Is moving to Cambodia really the end of the line?

[GypsyT]

3 hours ago, StandardIssue said:

Moving to Vietnam is.

Then I'll be soon finished.....

The more I visit more I like "fastest growing economy in Asia" country - Vietnam.

[BritManToo]

Cambodia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, all good and much the same with minor differences.

Why slag one off and praise another?

[Walker88]

If 'end of the line' somehow equates to Hell, then my place would be Texas, Alabama, or anywhere in the UK.

 

One shudders to think!

[Presnock]

well just generally speaking, I also receive just about daily, a news letter from Nomad Capitalist.  Since the OECD agrreement in  2023 plus the different stories aobut CRS and FATCA, stories of tax-related stories from different countries with changes affecting expats, immigrants, multiple passports, tax residency, banking changes, visa changes, et al seem to be on the increae evey week!  TIT and you can bet we will see some more changes too.  Good luck to all and prior to any international moves do some deep probing of what goes on at some other location.

[eastlight]

On 2/5/2025 at 12:32 PM, ChaiyaTH said:

I lived there like 7-8 years ago for 1 year and came there again recently, I was shocked. Many of the streets are entirely clean, more plants and trees, tons of new developments, amazing quality new roads (i remember one being made when i lived there and that one today is still pristine asphalt). Then suddenly dozens of high rise buildings and condo's, the malls that used to have a limited amount of brands now also have things like H&M etc aside from luxury brands but also all gadgets or other stuff you could need.

Then knowing the median age there is 26 as well, they started from not zero but minus a lot on top, I actually see potential and think it is actually pioneers who already lived there a while to believe in a longer term future, or people even doing that today.

But yes, everyone knows there is also these typical streets where you see these typical end of the line characters but be real, this is like a few dozen you usually see in very specific streets or bars as well, while almost anything outside of that, which is a lot nowadays, has barely a sign of that typical stereotype. You find 10X as much in Pattaya alone.

 

I actually even think about it multiple times a week, to go back there, just because it is also so much more relaxed with the visa and full work / business options.

 

Even the airport they just have ipads nowadays, you scan your passport and can even pay by card, 2 mins later a QR sticker visa is done. Then at arrivals luggage they have huge touch screens where you can book a cheap taxi of choice direct too, like Thailand? where are you? Like technology of Dubai standards suddenly in PP airport.

But who's paying for all this? There's no tourist industry as such. The Chinese I suspect.

[henryford1958]

When they start charging us 35% Thai tax we will all be off to Cambodia

[baansgr]

On 2/5/2025 at 2:47 PM, bkk6060 said:

I would say 3rd worldish places like Cambodia and my opinion Phillipines are the end of the line.  People who retire there wish they could live in Thailand.  Mostly, can't afford it or do not qualify for the Visas or, have some obsession of living in the cheapest place possible and bragging about it.

I've been to both and can say, Thailand is definitely the cheapest for long term living

[baansgr]

57 minutes ago, Walker88 said:

If 'end of the line' somehow equates to Hell, then my place would be Texas, Alabama, or anywhere in the UK.

 

One shudders to think!

Tower hamlets

[Merrill]

On 2/5/2025 at 7:25 AM, ChumpChange said:

Well, well, well, Bong-Boy-Bob, now turned armchair novelist, spinning Hemingway yarns like a Soi 6 bar girl with a sick buffalo and a borrowed baby. What a tragic fictional tale we have here, yet so detailed, so heartfelt, almost as if you’ve drawn inspiration from personal experience. But naah, couldn’t be, right? You’re a high-flying PR procurer, a man of wealth, fine taste, and endless mistresses, but not some washed-up, hard-done-by bloke clutching a beer bottle with a sponge-foam condom on it and a crumpled photo in his pocket of his favorite ladyboy gone astray, lamenting about his wasted years in the hub of short-times.

 

Still, let’s unpack this little masterpiece, shall we? Jim, you say? Poor sod failed his O-Levels, fled to Thailand, faked a degree, became an underpaid teacher, drank himself into oblivion, picked up an alcoholic bar girl (shocking, truly), got shaken down by her deadbeat brother, and finally ran off to Cambodia to die in a shoebox flat surrounded by regret and cheap whiskey.

 

A tragic tale indeed. But tell me, Beastly Bob, is this a cautionary tale, or are you testing the waters for your next exit strategy? Because we’ve seen this pattern before, haven’t we? First, you’re Bob Smith, the big London baller flush with US$800K cash in a safe. Then you’re the humble Colin Neville from Dorset, starting fresh as a self-proclaimed bar aficionado. Now, you’re Elvis from Tupelo, philosophizing about the “end of the line” like a washed-up lounge lizard with a sack of broken dreams.

 

But really, mate, if anyone should be worried about their final destination, it’s the bloke who’s gone through more identities than a Nigerian prince on Tinder. If Thailand truly is beneath you now, and Cambodia is the last stop, we can only wonder where you’ll flop to next. South America? Eastern Europe? A tent outside Heathrow begging for change with a sign that says, “Once had a PR in Thailand, now only got PTSD and an STD”?

 

Either way, keep the fanciful fictional fluff flowing, mate. It’s always a pleasure reading your unintentional autobiographies.

Cheers nice one, some of you guys really do have a way with words. Is it the Irish background?

[blaze master]

I love a good bob in the morning. 

[Cameroni]

If you google "Bek Sloy" Tik Tok dancers, you will be so hooked on Cambodia you'll actuallly want to move there. I had to stop watching.

 

The temptation was too great.

[GypsyT]

16 hours ago, Walker88 said:

or anywhere in the UK.

 

One shudders to think!

I never understood why English choose the worse place to live when they conquered 90% the world!

 

Same with Dutch - the richest nation when they had monopoly in shipping and they too settled on <deleted>tiest place in Europe to live! Soon will be New Atlantis!

 

Only positive I see is you don't need to be intelligent to get rich.

 

[Woke to Sounds of Horking]

On 2/6/2025 at 6:17 AM, Prubangboy said:

I read all the Cambodia books. Anyone else have a good one to list?

Brother Number One (Pol Pot) by David Chandler.

[save the frogs]

7 minutes ago, Woke to Sounds of Horking said:

Brother Number One (Pol Pot) by David Chandler.

why would you want to read about cambodia's horrible past?

it will make you want to blow your brains out and never set foot in the country. 

 

[Elvis Presley]

2 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

why would you want to read about cambodia's horrible past?

...that killing tree eh!

[save the frogs]

5 minutes ago, Elvis Presley said:

...that killing tree eh!

CambodiYeah!