New Chiang Mai Expat Interview | A Conversation with an American Expat
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- Join us as we sit down with Valie, an American expat who recently embarked on an exciting journey from the USA to Chiang Mai, Thailand with her family. Valie shares her unique experiences, challenges, and adventures in adapting to a vibrant new culture. Whether you're a fellow expat, a travel enthusiast, or simply curious about life in Thailand, this interview offers valuable insights that will leave you craving your own international adventure.
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Great interview Tony, it was so nice seeing @ValieBallard. We had followed her family since before they moved near you.
8 Thumbs up 👍
Thanks Tony & Kendall for your videos! Go ISU! lol
Thank you very much 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🇹🇭❤️😊
If mom is this cute, nice, and polite, that whole family must be the nicest people. Welcome to Thailand. Thailand will love your friendliness.
Interesting! Taking an opportunity to live elsewhere with 8 + kids is bold and adventurous. Wish them all the best. If that's not inspiring to singles and couples, then they're not ready for much. She has a great personality; welcome to Thailand.
Great vdo as always! Welcome to Thailand Vailie!
Thank you!! 😊
Love your channel and those new expats interviews/experiences
Glad you like them!
That was a good fun vid, thank you both! 8 kids, wow bless you and your family. See you in October.
Excellent interview with a very positive-minded interviewee. However, it would have been nice to know why she and her family left the USA to come to Chiang Mai. Tony, you have to give durian another try. Try eating it in an outdoor setting. I tried it for the first time 2 weeks ago in Phatthalung. The durian was delicious, very fresh, and did not smell bad at all.
There is a link in the description to her channel. 😊🇹🇭👍
What a lovely family.
Love this! Thank you
great interview! Valie is so sweet and bubbly 👍🏼💖
Durian’s consistency to me is like a potatoe texture with an onion taste. They do have none stinky durian as well. The Smokey season Jan, Feb, Mar will be a challenge. Most leave the area.
SuperMom! Enjoy your stay in Chiang Mai!
Great Video as Always Tony!
Cipro is a great antibiotic and one of its uses is for bacterial infections of the stomach. With that said and since most items are over the counter here, I would caution your viewers to consult with a physician before running to the local pharmacy and picking up a strip.
Cipro has a long list of food, but more importantly, other drug interactions that must be avoided, such as Warfarin and even antacids.
Awesome video
Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed it! 😊🇹🇭
Had little GI issue a week into my move. No issues since and just one episode. I think my body adjust fairly quickly from all my travels
I’m so glad it’s better and going well for you!
Nice video ! Any visa information is helpful to know as i am in the process of selling off my home and belongings to become an expat in Chiang Mai. I visited during covid and had to obtain a Thailand pass and do quarantine along with multiple covid tests. It'll be far easier this time. The retirement visa will be my choice after settling in i believe. Thanks again ,take care.
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Hi Valie & Tony!
Hi Alice! 😊👍🇹🇭
Hi, Alice!! ❤❤❤❤ so fun to see you here!!
About 2 years now of 5+ percent (plenty of food products are much higher than 5%) of year over year inflation has inflated prices alot in the US.
Yes! Even things like insurance, home improvement items, and fees! It adds up so fast!
Durian is very sweet. If the smell bothers you try the freeze dried candies. i personally don't like the texture. it tastes fine, when get past the smell (very similiar to many cheeses).
I don't think Valie ever mentioned why she and her family moved to Thailand. Are they Mormon missionaries? Was it for work? It would have been nice to know the reason.
We are on our own here, not working with anyone- we feel called to travel and live in new places and hopefully as a result we’ll avoid the constantly increasing prices in the US as well! :)
@@ValieBallard really inspiring and brave
@@whiskersredwood7903 aww thank you!! We are so grateful God gave us people like Tony to help us navigate the change!!
@@ValieBallard Thank you for the info Valie! I am binge-watching your TH-cam channel.
@@kevinp8108 oh wow, yay! Thanks so much for checking it out!
OMG, 8+1 kids! Very uncommon nowadays.
It's amazing!!
I've lived in Chiangmai for 5 years and I've never been sick or had food poisoning. I had an allergic reaction once, I accidentally ate crab meat in a resort near Hua Hin. I've always had colourful reactions to crab, I didn't know it was in the food. My stomach didn't like it and punished me for my mistake.
I'm trying not to mock, but how does someone come to live in Chiangmai and is surprised that most of the food is Thai?
For me the biggest issue with Chiangmai, and something everyone ought to be aware of before deciding to move here, is the poor quality air during the burning season: late February until the rainy season starts.
It was exceptionally bad this year, most polluted city in the world a few times in March/April, and it lasted well into May, but last year it was mild and ended in early April.
If you're older and have breathing related medical issues/concerns it might not be the place for you. It can be overcome in the home with air filters, but it can't be ignored.
My favorite food when eating out is Khao Soi, the best I've had from a flavour perspective is from Ming Kwan, a veggie restaurant in the old city. I regularly go to a local family run eatery that does freshly cooked made to order meals starting at 30 Baht. I get the impression they rarely have foreigners go there.
Meals in general, if you eat Thai food are cheap compared to the west, I rarely eat western food now so can't say about prices, but they used to be expensive.
Lol come on durian is yummy kind of like a banana. Except when you get it at DQ in blizzard😜
Question for Valie. How are you going to handle the burning season in Chiang Mai. The air quality will be extremely dangerous for your children. I know Thai children deal with it and it would be interesting to know how it affects their health. Also their families mostly have no choice about where they live but you do. I would be very concerned about their young lungs inhaling all that poison. I would love to live in Chiang Mai but, as a senior with allergies, I'll probably have to live further south where it's a bit better.
You might want to ask her on her channel. I’m not sure if she’s going to look at this on my channel. :-) There is a link on the description.
Please pass my name on to Valie since I am living near where she is. Thanks.
Valie and family are back in Thailand?
We are!!! 😊 So good to see you here!!!
Durian is the best fruit on earth and you don"t know what you are missing.Ask Mark Wiens.
Mark Weins has such a special talent for eating, 1/10th of his bravery would be 10x more than I have! My second son and one daughter got that gene, I don’t know why it skipped me! 😂
Does taking probiotic prior arrival to thailand helps?
It definitely couldn’t hurt.
Why did you decide to move to thailand? Does she homeschool her kids?
We felt called to live in new places and travel for now and Thailand has been the perfect place to start! It’s beautiful, affordable for a large family, friendly to expats, and it seems there is far more information about Thailand to research your move! :)
We do homeschool which makes it so easy!
Great video...Is Valie a Mormon?
Nope 😊
She is so cute.
Don’t smell the durian, just eat it. It tastes so good!!!
Hi Tony, are you sure it was ciprofloxacin you were taking? That medication is an antibiotic used to treat urinary tract infections, bone or skin infections, or pneumonia. One of the many serious side effects of the medication is that it can disrupt the natural Flora that's in the gut and can actually cause really bad diarrhea including a dangerous kind of diarrhea, c-diff. If that is the medication that you were taking then maybe that is what was causing your diarrhea/vomiting and not so much the food that you were eating . Now a substance that can help support the natural Flora of your gut is called a probiotic. That is generally a good idea for a person to take. I have never heard of ciprofloxacin being used to treat food poisoning. Of all the medications on Earth, the class of drugs that are most likely to cause an allergic reaction are antibiotics, so that's another danger of taking ciprofloxacin.
I personally have traveled all around the world and always carry Cipro with me. It is prescribed to me in America by my family physician, specifically for potential severe diarrhea and dysentery. It's definitely supposed to be used with caution and not overused so that you don't build a resistance to it. I really like your comment about the probiotic because anytime I take antibiotics, I always follow up the antibiotics with a couple weeks of a probiotic to restore all the good stuff that the antibiotic destroyed 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Ive been to Thailand 30 times since 2005 and my doctor always gave me cipro as a go to should i get abdominal sickness. He said it was a good broad spectrum antibiotic. Although, i did pick up an amoeba in a mountain Karen Hilltribe village and was hospitalized for two days so getting sick 1 out of 30 trips is a pretty good stat.
@@WilliamFluery ok, I learned something, thank you.
@@alexandraforse ok, I learned something. Thank you. Personally I would feel a lot more comfortable being prescribed by a physician than guessing which is the right treatment for me. If the infection is viral, then the antibiotic will have no effect.