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Australia can't get plumbers and other tradies I had to wait weeks for a plumber recently,I found a British plumber tourist here,(Sydney )on a 2 week holiday install my bathroom vanity for cash , he was happy and half the cost of a Aussie plumber who wanted $450 to install a bathroom vanity !! If there's any tradies from other countries please come to Australia on a tourist visa and work for cash ,we need you !!

Imagine before the internet how those alone must of felt Rewind say 25-30 years ago Must of been a lot of sad cases around

Love you Liverpool Lou or Pattaya Lou ,you are a wealth of information for all Pattaya expats

Yes I do too ! I applaud them although I feel a bit sorry for them YouTubers "native farang" I'm talking about Never saw a Thai guy with a real cockney accent until I watched them ???? If I was a gambling man though, which I am ,I would bet on them not being there in 5 years Why? I can't see the caucasian wife wanting to stay in a hot muddy dusty place such as Isaan though especially with children but I applaud them and wish them best of luck ,!!

Absolutely! They don't plan for inflation and even emergency! Things change ,times change Many came to Thailand on high currency exchange,it didn't last ! But the question is to all of you , if that was your son or daughter that at that age living in farangland and in their 20's wanting to move to Thailand surely you would discourage them? What if they had a secure job and they were going to give up their career to do it ? Surely you would be disappointed

I often wonder how all these YouTubers make money unless people donate ?

Lol Reminds me about 20 years ago in Australia, I went to look at a house for sale about 2 hours North of Sydney (Central Coast NSW) The agent was telling me the old couple selling were motivated to accept all offers as they were members of some Pentecostal Church that believes Jesus was arriving on a certain date and they needed to sell their house to donate to the Church ! Apparently they were P*""d off when he didn't arrive and they had nowhere to live !!

I imagine she owns the land after 30 years

In Australia if you can't find a job and believe me ( there is some who say they can't find a job the last 20 years) then they get unemployment benefits,I think it's around $600 a fortnight. How some of these people can't find jobs is unbelievable,unless some work for cash money then claim unemployment benefit too I'm thinking Of course if you can prove you have a disability before age 67 you can apply for the disability pension which is not easy to get . For the old age pension, You need to be 67yo though to get the old age pension,I think it around $1100 a fortnight

And if you fail ,unless you have some sort of uni degree in medicine or whatever then you come back to farangland looking for a job in middle age broke !!

She is probably happy , She probably likes to live alone ,why do people interfere? My late mother used to live in a 1 bedroom bungalow by the sea ,she started having church people come over to offer her food and stuff She got sick of it

I see a lot in Condo's with Chihuahua 's

You took a risk ,not sure what you did in your life but to retire at 54 is great ....unless of course your on a disability pension or something

And what if you didn't work ,how much do you get then? Strange social security system

Absolutely I feel very angry when watching that YouTube channel I think it was "native farang" or similar but a good-looking Thai guy with a pommy accent and his wife wasting their life living in muddy house ,why not wait until your at least 40 to risk this . I can assure you if that was my daughter and son I would be dead against it

Often we talk about when is leaving it too old to go live in Asia/Thailand But today I want to talk about the opposite ! When is it too young to leave your place in farangland to go live in Thailand ??? I came across a YouTube channel, I think it was called " native farang" It was a young 24yo Thai guy who speaks with a pommy accent and his white wife and 2 British born kids who migrated to his birthplace of Isaan to run a farm just recently and they are youtubjng their life Rundown farm hoping to make money and a life ,the white wife looks bored Now I'm thinking if that was my son or daughter at that age I would happy he / they are wasting their life ? Absolutely ridiculous at that age to move there , obviously they won't last there , I can assure you that this generation of young ones seems to have no planning for the future, my parents stayed in jobs 30/40 years and I bet some of you have too. I even see this in Pattaya meet some young farang guy 25yo or whatever looking to stay in Pattaya because he met some this girl,when the novelty has worn off a few years he will go back to his home farangland country with the arse out of his pants When is too young to leave farangland, and if it was your son or daughter at that age would you talk them out of it ? these young ones are in the prime of their life ,save that money ,work hard ,build up a bank account before moving !!!

Years ago I met a farang from the UK in a cafe bookshop in Pattaya who told me he paid extra to live in a "serviced apartments" so if he died they would find his body . I had no idea what a serviced apartments was I think they clean your room daily or something

Ex Police officer ????

I guess this forum also helps those who live alone ????

I was really getting into following a 65yo guy on YouTube who had recently retired to a small rented bungalow in Turtle Beach which is on a beach highway north of Phuket He lived by himself in this secluded area vlogging on the beach opposite and doing his daily art . He would vlog saying he was happy by himself blah blah , didn't need company not even a dog blah blah,and went into Phuket once a month etc. Well I was proud of him and subscribed only to hear him in his latest vlog say that he paid a "cleaner " 200 baht a day to come in 3 times a week to clean up and chat to him for 4 hours , I was disappointed,I thought he was sitting independently type Nope seems he needs to pay for a chat He then went into say that absolutely no body ...no one can be by themselves constantly Is that true with you Who here lives by themselves

I can still buy a condo in Pattaya for less than a million baht ,try doing that in Cebu Why prices are higher in the Philippines I have no idea , Look I didn't find these people seemed happy people and I went all around the Philippines including the areas where that say you shouldn't go such as Mindanao, strangely those areas were the most friendly people and they were Muslim Some of the Filipino look different some look like Thai and some look like Hawaiian Pacific islander look Some are aggressive type and some can be friendly They have short fuses I noticed even in my workplace I have Filipinos the same screeching out Bossy bitches

Rental and sales prices are much higher than Thailand. Google condo prices in Cebu vs Pattaya you will be shocked at the high rents in the Philippines!! Even sales prices for a studio are 3 X the price in the Philippines compared to Thailand!!! I was looking at buying in 21sqm condo in Aveno apartment in Davao City , triple the price of Thailand People seemed to be more nasty with scowls on their faces when I was in the Philippines last year , They all seemed to have a chip on their shoulders against foreigners scowls and pushing in ,peeing openly on the streets in front of you , rubbish everywhere in Cebu I was there last June walking at night up near the casino only to see rubbish wire concrete etc laying on the sidewalk I immediately email the mayor's office to complain !!!! Of course there is a area in Manila that looks like New York City and that was nice but was different in General Santos City a more country city they seemed more nicer and Davao City bit yes overall I think Thailand wins heads down , as for english speaking who cares ,the Filipinos don't want to speak to you anyway they are arrogant

Possibly, I was there last year ,and the "girls" were mostly of senior citizen age it seems that I saw standing outside the Go Go bars A lot of Koreans in Angeles City,living there and running businesses "Korean town " they had and was large scale in AC It looked like Pattaya Walking street but not as clean and I didn't feel safe even though no one bothered me The foreigners there though seemed to be much older age than Pattaya ,I didn't see any young tattooed foreign guys they all seemed older age foreigners or as Filipinos call us "Afam" apparently? I didn't enjoy Angeles City but for retirement I would choose somewhere like Davao City the safest city in the Philippines Dumaguete or Palawan are great for quiet life Many like Cebu but I found the traffic horrendous constant horn blowing , drove me insane beep beep beep constantly,why ???? Beep beep Finally I had enough and one morning 3am walking noticed a car beep for no reason and asked him why ....as I shouted in his window...beep..F..n ...beep

But not Australia ????????

I truly believe that the farang entrepreneurs will go to Dumaguete