hey YouTube Alex here and I am coming to you live from Bangkok Thailand and the rainy season is in full effect it's been hot humid rainy overcast today not the best weather to go out in so I've just
been chilling at the apartment doing research on my next destination hey we got a are good to see you tonight I am looking at going to Vietnam Next and I'll go ahead and pull up where I would like
to go see here so this is where I would like to go dang Vietnam so you see here that um go ahead and launch well I I'm going to wait a few for people to jump on here just
uh talking about Vietnam tonight uh so a lot of people when they think about Vietnam they're familiar with Hanoi which is in the north the sort of the big city in the north I don't know if you call
it the capital of the north but the uh the large city and then they're familiar too with like how long bay here and really gorgeous scenery in the north I've heard it even gets cold in the north actually
like in the winter and then the other part of Vietnam that people are familiar with I I would say more specifically people outside of Vietnam or people who have never been into Vietnam people who aren't Vietnamese they're familiar
with hoim Min City which is the big city in the South the business Capital you got a lot of Western businesses headquartered here also some Japanese businesses I recently talked to Japanese guy who's actually based here in Saigon
he's a he works lawyer for a Japanese firm but they have some business interests here I didn't pry I wasn't sure how much he could devolve as an attorney but yeah it's um I think the city I'm curious
about the metro population hman city wow so 21 million people in the metropolitan area um technically it sounds like that might be more people than actually are in Bangkok um but it's not as much of a priority for
me as I you know I'm going to probably headed to Vietnam from Bangkok and I some time in a smaller City just to have a bit of a break and so that's why part of the reason why I'm
looking at dang here and this is in central Vietnam and I'm trying to look for I guess you could kind of see it here that looks like it the Dragon Bridge uh the Dragon Bridge is one of the
real big highlights of dang I guess I think this is it actually it's a little bit it's not as uh easy to see at night time and the lighting is very nice but during here we go yeah you
can see I mean this is this Dragon Bridge just looks gorgeous it's this golden color and uh they illuminate it at night but yeah here here's another angle that you can see it from uh really just a stunning
bridge that connects the I don't know if this is an island let's go back and see if there's uh well yeah I guess it looks like an is no it's a peninsula so you connect to it from the
South but if you're looking to connect from this part of the city then you'll just go over a bridge and you can uh you can get over there via not just the Dragon Bridge but there's also so this
is called the Han River Bridge here and look at those colors it's just stunning with the light reflecting off the water there and the fireworks I like these the signage too it definitely has a little bit of those
Thailand Vibes with the large well lit signs this looks like uh this looks like a Chinese style Temple they have similar ones here in Thailand anywhere there's a Chinese population even including in my area so I'm in zon
and in the South part of saton there's a Chinese cemetery and they have one of these types of uh I don't know if you call it a gate but they're very ornate then here's the beach these fireworks displays
are incredible and then here you have the Vietnam flag looks like this building I don't know if the building is is covered in lights or if that's kind of something they can throw up like different displays or how
that works but it definitely looks really beautiful the infrastructure looks great too I've heard of daang described as like changai on the water his beautiful umbrellas maybe this is them celebrating the Tet holiday I've heard that's a really
big holiday in Vietnam but uh what can I pull up here so this is I guess another Bridge Okay so this is so I guess the I don't know if it's cow wrong this is the Dragon Bridge wow
so they put like a fire breathing display in the head that's really cool and then they have the different displays there that just looks incredible I hope I get to see something like that and you see the neon
color neon lit boats underneath I'm really getting excited you know I love Thailand but it's nice to do something a little bit different mix it up try a different place out you've got the mountains and in the background
okay this is yeah this is what I'm talking about look at this beautiful view City and then you've got the mountains and the water um I've heard there's a ton of like remote workers here as well it's really
on the whole digital Nomad crowd I know Mike recently went over there there's a lot of vloggers named Mike but the mike in um he was recently in the Philippines as well he lives in I think it's uh
it's one of the Thai islands in the South I think he is in Co camui but um yeah he recently was over here I think he enjoyed it he also went down to the popular play south of dang
down here way or no Hoon Hoon I've heard hoan is pretty CH compared to dang like it's not as much of a City Vibe I've also heard it's quite touristic so it's like one of those tradeoffs um Jake
I think is actually in dang right now and I'm curious to hear his opinion on play on and see you know how if he enjoyed it um if you liked dang a bit more just to see what his
perspective is I love the colors it's just uh stunning maybe not the best time for folks tonight I notice we don't have anybody joining so this may not be the best time I'm happy to get on a little
bit later tonight or perhaps even later in the week I know it's a Thursday not uh probably a great day for a lot of people's schedules in terms of free time also kind of tired i' probably use a
nap or go to bed early tonight I like the peers reminds me a little bit of the pier In Paya the Bali High Pier it's it's kind of located in similar section where the hill comes up behind it
near the Patia sign this looks interesting you know I haven't really taken much of a look at this these islands I don't know if they're yeah I guess it looks like there's a line where you can come here
from Hoon K Cham so the got and beaches by Zep by the way I have no understanding of proper pronunciation of Vietnamese so there's a got a long way to go as far as learning it does look quite
beautiful you got some speed boats and guess this is around sunset these people are having a great time they're really enjoying it what else what else about janang guess we could check out some of this stuff up here
it does look rugged like it does remind me a bit of the California coast I know the water is going to be quite a bit warmer here but even so it definitely looks with the the rocky like California
oh and they have monkeys I didn't know they have monkeys they're probably not very friendly if they're anything like the monkeys in parts of Thailand and some cloud of monkeys are not very nice they definitely bear their teeth
at you and they want your fruit but they don't want to be friends they're kind of pirates too where they'll take your stuff and hold on and hold on to it for a fruit ransoms they want you to
give them fruit and then they'll give you your stuff back they do look cute gu you catch them at the right angle where they're in a peaceful mood but this is kind of the mountain next to dang or
connected to daang I guess part of I guess it just Jets out into the water but yeah it's it's gonna be interesting it's this is the longest time I've spent outside the United States in one continuous stretch in
my life and after almost a year in Thailand I I'm really gonna miss it I haven't really I I've adjusted to Thailand to the extent that it's going to be weird to go somewhere else outside of Thailand right
here throughout the country I hear people speaking Thai of course the Thai you know there wonderful Thai food the malls like the chains that you're familiar with like 7-Eleven is super prevalent here um the mall like the malls
like here they've got the central which Central seems to be the most popular Mall chain here in Thailand I've seen them in of course Bangkok where I am now but also in changai a hot yai and I don't
know if pattia had sorry about the motorbike noise I don't know if Patty has a central mall but yeah there's centrals throughout Thailand and I've seen a few that you may be familiar with if you spent time in
the Philippines Robinson Robinson Mall is popular here in Thailand as well and then the terminal Series so there's terminal 21 there's multiple terminal 21s in there's one in oo and then there's also one in saton and then there's
one in Paia and that one's really great just for having like variety and they have I think the artwork is really special in the terminal 21 models they really go above and beyond when it comes to the artistic
displays and I think that's part of what makes them so appealing what else you know I don't know I'm kind of curious about the Ms and dang because I don't often hear people talking about them like I do
the ti malls so d m vcom okay so let's pull this up vcom Plaza oh yeah very convenient location I'm actually looking at staying on the peninsula so there's a lot of nice condos on and I think it'd
be nice like in the evenings when it cools to come out here to the beach and just go walking on the beach and uh being able to not have to cross the bridge right because it seems like in
a lot of cities that I've been to around the world the bridges are like these choke points for traffic where anytime you have a bridge it just seems like traffic kind of has to Bunch together to cross that
bridge I've I noticed that in Portland Oregon over to the Washington side I've also noticed this in I've even noticed it in Bangkok to some extent some of the Bangkok bridges in Bangkok can get quite congested course you
see this in New York City definitely in San Francisco I can't count how many times I've been in traffic on the Bay Bridge Crossing from the East Bay to the city and it's interesting because the traffic being a
stand still you see a lot of interest in cars and people like it's still got some of that eclectic Vibe of course it's quite Tech heavy these days but um yeah I'm GNA check I'm looking forward to checking
out vcom Plaza you've got vinmart Vin is I guess like the biggest brand in Vietnam so you have like hotels they have what are called Min homes that are these condo buildings um it's probably like a family of
businesses that cater to different needs grocery store looks very nice I mean these you know this is a well stocked grocery store you've got a lot of different kinds of oils on the left soy sauce is on the
right I won't be needing to go grocery shopping I typically don't cook in Southeast Asia because for a single guy it's not cheaper to always be getting takeout but it's definitely more of a mix up on the time
efficiency I think you really start to see benefits for cooking um when it comes to uh having two people right so if you're in a couple or maybe you're traveling with friends or something like that that's where cooking
can be a benefit but still nice to see right I mean it definitely gives you that confidence that if you were a single guy traveling in Vietnam and you found yourself in a relationship then you'd be able to
come here to uh this grocery store and get a lot of these sauces and things I'm sure it's more economical to get other ingredients from Fresh Markets but as far as prepared ingredients I don't know that the Fresh
Markets would carry things like soy sauce or cooking oils the design is cool it definitely looks looks different right than than what I've seen in Thailand um you know Robinson's in Thailand the design is very similar to Robinson's
in the Philippines but vinm Mar's got their own thing going on maybe a little bit like you know some of the terminal 21s but definitely an original a Vietnam original type of design there and they've got jollybee which
will be really really interesting because Jollibee is this really popular chain in the Philippines I've seen them make a lot of Headway in the United States like over the years I've lived in California you just see them popping
up more and more in California uh and you know part of that is the big Filipino community in California especially in Northern California where I lived but it's also getting popular among Americans because they're seeing this happy looking
face and they're trying the food and it's good I mean it's it's tasty like do I want to have it all the time no cuz I was like get older I am trying to cut back somewhat on the
fast food that I have I still have it sometimes like I had pizza today but I tried Royal Pizza just show you the box here yeah Royal Pizza it's a chain here in Bangkok I think they've got three
locations and I enjoyed it but not something that I want to have all the time and especially in Vietnam like with Vietnam the local food is amazing and so I I think when you're in a country like that
and I could say it about Thailand too it's harder to like go out for fast food once you've adjusted right I get it when you first get here you're like I want something that's familiar I want something close
to home I want something I'm used to having but uh even so you know it's it's Jolly bees is invested in this store because they know that people are going to want to have it and I think for
Vietnamese people that you know it's not a cheap flight necessarily to fly over the Philippines and they can get a taste of the Philippines right here in dang as can Travelers people that have traveled to the Philippines I
really like the pies at Jolly Be they have these pies that they're just really tasty and the service is fun too the service is just you get that fun like that fun vibe when you see it I think
they their brand really communicates fun very well what else do we see here this looks like a Daiso or like a a mini so not necessarily a place that I need to frequent they've got a lot of kind
of knickknacks and small toys and things like that I you know I've been in them many times and with lzada you know I used to occasionally need to go in there to get like a charging cable for my
phone but with lzada I can order it on there still something like if you're a parent you're trying to come to Vietnam with children then it may be something where you're able to have a One-Stop shot for small
toys and things like that probably have a movie theater in here I'm not seeing see I'm not seeing any signage but typically in Thailand the movie theaters are on the top floor they got a coffee shop I don't
know if this is a view from the mall but if so that's a beautiful view so what else what else there's um also pulled up on here okay so there's another Mall Indochina mall so this is probably going
to be a smaller mall maybe not quite as well oh it's that's funny so it's across the bridge so you cross I guess this is the mall people that live on this side like on the mainland and then
the mall bencom plaza is one on the peninsula for the people that live on the peninsula um got a steak restaurant Samsonite luggage yeah this looks less my speed I mean I'll probably check out the food court at
some point it's I like to have the food court because you have this air conditioned space and yet also you have some modest modestly priced eats and you see people from all walks so I like is the food
courts in Southeast Asia are these kind of like every man or every woman type of places where everybody get to really see a mix as opposed to some places that cater to maybe less well-to-do people or other places
that cater to more well off people yeah not you know probably not quite as popular if I just go based on reviews as the the Vincom you got almost 9,000 reviews for vcom whereas you have maybe 1,500 for
uh the Indochina mall we could check out some of the beaches that is really beautiful I love the palm trees it's got kind of a Miami Vibe maybe even like a little bit of a South Beach Vibe not
sure if any of you have whether on the stream or watching Replay have been to South Beach Miami but definitely has that South Beach kind of look also feel free to chime in in the discussion we got a
few people watching feel free to share any thoughts or comments suggestions e we taking a look at wayon um guess we could look at whe a bit oh hey great to see you Isaac welcome to the stream I
hate to hear you you're dealing with insomnia I struggle with that at times myself it's um that's tough man are [Music] you are you having to work today do you have to work later on I guess sometimes when
I struggle with insomnia and I'm awake at an early hour it's like I've got to stay up and it feels like afternoon when really it's just partway through the day and I've got this ho long work ahead work
day ahead of me but yeah I'm doing well you know I'm feeling a little bit cooped up to be honest it's the start of the rainy season here in Thailand and I went out around lunchtime and had lunch
at this corner restaurant had like some chicken curry that was really tasty I've been walking by this restaurant a lot but every time um half the time I walk by it it's they close at like probably 5 or
6 PM so it's mostly for like a midday place and so finally I got to try it happened to be hungry at the right time when they were um when they were open and it was super hot and
I could feel feel it like I can feel the humidity and then the wind came in it started blowing around and I knew I started running because I'm like two blocks from my apartment and then just a total
downpour just went from like hot sticky to so I ducked underneath uh I ducked into like a parking garage for a Condo building and I waited until it slowed up a bit like probably a few minutes and then
I um then I finished the walk back to my apartment and I've just been chilling here since like last summer it didn't bother me as much for some reason right now I don't know if it's just like adj
having adjusted more to Thailand if it's raining a lot or if it's you know super rainy day I'm like okay you know what it's one of those days maybe best to just chill in the apartment run the airon
pull that humidity out of the air and do some research right spend some time researching my next the next step of my journey and where I'd like to be going next next but yeah thanks so much for joining
us Isaac um it's always great to engage with my subscribers and um yeah yeah it's yeah exactly it does it remind southeast Asia like to me Bangkok is the most Miami like City because it's just like this Mega
City and you've got it's just dripping all the time like everywhere you go in Bangkok there's something dripping it's aons dripping it's like people's uh like you know R running off the roof the water's running off the roof
um there's puddles like it's you've got Bright Lights it's kind of glitzy with the shopping malls it's a it's got a luxurious feeling um at times it can feel cedy but uh just really an interesting interesting comparison there
to Florida and the weather is definitely reminding me that a lot you know some people are like ah you know how do you adjust to the heat and humidity and coming from Tennessee like Tennessee is super hot and
humid similar to Florida and so that's not as much of a stretch for me I do think it is more hot and humid here in Southeast Asia because we're so close to the equator but it's not a totally
extreme feeling this Castle is beautiful like wow I did not realize way had a castle like that I mean it definitely has some reminds me a bit of what I saw in Japan I love the lies it's interesting
to me I have to see this it's interesting to me that the daang is like more of a midsize City and the attractions are not in the city but they're to the North like in the form of H
and they're to the south in the form of hon and dang is getting really built up a lot I've heard there's tons of construction that you have to be cautious about where you rent because you may rent next
to a construction site and then deal with noise that you weren't anticipating or having to kind of navigate around different kinds of construction equipment I've heard whe is like maybe 45 minutes north of dang and it's common to
ride a bike up there I go back and forth part of me wants to get get into riding a bit more just because there's a lot that you can only really only reasonably see on a motorbike but it's
also quite dangerous and I I don't know maybe I could hire somebody to give me lessons to get me up to speed to where I feel confident writing uh here is maybe one of the more controversial tourist attractions
in Danang called the bana Hills people online seem to have a love or hate with this some call it like something out of Europe with the gondolas um others love it to me I lean toward like hey if
it looks cool I'll go check it out I don't mind if um you know I don't mind if it's manufactured there's plenty of entertainment in America that's manufactured like amusement parks and beach resorts but um yeah I mean
it looks very artistic and very cool it's something I'll think about it's definitely something I'll think about I'll probably ask some some other tourists too like when I get over there hey have you been to the bana Hills
what do you think about it is you know the internet tends to be pessimistic they it maybe too negative on some things that are otherwise pretty cool like that looks really cool I don't know if that's carved out
of stone or if that's something that's like they use like a plastic base and then paint it yeah that's the b n Hills they've got golf you know I'm not a golfer but that might be appealing to some
folks that seems to cover a lot of dang I haven't been there yet so I can't speak from personal experience this pagota looks beautiful they look like little Legos Lego heads and they've got koi wow well I assume
they're koi I don't know if there's a Vietnamese equivalent to koi fish looks like a monk and then a cat this is a great photograph I don't know what on how used uh but that's a beautiful picture I
imagine too if you're somebody that you want to look at the stars going up to Hon or H will um will probably cut down on the light pollution from the big city of tanang what else what else denain
Bay I guess I should pull this up this looks cool oh I love the colors this reminds me so much of penom pan and of Bangkok with the style the curve not sure what this is it's maybe just
a neighborhood or something like that that's what it looks like it looks like a neighborhood they've got a 3D art 3d Museum art oh yeah this looks cool these people are having a blast she's thrilled okay that's a
little bit dark oh okay that's just art okay I was like is this supposed to be a gorilla in bad shape but yeah that looks really cool this is something I want to check out I had no idea
about this 3D our Museum I've never heard anybody mention it oh wow with the Croc love the elephant yeah this is neat I got to check this out I got to make a note to go check out the
3D art museum gigantic Kitty with the cheese and the Beautiful sea turtle yeah somebody or probably team of people put a lot of effort into this and I could really appreciate it T-Rex very cool yeah that looks really
neat point to check out 3D art museum oh they got uh gaming I didn't realize they had gaming in Vietnam Fama so Fama is must be just popular throughout southeast Asia there's a furama building at least one furama
building here in Bangkok there's also one in changma chain um but yeah I'm sure this Resorts really nice the RWS are fantastic it's five star hotel y um for 140 us equivalent per night it's this looks really nice
yeah I mentioned people that are high rollers or maybe they're coming for a special holiday special occasion then this is going to be a fantastic place to stay by the looks of it guess we could look at take
a look at some of the restaurants I am curious about the food because I've eaten a lot of Vietnamese food in the US I used to go to this restaurant with my ex-girlfriend back in Nashville a lot called
Miss Saigon and you know I recognize the N is not in the South although there's going to be some Southern Vietnamese food there and I'll be trying the Vietnamese food I don't like the word like home turf but
like you know we're it originated and with a lot of these ingredients Super Fresh and it looks really good I have no idea what this is it doesn't it's not familiar to me maybe some kind of egg or
pancake it they look like tacos to be honest you've got mushroom you've got squid and you've got pork uh that looks like pork and then you've got spring rolls looks like chicken or pork skewers yeah this be Quan
looks fantastic I love that this is a I haven't seen a neat little straw like this in Forever they used to be a lot more popular in America back in the day for whatever reason they' fallen out of
fashion but I always thought they or a really fun way to have some kind of drink maybe this is like a limeade or maybe a lemonade with some lime in it and so with the Vietnamese dong it's like
$1 do is 25,000 dong um so these each of these would be around $4 uh mixed banana flour salad uh fresh spring roll rice P oh so it's a rice pancake that's so it was a pancake um and
then Vietnamese fried rice the this dish I don't know what it's called but I've had it quite a few times in Thailand this vegetable I like it a lot um that looks like it may even have some shrimp
or some prawns in it and I am a fan yeah all this stuff looks great I'm looking forward to this to be able to have traditional dishes at a fraction of the price that I'd pay in the United
States sounds great to me we got a soccer field I'm not much of a soccer player but it might not be bad to pick up just to get some exercise I think a lot of people really enjoy running
on the beach here I've seen a lot of videos and pictures of people running up and down this beach and that's what's so cool about like a beach city like this is that you do have that that space
to get a workout in I've also heard they have some outdoor public workout areas um I'm not sure where those are located but I'll definitely talk about it when I get over there with the heat it does make
me lean toward just getting a gym membership because I find it to be I don't know I don't know what about the heat causes it but I struggle to get the same invigorated feeling that I can get when
it's a little bit cooler and I can really go in and work out hard and get my reps in and then cool off and not be pouring sweat swe sweat definitely like holds you back too on the grips
like if you're trying to do pull-ups or something like that my hands get sweaty and my arms get sweaty and my face is dripping um may just be me being Indian but like sweating a lot definitely impacts my
workout okay calisthenics Park so this might be one of those let's check it out if they yeah okay so they've got pullup bars these look nice um that maybe the limit of what they have at this specific Park
but really nice to have these in public spaces you just don't see them as often in America or if you have them they're more designed for kids it's probably like a liability thing America is a really litigious country
where people are afraid to take risks because of uh being afraid of getting sued but you don't have that in Southeast Asia this looks like uh a market Chach Mayan so this must be like a I don't know
if you call it a web Market because a lot of this stuff look like dry and packaged Goods but probably a place to get some decent value looks like she's got some seafood here oh is that durian that
looks like durian very cool oh a vintage shop Spa you know that seems to be the extent of it um part of me like if I go to Vietnam for say a few months we'll scroll out here because
I I've been thinking I just want to go for a month and then go on to my next destination but I also suspect because my expectations aren't super high uh that I might really enjoy it because that's happened
every time I go into a country with low expectations I end up really really enjoying myself and wanting more time there so I'm wondering if it's going to be the same with Vietnam where I go in not expecting
a lot and then I'm like oh wow this is amazing I want to stay here for the max duration of my Visa and the difference is really cheap like for one month it's 25 bucks for three months like
90 days it's 50 bucks so $25 difference um not that much money you know if you think about like the difference you know getting an extra couple of months it's just such a an economical place that yeah I
you know in spending three months like I could do two months in dang uh just knocking out work and getting some things done and then take like I don't know a month in Hanoi or maybe even do like
two and a half months in dang and then finish up with a couple of weeks in Hanoi I wouldn't mind a break from the bigger cities just because they can be overwhelming but Hanoi I know like my grandfather
was there the Vietnam War and it'd be really interesting to see some of the history behind that see some of the museum they have specifically like some museums that are dedicated to the subject it's a mega City though
and mega cities can be overwhelming especially when you've never been to a country I find that if you go to the mega cities in in a country if it has what I would call Mega City and you haven't
ever spent time there before it can be really overwhelming like I was overwhelmed when I came to Bangkok for the first time because i' just never been in such a hustling and bustling place where there's just such high
population density there's people everywhere there's motorbikes going in every direction um it can be overwhelming for somebody who's never been there and of course I don't speak Vietnamese so that's another layer there of difficulty this looks like a
beautiful Park here it looks like Beni Kitty park or um oh this supposed to be the lake there's this big lake in Hanoi let's back it up here um hot Lake I've heard of this Lake and it's really
popular to have some Vietnamese coffee and then come and sit down by the lake and enjoy just like you know people watching and looking at the different um yeah the different temples and things like that hey code good
to see you man how are you doing I'm gonna get some water I'm my throat is dried out how are you doing tonight code we're just uh taking a look at the country that you're in right now Vietnam
I'm looking at tanoi but uh you know I'm going back and forth like whether how long I want to stay in Vietnam my original plan was to come for 30 days and do all that in dang um maybe
spend a night in Hanoi or hoi Min okay yeah so Hanoi you're saying the air pollution is rough right now that's a good call it was pretty rough in Bangkok and now that the rainy season is here it's
cleared up a lot aqi is decent right now it's like around 50 51 but uh you know thank you for the call out code I I'd like to go at some point you know if the a aqi is
is rough right now may be something that happens on sub a subsequent visit um because I I'm I'm in need of some fresh air and yeah I think dang is going to fit the bill there maybe I fly
into daang and then I fly to my next destination out of um hoi Min City and I need to check in with you code I'm curious about something when I fill out when I'm filling out my Vietnam visa
application do I have to exit through the airport I specify because I'm you know if I decide I want to fly out of dang and not have to you know fool with flying down to hoim men City I'm
wondering if that will cause me issues on exit because I want to go uh you know there's there's three folks watching this and I'm sure people will catch it on that next one I wanted to make it a
surprise but I am interested in going to the Philippines next okay for sure I I may post in the Vietnam xats subreddit or something like that and just ask because it's uh you know it's definitely cheaper to fly
out of Saigon but depending on timing it may just be more efficient for me to fly out of dang and you know I don't know like I feel rushed whenever I come to a city for a night so
maybe it's something where I spend two months in dang and then or two and a half months in dang and then I go to huiman City for like two weeks and then I have time to immerse myself in
the city really explore enjoy it and then by the time I'm like okay I need a break from the big city I'll be hopping on a plane to the Philippines uh Isaac says do you know how much you
spend on average per month in Thailand or Asia so that's a great question Isaac it depends on the duration so if I'm so I guess what I I'd like for you to clarify if you can Isaac is are
you asking more in terms of vacation mode or more in terms of living and I actually did a video addressing part of this question but my laptop hard drive is filled up and I've struggled a little bit to
to clear it back down I want to get that video edited knocked out and uploaded but it's a persisting issue and if I want to put out a video every other day um oh that's funny uh so yeah
yeah definitely I I learned a lot in my SDR role it was stressful in many ways but I also learned a ton from that role uh but yeah so so if I'm if I'm visiting Southeast Asia is if
I'm coming over here and I'm going to do a month in Thailand a month in Vietnam and a month in Malaysia just for sake of discussion I've got 90 days for whatever reason just picking an arbitrary number then
I'm going to look at it like I'll spend 1500 a month uh maybe okay yeah so we'll talk about vacation mode first and then we'll talk about uh long-term living so if I'm here on vacation mode you typically
I'm not going to be as cost conscious right because I'm in vacation mode I'm there to enjoy myself I want to get the most out of it I'm also more willing to exhaust myself because it's like okay get
as much out of this experience as you can for sorry excuse me for your time and then go back home exhausted and you know get ready to go back to normal life so I would say if you're here
on vacation mode as a single guy anywhere from, 1500 to 2,000 a month is what I would budget including flights now you're you know you're not going to should be flying every other day right I found that's includes
flying a couple times a month uh staying in decent accommodation not luxury accommodation but like something that I'd be comfortable with like my uh my studio here in Bangkok you can see it's not super huge it's you know
there's I've got my own bathroom in there there's my bed um I've got a small balcony there and this is running $350 equivalent this studio but that's the monthly rate right so if you're let's say you're talking about
uh Vietnam right you're gonna you're coming in you're thinking I want to do 10 days let's back up uh not that let's back up here you're you're saying let's just say you're saying that you want to do 10
days Hanoi uh 10 days dang and then 10 days down here in Hoi Min City well then you know you'll you'll want a budget for a higher daily rate right so you may be getting a hotel in each
of those cities and paying a daily right that where if you were booking for a month you might pay 10 bucks a day instead you're paying say5 $20 a day but I would say anywhere from that 1,500 to
2,000 a month overshoot that like have emergency funds because you never know what will happen especially if you're if you've never been to any of these countries before I find the first time I go to any country is
going to be the most expensive because there's this big learning curve I don't know you know the details about how to operate there I don't know about the wireless carriers I don't know about the local Cuisine um and
then you know for normal living I would say more like in the 12 to 1500 per month range is good uh you may not spend it all right like I'd rather if I are you I'd rather overshoot what
I'm going to spend and have some extra left over maybe you know if you overshoot what you think you'll need you'll be able to really live it up your last month or something like that um I'm not doing
that because this has kind of been an indeterminant trip right uh so for me I aim to keep it my expenses to around 1,200 per month including flights um including visas and things like that but uh you know
that also gives me room like I need to replace my shoes pretty soon that's going to be 60 bucks uh so fortunately I've got that money um and yeah that that's kind of the the way I would split
it up is like 1,500 to 2,000 a month is a single guy on Vaca in vacation mode and if you're in more like living mode 12 to 1500 a month because you're gonna you know in that V or
in your living mode you'll be able to do the month-long rentals that are is going to bring your cost per day down like right now I'm pricing out my trip to um you know Vietnam and dang and so
I'm not going to be paying you know 20 bucks a night or 30 bucks a night for a hotel I'm looking at condos on Airbnb I'm you know I'm looking at paying like two anywhere from like H right
around $300 for a month stay but there's some limitation there right I'm limited to the same building I'm limited to the same neighborhood I can get out and go around but still you know keeping me in that same
city so that's the tradeoff there as a rule of thumb the slower you travel the more cost effective that uh Things become you also the the financial advantage of doing the slower travel is that if I'm in the
same place for a month I you know I start to learn basic words in that language that helps me reduce expenses I also find places or things that are good value for money like when I'm new to a
place I might hit up McDonald's or I might hit up the balls to eat because I don't know where I am I don't know exactly what I'm doing and I'm a little bit nervous about it like H can
I try this dish I'm not so sure like even coming to Thailand when I first got to Thailand I just walk around and look at restaurants and just have no idea what they're serving because the menus are in
Thai and the people only speak Thai and I have no idea what they're serving up I'm sure it's great but if I don't know what it is I'm not going to try it but if you're there for a
month and you're kind of forced like okay you know this spot is covered up covered up with locals like tons of local people are eating there and so I'm going to give them a shot and if I don't
like it whatever it was like $2 or3 maybe it was four dollars who cares you know that's a cheap lesson um generally speaking too like I'm going to zoom out and give you another tip Isaac the economics of
Southeast Asia in my personal experience are that the mainland here tends to be more economical than the island so tends to be more economical than Malaysia uh Singapore Philippines Indonesia Vietnam tends to be the cheapest I've heard Laos
is cheap as well but I've also heard there's not a lot to do in LA uh by comparison Myanmar I would call off limits for right now just due to various circumstances you can check that out uh you
know when when you have some time um so Vietnam tends to be the cheapest I would say Thailand is next um then Cambodia Cambodia is dollarized and everything in Cambodia well much of what you can have in Cambodia
is imported to Thailand or Vietnam and then import it a second time to Cambodia so you'd be shocked at how expensive things can be in Cambodia because it has a reputation for being economical but I found it to
be more expensive next I would say Malaysia Malaysia's like a former British colony you have tons of English there it's quite developed um you in koal and po you know very modern city great public transportation you have modern
shopping malls everywhere I have a buddy from Malaysia that you know when we communicate and hang out you know half the time I might think of him as an American or something just because his English is so good
and he's so effective at communicating that there's not really that barrier and we relate a lot as well culturally uh next I would say I'm gonna leave brunai out of this because it's a fairly small country that is
you know doesn't get the same volume of Tourism as you know some of these others next I would say Philippines Philippines is going to be more expensive than all of these except for Singapore part of what makes Malaysia
cheaper than the Philippines is that they have a large oil and gas industry presence and so they have like um you know they have subsidized fuel basically and that helps bring costs down I will say International Food was
great deal in Malaysia um I personally enjoy International Cuisine and that was something that was cheaper than expected but the accommodations in Malaysia were more expensive than Thailand in my experience and more experence expensive than Cambodia Cambodia actually
had affordable accommodation I just found the food to be expensive in Cambodia and also um some Services some Services were more expensive just due to the dollarization and an international cuisine was more expensive in camb as well than
Malaysia and then the Philippines I would call the second you know most expensive because you know you're you're far out out here in the middle of the ocean and you're far away from the mainland everything has to be
flown in or brought in by boat which drives up costs you also have a lot of remittances so a lot of people sending money to the Philippines from overseas and so your currency doesn't have that same punch in
terms of conversion rates that she would have in some of these other uh Mainland destinations yeah I was I was shocked at the costs of some things when I went to the Philippines four years ago because some things
were more expensive than they would be in America like I remember looking at this menu for a restaurant and the Stak was like you know probably 50% more expensive than it would be in America so yeah Philippines definitely
not the most budget friendly uh place or and more so it's you know the more you want to travel around that's where the Philippines really adds up is you can't just get in a car or a bus like
you can in the mainland you typically have to get on a boat or a plane and that's more costly and then Singapore is the the mac daddy as far as expenses go it's the most expensive country in Southeast
Asia I went for a little under a week and I liked it a lot but certainly it's you know it's also quite orderly so if you want something that's different from what you're used to it's somewhat different but
it's so developed you don't necessarily feel like you're in a totally different world like it was very predictable very organized you've got buses and Transit all over the country you've got uh definitely a walkability factor in most of
the Eastern neighborhoods of Singapore like most of this part of Singapore really walkable um not so much up here not so much on the west side I took a bus across Singapore I across the country and it was
like a three hour ride um I didn't make it to Singapore Zoo that's something I'd like to do next time but Singapore is really cool it's just something that's not the rules aren't going to apply to as much
you're going to easily be paying like 70 80 bucks a night for a hotel and meals are going to run you at least 10 bucks I remember seeing a hamburger was like 7 us equivalent in Singapore so not
the most budget friendly and yeah Cambodia is surprisingly expensive it's um it's kind of shocking because you know it's not as well known as Thailand in some ways uh just look at you know inbound arrival numbers I liked
it a lot I felt like him was underrated but yeah certainly like for any kind of a western style conveniences you're going to pay a premium in Cambodia and also uh in Cambodia I mentioned a few times the
dollarization but also you have a lot of Western brands in Cambodia that are charging comparable prices um to what they would charge in Western democracies and this is different than Thailand that has plenty of domestic Brands I'd also
say in C CIA the local Cuisine is not as well known people are not as familiar with it as say Thai food so when I was in Cambodia I found myself eating a lot of seafood and a lot
of Indian food because I started eating the seafood there's like some fantastic seafood restaurants in penom pen but then I talked to some local friends and they were like yeah I wouldn't eat the seafood here um so you
know that was their words not mine I didn't have any issues but that's something to think about why don't we zoom in here on Pome pen it's a decent place to get closed I will say like if you
want to do some shopping uh I did find some decent value there as far as getting clothing um they they have that small that some of the surrounding countries have this is orai Market really uh this looks like
they've updated part of it I don't remember seeing that when I was there last time this is what I'm more familiar with with the orus Side Market it's got this like Dome on it and all these vendors underneath
the people are very friendly I I found the people to be friendly the coffee was some of the best I've had now I haven't been to Vietnam yet but the coffee and penom pen was fantastic I think I
paid around $2 for one of the best cups of coffee I've ever had um I can't think of the name it was somewhere in I can't remember where it was in the city maybe it was Riverside but it
was this guy that like he supplied all the coffee shops in penom pen with beans and so um he really had fantastic like just the whole process was excellent and I'd love to go back to Cambodia at some
point because I felt like it was underrated um there's also like you know some some sad history there which is worth learning about really an educational experience one of the most educational experiences I had in my time in
Southeast Asia next time I go I want to make it over to this so there's this I I guess it's a peninsula yeah it's a peninsula and I never really made it over the bridge because I was just
having so much fun in the this main part um you know they have some Modern shopping malls full like like I said a lot of imported goods different than Thailand which has more domestic production they have this m
story uh lots and lots of imported goods which you know people have mixed feelings about some people you know they want more domestic stuff I thought it was neat I mean it's super modern it's they're building skyscrapers everywhere
it's it's got a rapidly developing feel the Royal Palace is beautiful too like absolutely stunning and they've got this really nice park near the Royal Palace where everybody gets together around dusk I think the best thing I did
in penom pen was the river cruise so I had stored up a bunch of Chase credit card points and then I did this river cruise on the makong and they also served a buffet on it and I met
these um I met the other Travelers on this cruise and they were all from they were all Filipino and so they really had a lot to tell me about the Philippines because I was actually preparing to go to
the Philippines after Cambodia and they had a lot to share with me about it they were really lovely people it was maybe three or four hours and the views were gorgeous and I I wouldn't mind doing that Cru
again and the people working on the boat were so nice like so friendly um yeah Thailand I feel is the in the region like I like I said I haven't been to Vietnam or Indonesia yet but uh best
value for money your your prices are going to be fairly you know reasonable especially outside of Bangkok and the islands Bangkok and in the islands the prices can be higher not necessarily only because of accommodation but also just
opportunities to spend money I still think of changmai as offering among the best values for money of any country I've been or any City I've been to in the world I lived in changai for a while and you
know if you're trying to live somewhere affordable work online get some stuff done it's hard to be changmai some people call it overrated because they're looking for more of like a a nightlife Scene It it doesn't have that
to the extent that Bangkok has but for somebody like me that's just more of a chill laidback person uh I definitely love changmai it's it's such a beautiful city um and then Cod is in Vietnam right now and
uh he's mentioned you know it's not as popular among returned visitors you know I've heard that as well I've read that stat as well there's not as many that go back and that's something I'm going to be keeping
in mind um that you know it may it may be a sit a situation where I'm feeling like you know what once was enough I glad I saw it but it's not necessarily a place that I'm rushing back
to that's not a a critique or criticism there's plenty of other places in the world that are wonderful places that I don't see myself going back too soon I think Columbia is one of those places cuz I loved
Colombia but when I was there my friends were just constantly warning me about safety issues like the hotel I stay in in uh in medine we can pull that up actually hotelo uh Cas sto I think this is
yeah so I stayed here so I stayed at this hotel and medine back then it was like 20 maybe 15 bucks a night something like that and the owner um I want to I thought it was on abonita
Columbia um I don't know if this is the one anyway he would keep the door locked and when you'd go to exit he'd unlock the door and let you out and when you came back he'd unlocked the door
and let you back in and so I never had issues in Colombia but that definitely didn't add to my you know good feelings and then when I was in bogat we go up um down to botah I was
staying in the north part of the city and this is considered these are the nicest neighborhoods in the city usen and El Chico uh Chico Norte and so here and I was walking like five blocks maybe six blocks
to my hotel for my buddy's apartment and he was like man even five or six blocks like you're going to get robbed take a and I was like it's just five or six blocks like we're surrounded by Embassy
passing by the Ecuadorian Embassy the Japanese Embassy I'm like I don't know but you know when you when you have those experiences with locals you really have to think in your mind safe so not an issue with Colombia
I'd love to go back you know I know it waxes and waines in terms of safety I didn't personally have issues but my friends warned me that like I asked my buddy in Colombia in bogat like where do
you want to go next cuz he's also a traveling guy and he was like well I want to move to Portugal so you know he didn't mention another place in Latin America and I also my friends in Mexico
I asked them where they're interested to travel and they said you know we're interested in the US and I was like why not Latin America and they're like well it's very similar to what we're accustomed to so um
I got a runny nose I'm gonna blow my nose guys I don't like soundest sounded like I've been in Colombia H okay that's a lot better I can breathe a lot better it's pouring down rain right now I
don't know I doubt you guys can hear it but yeah you know and that's what I heard about Cambodia code now I didn't get out of the city of penom pan but a lot of people told me hey
penom pan it's rough around the edges like be careful I didn't have any issues there the um the worst experience I had there was I approached a guy trying to figure out where I was in uh we can
go back to Pome pen the worst experience I had is I was out here by National Stadium like and I asked a guy for directions and he kind of like growled no English at me um he didn't like
physically you know do anything but he just seemed uncomfortable or put off uh by that question and so that was the only negative experience I had other than that I had a freaking blast in Pome pen I mean
it was just a wild party C like a wild party town but like more in line with my kind of party like how to explain it I I like to party with local people and in penom I did
that and had a lot of fun um I find that in some places when you're partying you're partying more with foreigners no offense to foreign people I'm a Foreigner but if I wanted to party with Western people I'd
just go party in America because I have plenty of friends that like to party and we have all these shred experiences and so that's you know I don't know I just I haven't enjoyed partying with Tores as much
as I've enjoyed party with locals parying with locals is something I was able to do here and something I'd like to do again in the future um Isaac says do you feel less stressed out there than in the
USA oh 100% America uh if I didn't get out of America I mean I I was really bad mood when I left America last summer I mean I was really upset because uh I dealt with a stressful job
and I worked it for a year I saved 70% of my income so you can imagine living on 30% of your income can be very stressful because I was in the San Francisco area and we can just pull
up I was working I'm not going to specify my office but I was working in Downtown Oakland um working in Downtown Oakland living up here in Berkeley and so I would just TR do my best to avoid spending
money I was like I need to save every penny I possibly can and I did so but it was stressful and then I went back to Tennessee which is its own version of stressful where I'm from and uh
you know people in America are just rude and often nasty sarcastic um not everybody's like that but there's a large chunk of the population that is just unpleasant to be around I don't even want to talk to him
because because the trust America is a low trust Society that's one of the best thing best ways I could put it is that America is a low trust Society people you cannot trust other people I think that if
you trust people blindly in America you're naive or you're a and uh so you stick to your yourself right especially if you're somebody that's living in a big city maybe not your hometown you just can't have a social
life even though I can communicate with people I find people to just be sizing you up trying to figure out what they can get out of you and if they can't get anything out of you they don't really
put a lot of effort into conversation or relationship um I don't like American culture either I feel like it's just this this money Uber Alis culture where because it's so expensive because people come to America explicitly to make
money that money is just it's a money culture like it's just constantly on your mind you're constantly trying to figure out how to avoid spending it or how to avoid or how to get more for your money or
how to make more money and people don't really live life like they're you know and to some extent Japan is a high trust country but I have a buddy from Japan that I've talked about this with and he
said all the developed countries are like that even though um you have this affinity for Japan Alex like we still have a lot of that Financial stress it's still expensive for young people like all the developed countries the
older people tend to be happy and the younger people tend to be unhappy because the population breakdown is such the older the young people are having to pay higher and higher taxes to cover all of these cash and
priz benefits that the older Generations have voted in for themselves uh and so that's what you you experience in the west and so you know you're you're hustling and grinding and you don't necessarily feel like you are uh
you know you're benefiting from all the uh work yeah yeah it's um it's a low trust Society I mean it's it's very unfortunate because the United States used to be a high trust country you used to be able
to trust people people used to talk to their neighbors people used to socialize more uh but because of a lot of the bad decision making the you know the bailout of the Banks and o08 really contributed to a
lot of these issues because that's a that was a turning point where people thought oh the bad guys are going to pay and then the bad guys get bailed out of their poor decision making and the general public
is left footing the bill which you know they basically turned on the money printer they put in artificially low interest rates to benefit the asset holders the asset owners and so um yeah I mean America has lost a
lot of what makes it special a lot of people say you know oh well America's not special and that it's awesome to be rich it's like no America used to be awesome that you didn't have to be rich
to enjoy your life and now it's just like a lot of other countries um I call it the latinization I don't mean in terms of demographics I mean that it's much more similar to Latin America in terms of
corruption and um you know social unrest and a lack of trust crime uh you know homelessness just a lot of these problems that you know they were common in you know this this PA of the world except for
America except for America except for Canada but now it's uh yeah it's just not what it used to be it's not what it's it used to be it's past its peak uh I would call you know I would
call it just like civilization in Decline um I think it's going to look more like Brazil in the future where you've got high crime people have to stay in gated compounds which they already do like you go to
San Francisco there's all kinds of gated communities where the rich people just try to hide out from the general public um so yeah I you know its best days are behind it I would say America was at its
peak from the post World War II era where it was the only country that wasn't wiped out in World War II and you had a lot of domestic manufacturing that really uh spread the you know spread the money
around and uh up until like I would say 2007 so there was this like 50-year period where it was unequivocally equivoca number one in the world like great opportunities to move up um real estate was affordable compared to
incomes you had intact families um you you had a lot of these things that contribute to a healthy Society a healthy civilization uh some of would say you know it started with the Vietnam War where it was the
first war America lost and it was very clear we were no longer the good guys where I think priet war or pre- Korean War it was understood Americans those are the good guys uh but now I don't think
that people really feel like the US is necessarily the good guys not necessarily the people but the powers to be in the US I mean I don't think they're the good guys and you know some people especially older
people in America get offended when I say that uh especially conservative older people back in America like the Boomers oh how could you some Boomers I by the way I know some awesome Boomers but some not so awesome
Boomers how could you say that this is the greatest country in the world we're number one we're a force of good no n nonsense nonsense America is a country that is there to serve the elites uh Global interests
um large corporations at the expense of whoever they can thrown to the meat grinder to pay taxes um yeah Asia you know young men should come to Asia try it out it may not work out you know like
you may find that you don't like the weather right the weather is a big adjustment for a lot of Americans uh you may find that the language areer is tough in a place like Thailand or Vietnam and I
say this because I don't I don't like the idea of selling the dream like I don't like this idea of for $9.99 just follow my advice and your life's going to be perfect right but I look at it
like it's worth a shot when I came to Thailand six years ago I was 25 and the trip to Thailand was full of what I call Life affirming experiences back in America I felt like I was just an
extra felt like I wasn't really valued by society and um not really appreciated and I went to Thailand and you're getting called handsome man and you're you know having these wonderful dates and you're having um you know you're
having these experiences with other Asian people like not as saying you're Asian but like for me anyway I was like oh wow like Asian culture is the norm here I'm not seen as um I'm not seen as like
uh a weirdo right because where I grew up there's very few Asian people so people are like why do you eat that and like why does your grandma talk like that why doesn't she talk like American um even
though my grandmaw came to America in 1950 at the age of 19 even at 90 years old 90 something years old she's still looked at as a foreigner so in America you know Asians are Perpetual foreigners no matter
what you do you're going to be looked at as an outsider um I noticed this in some not all but some sales organizations where you know most Asian people are in the technical side and um you know I
wasn't and so you definitely feel a bit weird now that's not totally over the top like and as you go up the in sales there's more and more Asian people but definitely toward the bottom rungs it's you know
do you want to talk about football or do you want to talk about you know basketball like and it's just the same conversations over and over again it's like I don't watch either of those Sports nothing wrong with
them uh I think it's awesome if people have a way to be physically fit and active and healthy but those just aren't my personal interests but yeah yeah if you're 255 and you're single you don't have obligations you
know I would say save up like you know some money and buy yourself you know your first time over you might buy a roundtrip ticket maybe go for like two or three months check out a few countries see
what you think um you know maybe load up a dating app meet up some meet up with some nice young ladies ask them to help you out as your guide to show you around town uh and go from
there um it you know it doesn't work for everybody I you know I knew I had a subscriber from the UK he was like 19 or 20 and you know I helped guide him he chose the Philippines and
he gets a condo for a month and then he uh he wimps out he's like I'm afraid to leave the condo even though he's an IT Park the nicest let me I'll show you the neighborhood he's in he
was in and I I say this not to scare you but it's not I don't think of Southeast Asia as the dream I think of it as potentially an awesome alternative um to people whose lives are awesome In
America which there are some people who have great lives in America they've got an intact family they've got assets they've got kids they're in a happy marriage there's no reason to leave you freaking got the American dream that
doesn't exist for a lot of people but if you're not one of those people give it a shot but yeah so he's in IT Park and we uh let's see we'll show you seeu it Park so he's in
this neighborhood and he he's telling me he's afraid to walk around at night oh gosh it's just I don't people keep looking at me and staring at me and um and I'm picking on him a little bit but
I was just like dude you're being ridiculous just like go out for a just you know get out of your shell and he kept refusing and you know breaks down crying at one point and I'm like you know
man if you don't give it a shot like that's on you you spent the money to fly over there and you're going to lose your deposit so he lasts a week like basically hiding out in his condo and
gets on a flight and goes back to UK I have no idea what happened to him uh he had never had a girlfriend before but he had a girlfriend for the week he was there he actually met a
woman and uh went and met up with her she was in a rougher part of the city and he kept talking about how sketched out he was and like couldn't differentiate between this neighborhood and any of the other
neighborhoods and I'm like this is I mean it Park is a premier neighborhood in Southeast Asia like if you can't make it in IT Park SIU maybe the Philippines isn't for you and you know that would be there's
equivalent of IT Park in Thailand you know Bangkok Cleland and Saigon there's certain districts like that are really nice but um you know some people just get out of their own scar now you are a bit older than
the 20-y old you're so you probably have a little bit more life experience under your belt but uh yeah it's worth a shot I mean it's you know what I look at it like worst case scenario you find
out it's not for you you go back home and resume your life some people would say oh you failed if you did if it doesn't work out for you you failed well and you're a loser well if I
was if I'm a loser before the trip then uh you know what is it like am I a loser uh because I I I go back home and resume my life so then you're just calling me a loser
the trip has no bearing on whether I'm successful or not right so it's you know you're risking the cost of the flight the cost of your accommodation it's a calculated risk in my mind that's worthwhile to take especially
for unhappy Young men and there's so much to see and do in the world people will say oh how do you know you'll like it well you can look at Vlogs right you can pull up blogs from any
of these countries any of these cities and you can see what it's like to be walking around you can even pull up there's videos of people just walking around just holding a camera and walking around these neighborhoods and
you can see what it looks like on the ground uh so there's um you know there's just so much information that exists nowadays that didn't exist in the past and uh it's it's worth a shot right it's it's
worth a shot and and the other part of that too is you may find well I enjoy being outside of America but uh you know Southeast Asian isn't for me I'm gonna go give Latin America a chance or
something like that so there's just so much Variety in the world and as long as you're cautious like you do your research you're probably not going to run into issues I've spent almost two years of my life out
United States and they've been the best times of my life as an adult like I have no regrets and some people will say well you should just wait till retirement age well one my grandfather had his first heart
attack at 38 years old so I'm almost 32 that you know maybe I have my first one at 38 am I going to be doing a lot of World Travel after that if that were to happen probably not
so you're not going to be a young man forever and you will have you're at your your around your Peak physical health and fitness and well-being and so a lot of these activities that you're going to want to
try in some of these countries are not going to be as possible when you're at retirement age it's one thing to go snorkeling in the Philippines when you're 27 it's another thing entirely when you're 67 right no judgment
to the older guys I know that a lot of the older guys are discovering it for the first time but there's just a lot of these things that you can't do to the same effect and dating too right
like uh a lot of older guys that date in Southeast Asia feel that it's transactional well when you're a younger man it's not going to be transactional there's going to be a lot more genuine desire there in my
personal opinion like as far as H like most people want to date like at least most women I've I've met want to date guys their own age maybe a little bit older and you have more in common you
probably watch some of the same TV shows you listen to some of the same music you have some of the same interests uh they're going to be able to keep up with you like hey babe let's go for
a hike well you can do that right that's not an off limits thing um hey let's go check out this beach hey uh let's you know get event and try out some interesting Cuisine uh hey Tony good to
see you welcome to the stream great to see you this morning right it's uh it's morning in Canada right now um yeah so so hosia hosia I don't think so so I think that you know with Americans then
there's a few things that go into this so one I find that people are now I can't speak for the Ugly American stereotype right the Americans that are loud and Brash and coming in and you do this and
you do that and acting like throwing their little bit of chump you know a little bit of Pocket Change around uh makes them an all powerful God or whatever but but from my perspective people have been welcoming to
me so very few Americans actually have a passport that's changing more Americans never got a passport last year and I expect that number to keep going up the passport backlog is now like if you're getting a fresh passport
in America I think it's like a four-month wait and that's part of why I'm not going back is I don't want to wait four months to to replace my passport so mine expires next summer I'm I plan to
get it replaced this winter and if you're outside the country then you can get a replacement in three weeks so they prioritize Americans outside of America when it comes to replacing passports but uh no I I find most
people don't hold Americans to that standard uh just as when I go to any country I don't I I separate the people from the powers to be and in any country I go to and uh you know I
I think Americans are treated fine I mean most people just want to do business they I found that in every country I go to most people want similar things people have different ways of getting those things most people
want to take care of their families most people want to uh be wellfed most people want to have a safe place to live most people are not uh not caught up and and concerned about uh where you're from
like most people ask me where are you from now in America I get asked where I'm from and I tell them and then they say that's not good enough where your parents from but when I go to other
countries and people ask me where I'm from um you know I tell them United States and they just smile and Nod it's uh you know it's not a big deal at all to to them and I think that
there a lot of people are often excited that you're giving their country a chance that you want to visit their country that you want to see what it's about that you're open-minded enough to come over I think there's
also this belief that you probably have some disposable income because international flights are expensive so they figure hey if this guy or this gal has a disposable funds to uh come over to this part of the world they
must be a half decent person now we know that's not always the case there are definitely some broke X Pats out there but I think that you know as long as you maintain a positive attitude you're friendly your
patient then you're going to receive the same in return yeah I mean I code says open air prison I think of America as an open air Asylum um but not that different you know it really gets down to
it uh Cod says if you're brown or Asian yes um yeah it's a curious thing well yeah you know I think it's a curious thing but it's also like an objectification thing it's a reductionist perspective I get it
as one of the first questions too which is kind of inappropriate to me like um you know it's just and to be fair it's often by people who have had you know a little too much to drink but
it's like why not try to get to know me like when I'm in Asia I never get asked about my ethnicity in fact people a lot of people in Asia look at me as like they think I'm like
white European um I in Cambodia one of my friends Lena uh she got married recently but uh she told me you know you look so handsome because you have Asian features but you have light skin now I don't
necessarily like agree with that sentiment but I definitely kind of adds to um you know to their thoughts about it like how they conceptualize the different groups of people and um how they think about it and uh yeah
but feel free we got four folks on here feel free to chime in with any questions or thoughts that you all have yeah code southeast Asia has Indian influence and there are Thai Indians so like there's a gem
Tower near me uh where they do a lot well there's multiple gem towers near me where they do a lot of jewelry business and a lot of those businesses are owned and operated By Thai Indians uh so the
Indians here tend to be very very well off um they tend to be owners of restaurants and other types of businesses and Thailand itself is within the indosphere so I'll back up here I think of uh Cambodia Thailand
Myanmar uh as being within the indosphere so heavily influenced by India and Vietnam is in the sinos so Vietnam is much more influenced by China uh but yeah I've had been you know I've been warmly received one of
my Tha friends D chanok she's uh she's an artist and she's been to India so that's how we connected we met on Tinder and we're talking about India and she's like oh yeah I've been to India it was
awesome um and so there's this positive perception uh unlike maybe some other parts of the world about Indians they you know a lot of the names too in Thailand like they're coming from Sanskrit so their names are going
to sound very similar to Indian names and I also live near like a Hindu temple here in Bangkok there's a Hindu temple not too far from here really a beautiful Temple um yeah and then other parts so Indonesia
Malaysia uh and also the south of Thailand so I was down here in Hai was down here in hot I was that I think I was there in I was there in March I was in hot in March
large Muslim population so uh when you go to the southern part of Southeast Asia much more influenced from from uh Muslim culture and the northern part up here is more Hindu uh well Northwestern part is more Hindu influence
and the northeastern part is more influenced by China um but you know all these countries people have treated me well I happen to love a lot of Muslim food uh that's part of the appeal to Indonesia I would
like to get over there eventually but it's such a big country I think it's the most populous country in Southeast Asia Indonesia is one I want to give more time to uh because it's something I just don't well
one I'm not as into the idea Bali but two there's so much to see and do there that uh you know what's the word like it's something I don't necessarily want to like rush through uh Tony asks any
thoughts about going back to Latin America Alex especially Cusco uh so that's a great question Tony I have some interest in going back to Latin America uh unfortunately at some point I'll need to go back to the United
States uh for the next job I get it's it's dragging out so the the tech industry is currently in recession right now and I'm getting rejections on my applications I'm not in a rush to go back but it's
like the more the longer I stay here I tack on more time to the end of this trip the more time I need to spend back home earning money to hit my fire number right my financial Independence number
so you know basically how it's going to work out is eventually probably I suspect I won't get a job back in America for another six or seven months I think they'll start to cut interest rates this fall and
we'll start to see Tech hiring pick up uh you pick up toward the end of the year and uh you know that's when if I start another job uh assuming I don't have a relationship here in Southeast Asia
because you know I may meet a nice lady over here and that would probably cut down my exploration then my next trip like assuming I don't meet a lady and I'm back in America working and I've got my
week or two weeks vacation I really want to go to Argentina um so Peru was wonderful but I want to I'm hesitant to travel back to Peru uh until I H see more of of Latin America um because
let's see we'll pull it up here I really want to check out Argentina I've been wanting to check out Argentina for a while but like Argentina from a lot of from what I've heard from a lot of people
is just well it was the wealthiest country in the world a hundred years ago or one of them and so there's it's like super developed um of course they've got the insane inflation that everybody's familiar with they're trying
to sort that out right now uh it's not a political interest is by the way with Argentina I was interested in it before melee but uh yeah buenos arees you're it's supposedly like almost like a European city in
Latin America as far as like layout you know it's supposed to be very organized and developed a friend of mine's brother actually lived down here to work on a construction or architecture project and uh I think they'll turn
it around you know I think it'll go back to to being on the up up but yeah you see this architecture it looks like Paris just absolutely gorgeous and sabatical probably one of my favorite YouTubers he lived down
here for a couple of years and uh yeah he has you know a lot of positive things to say about I recommend checking out I'll throw the name of his channel I recommend checking out his Argentina content because
I mean look at that it just it's gorgeous and I think they probably have some like if it's anything like Peru like Peru has some Japanese architecture clearly from Japanese firms that really reminded me a lot of Japan
so I love Peru and so uh Tony that's a fair question Cusco is among my favorite cities in the world personally if I were to tell if I were to suggest like what what uh the best value for
money City I've ever lived in would be Cusco if I was only looking at like what I can get for um the how I could maximize my dollar spent I I technically think Cusco is the best the menu
delas there are mindblowing I'm talking like I was having small steak lunches for $150 equivalent I think like six soles uh you know vegetarian lasagna for like 12 soles like just you know the local Cuisine and the variety
of food that they have the fresh fruit that they had like mindblowing I mean pomegranates for like a dollar like just insanely amazing because you're so close to where they produce all this stuff that if you're looking to
have kind of a natural lifestyle I found Cusco to be the best value of any City uh maybe even more so than changai just my personal opinion like let's we could actually pull up Cusco here quick in the
historical sites I'm a definitely a history um Enthusiast and you'll never run out of historical sites in Cusco and the surrounding areas I also found the the culture you know like I've talked about Tony having that introverted culture
where you're in Latin America and you get the warmth of the people but the people are also fairly quiet and uh you know uh just really chill people and respectful um the street dogs could get a little bit
out of hand um if I were to go back I might want to bring something just to carry in case because you occasionally run into one that's not very nice and some people unfortunately do get bitten but that's
something you know I'm will to overlook because I liked it that much it's also Cusco also has this underrated underrated International feeling so it's similar to changma and you get tons of intern where there are passing through to
go to Machu Picchu and so you know even though it's like a half million people in the Metro it punches far above its weight in terms of variety and options great sushi um you know it's you know it's
cool and accepting and tolerant and I remember when I was there I was there during uh covid and the cops would drive around and they every Sunday you were supposed to not go out for whatever reason but nobody
followed that rule I'm not going to stay inside 24 hours on a day just because of covid so I would go out and wander around and if the cops saw you they'd be driving around and they and but
they wouldn't get out they wouldn't stop like they wouldn't even stop and say anything to you so it was just like this finger wagging like hey it's not reasonable to expect you to stay inside but I've got to
do my job type of a thing it's uh yeah it's very peaceful City it felt very safe I've heard there are some unsafe areas I didn't personally encounter those um I've heard those are mostly near the airport so
I did not explore as much around the airport um here's the airport I was much more up here like around not too far from sunblast I stayed at this hotel for like several months Hotel golden Inca and great
value um they have like coca tea in the lobby we could just pull up like you could see them the rooms they take you know your any of your Western credit cards really a nice place um code ask
have you ever dated a Tai bar girl never never had a any interest I don't even I've never even been in a bar in Thailand actually um a lady bar I think I've been to a few restaurants that
have bars attached but uh and you know what I went to um Zoey and yellow there's this I haven't been since I came here six years ago but there's a popular nightclub in Ching zoan yellow but it's more
of a nightclub it's not like a bar scene I just don't you know there's just not a lot um you know there's just not not a lot in the bars that are of interest to me no judgment on
those who enjoy them but uh I I you know it's just kind of not the not the happiest environment um for my perception I spent a month in Patia and it wasn't for me um Tony had asked I
noticed you deleted it but uh any other YouTubers that come to mind sabatical is one of my favorites um who else can I think of um so radical Indigo traveler but you probably have seen his stuff uh Tony
he hasn't uploaded in a while and he tends to do controversial stuff some people don't like he goes to places like Haiti and uh and you know part dangerous a lot of dangerous travel let's put it that way
um not for everybody but I'll I'll look up Pilar travels I haven't heard of pgar but I'm always interested to oh very cool yeah I'll uh I'll throw a subscription on here because this you know this looks interesting
to me I see he's doing Argentina so yeah here the new subscriber thank you Tony by the way um who else comes to mind as far as travel YouTubers travel YouTubers travel YouTubers um I mean one that all
of you have heard of Walter's World he's part of who and Gabriel traveler these are the two that are kind of the ogs and they're who uh got me into some of these destinations like I went to Portugal
after a recommendation from Walter's World he's talked a lot about living in Portugal also living in Argentina but there are huge channels you know both of these guy Gabriel Travelers is around 600k Subs Walter's world surpass the million
Subs um and who else um I think somebody had asked before if I'd go to China I think oh will you visit China so China is of interest to me uh hosia it's not as high on the priority
list just because of the amount of leg work there's a lot of effort that goes into getting a Visa um I've done business a lot with people in China like in Shenzhen they've always been super friendly and would
welome me uh to you know show me around town and visit and all that um but it's just a lot of leg work and it's uh it's I also feel like it's one of those places that's like some
would disagree but maybe not changing quite as rapidly as some other places like some of the countries that I've really fallen in love with are rapidly developing and such that I feel like if I don't see him soon
I'm I'm going to be missing something and some people will say oh don't have fomo but like I am so glad I traveled preo um preo like some of these places were quite a bit more lively changmai being
an example of that I mean pre-co changmai was uh it's still Dynamic it's still fun but it was a I mean it was like a I don't know how to explain it Wild West kind of feeling and and
Pome pen especially I mean Pome pen like I can't think of a more like Frontier type of a town like you go to you know pre-co I went to pen and I felt like I'm on the edge of
the Earth here like just the wild stuff that you see like I remember going and seeing like piles of burned up fake money and I had no idea what it was I thought somebody like caught a counter fitter
and set fire to all this money turns out they B burned money is part of a part of like some kind of luck we're staying in this like shady hotel and the owner U lighting up cigarettes in the
lobby and just talking to me about how much he loved America this this the owner is Chinese he's like oh oh yeah I took a car and I drove from Miami to New York City and it was like
uh it was just totally wild like and and uh he's just being Uber friendly to me and I'm like what is going on here like why is he being so nice to me he was genuinely nice like he
wasn't trying to upsell me the room was like 15 bucks a night I think he was just surprised because I think he just didn't get very very many Americans um we'll pull that pull that back up P pen
where was that hotel it was I think it might have been the urusai hotel um I don't know if it's still there I don't think this was it no that wasn't it um I can't I can't think of
it I stayed what I stayed in Pome pen I stayed over here uh we'll just pull it up because it's not showing up new season uh season this is where I stayed um and it's right on the riverfront
wow they've they've been updating the riverfront that looks beautiful uh but you you walk right out into the hustle and bustle of things at this hotel you've got the riverfront there people would be out there doing these like
group exercise classes and that was the first time I'd seen something like that like why are all these people working out like this it was it was really lovely just to see people concerned about their hot uh their
health um and then the you know the Indian restaurant was downstairs so it was like you could stop downstairs have a bite tea go out and have a wild night or you could come back and if you weren't
getting back too late you could get food and then you know go and crash out part of my Pome pen Journey part of what made it so wild yeah Steve Ross is actually a a subscriber to my channel
Tony uh surprisingly I'm definitely a fan of Steve and U yeah he's left me a comment I I watched his interview enti times a while back and I really liked it um yeah Steve's Steve's an interesting dude I
can appreciate his story a lot um he talks about how he's like of course I'm selfish I'm only child of a single mother and I'm like wow I relate to that so much like I was only child of
a single mother so I can really relate to Steve Ross a lot um but yeah so with new season so I get to the hotel and I get there I think my flight landed in Pome pen at like
11:30 in the morning and I I take a I walk outside the airport the immediate airport uh area of the airport and I get a took to and I get it right there and we agree on a price
I think it was like five bucks or six bucks or something like that and we get to this hotel and he drops me off and I pay him and then go inside the Tuk tick driver immediately starts screaming
and yelling at me oh my God I think he wanted a bigger tip or something like that but like you know I figured I I gave him the payment like I gave him the tip like I'm not you're
not shaking me down so he's shouting and yelling at me and I don't know if I'm in trouble because I'm half awake I'm jet lagged and I'm still getting the bearings of where I am coming from the airport
and we could pull up Pome pen airport really quick on the way from the airport uh we'll just actually we can show the map This Way um so this is the this is the route so it's about a
half hour ride ride along the way we're passing chickens in the road we're passing people riding their bicycles we're passing like gigantic trucks uh I'm just like staring out the window or the like flap of this Tuk Tuk
wondering where am I what alien planet did I land on because in America everything is super orderly right you get in the car the car goes onto the road everybody's in their lanes and on here you know there's
people pulling off there's people like just stopping in the middle of the road and it was just total chaos and so we get there and uh you know we get here and then the the Tuk trck driver is
yelling at me and the the guy he happens to be from Bangladesh one of the guys working there and he opens up the door for me and he he you know welcomes me in and I'm like wow this
is nuts he's like yeah this city has problems and I'm like oh my God where did I go like as soon as I get here uh the guy is warning me like yeah this this place you know the
inside of the hotel is nice but out there sucks man and I'm like oh my God uh but you know whatever you know I'll enjoy it and so I just you know went out like I um I think
I maybe no I didn't even go out so I went upstairs and I pass out at 1M and I wake up at like 900 p.m. and I'm like okay so I'm super jetl I guess I'm just going to
wander around well I had no idea this is a nightlife District uh Riverside and so I'm walking around staring at all these girly bars like what is this place like where did I why did I come here and
um but not in necessarily a bad way just like very very overwhelmed and uh didn't know what to make of him that's not my thing and I wasn't about to you know change my mind about that and uh
eventually I I made it back to my hotel but um yeah it was just so so confusing like it was just such a sensory overload uh to see all these neon lights and the cities tightly packed and the
Tuk Tock drivers every five steps they were saying hey do you want this man hey do you want that man I can get it all and I'm like oh no no I'm good I'm good no I'm good and
um just a super overwhelming scene there but wild wild town I mean one of the wildest towns I've ever been in Chev and Dev most boring sanitized travel vloggers you know I struggle a little bit with the more
sanitized vloggers because um it's not a judgment call I know a lot of people you know they're looking for a more stable vacation or standardized trip but I struggle to get value from some of those more sanitized versions
that I can't just through Googling right like to me if I'm watching a travel Vlog I want to see or experience something that's not going to be easily found on Google I want to see and experience some things
that uh you know are are what's the word are totally different from what I'm accustomed to like what does it smell like right if the blog only shows the nice restaurants nice hotels you're not going to smell the
barbecue on the street right you're not going to smell like you know people lighting a fire in a barrel to stay warm like just you know kind of wild stuff that you experience in person and uh yeah so
that would be a challenge code says you can't do anything without WeChat pay that would be a challenge uh because you know if you can't pay with cash then I think there's some friction there that You' have to
be aware of I noticed what you're talking about code because I've transited through China multiple times through sham men uh that was part of what made the Pome trip Pome pen trip weird is I flew to LA and
then I flew to Shaman China um and then I flew from Shaman we'll just zoom out here I flew from Shaman where is Shaman um well Shaman or yeah Shaman is here yeah so I flew from sham men
uh and it was there was like five people on this airplane from sham men to penom pen I'm like why are there like why are they running this flight with like six people but when I was in the
shaman airport I wanted I saw like an orange juice machine I wanted to get orange juice but I didn't have any like uh Chinese Yuan and I think they had a WeChat thing and I didn't have WeChat either
I'm like well whatever I guess I'll go without it but you know that's something that uh that's something to to be aware of is that you know without being able to easily pay for things that's some friction that
I don't experience in Southeast Asia like Cambodia I could just pull out US dollars at the ATMs or the US dollars I brought with me and start spending and it makes it so easy everywhere takes dollars they even
prefer them to the reals uh and so you know that that's easy Thailand of course Thai currency the Thai bot is the 10th most circulated currency in the world so very easy to get tibot uh Vietnamese Dong you
know very easy to to convert uh so that would make it challenging I'm not opposed to going to China uh but it's you know it's something that's going to take more research and leg work than say places like
Vietnam or Thailand um hosia hos mention okay yeah burning money for the deceased yeah that that makes a lot of sense I was just so confused by it because um yeah I just had no idea I remember to
in penon pen seeing like a Rolls-Royce and being like where where am I there's a fantastic speaking of which there's a fantastic French restaurant um let me pull it up I'll look it up really quick French restaurant Pome
okay yeah yeah CRA um there's quite a few really nice French restaurants and Pome pen oh the poost okay that's it um yeah so this uh this spot K uh uh kamay I guess yeah this restaurant really nice
I went here for breakfast amazing croissants um fantastic omelets like really really nice place the yogurt was really really nice I've never been to France and so it was it was definitely interesting to experience some of that French
influence but the architecture in penom pen is super cool like it's uh it's an underrated City for me um R says love the Cambodia Tuk TS why aren't Tuk Tuk on grab in Thailand you know that's a good
question R um I'm GNA make a note of that I want to ask I'll get back to you about about that why aren't why aren't Tuk TOS on grab I have ridden in one with some Thai friends uh
I've never ridden in a Tuk Tok in Thailand uh on my own so I've always heard that they tend to overcharge if they see that you're a foreigner uh and that's something I've been concerned about but my Tha
friends you know when we were at the we um let's see here we at the temple um Grand Grand Palace Grand Palace when we were at the Grand Palace we hired one outside of the Grand Palace and my
friends that speak that are Tai they helped negotiate the price but I think about when I Tuk TS I think about flexible pricing and I was comfortable using them in Pome pen because you access them like you said
through grab I used Pass App and uh the price you're you're notified about it up front which I liked because I was getting bugged everywhere in put pen by the hook Tok drivers about getting rides and for me
I always prefer using the app when it comes to translate to Transportation because I want to know how much it's going to cost before I agree to it because uh I just have more control that way Chris Lewis
yeah I watch Chris Lewis um thank you for mentioning Chris Lewis Tony I think he does some interesting stuff um what else what else um pull up my channel I can throw uh not my channel but my YouTube
page and just check out my recommendations um this this one guy has been like blowing up really fast I don't mind sharing because he's he's really blowing up he's this homeless Japanese guy uh assuming he is really homeless
and he's been like his channel has just been popping off you guys may have gotten his channel suggested to you okay code yeah you know Nomad push yeah he is hilarious and I like his energy he's just got
a an interesting Vibe about him uh who else who else could I mention um greeny travels yeah so greeny travels you know greeny and I discussed me going on his podcast he's based near Patia uh kind of the
South Patia area Banks suray uh we haven't really lined something up he's been traveling a lot lately he went to Vietnam he's been in Hong Kong recently so I may not be able to link up with greeny before
um before the end of my trip here I may shoot him another message just because I'm on on my way out of here in Thailand in about seven weeks or so and I'd go down to Patia you know
to do it uh to do a podcast with him just kind of talk about some experiences he's uh fully retired like he owns his condo in bankay he's got a car down there like he's you know he's committed
uh to Thailand and I like his uh you know Midwestern kind of vibe too me being from the southeast I definitely can appreciate some of the cultural nuances of dude from the Midwest but yeah Green got some interesting
stories he's already been married and divorced here in Thailand too he's talked about in his Vlog so I don't think I'm oversharing there but he's really just like lived full on here in Thailand he's a former uh detective
as well so he's got like a you know I appreciate his his sharing about that another one Tony that you might like s life I think Sly is kind of underrated he's got like 100 110k Subs I'm surprised
he is doesn't have a lot more he's traveled everywhere so he retired from the military and he's just been like everywhere he's been to Africa I actually ran into Sly in Cusco so I didn't know Sly back then
but uh I was filming in Cusco and passed by Sly and I'm in his Cusco video so actually I need to if I find it like I need to share it sometime uh but yeah Sly was in Cusco
like when I was in Cusco in 2021 and walking down the street recording myself and he's walking in the opposite direction recording and he's like oh there's a guy recording it was so funny um it was so funny
like if you if you watch s Cusco Vlog you should see me in there I think it's around the halfway point but uh I'd love to meet up with Sly at some point he's probably one of my favorite
vloggers because he's just got like a positive attitude um he he seems like a genuinely kind of happy guy he's in Russia right now actually um but I think he's to some extent almost running out of places to
go because he's been all over Africa all over Asia all over South America and to Europe um so he's been like Western Europe so he's been to like almost everywhere it seems like and his yeah I like his
channel too because he's down to earth and he's kind of real like he he shows you look I'm not staying in some five star hotel this is my normal Hotel uh you know I'm I'm trying you know mid-range
restaurants he's somebody that I could relate more to and that's what I like a lot about his channel but s live super underrated in my opinion who else can we go for here um that I'm a fan of
uh you know I like Mike's philppine retirement and you guys are probably familiar with uh I like Vagabond awake okay I don't I don't like the kind of like the showing off of the lady as much and this
isn't like a judgment thing like oh I'm too good in this and that it's just like I get it it it drives it drives engagement you know people like to look at an attractive woman but uh to me
it can distract away from like the realities and the reality is most of us aren't going to date a Malayan model right like most of us are not going to uh be in a relationship uh with a model
from Malaysia in an age Gap situation and so like to me it some vloggers can get and he also he Al yeah yeah see he well he also does scripting a lot so he he's done a lot of
scripting in his videos and I'm not as much of a fan of scripted uh content because it's just too orderly like maybe I'm just a chaotic person but I like to be off the cuff and like not filter
what I'm thinking because I want people Beyond what's required right like there I can't you know I prefer not to use foul language on YouTube I prefer not to talk about certain subjects that may may not be be
valuable to my audience um but it's two productized in a way for me the product is too clean when you have a lot of scripting going on and I wonder how much of it as a character and I
try not to be a character in my content right I try to be more like who I really am to whatever extent I could possibly be uh and I find that if I were to script my content um
you know it might it might take away from the authenticity for me personally other people probably do well with you know scripted content they can come across as more authentic I just feel I don't know I don't I
guess what I'm getting at is I don't feel like I'm acting um it's it's you know first and foremost it's fun for me the other thing about Vagabond awake is sometimes he gets into the cheap Olympics a little
bit in my personal opinion like he'll you know he'll disclose how much he's earned and then be like oh we're only living on 800 a month here and it's like is that really necessary like if you're at retirement
age um you know and you make let's say 10,000 a month why live on 800 right like and also is that really true like he's done videos where he'll interview somebody that's living on 500 a month and it's
like H I don't really know if it's if it's a good idea to try to convince people that they can come over to this part of the world and live on such low amounts um especially when that might
not be telling the full picture like does that cover their emergencies um who knows maybe they rent you know maybe they go over to their friends apartment and oh look at this tiny Hub I'm living in but really
they're living in a big place down the street I think at those amounts it starts to get into danger territory and some would say well I'm saving for an emergency but it's like you know if you're that concerned
about your health I don't know like if living abroad is the best decision because you're probably going to be able to get better health care in your home country uh a lot of older people do have different kinds
of health insurance schemes that they can get through the government that will help reduce their health care costs and the quality is you know arguably easier in terms of language lack of language barrier uh so that's another thing
is like I get it you know there's an element of it selling the dream but like when you lower the barrier to entry too low then I think you may encourage people to make risky decisions and I know
they would say well it's up to each individual to do their own research but it's like how helpful is it for me to watch a video that's telling me about how you live in your apartment go for walks
and cook at home for 500 a month when I want to uh not cook I want to live in a more nice condo like it you know I don't know it just uh some people are better off in
their home country and I don't think that's anything to be ashamed about most people many I would say many people around the world would love to live in a western democracy um so you know they it's more so
in my mind it's great for some not great for all can you talk about how you spend your day like your daily routine yeah so that varies uh a lot lately code um the last week I've been I
don't know focused on trying to plan if I'm if I'm parked somewhere for a while I usually start off every day uh wake up I drink water um try to rehydrate because running you know sleeping under the airon
all night does seem to dry me out like more a lot um I'll throw on some clothes and go go to the gym I like to do a workout whether it be lifting weights uh or doing some cardio
type stuff um that's a big thing for me just for my mental health and well-being is working out I think it's crucial if I'm not if I don't have access to a gym like if I'm in a part
of the city that doesn't have a gym or like during Co the Gym's closed down I I'll try to do a lot of walking like some weeks here in Bangkok I've walked as much as like 15 miles in
a day 30 over 30 kilometers which sounds crazy but like uh I'll just go out walking and so I'll leave my apartment well I'll pack up my backpack I'll put in I'll make sure I've got all my batteries
for my camera uh batteries like my power bank for my phone uh you know have my wallet on me cash you know I've got my clothes and all that and then I'll just go out walking and I'm like
pick a direction and just go walking or I'll pick a certain attraction that may be I don't know an hour walk away hour and a half walk away and I'll just go in that direction or I'll hop on
the bus but to me like you know some people are like why would you walk oh are you too cheap to use the bus or too cheap to call a cab you know for me knowing that heart disease
rents in my family I place a high priority on exercise like it's something I don't get to do enough of in the west because I'm so busy with work and along the way you see and experience a lot
of random weird stuff that you wouldn't experience if you just traveled there by train or by bus or by um you know by car or something like that and then I'll I'll find you know oh wow a temple
I had no idea this Temple was here but now that it's here I'm going to stop in here and check it out and then you know I get hungry I'll stop and ARR restaurant and have a bite to
eat oh this looks good or oh that smell is good I'll try and have that and then I just go about it until my legs hurt and so when my my feet hurt uh usually they start to hurt
around like the8 to 10 Mile uh point then um you know I'll start to make I'll start to make my way back home uh and I'll take a different way so I walked this way to get home well
I'm going to come this way to get back back and uh that's been super helpful and that way I get to see a lot of random stuff that I wouldn't see normally uh and I get to experience restaurants
I wouldn't find normally um and that's not always the case right sometimes there's a specific thing that I want to go see so like I'll pull up Patia here paa so with pattia I found out about colon and
so so uh you know one day that involved just walking down to the pier um I stayed in J Tien and so I hopped on a bot bus on T prior Road and came down here and then um
and then just walked down to the Bali Hy here and then you just hop on a ferry over to colon and I just walked around the island I'm not a motorbike rider so for me I have some concerns
about safety I've seen probably half a dozen accidents here in Thailand in this year alone and I'm just really cautious about it so then I just go out you know walk around the island I'll check out some beaches
uh you know enjoy at that way but yeah exercise being outdoors living outside is like the focal point of a lot of my travels like in America I feel like I stay inside all the time because because of
safety for example here in this part of the world I feel a lot safer so I want to just go out and explore I want to see everything uh I want to go out and experience things too so
if there's a certain attraction or activity that I want to do I'll make it a point to include it in there I try to film a lot too sometimes like and in that day I told you I just
go out walking I'll if I find a quiet place to film I'll try to shoot a video there uh sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't work they have a lot of ambient music and ambient noise as far as
like motorbikes and and vehicles that can make recording a video difficult but um that's how I mostly spend my day you know if I've got a date I try to schedule them more at night um and you know
hang out at night go out at night when the day is cool off typically the women that I've dated have had jobs during the day so their free time is at the night is it nighttime or on the
weekends and we'll meet up and hang out uh you know depending on the context if things are going well they might come over uh and you know spend time at my place but yeah that's that's mostly what I
do um and then some days if I've got editing to do I'll just hang out at the apartment all day um I'll stay home and I'll just get through editing I'll pull usually as soon as I get home
and I cool off with the airon I'll pull all my footage over onto my hard drive and onto my laptop and I'll try to edit and it usually takes me like several hours to edit each video that I
put up there and uh yeah and then then I'll do my uploads um but yeah that's roughly my daily routine code and then if I'm getting ready to go to somewhere new I spend a lot of time in
the evenings um researching so most of most of what I do outside is during the day I go out at night some but I try to maintain like hey for my health it's better for me to sleep and
more normal schedule but uh yeah if um yeah I mostly like to edit in the evenings I'll like order take out from food Panda or grab or hit up a restaurant within walking distance of my apartment and then
just uh yeah and then just edit and also I spend a lot of time watching YouTube like I spend a lot of time when I'm out walking I have YouTube going in my pocket I probably watch YouTube or
listen to YouTube like 4 hours a week if not more just listen listening to different content creators um trying to understand their logic or Reason uh finding new content creators that can give me some different angle also participate
in some live streams like Philippines Antics if I wake up early enough because they start their streams early they start their streams at like 8:30 a.m. uh Philippines time or uh around then sometimes I'm a guest on their
Channel where they open up their their live stream to a panel format discussion and sometimes I'll join in on there in the mornings and participate and just kind of mostly I listen and ask questions because I don't know
as much about the Philippines I've only spent about a month or a little bit less than a month there uh that's something I've been doing lately is is jumping on those uh jumping on their streams as a guest
I haven't been on one recently it's been a few weeks but uh yeah I find Value in connecting with other content creators R says I use resistance bands you know I think that's a great way to do things
R I think that's efficient and you're able to get a more varied workout in then pure body weight uh you you really got a great idea there that's something I need to get on actually in Chang my I
was really consistent about the going to lift weights because I have a gym Gold's Hillside that was like I 15 20 minutes walking from my apartment and so I'd go there and do a workout and then I'd start
the rest of my day uh but I always it always put me in a good mood to have a hard workout in in the morning or maybe around midday if I woke up late uh and then come back
to apartment shower up change and get into editing or get into exploring going and having a nice meal or something like that yeah great questions great comments thank you so much everyone for your input um feel free we've
got five viewers now feel free to chime in with any thoughts or uh questions or ideas um let's see I guess we pull up Cusco again or while Lima yeah just because I I talked a bit about Cusco
and I don't know what these signs are but um yeah limo is cool Lima I definitely want to get back to alongside Cusco because there's so much I didn't see it's got this mysterious it's like the only city
in the world where uh you've got like uh in in the same location but um you know it may be getting time for a lot of people to start their days so uh if anybody wants to throw in
any additional questions or thoughts um I'll probably wind down in the next 15 20 minutes or so um and if you uh you know if you guys can think of any channels I should watch feel free to throw
those down there too I'm always looking for interesting content uh new channels to look at when we hop back over to Southeast Asia actually just because um pull dang back up yeah I'm looking forward to this it's it's
going to be really interesting and it's GNA be more like changmai from my thoughts and just from my observations like dang is going to be a lot more like Chang my uh I've heard it descri is like changmai
with the beach or changmai on the ocean but uh yeah let's see yeah on uh I've heard I could go down to uh VT I've heard good stuff about VT I don't know if you could chime in on
that code if uh if you've spent time in btal but it's quite close to hoim Min City actually I forgot which one of these cities somebody told me it might have been Matt uh told me that one of
these cities was kind of rough and I should avoid it maybe it was maybe it was vungtau I can't remember which though I've heard uh natrang is really popular among Russian tourists uh kind of similar to like Paia
because it's apparently they like the heat like the hot weather more so than some of the milder attempts up in Dang or in Hanoi roaming Hogan okay I'll I'll uh let's see here roaman Hogan oh yeah I think
I've watched his uh his videos yeah he might I might have been unsubbed from him by YouTube sometimes that happens or I'll be folling a channel and uh for whatever reason get um unsubbed um oh I forgot JP
and Amelia I'm a fan of JP and Amelia uh they're in Europe but they were in Ecuador for a while great Channel as far as Latin America topics um you know now they're more on the road just I
think as some of the challenges in Ecuador but uh they're they're great as well I like that they have this kind of positive and and optimistic oh yeah Patty du definitely have watched a fair amount of his content
on Thailand he's got such a thorough coverage of a lot of places in Thailand I think he's been to like every province in Thailand I think he speaks Thai quite well as well which is like unheard of Among
The Foreigner population so yeah shout out to Patty Doyle great content [Music] um yeah well I appreciate everybody uh watching tonight I think I'm gonna uh call it here pretty soon just because um yeah my my voice is
starting to go a little bit as as you can tell and um I know a lot of folks uh well I don't know trying to think of just any more topics that we want to cover in this stream
um I guess we could look at yeah one thing I wanted to look at was tackle that and that'll give that'll probably carry us through to uh a nice stopping point um hoi Min City wow I you know
I heard about this city and read about this city when I was younger because like my grandfather he served in the Vietnam War and it just seemed like this mysterious far away land he was over here for a
couple of years I do think he was more in the north but I heard a lot of soldiers pass through hoim men uh on their way to you know either on the way to Vietnam or on the way
out of Vietnam and it was probably a lot a very different city back then as far as development goes and um I think this is the tallest building in Vietnam Landmark 81 that's just beautiful and I think uh
the these are Vin homes surrounding it that's a um popular company there in Vietnam reminds me of like the Empire State Building what a beautiful pool and it's such a high level too where you can get a crazy
view of The cityscape Man Thailand definitely has a lot of those Blade Runner Vibes um but who knows maybe in the future Vietnam will be giving it a run for its money I still thrown off by all the
gigantic Billboards in Bangkok and you see these huge faces it's um it's a sight to behold what else here in Hoi Min City ah Supermarket interesting oh Van vanan Mall so this looks like a popular mall it's got
a similar layout to the um the mall that's attached to Bangkok immigration it's got this kind of uh futuristic design open air in the at the lower level fairly utilitarian design um not not so many artistic Frills as
uh some of the Bangkok malls this is nice I like these flowers what else you know I really haven't researched hoi Min City a lot oh the most obvious one that everybody's watched is best ever Food review show
uh he's probably my favorite of course he's massive uh so much so he was on like The Joe Rogan Experience but he lives in in hoian city that's where he's based out of and I think that speaks a
lot to you know the quality of the city if somebody like him could who can afford to live anywhere in the world uh chooses to live in hoim Min City then that really you know that's a lot of
that's a brownie that's some brownie points for this city and it makes me want to spend more than just like a day or two there maybe I will commit to um a longer duration of course I have heard
you have to be cautious about pickpockets and um some some issues with stealing in in uh in Hoi Min City so that's something that would have me on my back foot a little bit of course that's not everybody
just a few people can really add to that negative you know experience there so this must be a Korean uh Supermarket lot is like a popular Korean brand and it looks fairly walkable I mean like it maybe just
this this is an upm Market District but like the sidewalks look pretty you know pretty nice there um what else um okay this looks cool Sala Urban Park I like these I I don't know if there'd be shade
structures but and I'm a fan of the fish so man this is really impressive like I didn't taon was like this I mean this looks gorgeous really well manicured have hoim man city as Shad oh this looks beautiful
a Buddhist temple it's very very beautiful and ornate yeah I had a friend from uh her family was from South Vietnam and she told me her mom is Buddhist AF as to put it in her words and this
really speaks to what she was saying about it very very ornate you can tell like a lot of work went into these oh and I don't know why I didn't mention it but I like uh chny um I
like chny a lot he's just got kind of this like personality and he um you know it was the first time I realized like there's a space for Asian YouTubers to really succeed like just his upbeat attitude his
sense of humor um not being too proud to Jo BR around about cultural idiosyncrasies I you know I think overall he's like a Force for good and um yeah I mean I did have a negative kind of a
negative experience with a YouTuber he wasn't a travel YouTuber uh called um he G the algorithms to Jarvis Jarvis Johnson uh he's from Atlanta area and I thought I might you know I I'd watched his channel ran into
him in San Francisco and I was like oh wow I've seen on YouTube and he was immediately like so what and like just kept walking like this dismissive like dude come on you have 1.5 million Subs like you've
got to expect people are going to run into you on the street maybe he was having a bad day I don't know what it was but it was just like almost like this who are you attitude um and
so I don't watch his content at all of course he doesn't do travel stuff so not really relevant to this channel but that was the only negative experience I've had with a a YouTuber and Ron asks when are
you back in the USA so Ron that's a great question maybe maybe next spring that's kind roughly what it's looking like uh I'm hoping by next spring that the tech industry hiring will pick back up and I'm able
to get a good job uh back in Tech to keep grinding it out toward my um you know toward my goals code asked earlier uh what did I hate about the SDR job um you know I didn't the
thing I didn't like about sales work is that you can do everything right and still fail that was that's just a broader commentary on sales where it's really all about timing territory and talent and so you know if
your talent is there but your territory is uh maybe a less strong territory uh or the timing is not right your buyers aren't ready then that can make your job very difficult um but no I mean it was
I learned a lot of valuable skills and like even though it was stressful like you know I I definitely developed my social skills a lot working in that sales role talking to people all the time having conversations with
people all the time but yeah Ron I mean uh you know I'm not in a rush to go back to America like financially I'm doing fine um and so I'm not you know not in a rush and so
I want to hold out for a good job there I could probably get a job right now if I wanted one but the compensation like some of the compensation I've seen has been kind of embarrassingly low compared to
what it was a few years ago and of course you know it's the peak of the market was a few years ago but um oh that was the guy he was one point one million sub 1.5 million Subs
not a fan of him I'll throw his name in there this isn't me calling him out or anything it may have been a bad day but I was just shocked by his bad attitude I guess some he's having
a bad day but to be you know ugly to somebody that says they enjoy your content and you run into them in a the second most densely populated city in America San Francisco like you know how to explain
it we ain't in LA and your celebrity ain't that big like I get it if it's like Leonardo DiCaprio or I get it if it's like um you know some other famous actor or actress but a YouTuber who's
like a programming nerd like come on dude we're all nerds like this is Bay Area we're all nerds um but uh yeah ch's awesome best ever Food review show these are two really big channels awesome JP and Amelia
awesome as well uh yeah yeah well you know that's that's uh you know maybe he maybe he just found it too stressful maybe he wanted his privacy right like maybe you know just people recognizing him uh you know
he didn't like that right right um but yeah no no rush to go back to United States but I'm hoping by next spring I'll find something good um technically I could keep traveling right but uh I I want
to get to that point where I can leave the United States to never come back and so I could you know keep going and and try to do it through content creation but it seems fairly risky to me
and also I uh I don't want to be in the position where you know as in YouTube I'm an independent contractor right so I'm not an employee of YouTube and it seems fairly risky to totally rely on it
I know some people are very successful with it that really uh you know are amazing but I don't know if what I add or talk about is so valuable that I could get to that point where I'm able
to make a full-time income for me a full-time income isn't extravagant if I can make a to 15500 a month or something like that that would be great um but for me in the software industry it's just a
very straightforward path to making money that is harder for me to turn down knowing what the earning potential is in sales because in Tech the margins are so high if you're good at selling you can really uh really
earn very well and you know invest a lot of that money and then I'd rather be in a position to do this for fun than like hey I really need the money uh you know so that that's just
kind of where I'm at with it like I like YouTube a lot I don't want to get to the point where I don't like YouTube but I need to do it because you know of financial reasons if that
makes any sense and when will you go to the Philippines so that's a great question Ron um Philippines I'm looking at anywhere from August to October so next I want to go to Vietnam I'm actually trying to sort
out my Visa right now figuring out the uh complex Visa process for uh going going to Vietnam and then after Vietnam I I can decide if I want one month in Vietnam or three months in Vietnam so that's
where I'm at right now but uh after that time is when I'm I'm looking at going to uh the Philippines and I'm just also uh trying to line up interviews because I've got a few people that have reached
out to me that want to interview me and then I've got a few people I need to reach out to that I'd like to um like to do interviews with so that's what I'm I'm trying to sort out
is nailing down how long do I want to spend in Vietnam and then from there um but yeah I'll be going to Vietnam mid July at the latest maybe I'll go before then but that's Technically when my Thailand
Visa expires and there's still H quite quite a bit more Bangkok that I'd like to shoot like like to film uh before I leave because getting this the recordings at the street level and of some of the artwork
and some of the signage will help me to build more T Thailand content after I leave because there's a bunch of stuff that when I'm in the moment living in the moment it's hard for me to really cover
it but after I have some time to think about and reflect on my experiences then that content I can go and revisit that stuff that I'm storing on my hard drives and make it but um yeah it really
comes down to how long um you know how long I spend in Vietnam and then after Vietnam is when I'm looking at the Philippines I don't have my flights booked yet but uh I've got a rough idea of
where I want to go I'm gonna start off and do magetti because that's really a hot spot for a lot of the people that want to interview me and people that I want to interview and then I'm going
to go uh let's see I'm going to go down to uh Malai Bai really want to see Malai B I wanted to go see it last time but uh my buddy works there he's been uh pressuring me every
time we talk hey man you got to come visit hey man come check it out Elo Elo is on my radar and I want to see it but I don't know anybody there and so you know for me
a country like the Philippines it really helps to have like a friend on the ground that can help you negotiate and show you around and tell you about things because it's it's not as well traveled as Thailand right
Thailand there's so much you can learn about just watching videos and reading about online but people are still discovering the Philippines and it's still they've still got a long ways to go in terms of Tourism development now I
think there are some great channels contributing to that uh some of whom I'll be talking to but uh I don't know like it's people being able to speak English is a blessing and a curse in the sense that
it's helpful but it also can be overwhelming because I'm an introvert and I expect to kind of move around and people just see me as a ghost which is true in Thailand to some extent but over there that's
not the case people are engaging you in the Philippines people are coming up to you and talking to you um people are like giving you hugs like I have people just giving me hugs in the Philippines people I
didn't know uh and so yeah I didn't experience the shyness um maybe as much as some other people do in the Philippines uh Ron says I want to go to Singapore M Hong Kong and Taiwan those all sound
wonderful Ron I think you're gonna have a blast in all those places I've been to Singapore haven't been to the rest I had a layover in Taiwan but that doesn't really count uh but Singapore is awesome I think
you'll have a great time I may have a layover at some point in Hong Kong uh some of the flights I've priced out from Vietnam to the Philippines have me having a layover in Hong Kong one of my
co-workers also lived there for a month last year and she loved it uh so certainly very developed I had a subscriber living there but um he and I had kind of some differences of opinion but uh that's not
a commentary on Hong Kong and and uh I think you know all those places are very developed and you'll you'll enjoy it Ron I'd love to hear about it too if you make it over there and have these
experiences feel free to let me know which uh which places you preferred and what really stuck out to you about them and a couple of my subscribers have been to Taiwan recently like Jake he went to Taiwan before
he came here to Thailand and he loved Taiwan he had a great time in Taipei and another another subscriber did as well uh he went to Taiwan before he came to Thailand and Gabriel traveler went to maau I
think last year um and he had a good time in maau BG rent is too expensive for Southeast Asian country uh yeah BGC seems to be you know quite pricey you know Premier destination funny story I almost I
probably could have gotten a job in BGC so I was working for a company called service Source about three years ago and they had an office in BGC and I actually knew of um a woman a friend of
a friend who moved there so she actually was working for service SCE in Nashville and they wanted somebody to come from uh the states to go over and manage their Philippines office and so she ended up going and
subletting her apartment in Nashville and she was just going to go for like a year and she's been over there for like five or six years now maybe longer uh living in BGC and I almost thought about doing
that because I'm like hey look I'll get paid like a western wage but get to live in BGC it's like you know Best of Both Worlds um but I thought about it it's like uh you know do I
want to be working full-time in U you know in the Philippines such that I'm not able to travel as much as I'd like of course you do have that career stability of course there is that managerial element plus
it wasn't guaranteed either like I didn't know how the economy was going to change it's like okay I could work toward that for a year or two and then find out hey we're deprioritizing that that company ended up
getting acquired by a company called Accenture or not Accenture but concentric and uh so I don't know what happened to her role but um yeah I mean I mean it seems like you know uh an opportunity um what
do you think about computer science is that a good career I think it can be you know I stopped studying because I was able to get a job so I pivoted from that job at service Source into another
role a more sales heavy role and uh my earnings increased a lot so I was making a lot more money and that was the other side of it's like do I want to go live in the Philippines and
make x amount or do I want to stay here in the states and make 3x that and be able to save a lot more um and so that was what I opted to do it could have been the
wrong decision um yeah you could create a cryptocurrency like I I think there's some value in that but I think also you know um there you know it's inherently there's risk and all that and uh you also have
to now crypto is I think it's going to be a lot more regulated going forward uh and so I think whatever you do do it for the long term like pick something that you know you feel confident you
could do for 10 20 30 years like the rest of your career and something you'll enjoy um I went with sales just because I have a sales background and it was more straightforward to me than programming plus my
exposure to technology then it's um you know is easier for me to to kind of combine those things and I figured too if I make the big bucks and sales and invest a lot I'll build my own passive
income through Investments at which point I can go and travel overseas and um my brother-in-law works for us Davis UC Davis Medical as it that sounds like a great option I know that um one of my subscribers he
uh he retired from he retired from the University of California system as a professor and he's living in Thailand and he has a great lifestyle in Thailand he's got a great pension he's not he's been here for five
or six years I think that's a very straightforward way to get your pension and basically not have to worry about um not have to worry about the money side of living overseas right you know you're going to get
x amount every month you're not having to manage the Investments uh you know you've earned it through putting in your time as a professor or a teacher and yeah I think that's a great great option for a lot
of people to pursue that I my ideal would be to work in sales and make the big bucks for like maybe three or four years and then move here to Southeast Asia in my mid to late uh 30s
because you know just with the history of heart illness in my family I I don't know if I'd make it to pension age right like I even now I've been working on my blood pressure but I already suffer
from high blood pressure to some extent at my age at 31 uh so there is a risk in pursuing a high stressful job like sales but on the other hand it's like when I'm done I might actually be
done for um you know done for the long term if I earn enough money and invest it wisely a lot of retired military got Asia South Africa America Africa um oh it's so big a deal Ron you know
I'm so very fortunate to have discovered this lifestyle that I love and I feel that it's not about quantity uh it's about quality and I'm I find that my life is just so wonderful and this part of the
world that if something were to happen to me tomorrow um I could honestly say I I came to an end doing what I love and full of joy and happiness and uh no regrets right like just being able
to see these beautiful places and meet these friendly people and have all this delicious Cuisine and uh you know live this kind of Frontier or a new world or old world lifestyle is uh yeah I feel very very
fortunate very very fortunate man I got hypertension I'm sorry to hear that Ron it's it's unfortunate I I hate to hear that um yeah I found the most success on going to low carb diet I haven't done that
um yeah water is definitely a big part of moderating blood pressure I found lowering my consumption of refined sugar lowering my consumption of things like bread um cutting out soda cutting out like sweetened drinks like coffee or tea
sodium is a part of that too can be a part of that too but uh you know I did the keto thing for a while keto diet and that was really good as far as making me feel healthier
I'd like to get back to that but it's certainly not easy in this part of the world right it's uh in America you can do things like I would go to Chipotle a lot and just get uh the
the bowl like without the wrap and no rice no beans um no no I appreciate you I I appreciate you Ron it's a good call out and I'm all about health and that's something that you know I would
be help valuable for me to talk about more on my channel is like healthy expat topics like not just the psychology of why being over here is good for our our mental health or for my mental health but
also some of the lifestyle changes I can make whereas back in the US I'm kind of chained to a desk acknowledging that I'm able to walk a lot more acknowledging that I'm able to um work out a lot
more that I'm able to make more conscious food decisions that I'm not always going for the convenient but that I'm able to go for the healthy and uh that's especially true in Vietnam like from what I'm hearing Vietnamese
food there's a lot of healthy options uh they have a lot of vegetables that they include and you can really uh I mean you know Vietnam is one of the healthiest or skinni countries I think it might be
the skinniest country in the world and I think that speaks a lot to the health and and benefits of the way that they eat but yeah a lot of retired military um in Asia and South America and Africa
that's that's um that's interesting I think a lot of these military guys they they see behind the curtain right if you think about life in the US is kind of this Wizard of Oz scenario where there's there's there's
a hidden reality and then when you're in the military and you go travel with the military you're like oh wow you know I just told these people suck and this place sucks and the people are nice and this
place is awesome and you open up your mind to all these different Lifestyles and my grandfather loved traveling in Asia um from what I gather I didn't get to talk about it because he passed when I was young
but he loved traveling in Asia he lived in Korea working for the military lived in Vietnam working for the milit and lived in Japan working for the military and he admired the cultures and uh I so Ron I've
been to Morocco uh that's as far into Africa that I've been um I went to Morocco last winter so last winter I visited Europe for the first time and uh and made it down toh 10 years and that
was cool I mean it's you know it wasn't necessarily my cup of tea but Dubai sounds awesome like super developed super um super built up a lot of man-made attractions a lot of um I Heard Kenya and South
Africa and Ghana is okay Ghana is popular among a lot of the passport Bros from what I'm hearing a lot of a fair amount of uh African-Americans Trace some of their Heritage back to Ghana Nigeria as well my
buddy um you know he did his genetic testing and found out he's uh part night Ian Kenya you know Walter's world has done some great Kenya content I I've heard great things about Tanzania as well uh South Africa
I've heard mixed things on I've heard there's some safety issues a buddy of mine we went to high school together the guy who's actually Nigerian descent originally he's African-American but if he goes back Nigerian he went to South
Africa last spring and he loved it he went with his girlfriend his girlfriend's actually Vietnamese and had a great time he said he he enjoyed it was beautiful he went to Cape Town and uh long flight like 10
hours to London 10 hours to Cape Town but had a great time Egypt nice yeah I don't know you know the challenge with Egypt and it was probably somewhat of the challenge with Morocco in that uh you've got
let me look it up just so I think of the right way to put it but so you've got like a back Shish culture um where you have to pay extra and I got pressured when I was in
Morocco I just took a picture of the outside of this restaurant and this guy comes out and grabs my arm and is trying to tell me it's unacceptable to to take a picture and I just start screaming police
police police and uh he eventually let go but uh you know that kind of gave me a bad impression of Morocco and I know that's just one City and just one guy but uh I don't know you know
I know best ever Food review show sunny as well he had some trouble in Egypt but never been to Korea So Korea is one that I may stop over on so there's a few places that when I go
back to America eventually um I want to break up the trip because it's a long journey right from Southeast Asia it's actually 12h hour time zone difference than where I'm from so my ideal would be either fly going
through Europe stopping in either Georgia the country Georgia or stopping in Italy I haven't been to Italy yet and then doing the rest of the journey or going the Korea route and flying from like Manila to Soul staying
in Soul for like a week and then flying from Soul to LA or San Francisco but cor is definitely on there haven't been yet but um definitely high on my priority list and I know also they're struggling with
like this birth rate collapse and uh you know I want to see Korea before it it changes too much more if I'm being just totally honest yeah Japan's awesome I love Japan uh would love to go back to
Japan at some point super clean Super safe easy to get around super walkable U very clean um yeah I'd love to go back to Japan at some point but I will say we're coming up on the three-hour point
and my voice is starting to go so I'll answer your last question Ron and then I think I'm gonna wrap the stream up I really appreciate everybody uh staying with us tonight or this morning and uh yeah I
can't thank and appreciate all of you enough for supporting the channel uh what do I think of Australia New Zealand both seem amazing they're just expensive right like for me I'm still at a stage where I'm budget conscious
and uh while I want to go to both I also know both are two of the most expensive countries in the world um due to high wages um import costs um yeah there's just um you know there's kind
of a barrier there as far as uh you know cost goes and and being remote I would like to go at some point I'm not opposed to going to Australia or New Zealand but uh they may be something
where I do if I do like week vacation if I'm working full-time and I've got the income for it one of my co-workers went to New Zealand last year and he had a great time he went his girlfriend
for a couple of weeks and they loved it um but yeah thanks so much everybody I really appreciate all of you I hope you all have um a great weekend and I'll probably be streaming this weekend as well
but uh until next time we'll see you later
