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Hey @thomasjohnrobinson4658, Depending on which part of our video you're referring to we either agree or disagree! Haha If it's the part about "staying in Thailand for the 60 days Visa exemption, leaving for a short time and coming back in again and being allowed to do that up to TWO times and then they'll say no", then we agree with you. You might have a little leeway with a kind officer who allows you to do it a third or fourth time or if you get an office who doesn't care or something like that and just stamps you into Thailand again. But, where we would have to disagree with you (if your comment was in response to it and not the above) would be in relation to all the other information about applying for the DTV Visa as an individual or a couple: those rules and fees are set. As well as being granted the 60-day Visa exemption upon arrival as a Canadian and being allowed to extend 1 time: those are set also and not up for the discretion of any given Thai officer. So, depending on which part of our video your comment was in response to we either agree or disagree with you, haha! Either way we thank you a lot for watching and we appreciate your comment! Ayr & Lori Geographically free since 2011 🙏

@@PlanFree A spokesman from the Thai government stated this on thursday.Personally I am on a visa extension for the purpose of retirement.I leave no money in a bank account I do my extension on income.We left Thailand on April 18 and return on October 24,my extension expires on 10 November,we did this to be tax exempt(178 days) and are spending our money in Europe.Really enjoying this year,the novelty and bullshit in Thailand is wearing thin.

@thomasjohnrobinson4658 it seems as though this might be what the Thai govt wants also! ....tourists and not long term stayers. 🤷‍♀️🤷🏻‍♂️

@@PlanFree possibly and just shows how stupid they are.I have brought in an average of 1.5m baht a year since 2012 AND more importantly spent it in Thailand,we travel all over,staying in Thai owned hotels very rarely international chains.Going to Sardinia after the schools go back,knowhere in Asia can match the natural beauty of Corsica and Sardinia and their beaches.Well done greedy Thai's,you've done us a favour..

Thanks so much Lynne! @roundpaws Have you been to Thailand? Lori

@@PlanFree no. Looks beautiful.

It sure does. The world is so incredible and diverse! Have you seen our latest video on Plan Free Philanthropy? That's one of our other TY channels. We spent some time volunteering a few weeks in the summer, the last 2 years, in Canada's Okanagan region! Very cool organization. 🥰

You are correct. Visa exemption for Canadians. In other words, Canadians do not need a visa to fly to Thailand and stay and enjoy Thailand for 60 days. After that, you cab extend for 3o days or leave Thailand for a time and then you'd be allowed to return to Thailand one more time for a 2nd 60 day stay. Then we were told that would be it. The immigration officers would not allow us to do that again. Two entries per year. Thanks so much for watching and we really appreciate your comment! Ayr & Lori

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Yeppers! Did you know all thus already? Or did we help you? Ayr & Lori

@@ntb8045 2 entries per year = 180 days,on that day you are classed as taxable in Thailand on money you bring in,worth considering.

Hi Clemente! How ARE you? We haven't heard form you in a while and wonder how you have been in Mexico? Where are you these days? We are going to check out Thailand because we have heard that it is less expensive than Mexico. Time will tell! Keep tuned in to our channel for info to come over the next 8 months, hopefully. Thank you for watching and we appriecate you checking in! Ayr & Lori

@@PlanFree I am in Mexico but closer to home in Texas. I can be at my House from my Mexican apartment in less than 30 minutes. I still have a room further south that I will have to pay again soon. Well, have fun and enjoy your travels!

@JuanMoreno-wo5yb wow, you're moving around too. Good for you. You're fortunate to have options and we are glad you have your residency to move freely! Have you considered Thailand?

Super! Thanks so much for letting us know @mariahakobjanyan8312, we appreciate it! Are you planning some travel to one of these islands? Ayr & Lori

Hi @kavielove7383! How cool to see you here. Welcome! Are you still renting in the same lovely little home near where we met you at the gym? 7:34 - 150 q is what we were charged for a propane refill. Bummer. Even though we had a great rapport with our landlord and he lived directly below us, it would seem like there was a little bit added on for the convenience of him having to call the propane guy for us hey!? Haha 7:48 - was our laundry cost ....hmmm. We got gringoed did we!? And I even messaged around! The lady who charged me 10q/lbs was right at the top of the path up from where you and we were renting Kavie, right yo past the English school and up to and across the main street. Named "Mary" (or something)? And it even came back barely smelling like it had been washed with soap at all. We should have asked you! Hope you like our videos, feel free to comment on any of them. Ayr & Lori

Hi back @ewock1878! Good for you for doing some research on how to travel from Puerto Escondido to San Jose del Pacifico. If you watch our entire video, perhaps again, we actually talk about where we walk to in Puerto Escondido to catch the very first collectivo and then we mention all the points along the way where we catch the different buses to get all the way. There are many different places in Puerto Escondido where you can catch the (first) collectivo to take you to Pochutla but we mentioned where we waited for our collectivo at 0:50-1:01 in our video! Did you catch that? Hope we helped! Thanks so much for RE watching! Please click the LIKE button for us also, or helps our channel a ton 🤗 Lori & Ayr

Great question @rebeccaedgett5846! We're going to say that you would NOT do what we say in this video and rather that you would enter through the visitor line (probably for your last time) because your temporary residency process would not be officially complete until after you enter Mx and after you go to your canje appointment and after you get your green card. Does that make sense? Like, think of it this way: after your consulate appointment in the US, will you have your green card? Thank you for watching, we really appreciate it. 🤗 We hope you subscribe to see more awesome videos from us on Mexico and other countries!

@@user-cm8ns1rj6z For us, for almost any country we travel to, we always travel with USD$100-200 and just keep it handy. Especially when starting a trip. But the minute we get a chance to hit an ATM (at the airport lets say), we would withdraw the equivalent of a few hundred dollars (in Q in this case) to get starter. Or, if you can wait until you arrive at your final destination, if it's not too remote, you could always hit a local ATM in that town and withdraw some Q there. There are a few other factors you would need to consider for amount of withdrawal though: -how long is the overall length of your trip? -how are your accommodations being paid: if you already paid them in full you might not need that much Q for living. Or do you need to pay the balance of your rent in person when you arrive? Then you might need to withdraw a whole bunch more... Make sense? So long answer short we always travel with an amount of USD no matter where we go in the world, just in case, and then we withdraw local currency either right at the airport or at our first destination or overnight spot to last a portion of or the full length of our stay. * USD will not be accepted very much except for in Guatemala City and maybe a little in Antigua so we would really recommend getting Q. Congratulations on your first trip to Antigua and Lake Atitlan, Guatemala! Our first time was was recent also so our costs are pretty accurate for you. Wonderful to have another Canadian finding our channel we're here to help ask anything you like! Ayr and Lori

@@PlanFree are there any money exchange stores around Antigua or Lake Atitlan to exchange USD to Q? I always have a concern if my ATM card doesn't work or gets eaten by the ATM machine.

How long is your overall trip? Just so you know we did not exchange any USD into Q. So just know that before you read the rest of our answer. Ok? But, having said that if we were in your shoes and we're worried about our ATM card and only traveled with USD we would definitely change a little bit of our USD at the airport or an in Antigua. Because in Antigua there's going to be plenty of banks and different exchange services, and there are a lot of Travelers in expats in that small city. Once you get to Lake alAtitlan it's quite a bit smaller and quieter and the only small town around the lake that we think might exchange your USD into Q would be in town of Panajachel. The other small towns you're better to use the ATM with your card. Which town around the lake do you plan to stay in and for how long?

@@PlanFree planning Solo trip...3 days in antiqua then over to Pana for min. 2 weeks. I'll fly from yyz to sjo in Costa Rica for a few days then fly direct on Avianca to GUA then directly to Antigua by Uber. I've been a long time visitor to CR.

@@user-cm8ns1rj6z sounds lovely! We think your plan of staying just 3 days in Antigua is plenty, we found the cobblestone streets and prices to be high(er)...good to see and good to go perhaps!? Haha Pana you'll like, it's got a good balance of products and service availability, it's local but larger. You'll really want to poo over to one of the smaller local towns though....so cute, quaint and lovely. Good for you and we hope you enjoy! If you're interested, we made a video of harvesting coffee right off the plant with a local family in San Pedro!: th-cam.com/video/fh1SvMBxxcs/w-d-xo.html

That is a lovely 2/3rds of the trifecta, sounds like! Where would your 3rd country be for Sept-Dec? Thanks for watching and commenting! Love it, Ayr & Lori

@@PlanFree Santiago, Chile

@@jonathanLToronto ah interesting. Do you have specific reasons for choosing this site and country?

@@PlanFree Atacama desert, and Patagonia. I like beer more but maybe I will go there to enjoy some wine.

Ah yes. Well I am sure they will have both beverages for you to enjoy! ....although we would prefer a beer over Chilean wine also (not our fav)! Ayr is an avid fly fisherman and would relish the chance at traveling through the Patagonia area. 👍

Thank you so much @nannymarta4268! We agree! That's why we chose it, for sure. Plus the proximity for us to the gym we wanted to join was just a 5-minute walk on foot and with the scooter that we rented it was a quick drive down to Bacocho beach (one of our favorites) to go on long walks and to do body surfing.... very quick and easy to get to the tortilla seller and our coffee vendor for coffee grounds as well as Benito Juarez Market... We really lucked out. The only unfortunate thing is we had rented it for a full three or four months or something like that and even though we had booked the property for that property right through until the and of May, the owners still came to us a month in advance and said "oh sorry, you have to move out because we have a booking for Semana Santa." 😳 So they essentially took the higher money "booking" because it was offered to them and actually asked us to leave! They asked us in a nice way....but that was still NOT cool. We thought we had the place for the full stay in Puerto. Verbal agreement. Wild hey!? So we were forced to kind of scramble and find a new apartment and all we could find at that time, for Semana Santa month, was something just about double the price! If there's a lesson in this we could just recommend paying upfront or getting a short rental agreement signed that spans the whole time of your stay.... because what we had arranged was paying week-to-week and so they just used it as an opportunity to give us a month's notice to move out. Anyway overall they were super happy times in Puerto and we would probably go back if prices ever came back in line again (we heard they are a bit out of control right now). Are you living in Puerto right now or do you plan to go? Ayr and Lori

@PlanFree I plan to go in the next 6 months. Just retired, also just ordered my bc, so I can get my passport. So excited bc that makes it s☺️eem real. I'm watching hours of YT Thank you, yours are so helpful, and inspiring! 🤗 That's so disappointing what happened to you! Would you try to stay there again?

@@nannymarta4268 We could safely say that we would have no problems initially contacting the landlord to see if the prices are still in line with what we would want to pay. So the initial contact yes. No problem. After that, depending on what they said, would consider renting there yes. But we would endeavor to put a longer term rental agreement in place that would cover the full time and over any big holidays in Mexico! Congratulations on your retirement and passport, those are fun and exciting times for you! If you do quite a bit more research on rental prices and cost of living in Puerto Escondido and find that it's just too high, consider looking into even smaller towns with less infrastructure and less people. Good luck! We'll help where we can. Ayr & Lori

@@msmartyaz thank you for watching. We do hope we gave you things to think about. Happy and safe travels to you! Ayr & Lori

You ROCK! Best like button smasher of all time! We are doing well @FocusedFighter777, thank you for wishing us well. We wish the same for you. Thank you for watching again!

​@@PlanFree I'll put that on my resume, ha.

@@FocusedFighter777 Instantly hireable. 100%.

Yes yes, they need rain there desperately. We have some acquaintances in the area and I think she said they were starting to get a bit of rain...🙏 How much, not sure. They would need much rain for several years in a row for the area to fully recover. As it is now it's pretty enough of a lake view from a distance but for us not an area that we could be in longer term (or even shorter term if we're being honest). We feel grateful for having had the opportunity to go and visit for a couple of months and we're good with that. We wanted to see for ourselves. 💕🤗 Hope you liked our vid and info. It was hard while climbing that hill side!

Hi @tenis1212, actually if you rewatch our video, at 2:24 we mention the fee for Mambo beach. Then, we don't mention any other fees on any beaches because we did not pay any! The rest of the beaches on our list in this video were free because we put a towel down on the beach and did not rent a chair form anyone! Yahooooo Cool hey? Thank you so much for your question and we are glad you found us and our channel! Ayr & Lori

@@PlanFree that great 👍 I’m thinking go there, thank you ❤️

You are very welcome! Enjoy Curacao! Here is another video you might enjoy on Curacao: th-cam.com/video/l2aAz6u_uAQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=EAyAf8wOUpm227VF

Yes at the time we found our little apartment I only had a limited time to search and we didn't want to stay near touristy areas, we wanted to live in what we were told was a more 'local' area. If we ever stay in Quito again and for longer term we would look at the areas you mention more thoroughly. You got a great price! Thanks for the tips and we really appreciate you watching our video and leaving a comment. Welcome to our channel! Ayr & Lori

We loved using Uber! Thanks for your comment and for watching. 👍

Any time!

First of all thanks for watching and asking! Great question. We found the internet in all the places we went in Ecuador (there were a LOT!) to be very good We don't remember getting disconnected for anything... phone calls or anything important but it would be worthwhile to ask whoever you're renting from the specifics about that property. Hope that helps! Enjoy Quito and talk to the locals! They are friendly, helpful and knowledgeable about the places to avoid. Welcome to our channel! Ayr & Lori

You're right. A person doesn't have time to describe all the intricacies of safe or unsafe on every location. It varies. We almost have to be general. We describe an overall feel of a place when we live there longer term (longer than a 2 week vacation!). Hope it helped you! Welcome to our channel. Ayr & Lori

Hi and thanks for your question. We actually just got this question from someone else and reached out to our landlord in Aruba who told us that he has rented his apartment out for the next year or two long-term and so it will not be available. Sorry! We would love to help you more but most places do not have names. When we were looking, most of the apartments were owned by local people and rented privately. We found the ge wral area they were located in on Airbnb and theb drove there to ask around. The best thing to do (and we've done this in many countries) is to rent an Airbnb for about 10 days and then rent a car and search the Facebook Marketplace group for that area, or Airbnb, and go and look at some apartments in person. Works great! Does that help? Ayr & Lori

Yes you got it @kmprash, USD. And that is for 2 people. Pretty awesome when you hear of all the huge prices that many vacationers spend to go and experience Aruba! Thank you so much for watching and we appreciate your comment! Welcome to the channel. We hope you discover some of our other videos too, we talk about the cost of living in other countries such as Mexico and Ecuador. Welcome!

thanks for your response. Reached 50 few weeks back and started looking in to future, retirement etc. Will look other videos as well.

Our pleasure in replying to you. We're here to help where we can. We don't know it all but we have traveled extensively for over 13 years now and have learned quite a bit about many different countries so we can try to assist a little bit with helping you determine climate, cost of living and things like that. Ask anything and either we will reply or one of our viewers will 👍. Ayr & Lori (We are currently 48 and 50 also!) ...we started traveling full time and slowly when we were 35 and 37 yrs old. 👍

very nice. during your stay in other countries do you guys do any part time job or complete relaxation (use your prior earnings) or may be use passive incomes

@kmprash We have never worked in other countries. As visitors it is not allowed. We are Canadian and we have rental properties, a small business and a healthy savings from much work we did when we were younger that we live on from wherever we are. God has blessed us indeed. Two of the most important things we think a person can do, starting at any age but especially when they're younger, is to live below their means and not have any debt at all except what's necessary (for example a mortgage). Then a 3rd step would be to have a small business that you can hire the right manager or employees in to run while you are away keeping only a small amount of the profits for yourself and paying those people very well. 🙏 Ayr was a financial planner and stock broker in the early part of his career and he has a YT financial channel that helps to teach people some of the core things we did to get free. youtube.com/@planfreefinanceandabundance?si=ppXEtnbO4buM2OXl

You're very welcome @seeblu! As we speak we are in our next boondocking location and about to set ours up again. Love this pop up tent. Most of the time we don't even secure the guy wires to the ground we just pop it up so that it's easily foldable and movable and it's got just the right amount of space inside for showering or changing....it's wonderful. Thank you so much for watching and welcome to our channel! Ayr & Lori

Hi Eddy! @eddyandrianasolo4799 Days and even weeks depending on use. So glad you found us!

@@PlanFree I will buy one before our trip. We need it there.

Awesome! We hope you and your family will.love them as much as we do. 😉🙏 Actually, we hope you do ALL your Amazon shopping from our links! Did you know that if you click one of our links that brings you to Amazon and then you buy any other items on Amazon within 24 hrs of clicking our links, that Amazon will pay us a few cents on everything you buy... as a thank you! Your price stays the same on all items also. So please click our links and then shop for all the things you need on Amazon, for household or business. That would bless us! Thank you!

Awe thank you so much Eddy! Glad you liked our video. Love your comments! Thank you!

Sure @carolinegui4471! Please send us an email to planning2bfree@gmail.com where we can share her WhatsApp information with you. Thanks so much for watching! Ayr & Lori

That can happen when you run out of Ayr.🤪

Thank you for your input, we appreciate your comment.

Hi @rrivera497, thanks for your comment! Yes, some of the news headlines are saying that Mexico is become a rather rich country already, so things are changing. There are beach communities in Mexico that are already quite high priced....many expats live there and there are tourists paying high prices for rental accommodations... But both in CR and Mexico, there are still pockets of less discovered areas in both countries that a person can live more like a local and inexpensively. It all depends on what a person wants for standard of living also, right? Safe and blessed travels to you! Welcome to our channel, we hope you click the like button and subscribe. 🤗 Ayr & Lori

They sound fancy! Who ARE they!? Ayr & Lori

@standingmannequin7911 Sorry about that! We were just adding it. Here you go just for you: amzn.to/3Vp67zF Thanks for watching, and happy travels to you too! Ayr & Lori

@@PlanFree Thanks. You guys are fun to watch, inspiring and I've learned many helpful things from you both. I'm now a fulltime RV'er currently boondocking near La Paz, MX.

@standingmannequin7911 You're very welcome. Glad we can entertain you! Hahaaa It really means a lot to read your kind words. Many people may have the same thoughts you do or opposing thoughts but don't take the time to write so the feedback from you is so awesome. We've learned so many things from others over our rving journey also so we're happy to share a few things back to others when we can. La Paz, BCS... how cool! (I mean HOT!). We live there in a rented palapa one year, out in Comitan, past Centenario. It was a unique experience. We hope Baja is treating you well and keep in touch on any of our videos, we'd love to hear your experiences and more thoughts on our content. 😉👍 Ayr & Lori

Oh man....that is a sad story for sure! Things always seem to cycle and/or change and if it's for the worst it's always sad to hear. Do you have a favorite snorkeling spot now? Ayr & Lori

Thanks for watching.

Thank you for the financial advice. All the same, we semi-retired at 35-37 respectively so we will continue with our view points on money. Have fun at work tomorrow!

@@PlanFree 40 & retired but nice try. Have fun being a semi.

Thanks for the well wishes! ...not sure what you mean though.. lol

It means "sweet"! Have you been able to travel to Aruba or Curacao yourself? We hope we helped you in your research! Ayr & Lori

@@PlanFree no i meant like, in english, what does "dushi" sound like that is so funny/that makes you not want to say it, that's what i don't get and nope i've never been, both sound like nice places to be, but i was looking at stuff on Aruba bc a friend's sister had applied to go on Erasmus there and at Curaçao bc a friend of mine says living there is good in a tax sense or sth

@coscorrodrift sorry! Ayr says he understood what you meant but I apologize I (Lori) didn't catch your drift at first. There's kind of an expression in English when you call someone a "douchebag" you're calling them a derogatory name, saying that they're being dirty or low down so when we say hear the word dushi it reminds us of that expression. NOT at all what dushi really means! Right!? Here is one fun thing to do in Aruba: th-cam.com/video/nY-UuCI0_i4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=hTRL9HH5M8AtGAU_

@TheTwoTravelersInMexico Thank you for saying you liked our vid Marc, we appreciate it. Sharing our view can some times get people talking.....haha but it was our experience and we thought there might be others out there that didn't know about some of the things. Just wanted to share. The camera we used for filming this is a GoPro7, so there is a built in stabilizer that makes us look smoooooother than we probably are! 😉 Cobblestones....SO pretty to LOOK at...but really not great for driving or walking. And we are still well able to negociate them, but didn't WANT to! And for our poor aging family that was with us....well who's kidding who!? We ALL had a tough time. We unfortunately couldn't imagine living longer term in a place that has those kind of streets for the majority. ...as charming looking as they are... Thank you for watching! Hope we can deliver some more great info to you over time. Safe travels! Ayr & Lori

@randyholt6742 Thank you so much! Do you do much boondock/dry camp style "RVing"? Is this you from the Gleaners? Ayr & Lori

Yes, that is right. Places change. They grow and change. ....the search for some continues! We also heard great things about Bucerias and chose to live there for a time....we were also surprised at the HUGE highrises and many other factors. Thank you so much for watching and commenting.

We hope YOU get the chance to visit these areas in Panama...they are gorgeous!

Wise for MANY things....it is so very helpful, even for overseas purchases. Thank you for watching, welcome back to the channel! Ayr & Lori

You are very welcome! It took us SO many ours and days figuring it all out...hopefully this can save others a lot of time!

You mention "SAT" number....do your mean the RFC number from the SAT office?? If buying a car from a private seller you do not need the RFC # but yes you are right in needing it from a dealer. We NEVER buy cars new though.....there are plenty of awesome used cars out there at a far better price in our opinion! Your comment is awesome and we appreciate the dialogue about it, hopefully it helps someone else out. Thank you so much for watching and commenting, love it! Safe driving to you! Ayr & Lori

Ok, this gets more complicated than it should. You know, it is a Mexican thing. Why make things simple when they can be complicated?? At the dealership here they are required to get your CURP. That is for both a new AND used car. Your state is different? But when you go to the SAT office they will issue you both a CURP and an RFC. But for the car you don't need the RFC. Going further, as a Temporary Residente you will only get your CURP on a piece of paper. But, as a Permanente, you will get a card for your CURP. Both are ok (paper or card) for a car dealer here in Durango. For the RFC, as a Permanente or Temporary you only get the paper the SAT office issues. An RFC card is only if you become a citizen. So for me, I started as a Temporary and rolled over to Permanente after a year. So, I have both the paper for the CURP/RFC and the card for the CURP. I can't get the card for the RFC. I hope this helps. Thanks!

Yup, obviously there must be some state differences....and we do mention that in the vid. 😉 Nayarit and Jalisco must be a tad different then as nobody asked us for the CURP to buy the used car (NOT at a dealer....it was from a local person, as we mention in the video), pay the plates or ensure the vehicle. We did all that without giving our CURP # to anyone. Also two years ago when we applied for our temporary residency, Nayarit gave us our CURP number on paper as well as issued us each a card. Sooooo DEF some differences, again, like me mention in the vid. ☺️ We are just giving people a heads up as to how to go about buying a used vehicle in Mexico as a temporary resident mainly from a local individual. Thanks for the chat! And thanks for watching (or re-watching!) 👍

Thank you so much Frank! We sure learned a LOT. We felt we needed to share it to save others some time. 🥰 Cheers!

Sorry, not sure what your question is Divina! ?

Cool!

Well thank you very much! 🤗 We're thinking of copywriting the move. 😉 Hope to bring some of our biggest fans like yourself more great content! Ayr & Lori

You're very welcome! We're glad you found it entertaining and hopefully informative too! This video came about because we ended up teaching so many people beside us in the water, watching us have so much fun in the waves, they asked how to do it. So then we thought hey ...why not film the info!? So glad you found us and welcome to our channel.