I quit my job and moved here…
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 พ.ค. 2024
- I quit my job and have somehow ended up living on the third floor of a spooky and derelict building with a view of the sea. Join me as i explain what the hell is going on in my life…
I’m still temporarily in the UK, my hiatus from life in thailand and my beautiful off grid farm.
Join me on my Thailand adventure as I attempt to create a fruit farm on five acres of land, build a house, dig a well for my own water source and install solar panels to become completely off grid!
Watch me generally fumble my way through every process, trying to keep positive and upbeat throughout 🧘♂️
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The rains are just starting you can come back soon!
Hi Ben, greetings from Samoeng. Good to see you again, and understand where you’re coming from. Stash that cash away and get back here. We’re just coming off burning season, three months of pure hell, and we have just received the award for having the worst air quality of anyplace on earth. On earth mind you. I’m having respiratory problems from it. Next year I’m going to have to hibernate in air conditioning for three months. I’ll just sign up for every entertainment channels available and binge. Good to see the air quality where you are working is so clear, so enjoy, make bank while you can, it will go a long way here as you know. Cheers
I bet your family is missing you in thailand. Good to see someone sacrificing and doing some old fashioned hard work. Keep up the content.
Wicked Video Mate 👍 I’m just come across your Channel. I’m 55 years old myself and I’m working as a chef like you. Totally understand your thoughts about painful legs at the end of the shift 😩. Hopefully I’ll retire in Thailand in the near future. At the moment like yourself I’m trying to sort out my financial situation. In 7 weeks time I will get back to Thailand 🇹🇭. Trip number 8 visiting Pattaya. Keep safe Mate and I hope everything goes well. By the way your home in Thailand looks absolutely stunning. 👍🇹🇭🙏
Ah great stuff! 7 week countdown, I may be on a similar timeline myself. Cheers Javier 👨🍳🙏
I can't tell you how much I'm enjoying this UK busman's holiday - absolutely brilliant and really beautifully filmed. Really interesting, I enjoy the Thailand content but call me a weirdo I'm enjoying this just as much if not more
Ahh cheers will, that means a lot 👍👍
I was doing some work at a resort in Koh Kood Thailand, I had the skills they wanted but my accommodation was a crappy room no window no toilet no aircon just a fan, the shower this was 100m walk. I was renovating 3 bedroomed villas overlooking the sea in low season I stayed 3 weeks crap room. Left and was asked to stay for a year, no way. lol Exactly know your worth, I'm worth more than a crappy room. Just worked for food and accommodations via workaway. Best wishes.
Good move, too many people stay in situations that make them unhappy moaning about it and things will not change by themselves, if you are not happy about something it is up to you to change it so well done and good luck with the new job.
Happiness is a major requirement in life if your not happy move on well done for making the decision
Your dogs made me smile strait away. Smash out the work mate and get back to your happy place 😁🤙🍻
Right decision there man I walked from a relief chef job where they expected me to sleep in a tiny bed in a caravan.
TBH the last place gave me the choice of a tiny caravan instead of the single room, both just as bad. Very out of touch, it’s no wonder they struggle to keep quality staff 🥴
Good news is that you haven’t perished on one of your hilly walks. Sea air will be nice to have for a while. No point living like a prisoner. King of the castle for a while. Hope it works out.
Used to use that pub often, nice people around that area, enjoy...
Back in my restaurant days, only working 11 hours was a blessing. Hang in there!
Always wondered, why can't they reorganize the job of people who boil pasta and chop things... Weird they can't work 8 hours shifts as anybody else. Probably chefs should start usng brains more than just knives and pans. For their own good.
Wow, that is a nice cosy room.....Not seen a wooden toilet seat in a while!!
Keep it up mate, won't be long before your back home.
At 64 and on my feet a lot, I find a bowl of hot water, ankle deep, at night, helps me!
Take care.
Good luck to you Ben! Just hang in there and it will be worth it! Thanks for sharing your journey with us 😊
Go where you are treated best. Your life however couldn't be more different than that in Thailand my god.
Are the plants alright on the farm? I've seen pictures of drought.
Good luck for the rest of the stay.
The dogs are so big now!!!!
It’s cooling down over here now , 11:30 sat morning and it’s only up to 30
Ben report from northeast Thai,very little rain so far,we month behind planting rice as so dry,do not think get much flood this year,look be dry year.
Great seeing you again. Best wishes .
I'd much rather go there over Phuket. Rural UK actually looks great to me, I'd love to see it one day
It is beautiful Ricky, I’m enjoying the contrast to Thailand, that said I’m excited to get back to my farm mate 🌞
Hope it works out for u there Ben up until u head back to Thailand. Maybe next year see if u can get a working visa in Oz or Singapore. Understand its difficult to get visa, accommodation and a decent wage. All the best anyhow and glad to see u back vlogging. Can't wait to see u back home with the dogs. Bless em 👍
i won t say where you are and respect your privacy, but i spent many weeks each year along that part of the cumbriajn coast each summer as a child and early adult life, has a rugged beauty to it and tends to get busy each weekend especially when the weather is good, best of luck and hope you can take away some good memories of cumbria, thanks for sharing,
Good luck Ben can't have been easy wishing you good fortune and health 🙏
Best of luck Ben.
Not only a Chef but security as well!!!..Glad you are good. Thailand is not going away❤
So glad to hear you are doing well & yes you deserve so much better.
Looks really quaint fishing village & sea air is so rejuvenating for the soul!
Wish you a fantastic time there! If you get cold air around you its spirits visiting you. Mostly relatives. Take Care!
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That looks much better, although your room's a bit 1970s.
Nowt wrong with the 70’s 😇
@@LifeinThailand777 It's the toilet seat that made me gasp. Reminds me of the outside toilets back in the olden days!!
Good luck with your adventures 😅
Good luck with your new job!
Are you having blue pipe withdrawal symptoms ?
Enjoying all you post Ben. Been to long since the last one. Was getting worried lol. Keep going,, chins up & all that 😎🙏🙏
Great attitude, good luck. Your accommodation looks really cozy..
Just did a dive season, 6 months on a boat lol. Man-up
Thank you for sharing your life with us Ben. Your blogs are very interesting on how you are getting on in the UK. you could be a night Watchmen for the builders equipment for a bit of extra dough😂
Too many ghosts kicking about for that Gary 😅
You must miss home mate for sure . Home being Thailand. But I get why your doing what your doing. I’m 37 been cooking full time since 13. It’s getting to me. I wish to build a home like you so I work 3 jobs. Have 4 kids married and no time to really enjoy life but it will pay off. I enjoy the videos keep doing more of them if you can
I’ve learnt to cherish the otherwise unpleasant moments of being a chef this time around. The stress of a busy service, the customers with ridiculous “food intolerances”, the brain-dead young waitress etc etc. But I’m only able to enjoy these things because I know it’s very temporary.
I’m willing you on mate. You’ll get there. I think it’s Melbourne you’re at right? Or was it Sydney? 👨🍳
@@LifeinThailand777 100% agree , it’s a changing industry. No old school training like it used to be. But like all jobs there is the good and bad. Yes Sydney ! Thanks for remembering that means a lot. Thailand is the dream and Goal. It will happen just a matter of when. The back paid after 9 hours is so true. It’s the muscles tension of bending up and down out of fridges etc. my knees done hurts all the time but just gotta ignore it haha 😛
Deep Heat and compression socks are my best friends right now mate 😂
What or who was that standing behind you as you were walking around upstairs?
😝 I had too sorry 😆
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Maybe I’ll do a video walking around the pub in the dead of night with a torch, the upside of that is I can help myself to a pint from the bar 👻
@@LifeinThailand777 Dutch courage I like it!
Just got back from Thailand it’s been far too hot. The day I left Tuesday was the start of the rain. Phoning the gf today she was driving from udon to nong bua it’s was peeing it down. The rainy season well underway
Late to the premiere. I love the Pikachu luggage Tag!
Hahah a friends son borrowed my case, I didn’t have the heart to remove the tag when he gave it back to me 😇
You should do a 6 month stay in Australia the flights are cheaper and the wages are way higher than uk for hospitality type jobs
I’ll look at this for next time maybe. Although I’m clearing £1100 a week here, with zero expenses 😇
@@LifeinThailand777you won’t get $3500 a week in aus mate, stay where you are. And you would need to paid that much to clear the equivalent of what you are earning now.
You actually can easily get £1100 a week as a chef in Australia. I run a kitchen so I know.
@@bott84 I stand corrected then, I am a chippy and would have to work for myself to get that sort of money, thought it would be the same for most trades.
@@Openeyesopenheart42 £1100 is $2k Aussie a week …however you have to work all weekend to get that $
I make art assemblages from junk! That beach is perfect for me! Nah…I will stay here in Culebra! 😂
I am glad you moved, I found the other place to be sort of depressing and not very beautiful. Hopefully the new area will be invigorating and more comfortable.
Well that beach just makes me chuffed to flipping mint balls we’re leaving Thailand tomorrow and going to England for a month 🤔🤔🤔. O how I can’t wait to get to Blackpool 😬.
I’m tipping you’ll be back in Thailand before the British winter 🥶?
Yeah I’ll be back in Thailand British summer time I’m guessing
Why are you doing all this stuff in the UK? Go back to Thailand! You looked so much happier there at your farm!
OMG the puppies got so big! Hurry home Ben.. life is too short.
Money is the issue I gather
Do you actually watch his videos? He's explained in great detail why he's doing it and it makes total sense.
Stop being so melodramatic he'll be back in a few months he's missing the hell of 45c and horrific air pollution right now and he's making bank
Agreed i understand the reasons completly and agree with what he is doing.
Nothing wrong with eating bacon, but the pots you put in the cupboard, that's what will kill you.
Ahhhhh you've moved. Hey, keep away from Silloth. I went there as a youngster with my family. It was a right dump. Got that bloody Windscale or whatever it's called. The Nuclear Power station. Had all dead rabbits laying everywhere. Horrible!
What are you bleating on about? Dead rabbits because of the nuclear power station?! Your tin foil hat is on far too tight mate. Nuclear is actually one of the cleanest options we have, we should be building more of it.
25 percent of European energy comes from nuclear.
150 reactors in 27 EU states. How many adverse incidents where the environment was impacted since inception of every one of these reactors? I'll wait.
As for UK itself yeah we had Windscale fire - in like the mid 1950's getting on for 70 years ago now. Things have improved a tad since then mate 🙄
😂😂it was a deluxe garden shed 🫢
Haha nothing deluxe about that shed Dave, you had the deluxe portacabin though 😇
I hope hyour new job is going well and anna is getting on without you!
I know that pub it's where five headless corpses was found behind plastered walls they never did solve the murders but convinced it's a local
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Wow, and I thought those porridge pots he had were the cereal killer.
In any event it would still be a step up from the previous digs where only headless corpses would be able to stretch their legs properly.
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Ireland?
I recognize the pub, it's called..... just kidding. 🤣
You were about to get deleted then 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I know. I would never do that. Love the videos.
Who is that behind, you? 😅
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Hi Ben. Wow, you passed on a real bacon sandwich for an energy snack😮
Nice bit of coastline to chill in Solway. Huge downpour in Kalasin just cooled things off nicely.
Decades ago I was a jobbing chef and stayed in places just like that…so many chefs hit the sauce living above pubs!
If you like, lets hear more about your thoughts on Thailand and the UK from your unique perspective!
Watching your videos it's so hard to tell, which one of the 2 countries is 3rd world... (Actually it's very easy, but i don't want to insult the westerners..) 😅
I’m with you
Are you still married?
I am, just in Uk to earn a few months worth of cash 💰
Ok. Good. I enjoy your videos