit tougher um it's the communication is is tough in a place where I don't speak Vietnamese and they I will give them credit a lot of them do have better English than what I would have in terms of Vietnamese at their age so uh yeah it's uh it's going you know it's just not a super priority for me but um yeah hope that's hope that helps Christopher tell us more about your impressions of dang this far great so thank you for helping me get back on track I'm add by the way so sometimes I can jump around don't be afraid to help steer me on course when I go and edit my videos I have to cut out a lot where I just get off track and I want to save you guys time so here in dang uh one of the things that's been helpful for me compared to other cities like I like cities I find it easiest to navigate cities that have clear landmarks so for me it's very easy knowing where I am uh in the north part of dang that to in One Direction is the beach right uh in One Direction is the beach you see like uh down here is like my K Beach or Quay my beach and so I Orient myself okay that's where it's at that that's that's the end of the map like if we're thinking about it in terms of a video game that's the end of the map and I've got to stay over here and if I want to go back to my place I'm you know here in proximity of the ocean everything in the city is e almost everything in dang is either south or west of me uh that I have access to because I can't just you know bike out in the ocean uh so dang is nice like it reminds me you know a lot of people online of used the phrase or the term it's like changmai by the beach and I would agree with that sentiment to some extent I you know first impressions one I think there's more of a late night scene here than changai I think postco changai outside of some of the holidays it seemed to be a bit sleepier after say 10:00 10 p.m.

where here I've been out on the beach at like even like 2:00 in the morning and having the sugar cane juice and people around me are having some street food uh there's like four or five it looks like they're selling some kind of sausage or um you know something like that uh along the beach there's also of course a bunch of beachfront restaurants a lot of the more established beachfront restaurants closed before 2 a.m.

but there's still people hanging out there so that's one of the first impressions is that if you're somebody who struggles with insomnia sometimes or drinks too much coffee like I tend to do or is sensitive to Coffee you're up in the middle of the night it's not like changai where I go on these kind of like almost you could say Doomer walks or night walks where you're in kind of this like Fugue State and you're wandering around the around the city and there's not really much going on there's not any people out you're like you know it's safe right changai is safe but you're not able to engage as much where I am able to here in dang I can go out late at night um you know people are stopping on their motorbikes and that like they've got their grab uniform on they're stopping and asking hey man you need a ride which got old after the fourth or fifth time if I'm being honest but you know got to respect the hustle I've been in sales you got to try right um one night I did go to uh meet a woman who was visiting here from Thailand uh closer to the downtown area and I just like walked it was like several miles each way and it was still somewhat Lively I still saw some food vendors around the downtown I saw somebody with like I don't know if you call it like a bike repair stand or something but they were posted up helping somebody with a flat tire by the uh I don't know if it was no it wasn't on the Dragon Bridge it was this bridge the c song han han River Bridge so this bridge uh somebody was like at this start of the bridge um we'll zoom in here a bit down here like on the far well it's not want to let me zoom in a whole lot there we go uh more around here around this side helping somebody to fix their Tire I don't know if they got a flat or they just needed it patched or what it was but that was kind of cool it also another first impression of danging Christopher it does feel very safe I haven't had any instances where I felt unsafe um not that I was expecting that I've always heard that Vietnam is very very safe but I can confirm that from wanding around the city at all hours that you know I haven't seen or felt anything that made me feel like I was at risk the I'll say the driving here is wild the driving here is wild it's something that you have to be careful about I'm not riding a motorbike here but I am riding a bicycle my host of my where where I'm sitting right now this I guess you call it a studio yeah this studio apartment the host is very gracious she's very kind perhaps one of the best hosts I've had in Southeast Asia she I don't know if she I don't know if she owns this building or she works for the owner or family owns the building but she's got this this building probably has 10 or 12 units and she's been super helpful checking in with me her name is Hong and I'll probably um I'll check in with her first see if she can if she's comfortable sharing her contact info but I you know remind me whoever is watching this on uh repeat comment and remind me hey let me get Hong's contact info if you want to stay in this building and uh yeah so she's allowed me to borrow her bicycle she's got this bicycle and it's uh super convenient to run around the city way faster than walking I definitely recommend if you can get a bicycle here in dang and you feel confident about being keeping your head on a swivel like I ride totally sober I I'm very very careful I'm looking around constantly double triple checking because Vehicles will go from around like either way like they'll come on your left side they'll come on your right side you have to be very cautious the traffic here is wild and it's just part of being in Vietnam it's something that I'm still adjusting to like I'd say the worst of it is during rush hour uh if you can avoid running around during rush hour I would say you know try to stay home or if you do come here to Nang pick we'll we'll pop back out here pick an area like my K Beach where you could just walk to dinner or you can walk to like a food vendor or something like that where you're not feeling like you have to cross the city because rush hours even though the city is not a Hanoi not a hoim city it's uh you know the traffic can just be pretty wild um I'm going to get some more of these comments and then happy to share some more First Impressions Christopher brown puppy asks do Vietnamese girls know how to speak English they speak fluent English they work at the bar uh you're yeah so a number of the women that I've chatted with tell me that their aspiration is to work in tourism so they're actually studying tourism in college it's there's this really big push and Vietnam uh for hey Tony welcome Tony always good to see you Tony is uh a longtime subscriber and a generous supporter of the channel through membership your membership's always appreciate it Tony um so yeah so I find that with the uh with the English a lot of these women that are aspiring to work in tourism there's a financial incentive for them to learn English right right if they're able to have a fluent command of the English language they could potentially start a tourism business they could work in sales right they could I'm not sure I don't know much I know real estate is very expensive in Vietnam but I'm sure there's opportunities for them to work in uh sales where they're selling to Western people who speak English like hey you know do you want to buy a condo well somebody who's Flint in English is going to be able to command that deal a lot better than somebody who maybe doesn't have that English skill so there's a lot of opportunity for them to learn English and the growth of the economy speaks says to me anyway that there's I don't know if it's I would say more so than any other country but like it's a really there's really potentially strong benefits not just from working in a bar some women do in fact work in a bar here one woman I matched with on Tinder tried to convince me to um come you know meet her at a bar I'm not doing that because it's just obvious I mean you Google a bar that she's suggesting that I come to and the reviews are like yeah I came down here because so and so convinced me to come down here and I'm paying $12 a drink I don't drink uh at all so no judgment if you do but I don't care if the drink is 12 cents it's just I don't want to you know that's just not my thing so I'm not going to be tricked into coming down there and paying $12 a piece and I would would pay $12 for a drink back in the US so why would I pay for $12 for a drink outside of the US uh you're living in the expat tourist area so actually not so much um there's less where I am the like the further away you get from this area which I'm not I'm not staying in this area by the way my K Beach it's you know I suggest it for people who maybe unsure like they you know they want want those training wheels in Vietnam because Vietnam is still rapidly developing and the tourism Trail is not quite so cut and dry um there are a number of foreigners staying in my building I think one of my neighbors is from the Netherlands I haven't talked to any of the other neighbors um but like there's a gym across the street from where I'm living and I've only seen I've worked out there probably at least a half dozen times and I've only seen a few foreigners over there um so the uh the foreigners The Foreigner population dang from my observation drops off quickly when you get away from this part I have pulled up on the screen most of the people I see all the people I see when I'm riding around this neighborhood getting coffee recording videos exploring have been Vietnamese there's a fruit market I've never seen a foreigner like basically I don't don't see any foreigners when I travel around my neighborhood and I I don't think I've seen any foreigners except for a couple the people that live in my building when I come and go from here it's uh it's very different right because in Thailand especially Bangkok changai you see foreigners all the time I mean these are two of the most popular tourism cities in Southeast Asia and I think danging with the in Vietnam in general has a a little bit um a little bit more complex Visa process it's just it's just going to take more effort and people who want to buy their ticket and book their accommodation be done with it they're not looking to go through filling out the Visa they're uh they may have not have had any friends that have been to Vietnam where a lot of us have friends that have been to Thailand or heard of Thailand so yeah it's yeah if you want to see how the locals live you have to cross the agen Bridge yeah I mean I like I said I see you know some around here how did you find your apartment through Facebook or search engine yeah so how I found it was that I actually found an Airbnb and then I exchanged contact information with them because I'm starting to realize that's a good way to get a discount um I know like people can get in trouble and lose their Airbnb account um I'm you know I may not I may request that people private message me because I don't want to get my host in trouble um but I also just I also just don't like Airbnb as a company if I'm being totally honest I think that they have some harmful practices not so much in other parts of the world but in the US they've really done a number on the real estate market they've had a they played a role in driving up rents and trying to make everything as efficient as possible uh such that people have a hard time in the US finding a up uh housing in certain neighborhoods because everything's turned into a hotel and I had a neighbor in Denver that did an Airbnb and it was just a nightmare um Ron asks do you think Philippines and Thailand are overrated not at all not at all I think that you know Thailand gets Bangkok was the most visited city in the world prior to the pandemic Thailand is on track I think they're trying to hit 30 million tourists this year Thailand it's absolute best as a country to be friendly to tourists there's not a single thing that I could point at and and criticize about Thailand when it comes to the tourism experience the accommodation is great value better value than almost any other country I've been to in the world just the quality versus the price the service is fantastic the cuisine is world class you have this amazing Cuisine that is famous all over the world I mean I've had Thai food in many different countries and people of many different backgrounds enjoy Thai food Thailand um the flights are reasonable you know compared to some of the other countries in region I've always found the pricing to be reasonable going to and from Thailand well almost always can get a little bit pricey in the summer but yeah the infrastructure is fantastic in Thailand and Bangkok you have BTS you have MRT you've got Vans all over the country the flight like flights all over the country um and then with the Philippines like it's the English is priceless to me like having traveled to a lot of different countries and struggle with the language barrier in many of those countries being able to go to a country that has the natural beauty of the Philippines it looks like I've never been to Hawaii but it looks like Hawaii but then being able to just talk to people like some of the best dating experiences I've had in Southeast Asia have been in the Philippines because I could go and meet women and we could just immediately launch into conversation they knew more about certain topics related to the United States than I did they were familiar with sports they were familiar with culture they we had like a similar sense of humor it was almost strange to me how much I enjoyed the socializing aspect in the Philippines because I feel pretty introverted back in the US and being in the Philippines people are constantly coming up to you and saying hey bro how are you doing like just engaging you in conversation so I think Philippines and Thailand they are the most notable I want to say the most notable the most well-known places because of that ease right because it's like in Thailand everything is set up for you to have a good time as a tourist in the Philippines you've got English better English than many countries in region I'd say Malaysia is good but uh yeah and and Singapore is good as well Singapore is expensive and um I don't know like I liked Malaysia a lot I I felt like the Philippines has more famili people in the Philippines have more familiarity with us culture because the Philippines is a former US colony because you have uh the popularity of basketball in the Philippines because you have a lot of veterans that have spent time in the Philippines it feels like the most Americanized country in the region um and and I want to be careful when I talk about this Ron I love Philippines I love Thailand I think all the countries in Southeast Asia are awesome I don't think one's the best um I don't think like you know I don't think oh this one's not good and this one's good I just think it comes down to individual preference I think it comes down to timing like most people you know they have two weeks of vacation a year maybe they're in between jobs and they can take a few months off but they are uh they're limited so they have to be expedient right they might love uh LA but they feel like well I've got two weeks off and I don't see as many Vlogs coming out of Laos as compared to the Philippines I see tons of Vlogs coming out of the Philippines or tons of Vlogs coming out of Thailand so I'll just try those and then maybe next year I'll try Vietnam or next year I'll try Malaysia or next year I'll try Cambodia and so people have to be really expedient because they got limited time limited budget I totally respect that if somebody says I want to do something different from Philippines and Thailand which was my feeling well I tried them but I also wanted to try some other places when I came to this part of the world five years ago and I'm glad I did I wanted to sample all the different countries in region and um yeah that's I just wanted to um to share on that um yeah Christopher $12 drinks yeah I'm not paying that that's I mean that's you're talking like airport prices at that point right it's yeah it's to trick and milk expats for money um that you know they think oh she's gonna be my girlfriend no she's not her job is to earn money her job is not to find a relationship I guarantee if she wanted a relationship she would have found one probably the first night she worked there um and I get it you know she's got to hustle she's got to make money she's got bills and there's a Ste stream of guys who want to be sold right they believe in this dream they believe in this idealism and they don't they don't think with this head um and hopefully it's a learning lesson hopefully you know some guys that fall for that they realize wow you know I came in thinking this and actually the case is this I'm not going to do that again I'm not gonna make that mistake again no I've never made that mistake because I've just spent so much time and I don't mean this in a bragging way but I just spent so much time dating in my younger years I felt like I saw it all in terms of bad behavior from different people and and there's and when working in sales too that helped a lot too you work in sales you learn about people's motivations you learn about what drives human behavior uh because you're trying to get the sale and you're trying to figure out how to connect with people and you're trying to figure out what people like and what they don't like and how people work and being so analytical I I didn't get it and after a year of Hardcore sales I I learned a lot about motivation and uh I'm instantly suspicious when somebody that I've never met before invites me out um to to meet at a bar or a night life setting coffee shop that's fine you know maybe like a cafe sure during the day that's fine but hey come meet me at my bar at 11 p.m.

at night you've been here for four days and we've never met before no no thank you I'm immediately skeptical now part of the way she set it up was yeah we'll hang out and then when it comes time to the arrange time I was like yeah let's meet up at like 11:00 or whatever like as in uh let's meet up at a normal location maybe we meet at like a Roadside Cafe maybe we meet at the beach um I'm I'm not looking to have drinks with the total stranger the first time I meet them I'm just a very cautious person and so when she pivoted from oh yeah we'll meet to come meet me at my uh at the bar I'm like no like no you and and also there's dishonesty there like Hey we're going to meet at a what I would call a neutral location I think most people when you're meeting for a first day it's better to meet at a neutral location um and yeah so I I was just like no I'm not doing that um but yeah great great call brown puppy it's uh you know like I said I get it but I'm not that kind of guy and it was just I don't know I did see like probably several dozen comments ments or reviews on that bar saying so and so invited me over here and then just like you know encouraged me to buy drinks and then I got a big Bill and then they're also encouraging to buy drinks for for them um and you know I don't know how much I could say about it this is not a situation where you're paying for some kind of end result um you're more so paying for like the entertainment factor of uh you know being there Michael Watkins asks what areas or neighborhoods would you recommend for someone looking for a changm type Vibe but in the Philippines you know Michael that's a good question I've only been to I'll just totally to be totally transparent and I need to grab my charger one sec guys grab my charger okay we got that so um I'll admit you know fully transparent I've only been to three cities in the Philippines four four if you count Manila airport but I don't really count that I've been to Kayan deoro I've been to SIU and I've been to keman Island I don't know if there's an apple apple comparison as far as City goes in the Philippines um I know dumag Getti is very popular if I were to give some parallels between changmai and dumag Getti then I would point out dumag Getti has a College San University dumag Getti is very popular among foreigners like lots and lots of foreigners are living in dumag Getti researching living there I've heard rentals and real estate has gone up a lot there you're going to have tons of English spoken there um changai not as much English but it's improving changai has a lot more English than it did when I first went there six years ago for example um what else about you MTI you're G to have some western style uh conveniences in terms of the malls also the dining options you're going to have some western style dining options you'll pay a premium for them but they are there places I'm sure that I think there's like a steakhous in dumag Getti um so yeah I I would i' suggest researching it I know some people feel like it's overdone it's too popular that there's too many xats going there but based on my conversations with some of the people that I'm friends with that live there they like it because for them it's almost like and this is my perception too one foot in the Philippines one foot in the west so they get you know uh the tropical island Vibe but they're not totally out in the province where they feel like ah I I never get to interact with other expats I have to drive several hours to get to a shopping mall dti's got an airport right they've also got a fery terminal in siulan so I'd start with researching doag Getti and then I'd also just look up other perhaps other like cities with a college in uh different parts of the country um I hope that helps Tony asks you may have uh okay great great Michael I'll uh I'll definitely get back to you on that in a bit um you may have covered this already I just got here how is the introvert experience where you are so far you know it's pretty good uh Tony it's well I have mixed feelings on it it is pretty noisy um there are you're going to hear a lot of karaoke and tanang it's the common thing especially on Sunday it seems like the Karaoke gets turned up to 11 there are fewer modified bikes here based on my observation I just I get the sense that there's superer modified bikes which is nice because that can really wear on my nerves hearing bikes that have been had the muffler removed because it's it's not a safety thing people will say oh they're removing the muffler because it's safer no no the thing about the bikes there's a few ways to be safe on a bike one top reason wear a helmet you wear a helmet that's one of the safest things you can do on a bike two ride at safe speeds you ride at safe speeds that's going to help you uh three be sober when you're riding a bike um but just being as noisy as possible has no impact on other drivers like you can't control when you're driving you can't control other people's driving you have to take responsibility for your own driving so saying well I could just drive like I could just drive badly as long as I'm loud doesn't cut it um so yeah t I would say the noise does get a bit noisy also you know this is something that's not really the fault of any anybody but Vietnam is at a earlier stage of development compared to Thailand and so there's a lot more construction happening here um people are building their houses people are updating their houses modifying their houses people are building new houses I went up on the roof today to film a video that I'm trying to slot for uh for a patreon I'm thinking about creating a patreon to put out spicier content that I don't feel comfortable putting out on YouTube um so I went up there to film and I looked like across like a few blocks away and they're they're building another level on top of their house so that's one of the trade-offs that comes with the economical aspect of Vietnam is that it is still developing a lot they're still building build a lot updating a lot um dang is growing super fast it's a tourism Hub in the country so that's one of those other things that I think can make it a little less introvert friendly is that one the karaoke but two more importantly than the karaoke which admittedly isn't so like is what it is is the construction you know people just trying to start a real estate business people trying to build onto their family house maybe somebody saved up the money they needed to get um equipment they needed so that um I would say people tend to be respectful of like people aren't young people will approach me and talk to me I will I do notice that but middle-aged older people they're I would I used it in my video uh a few days ago but they're more ambivalent they're like ah you know I don't really need to be friends with you you know I don't really need to get to know you we don't need to hang out like U not being rude not being ugly but a lot of these people are super busy they've got their friends and family um I also point out too just the history here uh other countries have not always been very considered or respectful to the people here and so that I think that also goes into it uh and you know I get it right like they they're hustling they're working hard like some of the hardest working people I've ever met have been Vietnamese so I don't take a friends to it but I do I actually do find it refreshing I do find it refreshing that people um middle-aged to older people are not coming up to me and and trying to um you know trying to talk to me people are are pretty business forward I do like that the young people are are friendly it's it's light-hearted like I get a lot of Hello hello and uh I include that in the video I'm working on right now it's I I may need to go and record some more stuff for it but I had some instances with young people wanting to practice their English and coming up to me and talking to me in restaurants or if they're writing on in the street they'll come up to me and talk to me uh what else about introversion um yeah I mean you know people people are are friendly like I I don't I don't want to say they're not friendly but it's not in some countries people are over the toop friendly because they really are that way like in Colombia people Colombians are so friendly um but you know sometimes you just don't want to talk sometimes you just want to be in your own space in your own head uh greatness is often crafted in isolation and it's uh yeah it's a nice change here and I noticed too like with people who may not have any English they're smile they'll smile at me uh in some cases but they're because they're concerned about being able to hold the conversation with me then like in coffee shops I'm left to my own devices I'll get a coffee and there might be a half dozen Vietnamese guys sitting there and having coffee but they're engaging with each other um same in the gym I go to a gym across the street and I'll be the only non-vietnamese guy uh person there so they'll be talking amongst themselves they're not trying to be exclusive they just feel like well we can't speak English he can't speak Vietnamese so we'll just give him his space but people have been respectful in the gym like very respectful um nobody comes over and takes my equipment or ar like in the US I've had people argue with me over equipment multiple times um they don't have this aggro Vibe like there's it's a really Fitness conscious city which I really admire it's one of the more fit Fitness conscious cities I've ever been in like tons of people at all the gyms i' I've seen um but yeah very respectful um so yeah I would say it's it's introvert friendly like I don't know if I how I'd put it on a scale of 1 to 10 that's something I may need to do a video on I do need to do a video on that Tony but um yeah great question uh brown puppy Ron ronell says red flags yeah ra Red definitely red flags um yeah there are tourists that run into that brown brown puppy you have to be cautious of scams anywhere in the world I've heard similar scams in many different countries Michael says honestly I'm not not quite so drawn to changai because of western style things it's more due to the idea of having cheap rent and lots of cheap things to walk to and do um you know in that case Michael I don't know like the Philippines is not the cheapest country in Southeast Asia I would put it I would put it like behind Singapore ahead of Malaysia uh Malaysia has gas subsidies right because Malaysia is really big in the oil and gas industry which helps to reduce their transportation costs um the Philippines doesn't have that the Philippines also Imports a lot of a lot of stuff um so everything that you're a lot of the things that you're enjoying are getting in the Philippines have had to come there on a boter plane so I wouldn't necessarily call it the cheapest I do know it has a reputation for being more economical than the US which I would agree with but I wouldn't necessarily call it the cheapest place um dag Getti does have the boardwalk I haven't been there like I said I do want to go there uh next time I go to the Philippines I will be going to Dag Getti but dag Getti does have that Boardwalk where a lot of people like to walk up and down it they've got a lot of people like to run up and down at too um but that provides a walkable place it's you know southeast Asia in general isn't the most like walkable friendly part of the world it just seems like the nature of it it's seems like much more oriented toward motorbike Transportation as opposed to people like walking around on foot [Music] you yeah you you may want to take a look though at J getting not so much like you said for the Western stuff but uh because there are a lot of foreigners there and there are a lot of retired folks there such that um yeah uh brown puppy feels that changm and N are better but if you go to Dag Getti for the women there are none because most work brought or taken yeah I would say daget is probably not your best bet for dating just because the uh there's just so many people there that so many foreigners there that it's not you're not really sticking out as a foreigner it's not as interesting there's not that that synchronized sort of feeling where like I like to date women in other countries because they have these unique experiences they also are curious about me what my life is like IND doag Getti telling somebody hey I'm an American they've met tons of Americans right they've heard about what it's like to live in Cleveland Ohio or Seattle Washington or Ithaca New York uh and it's not going to be as interesting or exciting to them and you also like uh like brown pppy mentioned you got a lot of ofws where there are plenty of people from dumag Getti that are actually living in say USA UK Australia uh you've got that dynamic Christopher says oh ge's oh GE the loud motorbikes bad in parts of Manila and here in Indonesia I think it's just about being obnoxious yeah you know Christopher I agree with that I think that it's just about getting attention and being disruptive I that's one of the things that did bug me a little bit about living near chenai University is a lot of like a big chunk of those young male University students they're doing that for attention grabbing and it's um it's just annoying you know it's just annoying like it's it's annoying I don't know how else to put it brown puppy there's no noise restriction they'll do construction all day yeah I mean like I got woken up this morning about 8 o'clock uh from the gym I go to turning up the music real loud and then a couple year a couple hours later there was a bunch of uh you know young kids screaming out in the street and yeah did not feel very good eventually I got back to to sleep but uh that's yeah that can be a bit annoying Christopher fake Mufflers uh tend to be loud and or called wrong here people don't like them and the cops are beginning to crack down great I'm glad to hear that Christopher because there's no point to it I mean you know it's it'd be one thing if there was some kind of genuine purpose or some kind of obvious benefit if it actually made things better if it was a safety feature I'd be willing to support it I know a lot of people a motorbike is their only means of transportation um and they need to have it but the muffler does not impact the removing the muffler does not improve the safety of a motorbike it doesn't make it more gas efficient it doesn't it doesn't it's not productive it's actually harmful um Christopher great video idea travel destinations that are palatable for introvert expats yeah and I I promised Tony like probably a few weeks ago maybe a month or two ago that I do a video on that and uh let me make a note of that my top introvert expat destinations um and you could call it travel destinations as well but I could go through and talk about my top five or my top 10 introvert friendly cities I could mention a few that I'll include on there one is going to be Cusco Cusco is a real gem in Latin America where you get the warmth and friendliness of Latin America but in the mountains in that mountainous andian region people do respect personal space they do kind of keep to themselves they'll smile at you and some people do approach you like uh I did have some people approach me are very friendly in Cusco but people aren't super boisterous they're not looking to um at least in Cusco they're not looking to go out and have a night on the town I didn't see a whole lot the kind of nightclub or dance club scene there brown puppy uh Manila rent is crazy expensive yeah Manila can be very expensive surprisingly expensive for the region a lot of people think of Southeast Asia as this place where it's all cheap it's like n Singapore is expensive Manila is expensive I found qual lur can be expensive for rentals I was paying like uh 600 a month for my accomodation in KL I could have gotten that down some but that was four years ago that same some of the same places might be more expensive now and some of that is the infrastructure I mean in KL the Metro system is awesome like anytime you get that kind of development where you've got a very efficient Metro System I assume that that's going to come with the price um like buenos iris is price corrected brenos Iris used to be the cheapest world city world class city in the world because of different things that have changed it's now gotten much more expensive part of that is having a nice Metro System part of that is being really nicely developed good deals eventually go away from my observation they things even out um demand goes up because a lot of people want to live in a city with great Metro System a lot of people want to live in a city with fantastic malls a lot of people want to live in a city where everybody speaks English these things are almost universally desired by Western expad hey GMM good to see you H welcome welcome from Bangkok um and let's catch it yeah yeah so yeah and brown puppy I will say too like I I know this isn't always ideal I know it depends on the circumstance you got to feel it out um but yeah Airbnb can certainly be pricey even by local standards but yeah 900 is pricey um GMM reusable silicone air plugs are your best friend in Southeast Asia yeah I'm always by the way I'm always using my airpods like I I use these all the time I'm wearing them all the time if they're not in my ears they're on the charger they are such a big help I actually had to replace these in Bangkok um a few weeks ago so I went to the Apple Store in Bangkok and got my right one replaced so my right one needed the battery replaced the left one is in so so shape it's got some different damage because I've been hard on these I've started to learn how to take better care of them but yeah that that's a a challenge and then I got the case replaced so actually I had two of the three components of this replaced and uh another thing that I have when these are not working is I do keep a nice pair of I got these knockoffs of what are called Loop and I'll throw them down there Loop earplug so they are these silicone earplugs that I recommend bringing a PA to Southeast Asia because depending on where you're from in the US I don't think it's so bad like if you're from an LA or you're from a a New York City you're from Chicago the noise might not be as surprising or might not be as invasive but if you're from a smaller City or you've lived out in a rural area um and then even coming from a bigger city right like I came here from San Francisco area San Francisco doesn't have motorbikes there's very few people even riding motorcycles um there's you can get in trouble if you modify your muffler there and a lot of people there don't even like uh big vehicles to begin with because the roads are really tight parking is tight everything is just crammed together brown puppy I visited Manila first time my last time um yeah and I like I said I don't want to disparage Manilla I know a lot of people like it I don't think it's for me just based on what I know about myself and my experience traveling to a lot of different countries and the short time I had at Manila airport it's uh you know to me the biggest things about the Philippines are the awesome people the beautiful nature some of the most beautiful nature I've ever seen in my life probably the most beautiful nature I've ever seen in my life um also the laid-back lifestyle and so when I think about a City like Manila 25 million people most densely populated city in the world I don't think laidback I don't think like you know there is beautiful nature within a few hours in Manila and I I have some subscribers outside like there's a guy named Michael who's awesome I've connected with him several times he's been on some of our streams he lives outside of Manila so he gets the best of both worlds he gets the conveniences of Manila he gets to go to the shopping malls he gets to have the Western style restaurants but he's not in that City so uh with you know with Manila I would say um being willing to live a couple hours outside the city you get the best of both worlds you get the modern conveniences you get some of the infrastructure that exists in Manila um you're not going to feel like you're totally provincial like in a province area of Manila I think it's going to feel less provential than say in the B ban Bas region or mind now um so I wouldn't totally write off Manila either I do want to mention that like City proper probably not for you know not for me but would I live outside I'd try it out you know I have still haven't checked out places like Trace martiz where Steve from Philippines info Channel lives I haven't checked out tanza um I haven't checked out Angeles where Philippines anex are located and I do plan to do that I do want to take some time to explore the areas surrounding Manila because I think that that's where a lot of people really um really find themselves appreciating the benefits in Manila without dealing with some of the downsides in Manila being in a crowded City you know dealing with the traffic to the same extent uh brown puppy anybody make your money here online if so what do you do yeah always curious about that feel free but you know I will say brown puppy too all things considered a lot of people do kind of protect their income if they've got some super unique or cool way to do it if they're not retired a lot of people are kind of wanting to keep it close to their chest and I respect that I've had some interesting hustles over the year that I tried to be I tried to keep on the DL because I felt like if they they got too popular then it you know might reduce the potential income there um tiny condo Bangkok is a worldclass city that's why it's so popular with tourists absolutely agree Bangkok is like Miami but much safer and triple the size to be fair triple of the population in or two and a half times the population in the metro area also just a lot more pleasant people like I took a cow ride in Miami about 12 years ago it was terrifying yeah was terrifying um Vietnam is rough around the edges yeah you know it's still early on in development GMM uh Manila is a city that many only go to when they leave the Philippines or they sit in the golden bubble in BGC yeah that's fair I think a lot of people they're flying in or out at Manila because you know that's that's where I'll probably fly out of if I fly from Manila say back to the US or from the Philippines back to the US and let s mind now well I'm probably going to have to fly from Deva to Manila and then Manila to Los Angeles and so I'll probably have to route through Manila unless I fly from Deva to like Taipei or Deva to Soul which just doesn't seem to be as practical um I'll probably have to route through Manila and it could be convenient maybe I stop in Manila for a few weeks and go and meet Michael go and meet uh the couple from Philippines Antics and Angeles maybe I meet up with some other subscribers that are in that area Vietnam has no sidewalk I'd push back on that so here in dang the sidewalks are great at least by the beach and yeah at least by the beach and kind of like the M area the area on screen right now they do have some solid sidewalks I'm going to catch up a little bit ronell have you been to BGC motti I I haven't um I do want to go there though and some uh sometimes I I regret like um not taking a job there so a lot of people think oh you can't work in the Philippines so I actually worked for a company uh that had an office in BGC and I didn't stay to check it out because I got another offer that was really lucrative but if I had stayed at my old company you know who knows I might have been able to transfer over I know an American from my hometown Nashville who actually moved to BGC works for an American corporation earns a western wage Best of Both Worlds she gets the Western wage with living in the Philippines I can't imagine a better rangement if you're in your working years but you know there was some luck of the draw there there was a lot of hard work that went into that Tony says I have to get back to work see you soon Alex thanks so much for joining joining us tonight Tony or today in your neck of the woods I hope you have a great day and hope to catch you next time uh ronell Christopher says great chat here perhaps an Eastern Jer Discord to Share info between lives yeah let me uh let me grab you the link for that really quick Christopher because I imagine you and some other folks would benefit from me throwing that Discord link down here and yeah here's the Discord link so there's a Discord uh if anybody is unfamiliar feel free to join that um pal Palawan and bagio City are under rated yeah Ron I'd agree like I haven't been to palan bag seems awesome to me being up the mountains why don't we move over to bagio here on the map so you're up here in the mountains it's like I've heard 10 15 degrees cooler than the lower Ling areas in the Philippines a lot of foreigners have moved here so you've got like SM City bagio the super modern chain you've also got plenty of hiking in the surrounding areas um a Filipina from bagio actually added me on Facebook and we chatted a bit but uh you know she wasn't really my type so I I didn't pursue it but um yeah super popular among foreigners bagio is super popular it's you know I have heard it's a little bit pricier I have heard it can get a bit crowded because everybody wants cooler weather when they're coming from countries like the US where we're not often a custom to the super hot weather there um GMM about prices tourist prices go up fast mainly because the very rich Koreans and Chinese have it as their playground nowadays especially in the more bar areas that's fair you know that's that's certainly Fair it's not just like there's a stereotype it's only the Americans that have money to Splash around or it's only the Australians that have money to Splash around but there's plenty of people in uh East Asia Japan China Korea that have a lot of disposable income I mean I haven't spent time in China or Korea but in Japan I mean that's it's a very wealthy country per capita um I have a lot of Japanese friends on Facebook that are super into the car scene and I have some Japanese friends as well that are into the boat scene and they've got expensive hobbies and you see it when you're there too I mean walking around in Kyoto I would see luxury high-end restaurants packed with Japanese people just packed and you're talking about probably $50,00 per person and there'd be 20 people sitting at a table and this was consistent like over and over again I also saw this in Osaka so a lot of these countries have disposable income and they might not be looking at just the bar type scene they might just want tropical weather some of these like Japan I remember it was overcast a lot I imagine South Korea and China have some of the same overcast weather in the winter and they want to feel that sun on their skin they want to go to the beach like I've done a bit of English teaching and I had a Japanese student and he would take his family to Thailand he's like we like to go to Thailand because my kids get to see the beach and we get sun on our skin we get to warm up uh from the Japanese winter so it's h it's a lot of families too to be fair Michael Watkins says I grew up in Atlanta but currently right down the street from Nashville in Chattanooga until the end of the year when I'm B bailing and going to changai that sounds awesome I've definitely spent some time in Chattanooga Michael some some of my high school classmates went there to UT Chattanooga for college and Chattanooga is convenient as far as able to zip up to Nashville or down to Atlanta but you know nothing compares to Southeast Asia and changai happens to be one of my favorite cities in the world um so I don't blame you there right I don't I don't blame you at all for wanting to come to this part of the world um Christopher says thanks Alex yeah thank you Chris you always have great input and if I wasn't going to the Philippines next like I toy with the idea of coming to Indonesia I want to go to yog yakarta the cultural capital I'm not as much into the idea of going to Bali because it's super super popular uh it's not I'm not one I'm not one of those hipst types that says oh I don't like if it it's popular but some places that are super super popular can have a kind of a transient Vibe right like it can be a little bit tougher I think in a place like Bali to make long-term friends because you got people coming in for a week coming in for two weeks and then heading on to the next destination heading back to Australia heading back to um other parts of Southeast Asia I mean Bali is also popular among people from the Philippines it's also popular among High people Vietnamese people Bali is just popular period um so a little bit cautious about it similar to how I'd be cautious about going to what's a good carda Colombia cardena Colombia is super super popular I didn't make it to cardena when I was in Colombia because I know how popular it is um but yeah if I end up going to Indonesia Christopher would love to link up we should definitely uh you know if that happens exchange contact info and if we can you know make something happen you know always happy to meet up and yeah Indonesia like to me is so intriguing because it's the most pop populated country in region a lot of people why don't we pull up Indonesia here a lot of people they think Indonesia is just Bali but it's like no like Jakarta is a huge city um and I think you have to be a big city person like Jakarta but there's like I think 300 million people in Indonesia so you're talking about approaching like American population uh levels which is wild like to be so far away from America but you know 10 times the population of Australia 60 times the population of Singapore triple the population in Vietnam two and a half times the population in the Philippines so yeah Indonesia definitely high on my list it's also um what some people I think are calling an Asian tiger it's a growing economy it's it's definitely a country of the future I think there's likely a that sense of optimism in Indonesia from uh from a growing economy from a place that's increasing in popularity people are branching out from Bali like Bali might be their introduction to Indonesia but they want to go and see some other Parts I I'm particular about wanting to see yogia Carta because why don't we pull up yogia I saw it on a Netflix documentary some years back where I can't remember what the Netflix it was like a series on Netflix about local food cultures and the Indonesia episode was on yoga and so that guy sold it really well they had this guy that was like this awesome I don't know if he's a tour guide or what he was but he talking about it and I'm like okay I heard about I've heard about Bali what's this yoga place and so yeah you've got a lot of culture here it's also a college city um you've got some of the conveniences as far as like malls go so that's where I'll start there's a remote area and um this is gonna have to be in the far future I don't I don't know let's see if I I don't recall exactly where it is but I want to go see kodo dragons and there's an island in Indonesia um it's remote it's remote maybe I'll have to maybe it's suoi uh but there's there's an an island in Indonesia that's famous for the kodos and I want to go see them I have to get a guide because they can be dangerous they're these huge lizards um let's pull this up here really quick um I mean look at these these just evil I know they're not evil I don't want to personify lizards I'm sure some of them are I'm sure many of them are just trying to eat and live their lives but like just alien like they can be dangerous if you see one stay away from it but yeah just the the leathery skin and the hollow eyes like yeah back over here that's enough of the lizards uh let's see bagio is above sea level like San Francisco so fog is common yeah that sounds inviting to me I mean I I love San Francisco one of the most beautiful cities on the planet I was so fortunate to live near there for a while it's uh yeah I love the the way the fog looks it's like mysterious and it reminds you the X Files a bit like if you any of you guys have ever watched the X fil series for some reason when I think of fog I think of that show I need to watch some reruns of that when I get some downtime uh because the X Files I went back and watched like the entire series um maybe a few years ago and it's it's a classic GMM New York City Big Apple clock sented a respectable let's pull [Music] up here we go kodo Island wow that's that's tiny and really out there I guess you have to take a boat out there um New York City uh Big Apple clocks in at a respectable 302 square miles Bangkok Big Mango 4,000 square miles so yeah that's a great Point GMM um Bangkok is massive and it's it's such an interesting City it's so Dynamic it's so vibrant it's so beautiful the people are Gams such a it's a hardworking City it's a gritty City it's also Polished in some places it it's somehow to me like like it's very very it's a city with a lot of cont heavy contrast it's a very very heavy contrast in terms of a city different neighborhoods like I could go on and on about Bangkok but yeah it's massive Rell asks how long is your normal live chat do you do you do when you go on live on YouTube so I'll note that um I've been doing them at 10 p.m.

Indochina time I've been starting them around 10 p.m.

into China time that just seems to be a good time where I catch some folks in the morning back in the United States and uh it also seems like for the people in Southeast Asia that are working during the day also seems to be after their work hours I like to go for I'd say most of my streams are around two hours I've gone for three hours before but I found my voice starts to go around the two-hour Mark usually around the two-hour Mark I start to get kind of horse and uh yeah get a bit of a dry throat speaking of w I need to drink more water when I do these maybe that would give me more longevity GMM go to any exclusive Rooftop Bar and they're full of wealthy e stations yeah I could imagine like I haven't spent a lot of time on uh rooftops I've been to some rooftop coffee shops um but that's more of a daytime thing I noticed like when I went to some rooftop cobby shops in Bangkok it was more like wealthy ties um but I imagine at night you know a lot of these people who are expats from those countries you mentioned they're are they're working during the day right so they're off work at night and they might want to come they'll probably want to come out at nighttime when they're not working and they have some time to kick back and relax run El says go to Taiwan and Macau and Hong Kong um yeah Taiwan seems really uh interesting maau seems interesting I know Gabriel traveler I'll throw his uh name down in the chat I'm a fan of his stuff he went to maau earlier this year and it looked like he had a great time uh Hong Kong you know one of the flights I looked at routed through Hong Kong uh to the Philippines so the flight was from like hoian City to Hong Kong um a layover in Hong Kong for like 10 or 12 hours and then a flight from Hong Kong to Manila I still haven't been to Hong Kong this one of my Thai friends um she went to Hong Kong recently and I I've been talking with her a little bit about that she had a really good time she went for I think she went for a weekend uh a few weeks ago and she really really liked it she had a great time she went to Disney Disneyland there Hong Kong Disneyland Christopher say Bali is played out overrun with Backpackers and Aussies yeah um I get why people like it right it's southeast Asia on easy mode you're not going to have a hard time getting a SIM card you're not going to have a hard time finding accommodation finding Western food but the tradeoff from that ease of access that low barrier to entry is that you're going to get a lot of people who are inexperienced traveling you're going to get a lot of people who are just there for a week you're going to get a lot of people who are just there on vacation who want to have a blast I've heard also there's a lot of pushy Sal salese there like walking around in certain parts of Bali well I've seen videos of it like Gabriel uh who I I mentioned down below he shows a video of him walking around in Bali and people are just coming up to him every single step hey man you want to buy this hey man you want to buy that and that can just wear on you I mean especially if you've been traveling for a long time and you're maybe a little bit homesick you're TR like you've gotten in this repetition where the destinations seem to blend together you feel like you're you're in a theme park or maybe not quite a theme park but like I just don't like pushy sales people when I was a salesperson probably part of the reason I got laid off was that I had some caution or concern about being pushy about being too pushy uh truth GMM says the truth is the westerners ain't the rich people in Southeast Asia anymore um you know I'd say there's there's what's the word I'm looking for I would say that the wealthy westerners are quieter about their wealth in Southeast Asia because you pay attention enough southeast Asia content you hear about wealthy Western people they just tend to be super low-key um they don't want to draw attention to themselves they don't want people to know that they're wealthy they make uh they may be concerned about people in their area finding out that they've got money and coming up to them and asking them for money breaking into their house like if you announce or advertise your wealth anywhere in the world you will be a Target to somebody unless you're in like a Singapore maybe or you're in like a Switzerland or a Luxembourg or a lonstein maybe you're on the upper west side of Manhattan you're in some kind of exclusive B clave that could protect you but most people don't live in those places um and so if you are very wealthy like you're I I disagree that the Western people aren't necessarily wealthy I think that a lot of Western wealth a lot of wealthy Western people have had to be low-key like some of the wealthiest people I've ever met in the west are very low-key I've met several billionaires when I was living in San Francisco you wouldn't be able to tell them that they were billionaires on the street I recognize them because I know about their businesses I know that they are CEOs of publicly traded companies I know they own um like the former the CEO of the company I used to work at UH you would never like he didn't he's not wearing a Rolex he's uh rarely wearing fancy clothes he'd often come to the office and like jeans and a t-shirt um there's nothing about him that if you didn't know about his background like he doesn't want to be a Target he doesn't want to get harassed he doesn't want people to know where he lives he doesn't want people to know how much money he's got he doesn't want people to like when you're at at at certain levels of wealth you're just a Target um and let's be honest East Asian countries are higher trust societies than the Western democracies um you're not as likely to be a Target and a Korea or a Japan as an ultra high net worth individual as you are in the United States like I know a um on Facebook friends with a Nissan executive and he's fairly ostentatious like he posts pictures of him in Monaco um I have another Facebook friend I've actually met up with in real life where he posts pictures of him in Japan driving an $800,000 Ferrari at the track um extraordinarily wealthy so there is this difference between the East Asian expression of wealth um and the Western expression of wealth where Western people in my opinion have to be much more cautious about how they display their wealth because their countries are inherently more dangerous than uh East Asian countries and I'm not that I I'll say it right now I'm not a super wealthy man by any means I you know maybe I'll get there one day maybe I won't if I do get there I intend on keeping it to myself I plan on dressing down regardless of my financial State um that's how I stay safe because I do sometimes go to countries or regions of countries that are unsafe and I I've you know I've had the opportunity to purchase certain status symbols and I felt like it just attracts the wrong attention um sure you know if you're fortunate enough that you have a Japanese passport or a Korean passport and you're exclusively staying in fancy enclaves like maybe you could get away with it um but I I wouldn't even feel safe my home City dressing up really nice um so yeah um now are there a lot of poor westerners let me contradict that a bit yeah there's a lot of uh PE Western people on a pension that they can no longer afford to live in an Australia or a United States anymore and they're in Survival Mode I know like mark from Every Man Has a story I know he's controversial but he's talked about that right he's talked about how he would be very he wouldn't be able to make it in the US he's been very transparent about that and uh you know he he's the type of guy that like he did pursue status symbols he'll tell you like he owned a fancy Infinity uh he had a really big house in the west and so you are going to see you know you do see a lot of guys who the choice is to either work until they pass on in the west or come and live a moderate modest lifestyle in Southeast Asia rent a modest home um drive a modest vehicle uh in some cases they've been divorced right where they had to split up their assets they had to spend money on high- priced divorce lawyers they had to pay child support um and so their wealth creation has been mitigated by some of the personal factors in their life and yeah that's that's just what I would say is like yeah you naturally there's going to be a lot of guys that you know they they've got some kind of pension and they're trying to figure out what they're going to do because their working years are winding down maybe they're in their late 50s and they're they're seeing okay well x amount of years I'm getting Social Security and I'm having maybe some health issues maybe I don't have the energy I had when I was younger and I want to just take my foot off the gas and actually enjoy my life and I can live here and make this big mortgage payment pay these high properties taxes drive a fancy vehicle or I could get rid of all this stuff and go actually enjoy the time that I have um left in life and that could be a long time that could be a short time but I admire anybody that's willing to give it a shot try something different mix it up and not just repeat the status quo um Christopher says kodo Island dude yeah so before I got off on that tangent yeah there's here's kodo Island yeah so that is huge that guy I don't know if that this Komodo is sleeping maybe he just ate a big meal that guy has gut so this is the one thank you Christopher you already know about it um this is the one that I want to go to at some point it first off it's gorgeous like this is just gorgeous I mean it's beautiful like so beautiful the green with the blue it's uh but it is remote it is brote it's I know it's going to be pricey um it's something where I'll you probably have to get a tour I think you have to get a tour guide to come here uh which is fair because if you didn't I mean you would have people getting hurt um people not understanding proper safety protocols like I saw that a lot in East Tennessee please keep silent so yeah they don't if you make too much noise presumably you're going to disturb the animals but yeah like in East Tennessee uh um we'll we'll hop over there really really quick this is a place I used to go with my stepdad a lot when I was a kid and we'd see Bears here because it's you're in the Smoky Mountain National Park and people would approach the Bears and people would approach the bear cubs people would get out of their car and walk up to the Bears and try to like mess with them and it's like no you can't do that like what are you doing and so naturally that's become more more of an issue there I've heard of some people getting attacked I know my stepdad even saw a bear like running down the street um and these animals can be very dangerous like people get in their heads that like oh it's fine but like no um and Gatlinburg is way more populous and has way more infrastructure than kodo Island whereas imagine if you have a problem in Komodo Island you're probably not very close to substantial medical facilities it doesn't look very populated I don't even know how how long the fery ride is you may be able to chime in Christopher if you're still with us on how long that fery ride is but I imagine it's a fairly lengthy ferry ride to go to somewhere with infrastructure where you could get treated if you were to be bitten or attacked by one of these kodo dragons their saliva is very toxic as well it can lead to infection um ronell says I like Twilight Zone and unsolved mystery same Ron same yeah both are very very good Christopher says neara tangara timour and ronell says and tells from the Dark Side jimm says long time I seen X Files maybe time for a binge watch that old series before mobile phones and internet that's what I like about it is you look at the X Files and people aren't pulling out their cell phones people aren't texting uh it's the world moved a little bit more slowly back then it's I look back on that time fondly Christopher says yeah take a fery to Komodo GMM $100 plus for a drink an exclusive Rooftop Bar in Bangkok that's not a normal tourist budget um yeah no I cannot imagine spending $100 for a Dr I have a hard time bringing myself to spend $100 plus on a meal and I love food I'm a big foodie um and you know for me there's there's a lot of diminishing returns now if you're on a business trip if you're trying to meet with a person who can is a key decision maker in your business then maybe spending the $100 is worth it right if you're going to go meet um a banking leader or special a medical specialist or a lawyer that is has a lot of connections then perhaps you know spending $100 plus on a drink will pay dividends right you know you land the big deal brings in a multi-million dollar sales contract and that could pay for itself GMM says that's right you never know how much money you have and brag about it dress down but dress good I'm not I'm not even so much as concerned with dressing well and I in Southeast Asia and let me clarify in that GMM the weather is just not super conducive to it like it's the weather is hard on clothing people like you know I if you're not in Bangkok I also don't understand the point because like in Bangkok I get it people want to dress up go out for a nice meal they might be dating they might be in a relationship they might be working there where they've got a maintain uh they've got to maintain professionalism right they don't want to go out looking like they don't want to go out in a hoodie because if they're boss sees them hey man like you're represent you're supposed to represent the company and like you dressing down doesn't represent the company in a good light but like the other side of that is depending on where you're at dressing up um or dressing well like wearing say a polo and khakis I've just found that sometimes when I dress nicely I in a business setting it's a good idea like it it's never hurt me to dress up nicely in a business setting but in some settings people see that as a sign that you've got you've got money and that you're somebody that they can scam or take advantage of and I don't know like I just I mixed feelings about it I also think the weather here in this part of the world is hard on clothes in general it's my clothes have definitely now I have been here for a year but it definitely wears on clothes the humidity me sweating like I being Indian I sweat a ton and I think that the amount I sweat is also hard on my clothing um and I go through clothes faster like I need to replace some of my clothes but I keep running into not finding clothes that are proportional like I have really long arms um and a big torso and the proportions here like I always find that the sleeves are too short um and so the the Torso will be big enough but then the sleeves like they'll come up to like here um this one I I pulled my sleeve down but like that's something that's been hard you can import clothes but like I looked at the import costs they're wanting to charge me 100 in Thailand now I haven't looked at what it would cost for Vietnam but like I tried to buy copies of all the clothes I have and send them to Thailand and they're like well we're going to charge you 100% value added tax so a $15 shirt becomes $30 and it's like and you know a $25 hoodie becomes 50 bucks and it's like these clothes aren't that special like they're not so special I want to pay double the price just to have them so I'll you know even if I stay over here long term when I go back to the US next I'll load up on cloes I'll just set aside the money to go to uh to go on Amazon and order I also have a ton of clothes back in America like all the clothes you see me wearing except for this jacket but all my shirts and pants and even shoes when they go on sale back in the US I stock up so I'll buy if my shoes my favorite shoes that are 60 bucks um they go on sale for 30 bucks I'll buy two or three pairs uh the shirt my the pants if they go on sale for they're normally 25 bucks and they go on sale for 18 bucks I'll buy five or 10 pair uh same with the shirts the dress shirts I I have for when I'm in sales if they go on even if they don't go on sale I'll just buy like five or 10 because that way I don't have to think about it stick them in the closet um and and I'm not you know being almost 32 now I'm not changing in size or shape so much that I worry about not being able to wear them I do wish I'd bought more pants in Japan so my favorite pair of pants I got at Uno in Japan and they tailored them for me in the shop and they're the most comfortable pants that I have and um if I go back to Japan I I want to buy like probably five pairs of those pants they're they were like 40 bucks which to me really good deal I mean they're the most comfortable pants I have they fit really well they look really great the color is this really nice gray yeah I I love those pants brown puppy would you consider going to India absolutely so my dad was from India from South India I've been meaning I've been wanting to go to India for while there's a few things that stop me from going one it's an emotionally difficult subject like my biological father was not really involved in my life and he passed away when I was 10 um I made a video talking about some of that stuff I tend to try to not want to be a whiner I also struggle with vulnerability but I am going to have to open up about that so that people get a better sense of my background because you know part of part of it for me is just wanting to be strong and not not letting the harshness of my background hold me back but the other side of that is that I I want people to know that you can come from a difficult background and pursue your dreams and for me traveling the world has been a dream of mine since I was a little kid my grandfather used to order National Geographic and he' just hand him to me and I would see all these different like crazy stuff from around the world I mean National Geographic back in the day was phenomenal and uh it inspired me to travel and so even though like I have had a difficult background it's sorry about rambling by the way guys but as far as India I do plan to go there's a few reasons I haven't gone one the Visa is tricky it's similar to Vietnam where you have to plan it Advance you have to apply for it uh two my Indian friends I want to I want to go to India with at least one of my friends from India so several of my closest friends back in the US are from India and um they're busy right they work in these highly technical Fields they don't get a lot of time off work they're very very conscientious people like they work extremely hard they're very very smart as well um and India seems like one of those places like they've all warned me about it if I'm being uh fully transparent all my friends from India warned me hey man if somebody comes up to you trying to like ask you for money tell them to go away hey man there's pickpockets at this train station hey man like and so there's this mixed feeling where I'm drawn to it because I want to learn about like you know my father like where he came from but on the other side of it of my friends warning me about it and telling me hey you need to be cautious it's like as an example my buddy uh Sean that's his American name he's got an Indian name but he was like when we were in India like my parent his parents own a house in India and they go and check on it like once every few years and he's and you know when they they've they're supposed to have people that maintain the house when they go over there everything's broken like the light fixtures are broken the Beday is broken like every everything's just broken and they're riding in the like there's a lot of like mob Justice in India too like you'll see if people get mad they'll just get in their heads to handle things like on the spot lose the control like it's it's a place that can wear on you based on what I've heard about it what I know like here here's a a much more milk toast or much more mild example uh you know I'm T I was looking at going to India to go a few years ago and I am talking to this guy who's got a like a small hotel or guest house and Goa and I'm like yeah man what's the name of it oh cool cool I made a note of the name oh yeah you know what's the internet like oh it's fantastic man well I pull up the reviews and all the reviews are complaining about the bad internet so it's like okay man like right off the bat we're not we're not off to a good start here I'm asking you at the internet you're telling me it's amazing and then all the reviews are telling me it's bad so already I I'm suspicious and this is like the first time I'm talking to a hotel here and I assume would say well that's just one guy but you know things like that like I don't have that problem in Southeast Asia some of it also um is value for money so if I can come to Thailand and spend the same money I'd spend in India but have a better experience it's like okay well you know I'd rather go I'd rather come here uh Gman people that show bling bling and brand things in Asia where the perfect copies are cheap are often pretty broke seen many green gold chains over the years yeah that's a good point GMM like and I mean you know it's I don't I think part of it is just avoiding status Games social media is bad about that uh but yeah there's no need to pursue like high status like hot shot Lifestyles um to me if you if you have like solid income if you have wealth and you can live in Asia You've Won like you freaking want it life if you're a wealthy person in Asia and you can have you can live in a place with social cohesion with safety with amazing food with proximity to all these other countries you freaking W like that on on my standards so to me just knowing I could live in Asia and perpetuity for the rest of my life I don't care if people think I'm homeless I don't care if people think I'm an alien from outer space I don't care like about any of that stuff now if I do settle down and I get into a serious committed relationship I there would be some you know what's the word meeting my significant other halfway you know uh if she's got certain expectations if her parents have certain expectations I'm not going to you know I I'm I'm definitely open to meeting them halfway but part of that is already getting done on my end I'm already researching these different cultures these different countries I'm I already grew up in an Asian household so it's not a stretch to me to be respectful of older people be respectful of their interests um one one I'm I'm interested in we had we had a conversation and I said something kind of crass and she she didn't kick me under the table but she was like Hey hey shut up um so you know being willing to to say hey you know what I don't know everything um which is is tough in America I mean America like you know people expect you to be overly confident especially in business and I have struggled with self-confidence at times in my life Twin Peaks is good too yeah I've heard a lot about Twin Peaks ronell um I need to look into that one and watch it thank you for mentioning Twin Peaks grapes says I'm hoping to teach in dang next year grapes let us know if you make it over to dang next year um and you teach chime in let us know how it goes dang is I've heard one of the tougher markets to teach in because there's a lot of opportunity in Hanway and in hoian City because of the size of those cities also the international business scene um but dang seems to offer the best quality of life right like you've got some of those big city amenities but you're not dealing with Hanoi Rush Hour hosan City Rush Hour you're not dealing with the same level of crowds noise um pollution all those things uh Christopher says haven't made the Komodo trip yet but I believe there are some guided boat tours eight hour tour okay very cool thank you for letting me know Christopher um that's definitely on the radar for H maybe like 10 years out from now something like that um it just seems super super cool uh GMM I'm too in Nordic slim I have no problem to buy clothes here in Southeast Asia buy big and go to local seamess they are cheap thank you for that tip JM I will keep that in mind um yeah I I'll definitely keep that in mind because I have not found it super easy to find clothing to my liking and that will save me some headaches because there's there's some nice looking clothes over here you know there's some really like Vietnam is very popular for getting suits made Thailand is also very popular for that but there's been this disconnect where I just haven't done the research and I haven't needed it right I haven't needed nice close over here uh like I do back in the US where in the US I am in business settings I do have to dress a certain way I do have to present a certain image for business purposes Ron El says sorry to hear that condolences thank you so much Ron or if you have passive monthly income so that's that's the Big Goal I think for a lot of people Ron uh is getting up to a certain passive income where that income covers their bills and allows them to save every month and that's the ideal where you've done the work you put in the work and you're leveraging Investments to cover your expenses um that's the dream that's really the dream to to have that passive income to live where you want to live um I think that's what a lot of people are working toward when I go back to the US I'm debating on going to trade school because I think it could give me some exposure to understanding the real estate business and real estate seems like a great vehicle to help add to passive income and and create some income there and that's what a lot of expats have too like a lot of the successful um expats they've got real estate back in the US or in austral Australia uh in Canada and they live off that income they uh you know they get they collect that income every month they get paid then they're able to pay their rent from that I know uh living abroad does that he's got real estate in Canada I know speaking of Asia he's got real estate in London um I know some of the other vloggers I suspect have real estate back in the United States they haven't said that but it just seems like based on context clues that that's the case I am more of a fan of dividends like Jason fieber he's an American expat in shangai and he has dividend income I don't like with real estate I necess want to have the Hands-On aspect I don't want to have to be an overseas landlord where I'm picking up the phone in the middle of the night and talking to contractors plumbers electricians whatever it may be at I I already get annoyed having to deal with my Banks and my investment companies um much less having to coordinate Labor uh coordinate with tenants like you are going to get more money you've got tax write off options there but it seems very very much a headache and if something goes seriously wrong you know you're probably having to get on a plane depending on how many yeah depending on your situation getting on a plane and going back home and trying to sort that out and that doesn't sound [Music] that doesn't sound like a lot of fun to me I'd rather just collect my dividend check even if it's not as efficient as the real estate investment vehicle I'd rather just collect my dividend checks um pay my bills from that and not have to do any work you know if you're collecting dividends you don't have to go to work for that company you don't have to tune in to the shareholder meeting live you're not having to um you're not hoping they they don't lay you off like it's it's more passive in some ways now some would say hire a property management company I've heard different stories I've had my own horrible experience with the property management company uh back in Denver so those aren't Surefire ways of handling things you've got to trust that company some of those companies will just collect a check and that's all they're really doing for you is collecting a check taking their 10% and then take you know paying you out your 90% And they're not really going to handle things or if they coordinate with contractors then they're charging you not just on your rental income but they're also charging you to organize the repairs um and then you may pay a high fee they might might happen to be their brother-in-law who charges 20 or 30% above the standard rate um perfect fitting genes and shirts corrected by good seam stress for two to 300 bot do you go to platinum Fashion Mall GMM cuz I went to platinum Fashion Mall and that's where I got my red dress shirt over there and platinum Fashion Mall seems to be really nice I think that dress shirt was 350 bot um or 400 bot and I think she said if I buy four I can get them for 250 bot a piece but yeah Platinum Fashion Mall seems like probably the best place to get uh bulk clothes but bulk Nice Clothing uh THC 11335 says have you ever been to Burma no I haven't um i' like to go actually I know a copywriter named Brian he's from Adelaide Australia and he bought a house with his wife his wife's from Nepal uh he bought a house in Burma like right before the situation became unstable um I don't know which it was one of the big cities in Burma I don't know if it was n p I think that's the pronunciation I have not been to Burma I did grow up around some guys from Burma some Burmese people actually owned the uh the sushi there's like a chain of sushi vendors and all the publ grocery stores back in Nashville um and this Burmese family would work them all went to high school with me as well super friendly people I had no idea where Burma was back then um but no never been there you know by the time I wanted to head over there it's in [Music] a it's in a rough circumstance I'll say um I'd like to go but I think it'll be a while before I can do that unfortunately because I love Burmese food I used to go to a Burmese restaurant in changai why don't we pull that up actually I used to eat it I used to live right around the corner from here I ate at at this restaurant a lot and they serve fantastic Burmese food if you're ever in changai recommend checking out Golden Gate it was like most of their lunches are like they would do like lentils and um chicken and a Roy for like 50 B and then sometimes they'd have like bigger meals like Biryani chicken for like a 100 bot or 150 bot anyway Great Value really tasty food um I look forward next time I'm Chang my to going back to Golden Gate we can look at yeah this is so is this no that's not my picture so this is the dish I'm talking about and they'd also have this spicy some kind of spicy tomato paste I'm not sure what I'd call it but really good stuff lot of variety I never tried the tea I I always wanted to try the tea but yeah great Yang gon okay yeah yeah um uh let's see ronell says gotta go driving for Uber I hope you have a great great day ronell thank you so much for joining us hope we see you next time um yeah thdc yeah this was in I think it was Yang gon I can go and check his uh photos but he hasn't been back since so he bought this house I don't he might have even built the house um it was like brand new when he moved in he was showing pictures of it um and you know he's done really well for himself like it's you know he's not he wasn't counting on that being his only place he's got a place in Australia uh but yeah I know it was a disappointment for him because he really enjoyed living in Myanmar samuro um looks like Indian yeah there's some there's definitely some influence in Burma from India so we can zoom out here um so myanmore or Burma uh is part of what I would call the indosphere so let's see India so I would call many of these countries here like uh and some of them might not like me saying this very much but is being part of the endosphere so part of before like these countries were broken up by Colonial Powers uh they were heavily influenced by the culture from India they have uh some similar belief systems um and like you'll see some between temples in India and temples in Myanmar Buddhism in Hinduism are tied in some ways H GMM nope I like local markets and the local seamstress here they cheapap as heck many ties do the same especially the ladies Yeah by my Tha lady friends dress impeccably I mean they yeah they always look really really nice um I need to check in with UGM next time I go to Thailand as to where some of these local markets are at because I thought Platinum Fashion Mall was nice but if you suggest a better option I'm all years like I'm uh I'm definitely all your for some nice clothing options samaro says I think Anthony Bourdain did an episode of myar check it out I'm going to go ahead and load that up let's see Mayanmar yeah I'll watch that uh later on like before I go to bed tonight uh we'll probably wind down in the next I'd say 15 20 minutes maybe half hour we'll see my voice is still doing good maybe that water will give me some longevity yeah I'll um I'll definitely watch that thank you for calling that out samuro I had no idea he went to Myanmar I've been watching some of his content lately on Vietnam but uh um I happily check that out GMM says another way to shopping online I do believe that Vietnam has Laz Lazada and shoppy too 5xl are like a western XL okay cool very cool I was using lzada every month in uh in Thailand I was using lzada a lot like super super helpful for getting products um I never use shopy but I'll try shopy as well because I there's some products that I need right now like I need to go buy more deodorant I need to buy some laundry detergent and in uh in changai I just go to 7-Eleven like or Bangkok I just go to 7-Eleven they all the 7-Eleven throughout the country have the same deodorant have the same detergent and it's so easy but here in Vietnam I'm having to learn uh new shopping options and having some support from being able to buy online would be awesome samuro I always wanted to visit those Northeastern Indian states on the border with Burma I've been to India many times but not that far across I have Indian friends in the film industry that made a documentary in Nagal land very cool I don't we pull up Nagal land here oh wow so on the border of Burma you know I think sabatical went to nagaland too um have you ever SoMo have you ever seen you've probably seen sabatical if you're a fan of my channel he's got a huge Channel and I love his content his name is Tommy he's from he's from New York and he goes into some interesting places and yeah he's just had an interesting life he lived in Argentina for a while he lived in Shanghai for a while um he was in Buenos Ires one of his best videos was when he went down to Barry Barry loce um yeah he's just done a lot of like off-the-wall content I'm wondering how he comes up with some of these ideas H GMM yeah lzada shopping online shopping is very addictive it's so cheap yeah GMM it's crazy like I really like this uh this uh serve moisturizing cream and it's like I found a vendor that sells these for 10 bucks and this jar is like 15 in the US um I don't think it's like a knockoff product the quality seems identical to me but I really like this stuff and yeah I buy it on Lada I eventually I'll probably have to buy another jar here in a few weeks summer oh yes I think I saw his videos in Tibet but I was check out nagaland video if he went there let me look that up um I could be wrong on that by the way I I watched so much travel content it kind of just bleeds into itself yeah so he went a couple months back he he went to naland that's okay I've gotta watch this one too thank you for prompting me he puts out a lot of content and I just have hav I I watch it sporadically like I'll watch five or 10 of his in a row and then I'll just get caught up in work and other things and then I'll come back to it but he does some really original stuff and if I go to India I'd love to connect with your friends there um samaru like if there's chance to collab with indan like I I want to do that you know I want to I want to meet people in India and [Music] um hear their stories I need to start doing more interviews because one I enjoy getting to know people two they people love interviews um the format to me is a little bit tougher in some ways because I've got to control for a lot more like I I've got two mics so I've got a dual set of mics so I could do them but you know I I'm so cautious about the time of other people that like I'd hate to do an interview and then have a technical issue or have some background noise that ruins the interview or I I did them in Peru a bit and I just found them to be a little bit more difficult because when you're on the move it's harder to find like solid places you can record um it's when you're traveling and doing them it's it's not like having a studio where you're controlling like the environment and you can have a lot more predictability over um the environment um I've been to unan and China that I can see on the map you have loaded have you been to China no so I've had a couple of layovers in China in Shaman I pull up Shaman and in Shenzhen and I you uh I used to do a lot of business when I was an Amazon Seller I used to do a lot of business with people in Shenzhen and in um Guang Joo uh yeah I used to do a lot of business with people from China um I have done some teaching English to people in China but haven't haven't really spent any time there I'd like to um and I intended to pre pandemic I think it's become more challenging [Music] to do so um but I'd really like to go at some point like I I do think it will happen probably after India um yeah probably after India and I probably be a few years before I make it to India I want to um I've got yeah I I have to narrow down my priorities and the possibilities because it's uh it's such a hard Choice like the world is our oyster and it's such a hard Choice um I followed the silk route from Pakistan via the karakorum highway which is the old Silk Road across the tlon desert and then across into Yan incredibly beautiful I then went Vietnam Overland into the north very very cool I you know I had somebody reach out you mentioned the Korum it's uh I'm familiar somewhat with the car Corum uh because I'm I'm linked up on Facebook with some mountain climbers I used to climb in Colorado and let's just K2 there's this mount in K2 uh and I've done research about the region I was trying to think I KN I've knew I've heard that term before but it's um it's gorgeous not for me I'm not that adventurous K2 is extremely dangerous um and Pierce and like that's the yeah that's definitely not a beginner friendly climber environment but gorgeous it's uh it's like another planet I've done the uh the baby version of this in Colorado much much much easier much less demanding much more accessible doable on a weekend as opposed to like a multi-month journey here where you're having to spend weeks climatizing um tens of thousands of dollars in supplies and porters and supplemental oxygen and trash removal K2 is harder to climb than Everest yeah yeah like way more dangerous um way more time intensive I'm I've seen photos just because I've uh you know uh I connect with on Facebook with people like Kristen Hera um which a lot of people you know she's been in some controversy unfortunately due to uh some due to an accident in one of her recent climbs um also Kristen Bennett who's a professor in Massachusetts who uh climbed K2 with Kristen or not with Kristen well yeah they're both Kristen they mixed up there with Kristen Hera but I look at their pictures and I'm like yeah there's there's no way I could do that I mean that's that's these are climbs that people prepare for for a lifetime I think I mean and really lots of training and and quite uh quite dangerous Pakistan is also incredibly beautiful difficult to travel but worthwhile for sure like I don't know how the Visa situation goes with Pakistan but it's definitely intriguing to me but um yeah it looks like looks like everybody's tapped out um I'll probably be winding down here feel free to to share any last thoughts or um opinions I do greatly appreciate everybody who's joined us tonight um samaro was easy when I went when I went in Delhi 2009 okay very very cool um yeah I'll keep that in mind I oh I remember um I need to reach out a guy named RG he's he lives in Nepal uh and he mentioned you'd be willing to take me on an Everest Base count track I don't have to pay for it uh if I did a video like I made some videos and recorded the experience so that may take me to depal at some point he didn't say if it was a closed end offer like if it you know if there was a limited timeline on that the when we talked about this it was right around uh it was 2021 um so right after they reopened yeah thank you Samar yeah yeah I I need to take him up on that because he seemed real really friendly and you know it's also a safety thing like it's just hiking in Colorado in the mountains of Colorado like took a lot out of me I mean especially I can why don't I pull it up actually we'll just share I climbed this mountain to 12,500 feet where I started getting altitude uh sickness um I made it how far I'm trying to gauge how far up the mountain I was um I made it to pass this there's like a yeah no that's not it it'ss really confusing it's I'm not seeing any [Music] photos this might be it I made it to like I made it to right up like right about here and started to get like seriously sick from altitude I was dizzy I was having trouble keeping fluids down and that was just at 12,500 feet um so I'd really need to adjust if I was going toh take on you know any like even base camp Everest now I had less issues when I was in Peru uh in Peru like I don't know if it was that I spent several months in Colombia and I was adapted but um yeah I was fine in P so I don't know if it was also the cold because Colorado is a lot colder and harsher in some ways than Peru um samaro says I've been to NE Nepal a few times trekking there is priceless and Unforgettable I went to the long Tong region 15,000 F feet ghost Tycoon the Lakes hang on your screen is blank on my okay great I'm glad you see it wonderful um but yeah this is this is Winden Peak and this is in the southwest to Colorado can show you I lived um in Colorado for several years and so this one is crazy so I Dy this one to get to here you drive down to Silverton and silverton's already in the middle of nowhere it's difficult to get there in the winter time like you drive um so I was living in Delta up here small Colorado and you drive all the way down this highway and it gets progressively like steeper and sketchy as you go further down the highway um these places are really dangerous in Winter and so you get to Silverton I park my car in Silverton and then you take a uh you take a train and the train goes from Silverton down to Durango so but there's one stop and this one stop is in the middle of nowhere and you you do the hike from this stop the train stops like like I said in the middle of nowhere you depart from the train and then you go hiking and I did it by myself and I camped out and there's goats there's a bunch of goats around the campsites and they you you go to the bathroom and then they they lick where you went to the bathroom it's it's really out there I mean is super remote but uh that was a taste of of kind of that super remote um yeah super remote lifestyle but yeah guys um my voice is starting starting to go a bit so it'll probably wind down is anybody wants to share any last thoughts or questions or ideas um I'm all ears I just I don't want to be too horse when um when you guys are spending your finite time with me any uh any weekend plans it's uh we're on to Thursday now I think tomorrow I'm going to be meeting up with Jake and we're probably G to grab a bite to eat um I may ask him to do an interview I think you know he might be open it would help to draw help to share his Channel with some folks he's got a channel this weekend what am I going to do this weekend that's a good question I'll go to the beach my my host here she mentioned there's um there's some really cool events down by the beach and they're happening every day for the next few days she's been really kind to try to include me and encourage me to um just engage and get out and do more and and not be um and and to you know to feel welcome here in dang anybody going out to traveling or yeah anyway thank you all so much for watching it's been a great stream this has been I think the best stream yet and I look forward to the next one I'll I'll probably do a stream this weekend I'll probably try to do a stream on uh probably Saturday night we'll see I may have a date but um if that doesn't pan out um I'm happy to stream and even if it does I could pick a different day or stream before or after but yeah if if you're watching the replay feel free comment and helps to generate interesting dialogue also subscribe to the channel if you're watching and you're not subscribed and give us a thumbs up it really helps to boost the stream in the algorithm and we'll see you soon yeah thank you so much samur we'll see you next time bye bye

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