Downsides Living In Thailand 🇹🇭 (Cons Of Living In Bangkok Thailand As A Foreigner)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 พ.ค. 2024
- 0:00 Thailand Is The Best Country To Live For ME
0:51 This Makes It Difficult To Move To Thailand
1:50 Living Long Term In Thailand?
3:00 Thailand Does This Well
4:00 The Most Important Factor Living In Thailand
4:45 Working In Thailand?
5:15 Is It Cheap To Live In Thailand?
6:10 Get This In Check Before Moving
7:00 Is It Too Hot In Bangkok?
8:35 Reputation Of Foreigners Is Bad
10:30 Earning Respect
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Love the video! Thank you for all the great info. Im hoping to visit one of my best friends in Thailand in the next year🙏
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Thank you bro
Like the pros and cons videos. We need to know both sides before traveling. Thanks 💪🏽
Appreciate that bro 🙏🙏🙏
@@BushidoNomad How are the rental prices in Bangkok for a 1BR?
nailed it again my man!
Thank you bro!
Retirement visas (over 50) are simple. Hire an agent and they will do all the paperwork for u once a year and 90 day reporting can be done online.
there are NO retirement visas, its an extension
@@clivebaxter6354 The Immigration Department disagrees with you. When you come in on a tourist visa or a 30-day stamp, you then apply for a change of visa to Non "O" Retirent visa which is valid for 90 days. Before that runs out you apply for the one-year extension. When that is issued a stamp for validity of stay is put in your passport with the word "Retirement" to the side.
Even when immigration officers are speaking Thai, they'll use the English word "retirement" when referring to the visa rather than the Thai word "ga-sien" (เกศียณ).
There are many categories of non-immigrant visas in Thailand; retirement is just one of them.
@@mythai05 I have the TM7 form in front of me it says 'APPLICATION FOR EXTENSION OF TEMPORARY STAY IN THE KINGDOM'
The word retirement appears nowhere on it
@@clivebaxter6354 You are correct that TM. 7 doesn't include the word "retirement" on it. And why would it? The TM. 7 is the standard form for temporary extension of stay for all non-immigrant visas. Just above the signature line you'll see "reasons for extension". If you have applied for the retirement visa, you'd obviously put "retirement" in that section, and the stamp put in your passport to show validity of stay will very clearly be marked "retirement".
@@clivebaxter6354 If you'd applied for the "Ed" visa, the stamp would be "Education". If you'd applied for "B" visa, the stamp would be "Business", etc.
Retirement visas weren't available in the 80s. It's just a new category of non-immigrant visas they've introduced.
If you really want to be a stickler, you could say that the proper way to refer to the visa would be 'Non "O" Retirement visa', but what would be the point? Everyone calls it the retirement visa including immigration officers.
Yeah. Spot on.
Thank you brother!
@@BushidoNomad here now on an hourly countdown at this point ready to risk it all. 🤣🤣
the longer you live here, the cheaper it gets in my opinion. the first year i was here i was spending like 3 times the amount as i am spending now.
Very true. Most people live as a semi-tourist for the first 6 months or so.
It also takes time to figure out how to get the best bang for your buck.
@@kam_abroad haha for real, the first 8 months i was living in hotels, luckily it was during covid lockdown so they had like monthly deals haha
Not in my experience. My first long stay in the mid-80s I made $600 last six months. That's only $100 per month which at the exchange rate of the time was 2,500 baht.
Adjusted for inflation that's around 7,500 baht today.
The only way I could live on that today would be if I ordained as a monk.
My price is going down slowly but surely bro 😅
Have you thought of checking out Chiang Mai when its summer in Bangkok
Where is this place? There's so many food stalls. 😊
I'm seeing other youtubers who live in Thailand say that there is a ton of pollution, I think farm farmers burning their crops. Is this something that lasts all year? Or just 2-3 months every year? Are you able to breathe ok, do you get sick from it or cough from it? Is it enough to make someone not want to live there?
Thailand does have pollution along with all other Asian countries. They use a lot of plastics. I mean a lot. Everything in a plastic bag, even food. It is a great place to visit or live especially as an American or European with a strong dollar. Go visit before making a decision.
"Is this something that lasts all year?" - The wildfire and farmers crop burning lasts from January til May, is worse in northern Thailand. Compared to most of Europe the air quality is bad even outside of the burning season. People react differently to it depending on their age / health and how adjusted their body is to it. Some people feel nothing, some get random cough symptoms (coughing/sneezing). God knows how it affects your lungs and immune system long term.
BKK and Chiang Mai will now, at times, hit the most polluted city in the world list several times each year. The PM2.5 is a devastating health nightmare. It will range from bothering you to making you very acutely sick. Over years it would take years off your life. To avoid, you would probably want to be somewhere else April-July, at least.
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I find Thailand like any other place in terms of the cost of living, you can buy your food from markets and beer from Big C. Which is really cheap, or you can eat out every meal and buy beer from bars = Super expensive. Good video thanks mate.
Appreciate that mate!
The traffic ( and parking ) is a nightmare ( your own worst nightmare ) in BKK ... yea, you can use the MRT and BTS ... but, if you don't live by any near by station ( like me ) your stuck .. you can also use the klong boats .. but, once you get off then you are still stuck with maneuvering the traffic .... plus, the mounds of garbage bugs me a little also .. there is always gonna be a couple handfuls of things you don't like ...
I wouldn't even bother trying to park 🤣
Just got back from bali. Thousands of Russians have been kicked out for overstaying visas. All the balinese said they hated them being there.
Cuba is flooded as well
Where is the gym where the girls are jumping ? I'd like to go there.
"BEAT active" it's called brother!
Whats your top pro and con of Thailand????
Pro: luktung, morlam, lukrung, kantrum, ramwong cons: other foreigners.
@@clivebaxter6354What is "kantrum"?
@@mythai05 Khmer music from the Surin area of issan, uses the saw rather than the khean as in morlam. Not sung in Thai.
@@clivebaxter6354 Thanks. I'll look into that. I'm a big fan of Luk thung and mor lam myself.
It’s the happiest place on earth. Zero crime, zero worries.
The five cons of Thaialnd:
Difficult to find a genuine woman!
Heavy traffic
Poor air quality
xenophobia
Corrupt police. Worse than Honduras where I lived for a year. Which is saying a lot.
Where are you meeting the highest quality women…Thailand or Philippines?
Philippines wins by a lot in my experience brother
@@BushidoNomad I appreciate the insight. Love the videos bro! 🤙🏼
@@BushidoNomadThailand is mostly working girls ain't it?
@@albrinks4017 in what aspect do you mean by that comment??? The f you mean woman of the night then definitely not, how can you 35 million woman all be working girls.
Agreed 💯
R u limping in the vid
I wear these really light-weight hemp pants when traveling in Thailand and India during the hot season. I can't wear shorts because of work. They are just as cool. I bet you can find some.
I appreciate that brother
PLEASE tell me how all these young TH-camrs etc are moving there and qualifying... I have cash to buy a nice apartment but the only visa's im seeing are for old retired people or if your a digital nombad/youtuber you have to make 80k USD a yr. yeah thats not a typo, 80k a yr.... Other than that theres the 20yr elite visa but it's 150k.... all these broke young people are doing it somehow unless they are just flying there and overstaying indefinitely...
There are TONS of newer Thailand Visa options available like the learning Thai Language 1 year visa, and the Learn Muay Thai Boxing 1 year visa. Both are also renewable for another year 👍 tons of other new ones available too for starting businesses or cannabis related visa or even Thai Elite Visa which can be purchased and used for 5/10/20 years with multiple entries 🏝
You can get a long tourist visa if apply from home country there's also student and business visas
@@BushidoNomad I am not seeing a long term visa at all. Just the education one for 1 yr but it is a toss up if you'll be able to get another one the following year. also all the business ones are as expensive as the elite visa...
US under Biden didn't think it was not a good idea to promote and help its own people
Complaint #1, how is that different from any other country as a foreigner? So you have to leave every 90 days, follow the rules. It is what it is. Every country has its restriction. There are no countries in the world that allows a foreigner to stay indefinitely or makes it easy to be a citizenship. Look at the USA for example. If anyone thinks it is easy peasy then you haven't traveled enough or you have no understanding how each country operates. The problem is most Americans are entitled. Why compare Colombia to other countries? It is not the same. I have been to Colombia, great place to visit and potentially live. I have been there every year since the last 6 years. I have even lived there for an extended period. Now it has been discovered and entitled foreigners are everywhere running amok. Foreigners also drive up the price of real estate for the locals. That's everywhere! Thailand is a great country to live, follow the rules.
Everything you're saying is correct brother althought in the americas citizenship is much easier than in asia generally speaking. colombia is where I was located for 6 years so I often draw comparisons to colombia and other countries I've lived to reference my own personal experiences and viewpoint
@@BushidoNomad I married a Colombian. Immigration isn't exactly the easiest in USA. Americans are running amok in Colombia now. I am also looking into spend more time in Asia. I have no issues with the 90 days stay policy. It is what it is. The quality of life can be much better b/c of the strong dollar. Thai people are friendly for the most part.
Looking at Vietnam visas are more restrictive. They don’t offer a retirement visas as of now.