I love it! That’s the beauty of this place… all sorts of different quality lifestyles available 👍🏼

@@adamparker21 BUT…I would much rather live in his house…

Haha - likewise!

Great first video!

Great vid Adam 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎬

Yes - Marc is an AWESOME guy

Thanks Tom - appreciate it!

I know Hua Hin, but I do not know "Hua Hin by the way". It must be a new place :)

Thank you!

Cheers man

He is leaving the nest :)

It's always nice to see you, Johnny, hope you are staying safe in Ukraine 🇺🇦

Thanks man!

Cheers man

Just stumbled across this looking forward to the next one keep them coming. Subbed.

That's the plan!

Mark had some great thoughts. Super happy he was cool to jump on the Channel and share them.

If you want to interview a much less affluent expat, I know one. :-)😎

I’d love to man! Let’s chat

Nice! The beauty of this Country is that you have so much choice as to what type of life you want to live based on your budget.

Me too! ;)

Thanks Theo!

Let’s go!

@@adamparker21 can't wait for the Collab one day

Sweet. Always cool to hear from other Canadians over here. Are you based in BKK?

I can’t believe how much he sounds like his uncle. Not just the accent but the voice too.

Absolutely...

Agreed wholeheartedly

Thanks Kevin - the goal with this channel is to understand the good (and the not so good) on building a life in Thailand from those who have moved here and done it. I only know the intricacies of why and how I moved here. But there’s all sorts of reasons and ways one could/would go about moving to Thailand. That’s what I’m looking to get a read on with this Channel 👍🏼

For non-english speaking maid, it would be around 15,000 baht/month (Laos or Myanmar), 20,000 /month (Thai) and 24,000/month for english-speaking maid. Any Thai agency will happily reply to your e-mail in english. Unlike China or Japan, english is a subject taught in Thai schools so most Thai can understand some english although they are not fluent speakers. Philippines maids can speak better english but there is added expense to renew their annual work visa.

The way I understand it is this… the leasehold agreement can be renewed for an additional 30-years, but it’s important to note that the option to renew (through a renewal clause in the leasehold contract) isn’t guaranteed under Thai Law and is instead considered a contract obligation or ‘promise’ and not a real lease right of the lessee. Often times, you’ll see advertisements for 30 + 30 + 30 year leasehold agreements, but only the first 30-years would be a real lease right of the lessee in that world. Would you have any issues with the renewal process if there was a renewal clause properly written into the initial contract? Probably not. But it’s not a 100% guarantee as far as a I understand it. In order to properly renew the leasehold agreement, it would need to be re-registered at the local land office for another 30-years. Of course, it’s best to have a reputable lawyer advise you as you don’t want to be left in a vulnerable position

You have to renew Elite every year just the same if you don't leave. Elite now is 5m THB for 20 years, so 250,000/year ($7,000) vs 1,900 a year ($50) to renew retirement. And that's $7k/year if you don't consider how much 5m would appreciate if you invested it instead, S&P500 doubles every 7 years on average so 5m now could be 10m in 7y, 20m in 14y, 40m in 21 years. That's over a million dollars, potentially, if you invested it. Getting a bit pricey now, no? And really, it's just the visa. Any of the perks, airport limo, fast track, you can just buy yourself if you want them, and for a lot less money than ponying up 5m in advance. Some stuff is even harder on Elite because it's such a niche visa, like you have to go to Bangkok to move it into a new passport. Retirement you can just go to your local immigration office. Some provinces won't give full drivers licenses to Elite, as it's a tourist visa, they will to retirement as it's non-immigrant. There are other gotchas as well, it's not half as "privileged" as people think. It's actually incredibly bureaucratic, you DON'T get away from that, you still have do 90 day reports with all the plebs. And while Elite will do that they add their own deadlines on top of Thai immigration's ones, and you have to go to their office twice, to drop off and pick it up a week later. Or anyone on any visa, can just do 90 day online in 5 minutes, I have never got Elite to do it because it's a much bigger hassle than just doing it myself. There are other things, like one thing which was quite important I was literally 5 minutes over a deadline (which they only notified us of with

The visas are so simple and relatively cheap with an agency.

The staff are employed year round as the villa is often rented out while he is not there

Nice to know Adam thanks for the additional information. I'm hoping the new Thai law will come in soon were foreigners can own land, this has been one reason I've not wanted to but a villa but hopefully thing are changing on that front. 😀👍@@adamparker21