What are my top expat city destinations?

um yeah today discuss some of the um best expat cities um i'll mostly just focus on ones that i've been to but i think that maybe some of you are wondering um where like where i've traveled to and

and what's kind of stuck out um as far as like you know where i'll start i guess i'll just start with um southeast asia and i think the preeminent at least one of them expat cities in the world

of course uh bangkok and thailand hey we got a viewer good to see you and uh i think that you know to get in some of the reasoning here behind it i think um economics i mean bangkok a

lot of value for your money in my opinion uh two is it it's really easy to fly into bangkok from most you know major cities in the us and then europe i think for me it's coming from san

francisco i'm mostly looking at layovers and like either singapore um taipei or there's a few other choices but i'd say you know when it comes to value it's just incredible there like what you get for what you're paying

is generally very good i will say that the city center has gotten quite a bit more expensive than what has been historically so if you're somebody that um you know you're more budget oriented i think it's worthwhile to

look on in the outer neighborhoods neighborhoods that may not have a train stop or um it may not have as much uh sort of infrastructure um but you can get good deals like i paid i'm sure the prices

have come down but the last time i was in bangkok a couple of years ago i think i paid like 80 bucks a week or so maybe a hundred bucks a week for a uh a studio a furnished

studio and that was really nice and uh now that was outside the city center of fairways but i thought it was good value um why else is it popular you know i would say nightlife you know during normal

times when it's not um there's not a pandemic going on that and there's uh it's well known for being like having a lot of dance clubs and music venues bars entertainment of course i think that's somewhat muted but

eventually it'll come back i think it's always a popular nightlife city for uh my lifetime anyway i'd also say um dining i think some people think of of thailand as mostly having thai food which is amazing i love

thai food but it's not just about the thai food in bangkok you can have food from all over the world i've looked up a number of different cuisines i was surprised somebody is serving them up uh and bangkok

of course is like 17 18 million people people in the movie so there's certainly an audience and a market i think there for a lot of these things hey tony good to see you how are you doing today

i'm just chatting about some of my favorite expat cities and uh mostly focusing on ones that i've been to and i think that uh it's yeah it's just helpful for me to share with the audience some of the

places that are on my mind and sort of a list format maybe doing a little bit more digging into those cities i'd say another aspect of bangkok and this made me seem somewhat obvious um people had been to

southeast asia but uh compared to like parts of latin america um or europe it's it's pretty warm or hot year-round so there's places i went in latin america that were cold and of course i've heard about scandinavian countries

uh even the uk and the winter i've heard it can be quite cold and dreary um and then bangkok where it's it's generally oh thank you tony i appreciate that yeah cusco is fantastic i love cusco i'll definitely

get into latin america after i uh talk about a bit about some of the southeast asian cities because latin america is incredible and ecuador is high on my list for latin america i've been kind of pricing out flights

and just um having a hard time deciding between going to uh america and back to southeast asia for my next trip for fun i think southeast asia like at least in some of the bigger cities i feel like

i um it does feel like more different um if we're looking at just like an experience that's different from my day-to-day experience um latin america feels more like the us versus asia feeling quite a bit different and so

that's another thing i love about asia is it just feels like such a shock like a culture shock when you get there even though i've been multiple times i know i'll feel it again next time i go just

because it's when you get off the plane there it's like you feel like you're in another planet but let's see um so yeah i talked a bit about bangkok um another city um you know a lot of people

you know had don't like it but one city i'm a fan of is gnome pen it reminds me a lot of new orleans in louisiana in the us it's got that kind of french style architecture uh it has

that river town kind of vibe edgy kind of city and in parts um a lot and really surprisingly in my mind a little bit more accessible um in some cases in bangkok as far as nightlife and the reason

i say that is uh there it did seem like there were there was a higher concentration of english-speaking expats and the sort of urban neighborhoods in bangkok where in phnom penh whereas i feel like in bangkok the expats

are more spread out um you're just as likely to see expats in like chiang mai or phuket where in cambodia it seems like a lot of people were focused in the capital city and uh it was interesting to

kind of have that experience i also timed the weather perfectly was just really mild not too hot and i got to meet a lot of cool people it's it's um i think because it's it's more densely concentrated in

a few neighborhoods at least for expats then it's just easier to run into people whereas in bangkok i definitely had to coordinate my friends that live there because they live all over the city and some cases are an

hour and a half away from the city center where in phnom penh all my friends and like were at maximum 20 minutes away even the ones that lived on the outskirts of the city so that was pretty cool

uh cebu uh another big highlight i really liked cebu it just um it felt the closest like it felt the most familiar anywhere i went in asia probably because i have the americans with people and i can connect

with people and you can make jokes and people understand you can american sports people get it uh i think culturally there's a lot of influence there too like people are really warm and friendly in the philippines but uh

yeah um i'll dive into latin america just a bit because i i know sonny was here i like to chat about about that um cusco like the way it appeals to me is that it's a place that in

my opinion has been a really cool place to live for a really long time and you get kind of that compounding effect where um it's a comfortable atmosphere it's very convenient to get around town it's not too big

um it feels so you know like everybody that's there really wants to be there at least as far as like the expats you don't in my experience i didn't know you do run into sadly a lot of expats

that uh are unhappy with it i can't exactly put my finger on why i'll say it through um it seems to make it really easy for expats to stay for a long time without having to um you know

without having to jump through as many hoops like everybody i i talked to said it's super easy uh to for them to extend their visas and the local government seems to support that without much friction and so that

is different than parts of southeast asia where it's very difficult to extend your visa you're having to pay a lot money in some cases you're having to jump through all these hoops and some expats feel like i'm just

not being welcomed where i didn't get that impression in pedro at all i got the impression if you're willing to follow the law and and pay a bit periodically that they're willing to have you for a long time

i met people living there for years just on tourist visas and didn't seem to have any issue i think that peru likes to tourism they like people coming to spend money and they want to facilitate that as much

as possible cusco uh the only drawback of kuskov i had to put one drawback and this is ironic but it is extremely touristy so it's not a place that you're going to go and blend in with kind of

blend into local neighborhoods or like you know find a far away spot and it's going to be your kind of island of things if you want uh you know island of peace if you want to go to the

cusco city center on a regular basis for groceries or uh you know hardware store maybe you need a motorbike repair you're going to get you know bugged by uh people selling various things it's really sad but a lot

of people in peru struggle uh financially especially outside of the capital and uh so that's that's a way that they've found to be able to make money is to sell things to tourists so uh if you're somebody that

you absolutely yeah absolutely uh tony is chiming in uh saying plaza de armas is overwhelmingly dominated by tourism it's true i mean i even i was i lived in cusco for several months and every single time even up

until i left if i walked through plaza de armas uh i would get bugged by people selling stuff and i can pass for latinos so in a lot of places i can avoid that but there they could just

see by my style i'm not dressed like a local my hairstyle etc is is not exactly local i'd say especially having a beard i think a lot of people men in latin america shave they definitely felt like hey

this guy's got some money for us and i don't like to buy souvenirs anyway just because i don't really have space to put them anywhere and um you know it just it's just really not my thing i'm there

more for the experience so it is kind of tough when these people want to sell you something that is you know possibly a really cool thing whether it be like alpaca clothing or some kind of toy or or

figurine whatever it may be for me i'm just i'm mostly there looking for experiences like visiting doing various hikes visiting like peacock various places in the sacred valley and that can come up a little bit too if you

notice an area where they're doing a lot of shuttles um they will like engage and shout you and like hey come on get on the shuttle and you know for me living in cusco for several months it wasn't

often that i wanted to jump on it shuttle off and i just needed to like walk by there to get to where i needed to go and uh of course this was like spring 2021 so the tourism industry

was especially devastated at that point but um they would have made more money off me if they just like offered me some food or something i found that you know every people are going to need to eat regardless

of what happens so there were restaurants that were suffering a lot but some as tourism started to creep back up seemed to be you know getting more customers and i did my best to support a lot of the

local businesses i tried to avoid supporting like the pizza franchises you're probably familiar with um yeah it's it's weird but like i went to the mall in cusco hyper mall and they had a chili chili's a very popular

american chain they also had popeyes fried chicken another really popular american fried chicken chain and they had um they had domino's pizza and so or maybe i think it's papa john's papa john's is very popular in uh peru

but for me like as much as i could help it and it's easy there the food there is so good it was easy for me to elect for local restaurants but it's cusco is actually also really economical a

lot of people told me peru would be much more expensive than colombia uh but i didn't find that to be the case in fact uh lima was expensive i will say lima i did you know did seem pricey

uh at times um but cusco didn't feel that way cusco felt much cheaper than colombia where i think like street food meals and when i was tony says when i was there many years ago there were no north

american chains malls and cusco yeah i imagine like it uh it must have felt especially ancient you know i think that it's uh it's definitely a place that is at the crossroads of tradition and history and the modern

um one young woman i dated uh she i mean i think she was i think she was 21 or 22. and she had a brand new iphone she had like the iphone pro max latest edition you know probably

13 1400 phone and that was surprising to me because you go to a place like cusco that's kind of associated with entrance and ancient traditions and uh doing a lot of things by hand the old-fashioned way uh and

yet some of these young people in peru are really hustling hard and they want to adopt a lot of these western cultures and her case she had a pop-up restaurant at in her mom's restaurant and she also had

some other business ventures hi chris how's it going just talking a bit about uh peru and i'd love to go back but yeah tony feel free to share anything um on cusco it's such a cool oh wow nice

how is it uh chris please share on your experiences in cusco i'm missing it a lot i miss my friends there and uh i have a buddy from venezuela that lives there with his girlfriend and they're like man

you gotta come down like crash on our couch and and enjoy it so um i wish i just wasn't so busy with work i feel like i'm i'm finally starting to make a lot of progress in my career

and trying to uh make as much headwind as i can with it how long is the bus ride i'm sorry to hear you got covered that sucks i've heard it's like 16 hours from lima to cusco i'm not

sure maybe it's 10 hours from lima to arequipa and then maybe another 10 uh to cusco kind of curious to hear about your experiences with the bias um the flight is incredible the views from the flight from cusco

to lima are absolutely stunning you're flying over all these mountains and like uh it does feel a little sketch just because the bones are so tall but uh the pilots are great and and my flights and pedro went

fine i'd like to check out ikitos uh next time of course that'll have to be a non non working trip because i've heard internet is terrible and they keep us six day trip wow you got to see china

and ariakipa that's incredible yeah that's incredible that you had the six day journey and you got to see so much i i felt like i kind of stuck to lima and cusco but you really got to see a

lot and have a have a really good experience um how is cusco like i've heard there's some protesting um that the tourists are being limited from taking the train to machu picchu and a lot of people are probably

have their money locked in some of these tour agencies is that getting resolved or is there any headway on that that's awesome i'm glad to hear it's calm it may be like uh in like aliens or like uh

you know closer to uh the destination oh nice which neighborhood are you staying are you in san blas uh are you outside of some loss for those who are watching this later or may not be familiar sanblas is

kind of the city center of cusco and probably the most popular neighborhood for tourists just because it's very convenient to uh pleasant enormous and a lot of really good restaurants hotels uh a little bit of nightlife i stayed

in uh plaza de armas for my first week or so um then i stayed uh let me i'm trying to think of the the name um just pull up a map here hmm just waiting for google maps to

load so i stayed kind of like near um plaza chupaca maru um el overlo let's see oh um the second area i say was uh basically near we're right next to san juan del c leo ceelo um which

is neighboring san blas uh oh cool you're in el overlo um yeah i i'm familiar so um i stayed not too far from there and then another neighborhood stayed in uh was a santiago neighborhood and this is kind

of in the south western uh corner of cusco and it's it's a beautiful neighborhood it's really gorgeous it's near a really cool um sort of farmers market i think the farmers market is in san ysidro um which is

not the lima san ysidro it's uh different um hey ron how's it going we're uh talking to uh one of our viewers about uh cusco um he has recently uh arrived in cusco uh and yeah chris is just

sharing a when you're doing a road trip well i did just do a little bit of a road trip um last weekend so i drove out to reno nevada and i saw my one of my buddies clinton from

high school that was really cool i hadn't seen clinton in about a year um and that was fun um i was doing some looking at houses and just kind of scoping out uh some homes but um i didn't

really i don't know i wasn't totally sold on it so that was about a five hour trip each way through the mountains and i did stop off in kind of near tahoe and enjoy the fresh air and it's

gorgeous up there uh it's super gorgeous um i don't know i'm hoping i'm not counting on it i'm hoping gas prices come down a bit or or maybe i'll swap to hybrid because it's painful to do a road

trip at a uh five dollars a gallon clayton homes uh i'm i'm not familiar uh ron can you share a bit more about clayton homes i think that as far as like places to live i think i'm gonna

look at washington state just because i think there's it's a good combination of uh electric oh i see cheaper electricity i think i'd recommend chris while you're in cusco to check out is uh oh electric car i see

i'd recommend checking out um garwall if you like indian food um barbara is really really good and tell him that alex sent you and yeah that you're uh you're looking forward to it if you're if you like indian

food you may not yeah electric car does seem cheaper when you look at the gas prices like gas has you know gone up a lot and okay i'll yeah i'll definitely list out some more um because there's such

so much good food in cusco and that city just punches far above its its population in terms of uh good restaurants sure let's see here um for some reason it's not gonna let me you know uh we might

throw in the comments actually after after the stream is over it's not letting me uh type out a message chris but i can definitely uh make some suggestions i think that thai restaurant you're talking about should be really

really good what kind of electric car are you thinking about getting uh ron i think the tesla's look really really cool but it's it's out in my price range for now but i'm working really hard so it may

be you know it may be within our price range in a few years although i will say uh as much as i want an electric vehicle i'm i'm hope being in your time span that i can kind of

go abroad full time and it has forced me to try to like come to terms with living in kind of a cheap lifestyle or a pretty thrifty lifestyle and yeah i think that um i think it will be

worth in the long term even though it definitely helps sacrifice and patience and and going without some some luxury sometimes i think it'll be really fulfilling to be able to explore the world and and not have the chain

of coming back home guam i've heard a lot of good things about guam and a lot of people i think especially service members or former service members are able to go there for uh medical treatment now that doesn't

apply to me but i think there's something to be said about kind of a more developed or modernized uh sort of place that's easily accessible uh from asia like i'm i'm really looking closely at the philippines and land

i go back and forth on them on one hand the philippines has english um that's just hard to beat um canada alaska that's really cool if you go to canada maybe you'll be able to uh link with mr

darcy he he lives in canada um i personally haven't been to alaska but that uh that's gotta be an incredible trip it's uh it looks absolutely beautiful i know my grandparents used to really love to go to alaska

to go fishing it seems really remote too like yeah really incredible i guess i'm maybe a little bit afraid of the super freezing weather and so countries like peru are a bit more appealing also thailand and of course

southeast asia but yeah really really a lot of great places uh when are you thinking about traveling next mr ron ron so uh no so i'm actually in the hole you know you have to hit 000 subscribers to

monetize um and unfortunately with my full-time job i just i don't have as much time to put into youtube um as i like and i think that it uh you know i think it's going to become more of

a thing when i have the finances to uh move abroad full-time and i have uh dividend income and property rental income that sort of pay my bills right so even though i'd love to go abroad now i have

a limited amount of time before i run out of finances obviously i don't want to leave my job um so that's kind of challenge there is like as much as i want to go full time on youtube and

make lots and lots of videos it's really really complex and takes a lot of time way more than i thought when i initially got into it so that's kind of why there hasn't been a ton of content coming

for me and why it will you know i will struggle to be as consistent with it until i hit that you know get my finances in the right place i'm actually like in the red just because of camera

equipment and stuff like that yeah garwall is incredible i'm glad you found it um i did try alpaca meat i felt like it was kind of overrated like it wasn't bad but i just i guess i'm used to

steak and i'm used to fish and so um i think it's worth a shot i think it's worth trying i'll say that you know if you've had really good stake in a western country it may be a bit

underwhelming um i didn't try the cui the guinea pig i didn't try that um that wasn't really interesting to me and and i think the trout is is really a highlight uh they call it trucha and it's they

it's like they catch it in the mountain streams and it's really tasty i'd say if you want some like really cheap a good local restaurants there's some like back streets in santiago neighborhood that and especially near there's this

like i'm trying to think of the name of it um uh i think it's overloaded pachacutec um near there there's like some really really good restaurants where you can have a sort of fixed menu for a dollar fifty

for lunch two dollars equivalent and it's incredible uh let's see ron asked ruit i technically am not an i.t person but i do work in tech sales so i work in the financial technology industry so i work for

business that basically is involved in modern money movement and basically we're uh we're helping businesses to um develop uh i don't want to be too specific just to protect like my own kind of safety for whoever may watch

it but uh we're providing for financial services and it's really exciting i really like it i like all the people i work with i'm making more money than i've ever made before in my life and that's another big

reason why like i'm afraid to focus on youtube full-time um when i can i have a lot of potential i think at this company to make good money and really stack a lot of investments and push myself along

really far toward my goal salesforce still strong i heard they're laying off yeah salesforce like i have mixed feelings on them um you know i don't want to i don't want to like talk bad about people that work

there that i've never met or worked with from there but i've worked with some kind of jerks from salesforce not in my current company i want to hear about that um i think at least one person i work

with um worked at salesforce that person's awesome easy to go get along with really professional of course salesforce is such a big company um that it's you can't make generalizations but i did work with a few people that

came from there in a previous role that gave me a really just a bad impression like it's it's the sales organization of tech sales so it's like sales squared where they can just be really aggressive and uh i

think in my opinion a little too pushy just because with tech sales like you have to do a lot of traditional sales stuff but you have to also respect that you're working with busy professionals and i think some

tech sales people get it in their mind that they can like be super demanding and not understanding the person they're working with time is super valuable and they have a lot of rare skills they put a lot of

time into developing and even if you want to make the sale you have to respect that they are a person who's really in demand and there's a lot of people that want to sell them something and a lot

of people that know that this person has a big budget just by working in a company of a certain size so yeah i could see them doing layoffs because you know they spent a billion dollars on this building

in downtown san francisco and now they're turning around and leasing a good chunk of it um i felt like even when it was built i was like i don't know like this i get it you know it's it's

a trophy of sorts a trophy building in and the world's you know most expensive city certainly one of the most expensive american cities but uh it's you know they're in a business that's increasingly remote and they had to

basically close it like not very like within a year i think of opening doors due to the pandemic and so i just personally feel like um that money could have perhaps been invested uh in another way so it

also speaks to the longevity i know they're having dream force in uh i think about a month dream forces sales force is really big conference where they kind of show off their products and they um kind of get

educated they're able to educate people on their tools and i think it's super super awesome soft like i definitely can appreciate because i use it use it all and everything that i've had information and providing context to deals

really quickly because i've heard that is closing a lot of stores a lot of people have left san francisco so um sf has really not rebounded as well as some other major cities so like even new york city

or where i'm from nashville uh they've made a strong recovery from the pandemic they've they've done a lot of things to spur business growth and businesses reopening they've gotten various businesses on board but the city of san francisco

is having a really hard time with that they're trying to convince these tech businesses to get their people back in the office but these tech people are super high paid and there's a ton of demand for their skills

so you know you see them so we're going to get these people back in but it's very easy for these people to build a job and it's common in the tech field to leave a company every two to

three years so they're trying to get people back in to come downtown spend money um but they're they're offering people an area that does have crime issues it's you know it's it's it's a major city and all major

american cities right now um are dealing with issues of of people having lost their jobs people unfortunately turning to substance abuse when it comes to emotional hardship you're also seeing rents go up in a lot of cities and

san francisco has been unaffordable so even if friends were to go up it would still be super unaffordable um i l you know it is a city that's very tolerant i think at times the city does tolerate things

that shouldn't but i think it's also important to keep in mind that you know there's a lot to be said about a tolerant atmosphere to attract the best and the brightest minds um people who work in the technology

industry um you know it's it's not like uh hollywood or um the music industry where you can throw enough money at a certain uh kind of group or business and it works out tech is very meritocratic um so

it attracts a lot of different people from a lot of different backgrounds that have really solid skills and they want to live in a place where they're not going to be judged because i think a lot of tech

people like me especially grew up as nerds and kind of got picked on for being nerdy and pushed around for being nerdy and um it's san francisco is an open-minded place in many ways even with all the harsh

criticisms from the news such that people that are kind of the eyeball can go there and nobody's going to look at them twice nobody's going to ask them about their ethnic background you know a lot of things that

you deal with in other cities that aren't as in uh aren't as sort of meritocratic i just don't exist there in san francisco if you have a good tech product um chances are you can find an audience you

can talk to people about it nobody's gonna care if you're in the lgbt community nobody's gonna care if you're a mixed ethnicity nobody's gonna care uh if you have a weird haircut or something like that uh it's it's

very much about like you know the best and the best of whatever it is and so it does have some issues where um because there's been so much excess wealth created in san francisco part of that does get

spent on services that are lacking in other parts of the country there's mental health services physical health services there's job services there's all these resources that exist there and so it does attract a lot of people that are

down and out and having a tough time myself included i feel like this city uh took me in when i was going through a tough time in my life um not having family back home you know i don't

know if i've talked about this mr ron but i lost my parents at a young age so i never really fit in where i'm from i never really found a solid group that kind of took me in as

one of their own and you know i found individual friends to be really really great but it's just hard for me to relate to people as much where i'm from and uh san francisco's not like that it's it's

very easy for me to find like-minded people it's very easy for me to find people with whom i share values uh but yeah good to see you mr darcy thank you i'm glad you're getting to enjoy the stream

and i hope you're doing well but yeah i mean i'm not gonna say san francisco is perfect um but for me it's it's been a really wonderful opportunity and i love too that it's a gateway to a lot

of different places so if i want to fly to another country it's so easy to fly from san francisco to europe or to asia and the prices are coming down i've been just kind of looking at flight prices

to bangkok and we're on drive time for jim um i i do and my company even reimburses a membership so they'll reimburse me if i get a membership my only concern is i'm thinking about moving from san francisco

up to washington and i'm afraid to get into a year-long commitment when i might have to pay some silly fee to get out of it in six months i do walk a lot in san francisco sometimes i'll walk

for like even 10 or 12 miles in one day and that tends to be pretty good exercise there are free gyms in the city where you don't have to pay you don't have to show any id or anything

you just show up and you can work out so that's something i like to do sometimes it's a little bit out of the way but if i'm going to be in a neighborhood that has one of those gyms

i'm getting groceries or getting dinner or meeting up with a friend that it's kind of a nice combo thing to do where i go to the city and and get a workout and lift weights and then get groceries

because there's some great discount grocers in san francisco too like the city appeals to really well-to-do people and really poor people and uh i wouldn't say i'm extremely poor but i would definitely say i'm on the lower end

of the economic spectrum and so for me being able to fill up my backpack with uh dale fruit you know for 10 bucks is really great yeah i wish i had joined the military mr ron i i probably

should have done that um there was a lot of circumstances that kind of went into that not working out i'm talking a little bit about personal stuff but kind of growing up like my grandma's a narcissist and she

had me on probation uh for arguing with her and so i was always worried if i tried to get in the military all the that you know the juvenile stuff would show up i never got caught with any

bad stuff i never you know drank and drove i never broke the curfew she just wanted a way to control me and so she did it through the legal system so i was worried if i try to get

in the military they're going to ask me you know why were you arguing with your grandma basically and it might prevent me from having the career i wanted i really lucked out with tech by the way it's it's

um it's what my grandfather wanted really um that's that's really uh yeah my uh my grandfather was in the military and he uh he he was uh he made it to e9 in the army and he could have

become an officer but um he told my grandma he didn't want to be the lowest officer on the totem pole i don't really agree with that logic i feel like it's probably a good idea if you can get

the opportunity to to try to do that and who knows you know maybe maybe i'll join i mean i think um i'm i'm 29 and so i think that the air force and the army are still open and

the marines are still open um but we'll see you know it depends on how my tech career goes who knows maybe the tech business will really slow down and there'll be fewer opportunities and i'll need a an alternative

kind of career path uh certainly i think that you know the military serves a great purpose i'm i'm grateful to uh you and and thank you for your service to all military members uh because they they make a

really big sacrifice and it's uh it's it's hard on on uh it's yeah it's just it's not an easy life and um i i think there's a lot of philosophically speaking a lot of things that i can appreciate

about any any military that i speak to i think that also it's just it's a great thing for discipline i think more young people in america um and they got the discipline to um pursue yeah he ended up

becoming law enforcement after retiring from the military i think precisely because he could keep his military benefits and then also get the law enforcement salary but yeah i think i think with law enforcement same thing like um i

don't always agree with the way the law enforcement u.s handles situations i i also often think they're put in lose-lose situations where um they can't really win uh if they do their job they're gonna have one group of

people angry at them if they don't do their job they're going to have a different group of people angry an ethnic minority without any family it's ironic because i very uh oppositional because i've seen how how like how

bad police can be and how bad they can get and how oppressive and frustrating they can be on the other hand um i'm not a person that has all these resources to to bend myself from criminal right so

like i don't i'm not in a position where i can just to go and afford all all this personal safety equipment and i can afford to walk around proof vest and i can afford to um you know living

a senior it's a non-issue i i have you know i'm a working class dude so um for somebody like me i i really do have to rely on and trust in public service why on various government services because

i i can't do them for myself they're just not within my budget same with firefighters like i can't afford um high to install high-end uh firefighting equipment and just anytime something bad happens you know be able to use

it and so that's something that i do think like is right in line with law enforcement i think the ultimate contact bots i think they'll probably be replaced by ai um just because it's in the long term it's

going to be a situation where people are not going to want the liability of being a police officer and the general public is going to be more and more distrustful as you know i think the powers that be

misused police powers to i don't know um i i i definitely think there's there's some really serious issues that um are perhaps more complex than what i have time for to discuss uh yeah i find my job's much

less stressful and uh you know it's uh it's it's not super complex and uh it is complex but it's not there's a learning curve you know i feel like it's not physically complex i feel like fire being a

fireman you have to do a little physically complicated stuff like trying to put out fires uh with me most of the complexities in my mind and communicating but um yeah i think we'll probably wrap up here in about

10 12 minutes or so but um yeah did anybody have any questions or thoughts um i'd love to transfer to singapore and i may be able to do that i'm not sure i'm going to have to talk to

um my long-term goals so my long-term goal would be to uh move to uh southeast asia um maybe get married and start a family i'm not sure about how if i want to commit to that or not really

finding a partner there like a life partner and kind of pursuing like a more i don't know like a more fulfilling life um i i like my job but um there's the satisfaction a person can have from their

job cannot match the satisfaction person can have from a really truly wonderful personal relationship uh with a significant other i think that you know most people work because it's a necessity and and because it facilitates a good personal

life and a good private life uh and yeah so i would say that's a big step is just moving to southeast asia that's that's really the biggest goal uh that i have and getting to a point where i

can live over there in perpetuity and not worry about bills and not worry about um you know how i'm gonna pay for various things in like i said in perpetuity so a situation where it's not i'm gonna move

to south southeast asia for um two years and then come back and start all over again i wanna go over there and say five to ten years and basically be able to say i'm not coming back to america

for a long time and only because i want to and it makes sense due to planning and not because i have to because i ran out of money or something bad happened and uh i think living over there

uh being in a relationship you know whether it be a filipina or a woman from a different southeast asian country and just kind of pursuing that that relationship and getting to know somebody and spending time uh with a

nice lady that's that's just really kind and caring and supportive and uh will help take care of me and like look after my well-being and help me um do various things i can improve their life and i'm not

just we're not just like scraping by and struggling to get ahead uh but that we can you know enjoy things that they might not yeah it's well right that's easier said than done i've made a lot of dumb

mistakes when it comes to women um yeah so probably some of my biggest mistakes in life have been in relationships with women and um yeah it's it's it's tough it's hard to it's hard to manage no yeah i

had to break it off i was i was kind of talking to and seeing this thai woman and uh i broke it off with her because of that you know she just wanted to get an attitude and and

um argue a lot and i kind of told her like i'm happy by myself you know i don't i'd rather be single and not argue with anybody on a regular basis than be able to say i'm in a

relationship but putting up with just constant disagreement constant argument we just perceive things in an extremely different way she's very much a security oriented person and i am very much a freedom-oriented person and you know she'd ask things

that are in my opinion not yeah yeah not not out of curiosity but trying to confirm that i'm doing what i'm supposed to be doing um so she asked me if i'd been vaccinated i have been vaccinated i'll

say on the stream i've taken the vaccine well then that's not enough now she's asking what was the date and what kind and and just just pushing me for this information that um [Music] you know i'd that and

then you know just that would apply to all kinds of things and wanting to argue with me if i if i didn't give her a sufficient response and if i didn't feel like talking about it and it's not

about secrets or not secrets it's about priorities and like if your priority if her priority in a relationship is to um get me to comply uh that's not a health relationship it's i don't want a relationship in which

the the goal of my partner is to make me comply with whatever they want to do or whatever they're demanding for me relationship is supposed to be a mutually beneficial thing something where i enjoy their company they enjoy

my company and uh not something where you can kind of just get certain things out of it like like a need for control i was the thing that we're going back and forth on is asian cultures and i

speak for this as an asian-american person i i was raised by my grandmother from japan often push what i call an internal locus of control and that's this idea that of personal responsibility you know in a lot of

american culture uh conservative western cultures they have this idea personal responsibility and so um yeah exactly it should be fun and stress-free my current job is just like that fun and stress-free it's it's um the only stressful thing

about my job sometimes i have to get up early that's not really a big deal that's probably most most people that work a professional job have to get up early you know so um but yeah it was just

and and the big thing i think too is just um yeah there it just seemed like there were there was not a lot of depth there and that most of our conversations were like you know should always bring

up politics and like you know just a lot of stuff that like is miserable to talk about and i you know wanted to realize it's like look if we're going to argue if i wanted to argue all the

time i would you know i wouldn't be i i there's no benefit there basically like if you're you're talking to somebody that's halfway around the world and that time is just spent in conflict like there's i don't know

it was just not going in the right direction and i felt like um it was going to be more of that and i didn't want to waste her time or my time and i'm glad i broke it off

just because it was really frustrating i think some of that too is language barrier i mean um england i'm a native english speaker and she's trying to learn english as a second language and so there's just miscommunication there

where i think you know it is a point in direction in philippines as far as like philippines um english is common and it's uh you know it's a situation where uh you don't have that language barrier you're not

trying to kind of translate things like that uh as much um so that's that's why i don't know i am thinking about going to manila uh on my next trip to southeast asia i i go back and forth

on it i wish i could go do four months again that was a freaking blast um at least a month but i i can't take a month off work that's just too much time and uh so i'm thinking

more like a couple of weeks and i'm just trying to decide like do i want to go to bangkok or manila or um yeah it's indonesia i went to malaysia and i loved malaysia it was wonderful i haven't

been to indonesia but malaysia was really really cool and i like singapore a lot as well singapore could be pricey i really really clean um really efficient easy to get around uh although i will say the bus was

late and kind of slow and i did have to buy another ticket to thailand because i i missed my flight um so uh maybe i should have taken an uber or grad grab tax that probably should have taken

a grab taxi that day malaysia is awesome i think malaysia's like this under super underrated hidden gem um especially like if you're western and you speak english like i do um it's everybody seemed to speak english in malaysia

and uh or a lot of people i'd say a lot of people spoke english and malaysia also um you know for me i like steak and there's a sizable uh population there that that eats halal which is of

course in line with uh islam and so you can get incredible steaks in malaysia for a really good price um yeah and beef skewers they i think they import a lot of their beef from australia and i really

enjoy eating that australia and new zealand are also like incredible choices um of course like they are uh pretty far from here in the us and they can be pricey but uh i think that uh bringing it you

know maybe like doing a road trip in australia or like one of the islands in new zealand would be incredible how is that ron how is bahrain so did you did you fast i i'm curious about that if

you participated in fasting wow humid interesting i'm going to pull up barbados it's in the persian gulf wow so that's wild you know a lot of people i think they think of persian gulf countries as like uh more

desert-like and to hear it's humid is really really interesting oh i like fasting a lot i i really uh i find it's it's really great for my energy levels it makes me feel better it moderates my weight i

think my buddy matt's supposed to go to dubai or he may have been recently yeah i've heard dubai is super super pricey that you've got to pay a lot for everything and uh everything's super expensive i've heard it's

it's popular among the ofw community a lot of filipinos will go to dubai to work because the wages are higher there than in the philippines but yeah i'm going to wrap up here uh feel free to share some

last thoughts uh mr ron i think i'm in jet and um get some uh get some food just because i'm feeling pretty hungry now wow women from russia that's gotta be um incredible to to be able to meet

and date women from all over the world that's that's gotta be really exciting i've never been to eastern europe or russia hopefully one day maybe maybe even next summer feel free why don't you shoot me an email um

let's see um i i think it's in my about section um and uh yeah and uh i'll i'll uh send that to you and uh yeah that way we can keep in touch but um yeah great great to

chat and uh look forward to chatting again thank you everybody for for participating this evening i appreciate all the great questions mr ron that's super helpful um and to anybody watching um yeah subscribe if you haven't already and

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