I went back home to America after living in Thailand for 3 years, it was quite interesting but here are my thoughts.
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You are correct sir. I can’t wait to escape!
Come to Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬, central Asia
If you have some extra money, you can help five to ten students go through university in the poorer countries vs the cost of one in the USA. Now, that's satisfaction! (P.S. you still can't take it with you, but you can leave some better lives behind!)
Im coming back to the US after three months in Brazil, health care is the only thing im not looking forward to
Question is though will these wonderful countries change when they become over run with westerners? If they are smart they will put quotas on how many they let in.
I left a very successful feature film career in Hollywood.
I’m retired Audio Engineer.
Now 20+ years expatriate, very happy, married, watching grandchildren is awesome.
I’m 2nd generation Los Angeles.
So sad to see and hear about my old home.
I was lucky enough to work in music in the 70’s. Amazing music and people.
I’m truly worried about the youth. These are the people who will run the future.
That’s all I got
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Can you do how moving to a foreign country from the USA has changed you
I think you hit on a big problem developing in the US and that is mental health. It is becoming a huge problem. The work life in the US is absolutely toxic.
San Francisco was a great place before the tech industry ruined it. Beware if a tech company wants to move into your community. I would not blame the politicians. Corporations are culpable in this demise. Why are you not addressing this?
The heat summer in Thailand only take 3 months a year. 😊
Yep, welcome back to Biden’s America. Definitely the USA is in decline like I have never seen living 30 years in this country. Looks like third world.
Who cares bum !
California is a slump now, and if you plan to buy a house? Good luck! If you plan to rent? Good luck! You’d better plan to be a shoplifter or a homeless you may do well
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Wow! I'm so glad I bumped into your video! I lived in Bali for 2 years and was planning to go back home to California but now I'm thinking to visit Cali for just 2 weeks as well! Everything you said is so true, from the conversations you have with people back at home just existing, to people not having the creative freedom to pursue passion projects because everyone is just on survival mode. Subbed!
Retail theft made stores you cherished like a jail cell. Just to buy a $10 item, you need to open the cage to buy it. When was it OK to walk out with merchandise (stolen) and be proud? Seriously need to change our policies.
Trouble at home but leader busy instigating war all over
You said you didn't follow things during your time in Thailand and then you spewed a bunch or right wing nonsense. Hmm…
I'm getting tired of all these videos and expats saying all these things. Same thing with any foreign country where cost of living is cheaper.
Of course it's cheaper incomes are nothing compared to the U.S.
Education isn't regularly and easily available in foreign countries.
If you were born in Thailand you wouldn't have six figure income and the opportunity to get government backed student loans. Same with Mexico, Columbia.and any country I've seen expat videos.
You are taking your set up life to a cheaper country but if it weren't for being in the U.S you wouldn't be able to have that income!!!!!
USA is unlivable every major cities crime, inflation, racial strife and division, homelessness, nobody can afford rent these day. It is getting worse. If i got 50k today i will leave tomorrow either Colombia or Philippines or Thailand.
No Dissrespect Brother,But Heroin comes Not from the US…
U just mentioned the "slap on the wrist" of "leftist governance" on what u yourself admitted are disadvantage groups but when u pointed out something like the opioid crisis, ( and the lives lost to it ) u and people with ur mindset never mention the "slap on the wrist" of corporation's or the folks doing this so called "governance" Basically your contradicting yourself. U lost me.
He is not even touching on the single life for a man in California if you would like a GF. It is pretty much a cluster F. I have been to Thailand many times. It is not hard to find a lady that is just a pleasure to be with. Thai women tend to look for the good in people not just the bad. And Thai women are much more modest about their appearance. You will never hear a Thai lady call herself a 10 they are not that stupid there. The average Thai lady is much more attractive then the average American woman. I have never used the word LADY to describe a woman in the U.S. but in Thailand I use LADY most of the time.
Thailand is only easy to live in if you are moving there with money from a country like the U.S. The exchange rate makes Thailand very affordable. But life for the average Thai person in Thailand is very hard and prices in Thailand have gone up over the years but the average income has not.
Guess what kind of people aren't in Thailand? Rhymes with me grows.
The 40 hour work week is slavery if people could get the same quality of life working 20 people would no longer just exist they would thrive that’s the problem the powers that be want everyone to be tied down I agree America Sucks everything super expensive but I’d rather be tied down than not have it as opposed to living in another country as a foreigner broke with minimal job opportunities I think one of the requirements in most places don’t want you to work so until my slavership is up I’ll have to wait to move I sorta can’t wait to live in a better beautiful place like Thailand
A lot of people in AMERICA never travel and that’s why they still think that America is great and nowhere else is better which is BS.
Thank you ❤
Yep and that’s why when I retire in 5 years I’m moving to Thailand and getting out of California it’s super crazy here
Things are very bad in LA. I am leaving soon. No family here anymore. With my Father passing in SD there is no reason to be in CA anymore.
Thanks for sharing. I lived in SF for over 20+ years and is living in HK/China for the past 15 years. i haven't gone back to US for 7 years and has no desire to go back at all, unfortunately, I do have to go back at some point to set up my social security benefits, dreading that day when it comes….
True America has gone down the tubes.
I am currently living here in the Philippines, I have been here 8 years, I have not been back to the US once since arriving. Next week I am going to Vietnam and Thailand, so I have left the country, just not back to the states. I love Thailand also but have settled in here in the Philippines but still visit Thailand a couple times per year. If I were ever going to leave here, it would be to Thailand. Thanks for your take on the current situation in the US, unfortunately in my opinion it will get worse before it gets better.
Hillo my friend I'm from Philippines new friend here tamsax done
I just arrived in Thailand 3 weeks ago, and literally the only reason I have any plans to go back to California is to go to my best friends wedding in June 🤣
It’s already better here. I’m over the USA.
The reason why the US feels so dead is because of the car infrastructure. Seeing these big interstates without any civilisation surrounding except for cars gets very depressing incredibly quickly. When you live somewhere in East/South-East Asia, you get vibrant cities. South-East Asia can be a bit congested but China, South Korea and Japan are especially efficient with their cities. You can get anywhere with cheap public transport and it also feels incredibly safe, whereas in the US, public transport is only for the poor. The US has been dehumanising cities since the 1950s and it's only when you spend time in other countries that you start to notice it
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Ahh yes America, everyone misses the
-insane cost of living for terrible, unwalkable, boring areas where there’s nothing to do but spend money
-million dollar pricings for shitty shacks in run down cities
-fat, loud, angry women
-insane identity politics where you can either choose to side with literal nazis or annoying sjw with severe mental illness
-violent crime
-terrible food
-terrible taxes
Us Thais who can speak English also noticed the sh1t-hole-ness in America New Yuck, Commifornia and Illnessnoid are world renounced for their wokeness and their rapid collapse.
Despite that there're many trans people in Thailand. We haven't got to the point of normalizing giving hormone and blockers to children like Murica just yet. It's boggled the mind, how can anybody defend and even advocating for such nonsense.
Murica has gone completely off not just the rail, they gone off the very fabric of the Universe itself.
It seems a lack of energy because you are coming off the plane from BKK.