WOULD YOU STILL CARE ABOUT YOUR COUNTRY AFTER RETIRING ABROAD?
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- I've left the UK for good. Now that I'm in Asia, do I care about the UK anymore? What do you think? These are my own personal opinions and you may not agree with them.
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It’s a fact that if you stop reading the news you’re happier 🙏😊
So true- I haven't watched or read the daily news for years. Of cause I follow important events, but I find that I never have to watch the news for that.
Not watched the news properly since 2006 - only reports what theywant you to know/see + twist the truth also
I was an avid follower of politics and current affairs but decided to stop watching or listening to the news and never reading a paper. The outcome was less stress and feeling more happy than ever
@@DS-_JOCK Ah...those they... 🤔
Add social media to the bin along with the news and you're winning in life.
For someone that hasnt sold up, hasnt got a retirement visa, doesnt have a thai bank account but does have a return ticket and a tourist visa. That doesnt sound like someone who has retired abroad.
The blokes a full on fkin clown. Now he is on deaths door and having to be medi-vaced back to UK. Quite possibly to be treated and nursed by an IMMIGRANT. Oh the irony. You melt 😂😂😂
You're living in Thailand now Eddie. Forget "Hello, how are you?" How about "Sawasdee Khrap, sabai dee mai?" It gets easier the more you say it. You'll be surprised how many more smiles you'll get.
@@kev12364 coming for years and not bothered about learning the language, I find that quite ignorant and insulting to the Thai people, make the effort.
Maybe Eddie should put the shoe on the other foot and imagine a Pakistani walking the streets of his home town in England offered him a greeting in the Punjabi language. You said what?!?!? Speak English when you're in our country!! 😏 @@PokeEyeSlapSlap
This is very true if you make the effort to learn local language culture and traditions you are more likely to get smiles and be accepted into local Thai society. Otherwise you will always be on the outside. As local people wont change for you you have to change and adapt to their style
Eddie, enjoy the rest of your life and stop belting on about dear old Blighty. Put the Daily Mail away and learn some more Thai for God’s sake man.
@@PokeEyeSlapSlap Yes I too thought that, but he's a Scouser, so therefore can probably be forgiven for being naturally ignorant, yet opinionated.
As a Canadian I love my country, but hate my government.
And hoa neighbors ..😮
What's wrong with Fidel Truedo? Lol
Same.
One of the best pieces of advise I've ever received was "don't watch the news in the morning". I used to turn on the TV every morning for what I called "background noise" as I got ready for work. What I didn't realize was each morning I was starting my day by being told what to be mad about that day. Then I would carry that aggravation with me throughout the day. Once that habit was broken I found that my spirits were much lighter and days less stressful. Now living abroad it's much easier to insulate myself from news and issues I have no control over.
It’s not news anyway it’s Zionist propaganda
Very true. That goes for Twitter as well.
I don't even put the radio on, i just whistle for my entertainment.
Good advice.
All very true. The news is a psy op to depress people. The negativity is deserved.
Eddie, you need to refrain from knocking the "old country". It nourished and educated you providing the freedoms you are enjoying today. You lose everything in life except one thing the country who made you who you are.
So the next time you looking at the GBP exchange rates remember the hand who is still feeding you >>>
The hand that you say is still feeding you is one you have paid TAX on, Eddie is absolutely right to criticise this UK that is now something resembling a Third World Country,
Very scummy in the UK now, thanks to the traitors of governments opening the borders to our Dinghy friends
Absolute bang on, it's a shame he needs to be told that.
"Eddie, you need to refrain from knocking the "old country"." - Why? Are we not allowed to criticise things if we think they are wrong or bad? You seem to be saying it doesn't matter if UK has become a crap hole - we should still be grateful for what we have?
@@weementaldavy5987 Why can't he complain about how they, the ruling elite, destroy his old country. It's happening with all countries in EU with the muslim illigal imigration, same shit everywhere. Violent crimes exploding.
@@CaldonianDude If he ever tells you he never deletes comments then he's a foooking liar, he's removed 2 or 3 of mine, I guess cos he doesn't like to hear the truth and thinks he's beyond constructive criticism.
The George Clooney look alike is always slagging people off, mainly women, but he can't take none himself.
I love Thailand, but do you think it doesn't have problems,and as for the police and politicians they are more corrupt than their UK counterparts.
I think you need to take a chill pill. Time will tell how much you care about your home country.
No choice now, moan to the sexy NHS nurses but don't touch
Best thing to do when we leave to move abroad is to put everything to bed back home and enjoy where you are for what it is✌️
It’s the failed pick up artist who has to go to Pattaya LOL
Ha ha @@Iron-guy-fly
@@Iron-guy-fly ......jealous much? Kaching!
@@artistuk9590 jealous of what? The fact that you’re a labourer for a living and go to Pattaya because your PUA skills don’t work if you’re not paying for it? LOL
I love Thailand but also thank the uk for giving me the opportunities many asian people would love to have . Poverty in asia is really bad and the pension is terrible. Look at all the wars and trouble in the world we are lucky to have been born in the uk .
Better to live in a country, knowing i’m a foreigner.
Than be in my own country, and be treat like a foreigner.
Well said !
There is no life in the UK, it is only go to work and go home. Terrible weather, terrible food, high taxes, everything is expensive. The majority of Brits are stuck in a loop where they think owning a property is the key to life in the UK. They think other countries are "poor" and that the UK is the best country in the world.
Same in Australia 🇦🇺
Absolutely spot on
You western people crack me up. You are way more privileged than most. Stay humble not grumpy and old.
The UK is one of the most civilized countries on earth. I seldom encounter a Brit who has anything positive to say about the UK. This is a mystery to me. Britain has led the world in so many ways that it's difficult for this American to understand the negative attitudes.
@@kev12364 in my country our salaries are just a fraction of what you make and way more expensive cost of living. Our passport isn't nearly as powerful to travel. I am amazed at how many people complain about life back home. They have it way better than 90% of the world.
I am to disagree with you Eddie and I admire what you doing, but the UK is the UK, all western countries have their own set of problems and we have our own. You are currently experiencing the whole matter of making the Money in the West and you are spending in the East. They are plenty of amazing things in this country. You are one of the lucky few who has gained financial independence and have the opportunity to travel and live abroad. Should be proud of where you are and the opportunities you were given whilst you lived in this great, free Country.
I've been away from my homecountry Norway for 20 years.But I still love my country and care dearly about it! I keep myself updated what's going on there!
Most western countries have gone woke, with illegal immigration pouring across the borders. You sir, made an excellent decision to make a move abroad. Soon I will join you in South East Asia, where I will enjoy the culture and tropical beaches until my time comes to leave this world behind.
The woke have not stolen it? Soon to be a "first" illegal alien senator"..??
The uk gave you the chance to be where you are today
I retire to Thailand later this year, but I have just returned from 2.5 months there and the UK (Scotland in particular) is just depressing me. And it’s everything - the weather, the cost of living, the poor infrastructure, politics, crime rates, healthcare etc. So I’m with you Eddie, when I leave later this year I won’t look back at all. And BTW, if you walked around London with your phone on a stick, it would get stolen!
This has aged well. Now Eddie is on his way back to the UK to be treated for free and have brain surgery.Never say never. 😂😂😂😂
Uk has had its day only down hill from here. Sad to say but true.
They used to say that in the 1970s as well, things changed and improved, not saying that will happen again but you have to try and keep positive!
Its a Zoo now. 😂😂😂
Good point @@davidkennedy8929
I agree and we only have ourselves to blame. We voted for the same two parties over and over and 10 years ago when people started sailing across the channel we complained but did nothing. Should have had men of fighting age standing on the south coast to give the new arrivals an unpleasant welcome like the men of many other nations did. .
@@davidkennedy8929 ah BUT...in the 1970s UK had north sea-oil ...they got fookall now!
I retired in Thailand eight years ago but I am still loyal to ALL the English-speaking countries. I am from the USA but I am concerned about the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand. etc. I don't think an honest man can forsake the laws and customs of his home country. The English-speaking countries have much to be proud of.
Nothing is wrong with your countries. Try growing up in countries like third world places Laos, Philippines, etc you will appreciate what you have.
Well said,when I come across the white hating lefty’s blaming everything on colonialism,I love to point out that all the top universities in the world are in the uk or her ex colonies, they always go strangely quiet about
Well said@@jacked6
Me too, because we invented the modern world.
You are sating what many people feel Ed. The replacement of Brits with illegals is a serious problem on multiple levels. Putting them up in 4 star hotels while many old veterans living rough in shop doorways is hard to swallow. The woke seem to run the show now, police included. It is safer walking home late in Bangkok than any big western city for sure👍🏻
Your not getting replaced your getting topped up no one is having any kids the west is dying slowly
@@stephenharris7982 With single fighting aged men from another civilisation!?? No thanks.
@@mikimoto99 sadly we don't have a say in it to be honest . In the next 10 yrs Muslim will be the new driving force in everything it's how it is
In order to wash your hands on a country you would need to not have Family and Friends there or and not depend on assets and investments, pensions etc. Otherwise, everything happening there could effect you. An economic collapse, house price crash and future policy where they don't pay state pension to people living overseas could affect you. These things are unlikely to happen but if the UK was to end up like Argentina, it definitely would....
Should not pay state pension to people living abroad as that just weakens the economy of that country as does anyone earning money in one country then leaving with that money and putting into another country I’m not judging people that do it just stating the problem
@alanarmitage True, but I intend to live abroad at that age even though I agree it isn't good for the economy.
@@alanarmitage I’m pretty sure the Soviets had the same idea as you, Alan.
Thev psid into to recieve pension.its thier money?
@@alanarmitage Nah ... it's a pension that someone has earned after a lifetime of paying taxes. Certainly any additional pension bonuses such as power subsidies could b cancelled.
The politicians in Australia all they worry about is theirselves and the rich
I thought the politicians in the UK were corrupt but Australian ones are pure criminals
there the same all rd the world just con men fooling the gullible
All have been taken over by a world wide criminal cabal.
Same in the USA, and probably everywhere else.
@@kev12364arrest for carrying the AUSTRALIAN FLAG 🇦🇺
That is 60 yr old Eddie talking, what about 70 or 80 yr old Eddie? Great when your well and feel fit and healthy but what if god forbid if your health deteriorates maybe then the UK may be more appealing don’t burn your bridges Eddy
Humble Pie NHS food "Cummin Up" on the menu next week
I remember your distraught ‘Pattaya isn’t Pattaya anymore ‘ video at the start of Covid - and you couldn’t wait to get back to Blighty.
You thought you’d be stuck in Pattaya.
You were desperate to return to a country (the UK) you now rubbish.
With the increasing Chinese takeover in SE Asia I think you should keep an open mind Ed.
Making all these damning statements about the UK when you are swanning around on a Johnny Tourist visa is laughable.
You sound very angry , perhaps you should join Eddie in Thailand 😂😂😂
@@silondon9010 nah mate, I’m on a retirement visa in Cambodia.
@@silondon9010 hahahah but Thailand may one day be Chiland mate.
@@silondon9010 OMG join Eddie ?? So, sitting in a bar, swilling booze, talking to trollops that just want money, Talking about rotund English women and consume fatty Thai crap food. Is that a viable alternative ??
@MINDERS91 I've seen this time and time again when I worked in Spain a decade ago. Eddie will be back in his Merseyside council flat moaning about the weather and the price of a tin of baked beans in a few months time whilst claiming disability to increase his pension ! Pattaya isn't Pattaya anymore.....the UK isn't the UK anymore.....Bangkok isn't Bangkok anymore.......whinge whinge whinge
The major advantage of Thailand is that people are tolerant, they do not feel obliged to tell people what they can and cannot do. I feel quite at home here and only occasionally does it occur to me that I stand out as not being one of them.
Imagine that; "A tolerant people". Savor it and be grateful for this rare occurrence, as most seem to have gone the way of extinction. (It mostly has to do with the country being mainly Buddhist. Sri Lankans are also kind and genuine. Mostly)
Tolerant, unless you disparage the King.
Or, insult a Thai dude ehen he is with his gang of buddies.
@@sterling557 Why would one want to do either of those things?
Hello Eddy, I'm from the USA and I can understand exactly what you're saying. It's gotten to where watching the news just raises my blood pressure. If I last long enough,I'll be living somewhere close to you in se Asia and my concern for the USA will decline.
Most expats I’ve spoken to who have retired for some time tell me they don’t care about their home Country. You’re looking well Eddie. Enjoy yourself and thanks for sharing! 🙏
I wonder when their health starts to go down hill where do these ex-pats go to ? Back home for free medical treatment
@@Phucket24 Not necessary for most things. I've had 2 cancer surgeries and follow up care for less than $3000. Why go wait in line back home when I can get treated immediately in Thailand?
Hope you make a full recovery👍 hospitals and treatment imo is top notch in Thailand. Even if Eddie went back home for treatment he has paid into it all his life. Even if you have a UK pension and live in Thailand you still pay contributions every week into the NHS. People always say free lhealthcare it's not free we pay for it.
Where the hell is it in britain where they would ask to "borrow" your phone. In my neck of the woods they would just take it, and run away
No, I don't suppose I'd bother too much about what's happening in England either but I'd still wish it well. The land of Smiles is ok just as long as you realise they're not the slightest bit interested in what you think about Thailand because they simply don't want you, just your farang money.
You are completely entitled to your option and I respect that and my opinion I’m sure you will respect. All I will say is you have to be a little respectful because while the sun is shining beers are flowing the journey your on is wonderful and I get that . But life can change and the U.K. could be the epicentre of your world one day where you need to return and maybe need assistant help . Just a polite point as I’ve seen this so many times cheers love the channel . I won’t watch this episode as I don’t like hearing my home knocked but hey your opinion fella cheers Eddie
Eddie you will care about Britain again if you become ill over there you will be back like a shot, the same way kev in Thailand went back
Kev in Thailand did indeed go back to England to die when his money ran out, I 'think' he payed out about £50.000 in Hospital fees.
Kev had no health insurance, that's why he ended up paying for his treatment, he came home to die with his family there.every country has it's problems Thailand is no exception the reasons for living there are more intangible, there are more positives than negatives in Thailand.
@@nelco69 do you really think health insurance always pays out you would be lucky to get anything from them
True, but it is still better to have it than not it cost Kev in Thailand 2 million BAHT.
Wonder what the local Thais think of him, walking down the street ranting and raving, moaning, swearing and shouting into his camera. A sad representation of an Englishman, all things considerered.
I left the uk 25 years ago, and yes, i still care about my county 😮
Yes, but the country today isn't the same as for 25 years ago.
It’s a new chapter in your life Eddie , a clean slate and your living your best life .I do 4 months in Thailand over winter and love the people , good luck with your new chapter and keep up the good vlogs PS loved your book 🇹🇭
AGREE! "I do 4 months in Thailand over winter and love the people" i do same, Could NEVER live here full time, to bloody HOT from songkran on-wards!✅🔥
@@Robert-ln7ji Yes to bloody hot after Songkran I like Uk for summer👍
What type of accommodation do you guys have in UK to enable winter escapes? Flat/apartment that you can lock & leave or someone watching over a house for you? Cheers
I still love England. It's the politicians and corporations that are destroying it. I wish us ordinary people would be brave enough to stand up to them. But obviously we're not. Travelling in Asia myself at the moment but I still love my country.
Ditto! The UK is too expensive to live there now Eddie.The cost of a living is way too expensive, my UK pension(s) goes a lot further here in Thailand and I'm much happier here
If it all goes tits up in Asia this is still your safe haven and homeland you should always care about it.
Never say never eddy, just enjoy life to the fullest 🙏
I don’t think that you living in SEA now is the reason for the change in interest. I reckon it is something that comes with age and in particular retirement. My old man when he retired went from being an avid newspaper and news follower to not caring about news as there is nothing you can do to change it. I retired a couple of years ago in my country and also don’t really care as it is all out of my control. I just live my life as well as I can and worry about the things that I can have an impact on. I especially don’t know why anyone living in a foreign country would give a shit about what is happening back home. Good on you Ed and enjoy what you have.
Yeah spot on, I just wrote a similar comment then read this. I think you’re right, it’s age.
Really good discussion
The stressful news from my home country matters less.
The UK has screwed the working man. Immigrants getting looked after better. Crime, drugs, stabbings, violence is all on the rise too. It’s getting lawless. People are getting fatter and lazier. Weather is awful too.
Great video Eddy. Now you are in Thailand, learn a few Thai phrases mate. Makes a world of difference
Be careful eddy there was a vlogger who lost everything due to medical issue and the health bill in thailand you may the nhs again I would watch what say hope you dont need it
It's just the same in Australia Eddie
how so?
You’re angry because Neighbors finished?
I disagree. I think Australia is quite lucky as we're mostly protected from illegal immigration due to having a large body of water surrounding us.
because you guys voted in a woke, white-guilt, leftist party led by Albo.
@@eddyk564DIDNT stop the boats
You'll ALWAYS be a tourist on asia
Thanks Eddie and right on mate! I have friends in the U.K. who find it puzzling when I, as an American who loves what was Great Brittan as much as they, say I am as heartbroken as they are to see where it's ended-up. That being the case, here in America's capital of weird and woke (Portland Oregon), while it's seems even more hopeless and heartbreaking, I have less sympathy or lament for this place than I do for friends in the U.K. and the U.K. as well perhaps like you this place no longer holds anything meaningful and vacating seems the best option for my well-being. Your words resonate strongly, and perhaps many of us should consider what and where is best for us.
Cheer mate! you very well may have got it right!
What is going on? It seems to me all Western countries, including little corrupted Jamaica, are in big trouble indeed. From a perspective point of view, the USA will continue to decline by default. Now, I can understand the decision of Saudia Arabia to join the BRICS.
@@yvesderival634 Thank you. A regrettable but correctable fact that is sadly too painful and inconvenient for what is passed off for leadership to speak of, much less correct.
Profits and common people see and warn of of all to obvious futures, but few take heed, and the the cycle perpetrates. Decades ago it seemed that Jamaicans having been closer to a microcosm of the corruption and arrogant ignorance of the Free World leadership, realized what people subject to that corrupt ignorance did not. Your mention of Jamaca reminded me of one of those warnings of a coordinated Shark attack that is on the heals of the old world order in the form of BRICS and others, that lies at the root of "Clock and dagger wars" :
'Wailing Souls - Shark Attack -1992'
th-cam.com/video/tw5lIdSYFDM/w-d-xo.html
Why did Jamaicans, as American who fought so hard for liberation, not then and now rise to that they know is an all but certain future and change their destiny?
As the current World Order passes the reign of power to a new order, some might mistake the new order as something new.
Perhaps America's visionary writer and producer of The Twilight Zone described what we are again facing best:
"This is not a new world - it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements...technological advances...and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like everyone of the super-states that preceded it - it has one iron rule: 'logic is an enemy and truth is a menace'."
- Rod Serling
'Rod Serling Was Prophetic With This Warning'
th-cam.com/video/FMLWXsV0E-M/w-d-xo.html
Many warn of all to obvious futures.
The thing is Ed you don’t speak or understand the language in the places you visit in south east Asia so really you haven’t a clue what they really think of you.. same with the Thailand news and day to day going ons. In a way it’s good because we go about our business and we have this idea that everything is rosie. Well take it from someone who has lived away from there birth place longer than they lived there…..don’t dis the place you come from……never know where you have to return…careful now
Then Eddie will go looking for an establishment asking for his shepherd's pie chips peas and gravy.
I spent 10 years in the Middle East and Africa before moving to Indonesia where I've been for over 25 years but I still care about the UK.
I grew up in Catford, SE London at a time when Britain was still a power to be reckoned with and watched that town change from a safe town full of mostly very decent, hardworking people into a multicultural shithole. Not surprisingly, the more it came to look like the Third World the more it became Third World and I can't bring myself to go there whenever I make a visit because it's simply too depressing.
But, while I could never again live in a big city in the UK, I don't rule out going back at some stage and living in a rural area. In all honesty though unless there's a major overhaul in British politics the country will sink even further down the pan and I won't be going back to stay
You picked a good place to live. I left the UK in 1979 worked around the Middle East and Africa. Been in Indonesia now for 42 years. Good weather and surrounded by beautiful golf courses
@@michaelblack2334 Yep, I think we both chose very wisely. I couldn't have retired at 49 if I'd stayed in the UK. When I contrast my life with my brother, a teacher in the UK, I realise how lucky I am. He lives in a small house in London that cost an arm and a leg and will have to work until he's 67 to get his pension. Meanwhile, I just bought a villa in Central Java with a view of sawah and a volcano but just a 5-minute drive from a city centre for £70k.
I've got a beautiful wife who I've been happily married to for 23 years, she has a great family, the food here is fantastic, the climate great, there are fascinating places to visit, and I've never had any safety, security or crime issues. We've just got to hope that the election passes off safely
That's young to retire! What did you retire as? @@bungabening3530
Hello from SE6 😂👍
@@frankiebye Hah! SE6 1TW. Verdant Lane opposite Hither Green Cemetery
You will return if you unfortunately get sick and need the NHS 🛫🏃🏼😂
Not true ,the care in thailand is amazing and no waiting lists also very affordable I can't wait to move there
And he has every right to do so, he's paid into it all his life
@@leedennett3036 Wrong that is not true, you forfeit your rights after after a certain time outside the UK
@@farangtravels3956 which is totally wrong in itself, maybe if he re-entres the UK on a dinghy he'll be able to use the services again 😉
He can afford health insurance
That was very interesting thanks. Do you think you will take an interest in the current affairs of Thailand and Cambodia? Nowhere is perfect and I'm interested if you will take an equally critical view of problems in your new countries.
Spot on, totally agree. I know for example in Thailand they have big issues around illegal immigration and youth unemployment, my suspicion is that the 50/60 year old Thais are saying exactly the same thing and how they would dream of living in the UK. Maybe.
You care about England now, Eddie. Away back for the NHS that you have slated repeatedly for years.
Eddie, do you have health insurance now that you're in Thailand indefinitely?
If you say hello to someone in the UK they call the cops
I’m in California, the heart of Wokeness. But we still have the best weather and topography in the world. My mental trick for surviving here, only concern myself with the small space Im occupying at the moment. Which is pretty good.
@MrMike-zm8ex best weather? best topography? Bet you don't even own a passport !
Great video eddy, well said.
You did the right thing. Follow your heart and you wont go wrong. I left 12 years ago. Always knew the country was going to die a slow death. Im a child of the 70's and i can tell you working class back then make todays working class look like vagrants. We didn't have much but we had enough not just to feed a family of 7 but left overs for the dog and anyone who dropped in. Now a tin of beans in the UK is 99 pence and people cant even afford it not because its expensive but because the income doesn't support the cost of living. There wasn't a food bank in sight when i was growing up and your going back 50 plus years . Britain's best is behind it and its the titanic of all countries and i decided to jump ship and swim to better shores than go down with it. My friend is being evicted and the council have told him they can offer him a sleeping bag. Britain should be ashamed. I still have sentimental memories about that country when i was growing up but those days are long gone and the values are never coming back. Britain lives in the past and enjoys watching the poor get poorer. I'm no royalist but i think even Harry and Meghan leaving was the start of the tornado that's heading to the UK. Leaving Europe was the biggest mistake. I feel sorry for the people trapped there now.
Eddie- how will you handle the rainy monsoon season over there?
That was a good old rant Eddie, now tell us how you really feel 😉
Eddie you don't sugar cost it. I totally agree with you. The UK is finished. But they will keep pulling the covers over everything hoping it will go away.. keep blasting out your voice
*sugar coat.
Eddie, question, did you sell up completely in England or did you keep your house? In other words have you any ties to the old country?
Of course not !!! He is crafty and having an extended holiday complements of us and YT. Just another clickbait to reel in the mugs like you and me hahahh
The clever thing would be to rent it out and use the rent money to finance Thailand travel.
As you get older and your health starts deteriorating you will be glad to get back to our NHS although I will admit it is rubbish.
Eddie lived in a boarding home in the UK. Just a room...
So all his personal possessions are in his 22kg suitcase?
Something is not right??
Eddie you can never call Thailand or other Asian countries your home you will always be a guest.
Next time I see Ed in Pattaya I’m yelling at him “Hey Steady Eddy, let me use your mobile so I can do a drugs deal” 😂
One thing to consider, your views are from a country where you lived 50 years and speak the language. The cohorts therefore aren’t the same, Thailand will have its issues just the same, you just aren’t exposed to them in the same way as you don’t live there, speak the language, part of the culture. My suspicion, having family in many parts of the world is that everyone around our age all feel roughly the same about our home countries as we don’t adapt to change so well later in life. So, not disagreeing with any of this but I try to also remain balanced as I know every country has its issues, we just aren’t part of them so it’s easy to assume it’s better elsewhere.
Example, if I speak to my kids about the UK they don’t complain about the issues that I do, in fact, they say the positive things that I did also when I was their age. Therefore, my suspicion is that our age is linked with many of these negative feelings about change.
Put it this way, if we were Thai, lived there all our lives and were in our 50s I’m pretty sure we’d be having similar conversations about how Thailand is changing and it’s not the same.
I guess my point is that as I age I try to adapt, it’s not easy but I try.
I’d be super interested to hear the views on Thailand in 20 years when you speak the language, have citizenship, have Thai friends, maybe family, more engrained in the culture etc, maybe you’ll have similar views also on Thailand and about how it’s changing.
Either way good vid, thought provoking, thanks for the vids dude.
He doesn’t seem interested in learning Thai or using portable translators.😅
I've been visiting Thailand since 2011 and retired here in 2022.
I don't hear many 50-something Thais complaining about the (western and Oz ) farangs, by saying, "I wish these foreign visitors would go home, and take the MILLIONS of Baht they spend with them".
The difference between migrants to Thailand, and the immigrants to the UK is that I'm not a drain on the welfare system here, whereas the small boaters that arrive have nothing and are given many, many handouts: housing, clothes, health care etc etc etc
@@SoybooCow westerners maybe not but I’ve heard lots of comments re illegal immigration from Burma. All the way down the border into the south many Thais always commented to me about Burmese immigrants coming across illegally and working illegally.
@eddventures agree with your comment entirely. It's not just the illegal immigrants to Thailand that are unwelcome. Ask 95% of Thais what they think of visa-holding tourists from a 'certain high-populous country', just to the west of Bangladesh...🤣
Eddy I am much of the same mind as you, especially insofar as illegal immigration is concerned. I have visited Thailand and other countries in the far east over the past 30 years. My big disagreement with your views concerns the British police. I am a police pensioner having served protecting the people of London for 37 years. You have a very bad case of tarring all with the same brush. The vast majority of colleagues I worked with did it for the good of the community, certainly not for the salary. Who else would leave their house & family every day knowing there was a good chance of being abused, insulted and especially injured by people who 50 years ago would have been in asylums away from the general public. The British way now is 'care in the community' that doesn't work! There are mad people and bad people walking amongst us, Britain is no longer a safe country. I have too much to say on this subject I could write a book but all I would say is please don't tar all police or busies as you regionally call them with your contaminated brush. Every one is a DIFFERENT human being. By the way the perpetrator of the recent attack on the woman and her two children, illegally entered the UK in the back of a truck, claimed and was refused asylum twice but the third time was granted leave to stay and look what the consequences of that ill informed, misguided decision produced. These soft lefty people are also what the police are forced to deal with.
A few years ago when the London taxi trade was licensed under the metropolitan police they always gave us a fair crack of the whip a bollocking rather than a nick regarding a motoring offence i think they new what kind of pressure we all were under i have much respect for that, but i think the police nowadays only care if there is a major incident not your every day run of the mill stuff, i bet you was a decent copper in your day, thank you for your serice.
Eddie, you sound like a mutineer from HMS Bounty.
Instead of trying to improve Britain you escape!
You enjoy SE Asia because you can lord it over the locals because of the strength of the pound.❤
But I agree with you about unfettered population growth- “ third world countries banging out children like there’s no tomorrow and expecting the West to pay.”
Hey Ed, did you take you're retirement carriage clock with you ?
You know for your 50 years service with the company ..
I agree about the relaxation in Thailand.
High anxiety in Britland for me.. I’ll be returning to SE Asia in a year for good. Thai life-happy life
There’s a lot of negative stuff about UK. True it has its problems. That said I’ve travelled fairly widely and it’s where I feel at home. As much as folk going to these countries feel about their adopted home. You are always a foreigner unless you take up citizenship.
it's totally ok to feel this way Eddy. By my own experience I can tell you that feelings start to change once you start to understand the language of the country you're living in. When those tourist vibes change into daily routine that's when things get more clear whether or not you're in the right place. Another thing that could matter is if the country you're choosing to live in is still developing and you may realise after a few years that this is not the country anymore that it was when you decided to move there. I wish you all the best and that things turn out the way that you will feel comfortable. Cheers
Good advice I plan to move to Thailand next year but despite many trips I know living there will be a totally different experience and until you have actually done it you cannot predict whether it was the right move. Sometimes you just have to take a risk but always have a plan B.
Eddie, question for you why have you not considered the Philippines?
Glad you left the Uk - i do not understand your anger.The UK is a wonderful place.
“Ello how are ya” to the 90 yr old lady who clearly won’t speak a word of English. You should really try to make an effort, it’s a bad look.
Even just hello and thanks is enough.
Well done Eddie couldn't of put it better myself. I'm looking at doing the same as you , I want out, hopefully not to long to wait, my mind is set.
will care when you need expensive meds care ? or will you tough it out locally ?
I spent 4 months in thailand last year feb & march, then oct & nov. That unfortunately was all i could manage. When i got back to Uk i was £400 in credit on my gas and electric and even the water bill was reasonable!
Goes to show how bad rip off britain really is the cost of living's just crazy!
You don’t like Thailand long term?😮
Two grown up daughters, one with learning problems
Makes things a bit challenging!!
Interesting video Eddie and often so true enjoy your life and travels and if the day comes and you need major health care at that point plan a return ,you have paid in to the NHS so let them care for you..Good luck anyway
Strictly it's not legal to access NHS for free as a non-resident citizen, but in reality they don't check because there are so many illegal immigrants using it. As someone who's presumably paid tax and national insurance for several decades, Eddie has far more moral justification for using it than some health tourist or illegal fresh off the boat.
@@johng1634 With out doubt and he would recieve treatment.
I agree with you..@@johng1634
The acid attacker was a legal immigrant. He'd been refused asylum twice, but wasn't deported. While he was milling around in the North East of England he managed to clock up two sexual assault convictions. He then said that he had converted to Christianity, and was granted asylum.
Unbelievable.
Eddie you have got some hard lessons coming your way.
A lot of home truths, but you will get home sick after about 9 months, you may not miss Britain but you will miss the squeaky door as we all do.
I retired to Thailand in August 2022 at age 55. Do I feel homesick? Not a chance. Only one regret: I should've done this YEARS ago.
"Sa war de Krap" . Go on Eddie. Give it a go.
Iam surprised he hasnt learnt any Thai goes a long way lol
Sa Wat Di Krap
Exactly Hello and thank are so easy to learn i dont have to think twice its natural now@@kev12364
Yes I made similar comment , makes it more enjoyable interacting with locals.
i always love the irony of an expat complaining about immigrants in their home country.
Hi Eddie, thought provoking vlog. I feel exactly the same, just waiting for my pension to kick in at 60 , the please God I will retire to SE Asia.
I hope you enjoyed your beer, stay safe.
Hope your enjoying your stay mate
Almost 15M views on the channel! Congratulations on the retirement Ed. The Philippines has become a very easy place to get visa and renew. They’ve launched an online visa renew site, through official Immigration channels. It breaks down into the ability to renew every 6 months and costs less than $200 to do so. 👍 Lovely people here in Davao. English speaking folks aren’t hard to come by but you don’t get all the good foods and upscale service Thailand tends to offer. Nice place to live simple, cheaply and maybe plan future excursions. Continue to live well my friend. ✌️-Fred
But I like Philippine food, don’t you?
That’s the Davao where the UK Foreign Office advises ‘against all but essential travel’ and has done for decades. Very close to an area ‘advise against all travel’. No wonder it’s cheap lol.
Don’t fancy spending my retirement having to sleep with one eye open.
I don't rely on govt. reports. Expats are the best source.
@@robertburnett6348 interesting getting insurance I bet if your government advises against travel there.
@@smiley24682that really is bizarre. I’m an American and when I got here in 2018, I was nervous of the same thing. I truly feel safer here than I do in many parts of the big cities in the states. I’m originally from Boston, Massachusetts. I will go roaming around my area at night here without worry. I couldn’t say that about many parts of where I’m from.
Expat 🇬🇧left my beautiful country 35 years now lives in Colombia 🇨🇴
It's taken 40 years to destroy the UK 🇬🇧
Our Governments and people are to blame I now live in the past on TV
Minder. on the buses .Old Corrie .Hadleigh .the Sweeney.Robins Nest my life in Colombia is great 👍
Ed, always great to hear your well thought out opinions. I hear elements of The Jam's, Living on a Thin Line, and The The's Heartland, in your opinion. Your attitude makes perfect sense.
Did The Jam do a cover of a Kinks song? I can't see Ed singing The Jam's 'English Rose' anytime soon after that rant 😁
I stand corrected I meant to say the Kinks.@@silversurfer6758
No. I arrived in BKK on Feb 3 2006. Eighteen years and no plans to return except the odd holiday or wedding.
You must have seen massive changes since your arrival...
@@shaun7638 I’ve not only been in Thailand. I’ve moved around. As you get older you have different preferences. I no longer go to fmps on Phan ghan. Now I prefer pattaya and vung Tao. Things have changed for sure but you see it gradually when you live here. People who come back after 15 years see the difference more than me. - I see the difference when I go back to UK - no thanks
Coincidentally today is my 18 year anniversary of being here. Having a beer in Hua Hin!
@@benleno Thanks for reply,i been going years and many changes but still a great place to visit,i went for 3 months last year a week after returning rushed to hospital and now having Chemo..My days of travel were good but now i have to finishe travels.☹️...Take care
@@benleno My friend in Hua Hin he loves it ,but he returns home Monday he is crying...
You’ve got Britain spot on 👍in my eyes your living the dream over there enjoy
Great video Eddy . You are right .
50k subs soon eddy as well . Loving the quantity of up loads
Do you have family back in Britain
I get a lot of the negativity and you see lots of these video’s now from bloggers taking a dig at their home countries as they flee for pastures new. I remember Kev in Thailand regularly slagging off the U.K.but ultimately returned home for final care medical treatment and accommodation. The test will come when the going gets tough and you get old/sick or their is another pandemic and you are treated as a second class citizen.
British people get treated like second class citizens in our own country anyway and he's got health insurance so he's covered and will get treated much better than the NHS if shit hits the fan
fair play Eddy all you are saying is spot on my friend i live in England and go to pattaya 3 times a year and thinking of making the move myself.
Good video Eddie i totally agree with what you said, if i was retired in a different country i wouldn't care about where i came from it would definitely be a lot less drama
All of your criticisms of Great Britain apply to many areas of the USA. I’d still like to visit the UK again, but SE Asia is my ideal choice for holidays and long-term traveling.
England doesn’t miss you
Totally understand you! 👍
Don't forget without Britain you would not be there keep that in mind. Chris and Kitty Liverpool England.