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by long established popular youtuber Vagabond Awake.

This guy and his Malaysian model partner have been slow traveling most everywhere for many years now.

So they do have an informed opinion.

I do like that they (and others now) are making the important distinction between Pattaya and Jomtien.

I've never seen Naklua or the Dark Side mentioned on any similar global list.

That said, even though they target the retire abroad on a budget crowd, they have not actually done that. They're slow travelers.

So they don't put much value in long term visas for retirement.

Which explains why destinations in Vietnam are so high on their list.

In my view, because of the no visa situation there, Vietnam should not be on any retire abroad list.

But it's still good to see the appreciation of Jomtien.

 

 

 

americans dont have to travel abroad to renew visa in vietnem, but the rest of us does.

i never lived in jomtien

Another youtuber that i guess TAT will tell the whole world about.Come on...

I don't believe any country needs, let alone wants lthis class of visitor.  The goal is to attract people who will contribute to the economy, either job creators though  investment or through the purchase of significant goods and services. A country can do poverty on its own,

Cheap Charlie's wins again !

1 hour ago, Patong2021 said:

I don't believe any country needs, let alone wants lthis class of visitor.  The goal is to attract people who will contribute to the economy, either job creators though  investment or through the purchase of significant goods and services. A country can do poverty on its own,

Blah blah. 

 

 

Jomtien .. No thanks, been there, and no reason to return.  Add the stories about the Imm office there, oh Hell NO.

Vietnam is not practical, eventually they will crack down on visa runs like Thailand did.

What Americans are retiring there are... Vietnamese Americans, like one friend.

They were stripped of citizenship because he was a traitor little boy refugee.

Told 1990s when Vietnam opened for tourism they were hassled and faced shakedowns from Govt officials

Now they seem to be "over it" and he was able to get his citizenship back based on birth certificate and some  money

Any other place in Asia will be more welcoming then Thailand and all it's immigration hassles on visa issues and their absurd requisites to show this or that document during e-Visa submission that can take far to long depending on the foreign consulated submitted. 

4 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

I don't believe any country needs, let alone wants lthis class of visitor.  The goal is to attract people who will contribute to the economy, either job creators though  investment or through the purchase of significant goods and services. A country can do poverty on its own,

Some years ago, for Thailand and other countries, they were in dire need of foreign currency reserves. Tourism is a way to go, and retirees a  good source of large lump sums that they are forced to put on deposit in local banks. 

3 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Blah blah. 

 

 

790 a month is a meager existence. Small room, no drinking, eating out once a day, no memberships to anything. May as well lower the number and say 500 with that type of life. Confined to your room or sitting at the beach with a bottle of water every day. Then of course you would surely be alone all the time. I know a guy who was living on about 800 a month.. He went out once a month to girlie bars. Ate at buffets once a day..Always miserable, always begging or using others to buy him drinks and ask him to parties. The girls he brought home from the bars, always disappeared after the first night together. They did not want anything to do with him. Mediocre life if living on such a small sum monthly in Jomtien.

There are some exceptions, but in my opinion any person over 60 who is looking for the "cheapest" place to live is a loser.  The cheapest rooms, cheapest food, cheapest hotels, cheapest girls, on and on.  No money cheap.

19 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

There are some exceptions, but in my opinion any person over 60 who is looking for the "cheapest" place to live is a loser.  The cheapest rooms, cheapest food, cheapest hotels, cheapest girls, on and on.  No money cheap.

Having the option of any women at all as a retired guy is amazing!

And my pal in Canada hardly ever leaves his apartment despite having plenty of money, it's too cold and too dangerous (in his mind).

 

Did you watch the video, their pool and apt. looked pretty good to me.

Where would you rather be living on $800. a month......Jomtein or USA? 

6 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Having the option of any women at all as a retired guy is amazing!

And my pal in Canada hardly ever leaves his apartment despite having plenty of money, it's too cold and too dangerous (in his mind).

 

Did you watch the video, their pool and apt. looked pretty good to me.

Ive never been to canada but surely its not as dangerous as pattaya

11 minutes ago, angryguy said:

Ive never been to canada but surely its not as dangerous as pattaya

Quite a lot of old folk have fear of attack when out, no matter where they live.

As for Canada, same immigrant and druggie problems in cities as everywhere else in the west.  

 

Back to the OP, they spent $1,000 a month, which seems very achievable to me.

Without my family, I doubt I'd spend any more.

I lived in Jomtien last year (I also had a house at Khanom Beach). I rented a top floor, furnished apartment with sea-view balcony, about 200 metres from the beach for 7,000 THB/month. Very nice, but the smell of cannabis wafting up from all the Russian residents on the lower floors was not good for my lungs!

 

Apart from that, very nice, safe, close to amenities etc.  

 

Even had roof access for my satellite antennas 🙂

 

This joker lost me the instant he mispronounced paTAYa.

10 hours ago, Jingthing said:

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by long established popular youtuber Vagabond Awake.

This guy and his Malaysian model partner have been slow traveling most everywhere for many years now.

So they do have an informed opinion.

I do like that they (and others now) are making the important distinction between Pattaya and Jomtien.

I've never seen Naklua or the Dark Side mentioned on any similar global list.

That said, even though they target the retire abroad on a budget crowd, they have not actually done that. They're slow travelers.

So they don't put much value in long term visas for retirement.

Which explains why destinations in Vietnam are so high on their list.

In my view, because of the no visa situation there, Vietnam should not be on any retire abroad list.

But it's still good to see the appreciation of Jomtien.

 

 

 

 

Or try Hua Hin, on the other side of the Gulf of Mexico!

 

38 minutes ago, HappyExpat57 said:

This joker lost me the instant he mispronounced paTAYa.

 

Yeah i really hate that. You can tell the rubbish vloggers who pronouce it like that instead of Pat..aya. I switch off too. $800 is too low but if you own your own place $1000 a month is very doable.

6 minutes ago, henryford1958 said:

 

Yeah i really hate that. You can tell the rubbish vloggers who pronouce it like that instead of Pat..aya. I switch off too. $800 is too low but if you own your own place $1000 a month is very doable.

Again, this is the old argument "how long is a piece of string?" 

14 minutes ago, henryford1958 said:

 

Yeah i really hate that. You can tell the rubbish vloggers who pronouce it like that instead of Pat..aya. I switch off too. $800 is too low but if you own your own place $1000 a month is very doable.

Many people do their stupidity.

They say Patty-uh?

Idiotic.

 

11 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Jomtien named 4th leading retire cheap destination in the world 

Just what we need, another influencer promoting Thailand as a cheap place, encouraging cheap Charlie's. 

 

You guys who call Jomtien home, expect an influx of disrespectful, cheap, nasty foreigners. 

I bet the girls working at Cheap Charlie's are looking forward to more scum bags eating at their restaurant.

 

These guys expect to live an enjoyable life on their minimum budget, how can they enjoy life stuck in their little room day in day out because they don't have the funds to enjoy themselves 

35 minutes ago, nauseus said:

 

Or try Hua Hin, on the other side of the Gulf of Mexico!

 

Do I have to watch a dull 25 minute video to understand that comment or is it a simple typo?

4 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

These guys expect to live an enjoyable life on their minimum budget, how can they enjoy life stuck in their little room day in day out because they don't have the funds to enjoy themselves 

Why shouldn't everyone enjoy their retirement?

 

1 hour ago, bkk6060 said:

There are some exceptions, but in my opinion any person over 60 who is looking for the "cheapest" place to live is a loser.  The cheapest rooms, cheapest food, cheapest hotels, cheapest girls, on and on.  No money cheap.

I have not been in Jomtien for some time.... but is it a cheaper, sadder  and more desperate looking crowd than we see at the Buakhao breakfast drinking club?

5 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Why shouldn't everyone enjoy their retirement?

 

Where did I say that?

 

I said 'Minimum budget'.

 

I'm not talking about you, you are living as a retired foreigner should be. I've read you live comfortably in a house with a companion, you have vehicles to venture out and money to enjoy your retirement. 

 

I'm talking about the foreigners who arrive, VERY LITTLE MONEY, they just sit in their little apartment. Then they get on their warrior keyboards and start with nasty, hostile comments because they feel sorry for themselves. 

5 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Blah blah. 

 

 

There's this one at $798, and another came up saying ''live for $805".

Wonder what I get for the extra $7.                        555

1 minute ago, KannikaP said:

There's this one at $798, and another came up saying ''live for $805".

Wonder what I get for the extra $7.                        555

A fried egg on the pad krapow.

48 minutes ago, nauseus said:

 

Or try Hua Hin, on the other side of the Gulf of Mexico!

 

Is it not the Gulf of America now?

I suspect that when Mr Nauseus started typing Gulf of...........Mexico automatically came up, and he didn't check what he was posting.