I came here to the ‘Land of Smiles’ in 1995 and stayed... still the best thing I have ever done!

I work from home for a german company, my salary is just only a bit lower than employers in Germany or Austria, approx. 300-400 euro lesser than employers who work for the same company and for the same department in Europe. They have so many expenses there in Europe. I'm happy to work and stay in a place where the holiday is in front of the door, don't have to travel long distance by airplane to chill out on nice beaches in phuket. Nearly every weekend going to beach and relax. What a great life

As a 61 yr old Canadian, I'm retiring in Jomtien in January. Brand new condo complex with a 1 bedroom apartment. 480.00 a month, with all the amenities. Home base it will be so l can travel around. Sick of what Canada has become.

I'm Thai who spent 7 years doing my uni degree in Calgary some thirty odd years ago. Gathered from what I have seen on KZfaq and from some of of my Canadian friends who came to visit, it seems that Canada has changed since my time over there. That's to me is really saddening as for all the countries I have lived in apart from Thailand, Canada is my favorite. I was fortunate to have met really nice Canadians during my formative years there. I told my friends who are also seriously thinking about retiring in Thailand that they would always be welcomed. I was also during my younger years had thought of moving overseas. I'm glad I didn't, looking where I am now, Thailand is a great place to be It's in our nature, I guess Bhudism has made our culture and way of thinking unique. Cheers❤

I could make a similar video, but under the title "Why I moved to Thailand and Am Still Staying There After 34 Years". But I don't think I need to. Just look at the increasingly sad state Europe is in and you will know why I made that decision -- and never regretted it.

Hey I am from Canada and have been traveling to Thailand for 25 years you did a GREAT JOB laying it out this information is vital Bangkok / Thailand can be intimidating until your comfortable then you can enjoy the best city on the planet IMO

Well spoken, intelligent and decent person. You do Canada proud.

As a Thai who live in the UK, I love your video and your point of view. Thank you for sharing, and please keep uploading more. Take care

Totally agreed. I'm living in Vancouver Canada. I'll move to Bangkok at the of this month. I can't stand a live here any more. Rent, food & weather everything are so expensive. Health care service is terrible. 🙏

Been here in Thailand over 7 years myself And love it here. No regrets

I retired to Thailand from the US in 2017. I agree with your observations 👍

This is great, your video feels tailor made for my situation. I work on the Great Lakes from May 1st to October 31st. I've been wavering about heading over to Thailand for a base and travelling around the rest of the area during my six months off. I think you just gave me the nudge I needed to get going. Cheers.

Thailand is the paradise and second home for all visitor !!!

Well explained Very positive Good to have you here with us Life is good!

You definitely nailed it! It is an amazing, true, and informative video🙏🙏🙏

Aussie here, travelled to Asia but have not made it to Thailand as yet (dont judge haha!) ... Massive intuitive nudge to get there, and I hope to take the leap like you have one day soon for a holiday to start - then do some long stints and create a better balanced lifestyle. Thank you for your inspiration 🙏🏻

My wife wants us to move to Thailand when she retires in 2025. I said "ok"...lol

You explain this very well. I've been living in Thailand since 2020 and agree with all you points. - Will

Absolutely some of the best breakdown I’ve had on moving into Thailand

Thanks for sharing this video. I went to Laos earlier this year for 10 days and it's all I can think about now. I have never experienced such a place. The food was wonder, the nature was great but it was the people that stood out most for me. I've planned a trip to Vietnam for early next year but I can't help but think that the best thing for me to do at this point of my life would be to move to South East Asia...

Love your research in supporting text in the video. I can tell that you're a good teacher. Hope you're lucky and happy every day in Thailand :D

❤ Nice to hear you are happy in Thailand ,wellcome you and hope u have a good everyday in my country❤

Your timing was perfect I’m sure being in Thailand 🇹🇭 during the pandemic 😷 was alot better control wise compared to the wacky control rules of Canada or US. Great video cheers mate

I'm also Thai who had been living abroad in the USA for half of my life. I was raised in the Mid Atlantic and New England region, commonly known as the Northeast Coast, right in the heart of the early establishment of the American Revolutionary War. The USA and Canada share the similar western value, except one shows the patriotism and the other shows the loyalism. I also moved back to my country since 2009, thus I can also relate with your list of reasons to why settling in Thailand should be the right choice. 1.) Thailand is the land of smiles and also known as the land of the compromise to be humble, merciful, and indirect. In contrary, the American culture (speaking from my own experience) is more confronting to be arrogant, stubborn, and upfront whenever the conflict becomes their business. 2.) Thailand's GDP compromises the low cost of living, although the cost-push inflation tends to escalate through time. The Thai currency also deflates its value against other western currencies, thus the expectation to the cheap cost of living in the 90's is long gone. Thailand is still affordable for a legitimate traveler and no longer so for a backpacker (In some cases, becomes a begpacker when they go bust). 3.) Thailand's weather is stable all year round. In fact, the monsoon season is the right moment for the Thai farmer to harvest crops and plow a paddy field. The Thai natural resource is also abundant all year round, the greenhouse farming is not necessary to the Thai environment. In contrary, most area becomes a dead zone throughout the North American Continent whenever the snow or hail storm hits the ground with the temperature that goes minus zero. (As you said earlier, the weather is brutal when your location is situated at the edge of the earth) 🙂 P.S. The word "Mai Pen Rai (ไม่่เป็นไร)" is actually "let bygones be bygones", if I would put this Thai phrase into the direct American idiom.

Subbed at your TRT vid, since watched the entire channel. I assumed you worked in the creative industry as your vlogs were slick from No.1.

Hi Cal, I really enjoyed watching your video. Great work and mindset imo! I just subscribed and will watch a view of your other videos. In November I will move to Thailand for at least 18 months. Looking very forward to that... 😃 Cheers from Germany, Matthias

Thank you for sharing your experiences. I’m an AF vets and I’ll be there next week. Everything you’ve said I’ve somewhat felt were true before watching. Thank you reaffirming for decision

As a Thai Good to hear what you said in this vid.

Great insight mate, would love to see that country soon.

I’m Thai and currently living in Arizona . I was born and raised in Bangkok then immigrated to the U.S. I miss Bangkok every day. And I will definitely retired in Bangkok ♥️♥️♥️♥️ please upload your video more often. Love watching your video

I feel called there. Thanks for the video & info ✌️

Very good and differentiated explanation, thank you!

Enoyed your video Cal. Would be good to also hear how you are able to stay in Thailand immigration wise and also what type of work you are doing and how you support yourself.

i wish thailand would open opportunities for nurses. would love to work there and maybe transfer there for good. i went once and never stopped thinking about thailand

Welcome to Thailand Bro. ❤🎉

Incredible interesting video. I'm currently living in the Netherlands a western country with bad weather half the time and also the separated society that you describe. Its that last one that gets to me the most. Its to individually oriented. In the southern countries like Spain it is already much more social. You touched on all the points that I don't like in living in the west which indeed is starting to get outdated, but nobody realizes it yet. I'm moving next year to the Caribbean for at least a year to be close to my Parents and after that I will head east, because that is where the next economic boom will be and as you said, good weather always something to do and its safe.

You nailed it!! Excellent!

Welcome to THAILAND and thank you for loving THAILAND, land of smile.😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃

This is a very good sharing of living in Thailand as a foreigner. Bangkok always excels as the top choice for a second home for many expats compared with other cities thanks to the inclusive cluture, kind people, trully international connections, and low cost of living! While only three shortcomings: traffic, air quality in dry season and water.

Interesting story to share!! ❤

Great video. Traveled Asia twice for months. Agree with all of it you said. Cheers

ยินดีต้อนรับ​สู่​ประเทศ​ไทย​ครับ​😊

🙏🙏🙏 Thank you so much for love and come to travel of my Thailand country 🤟🤟🙏🙏

Great video and pleasant on the eye. 🙏🙏🙏

I lived in usa for 6years n Canada for 1year. I have visited Thailand 3 times. Currently I live in india. I absolutely agree with your points. I love the fact that Thai follow 'leave everyone alone not intrude in other's lives' ...❤❤❤❤

Great video man. I am very inspired by this.

nice video dude. I enjoyed. Thanks.

Great video, i going to Thailand in Nov, will see i plan to retiring, from Canada.

Speaking from Belgium here, I work from home for the federal government. This means I still do have to go to the office occasionally, basically just to show that you’re still alive or something along the lines. This also means our work’s VPN is set to Belgium. If I could bypass this I could work from Thailand haha. Yet a better solution would be a remote job which allows me to work from Thailand. Yet I can’t find any opportunities yet 😢

ขอบคุณที่เลือกประเทศไทยครับ 🥰

Looks really nice there! Bucket list!

I was really amazed how much better WiFi and cell service has improved there over the last 10 years. First time I went there it wasn’t very good but now it’s really impressive. Even taking a boat ride to Koh Lipe last year we had service the entire way.

Ironic to see lots of Weaterners complain about the living standards in Europe and many vying to settle in Thailand whereas it’s a reverse for Thai people, most Thais would move to US, Canada, Europe in a heartbeat.

I realized I can travel (slowly) cheaper than I can stay in my house here in Florida. Hell, my electric bill has been over $600 a month this summer. I’m selling the house and leaving the US. Everything is too expensive.

I’m a Canadian and left 2 years ago. Dubai resident now for tax reasons. But travel pretty much full time. In BKK now.

Great video!

Sir, I am inviting you to visit the south just in case you need sometimes traveling. I’m here in Pattani Province having lots of English speaking friends. Plus, you might be amazed how beautiful the places in the south really are.

Dude, the blue box blowing over spilling garbage in the blizzard sold me, I’m on my way lol

I am German and I have visited Thailand and also Bangkok for 3 weeks at beginning of 2020 right before covid, together with my husband. It was the most wonderful holiday of our lifes and we keep thinking about it very often!! We honestly don‘t see my future in germany anylonger, I can‘t stand how people think and behave here, I don‘t like the weather during 80% of the year 🙈 as we want to have kids soon we are thinking about how and when we do the ,drastic change‘ and leave the country, I don‘t see it as a no-go to have move with little kids but of course it will make it a little bit more difficult 🫣

Not just you brother, I been living in Sydney for 29 years now im planning to moving back for to Thailand is my home and the country I love the most by 2026 I will moving back for good to Thailand , I see more opportunities in Thailand to have my own Bakery .

excellent video, we live in Penticton BC, and are planning to move to Hua Hin next year, we are going to set everything up this winter, then rent out our townhouse, we should clear $2,000 CAD from that, we should have a great life in Thailand on that amount, in 5 years we can get our Canada pensions. Love your honest video, after 7 trips to Thailand I agree with everything you say about Thailand and Canada, I love Canada, but it is not the same country as it was when I was growing up, luckily I have no mortgage, that is HUGE but still the winters here are horrible, I want great weather all year around!!!

I agree with you , i am just saving up a bit before i go as well

i enjoy watching your video. i am from Laos

Great video …. Just subscribed 👍🏼

I miss Thailand so much and told my husband that we will retire in Thailand!

very good presentation, especially the contrast to western life.

I’m here for 6months already hating with the crazy weather

Love to see people share the vdo to living in Thailand 🇹🇭 . I jealousy people can stay long time in Thailand 😅.

I agree with 90% of what you say however air pollution in BKK made me to leave this city after 3 weeks. it's simply very unhealthy environment and i decided to move south. Even super beautiful Chiang Mai during the burning grass season turns into a Mad Max city:)

Welcome to Thailand is so beautiful and foods is so good.

Really nice said! ::)

Good stuff, Cal. I actually showed this to my parents as to why I'm living here lol. As you know being an expat, sometimes you'll get a lot of WTFs from the folks back home haha.

hey Cal, im gonna move now and be a professor like you!

Damm bro, i dint even know, that i have seasonal affective disorder, i had no idea, that was a thing...i also live in country, where there is winter almost half a year, i always hated, when summer was over and 6 months of hell are ahead, for the past 10 years i wanted to move to a tropical country, but there was always something. But now im finally moving to thailand in 3 weeks, could not be more happy now, and cant wait to get there...just a dream come true.

Accurate and well informed video Cal! I have had my base here for 7 years too! I finally did Australia, New Zealand and French Polynesia this year... a lifetime ambition to see Tahiti with my own eyes since discovering the explorer Captain Cook at primary school more than 50 years ago! Almost exactly halfway round the world in 7 years has been deliberately leisurely, but thorough... calling Thailand home has therefore been foundational for contemporary nomadic living and authentic world travel! There is something very special about Thailand that brings me back... and more than willingly! Finding the exact right location for you personally is obviously key... but rural/coastal Thailand so easily crushes city/tourist/expat destinations for me... why live in a city when you can live next to the ocean and mountains, wildlife parks and tropical rainforests! Age might have something to do with these personal preferences of course! Another year or 2 perhaps but the America's are still calling! Good video, thnks!

I love the snow though, as I'm not to hot weather. Mind you we had +32C the summer just now. Born in Thailand, raised in Sweden and currently living in the UK

I've been in Chiang Mai for 6+ years. Love it here. But absolutely HATE driving here!

I can’t wait to move to Thailand

Welcome to Thailand, land of smile.

I would like to hear your thoughts on best areas of Thailand to avoid pollution but enjoy some city life

Ya I’m from Vermont just little below the border by dunem Quebec ! Want to go on vacation there within the next 2/3 years and possibly check it out to figure out a way to move life over there myself

My mother was able to raise 3 sons and her extended family and live comfortably by purely living off of my father's German pension that was transferred to her upon his death. We weren't hood-rich, but it was comfortable (now that i'm an adult, it's no longer comfortable, for me at least😂). It wasn't much either 40k bahts per month, but it was more than enough for Thailand. Especially out in a random countryside. If Westerners thinks BKK and big cities of Thailand's cheap already. Try going out of it, it can be even cheaper.

Welcome 😊🎉❤

The people in Thailand are awesome but the extreme climate is difficult in my humble opinion.

I'm new here!♥️🇵🇭

Great insight , I am Polish originaly so I can see your point about living 6months in winter conditions, moved to south America but surprisingly things are very expensive there transport is basic and levels of crime are of another level. I am surprised to learn that Thailand is rather safe place with modern infrastructure. Arent you bother by the fact that you are always going to be a foreigner because of your looks? I am tall with blue eyes and no matter how hard I tried to blend in I was always treated different better or worse. Know people from UK where Inlive now that ate working flat out for 6 months and then going to Philippines to spend winter there. With average energy bill almost £2000 per year you are better off spensing 500 on flight and 200 on flat per month in Asia

I think the biggest problem is to get a job. I am from Switzerland and really want to move to Thailand but i have not idea how. I work in an office since 10 years but they dont offer remote work and my english is not on a business english level. Next year i go for 2 month holiday to Thailand, really looking forward to it.

I could rent you out my downtown Montreal condo and probably live out of that alone in Thailand lol... can't wait to go back.

Very well said… Fellow Canadian looking to follow in your footsteps next year after completing broadcast and film diploma on our west coast… Looking forward to meeting and socializing with many of the KZfaqrs especially the Canadians. Looking forward to hopefully finally meeting you next June… $2100 for 1 bedroom to rent outside of Vancouver???

I agree. From Calgary here. Everything here is super expensive now. Cost of living is insane. Housing price is crazy. Mortgage is crazy. Many people are just living paycheck to paycheck. No life... Health care system is the worst. Three hours wait time just to get admitted at a hospital.

As a Canadian I can say that 3:28 is spot on. 😫 And it keeps getting worst.

Hi Cal, nice and informative video. Question if you can and want to answer: what did you teach in Thai university? What qualifications did you hold at that time? Thank you

As Thai myself, I agree with most you said. However, be aware that though here is quite safe, it is not that all safe. You should still be careful in moderation. Crime and bully exist here, but not a lot in general.

Everything's price in US has gone to the roof. They don't manufacture much these days and import most good from other countries. In Portland, Oregon, there are plenty of spaces outside of city, but they can't build houses due to zoning. They can't build apartment building in some neighborhood. Building houses are also too expensive. They also take a long time to build house or fix road. It takes like 2 years and they still can't finish expanding a short highway. US has severe housing shortage. Medical cost is also crazy. The countries is run by some super rich guys.

Great video ................. 2024 I am planning to retire in HuHin buying small condo then buying 4x4 drive right through Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore & Vietnam

Joe Pasci scene is perfect

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Great content man, dropped a subscribe! Do you notice if Bangkok is not close to nature? I hear a lot it is great for a city, but very far from beaches etc

Great video. New sub here. 👍

I want to live in Thailand , but so far I dont find a way how to earn enough money there to make a Living. I cant take Germany anymore and there is nothing more I want then living in Thailand 😔