Have they choked their way through noxious fumes through Chiang Mai's pollution season yet?

10 minutes ago, In Full Agreement said:

And what is she supposed to use to pay for things such as food and clothes?

 

 

   Earn her own money ?

6 hours ago, NoDisplayName said:

 

$120 per month?  He's paying 4,000 baht for a 14 square meter (20' container) cubicle.  He's getting reamed. 

 

Those are knockdown houses made with converted 3x9 containers, set up row-house style, in what is essentially a mobile home park.

 

Expat trailer trash.

 

yes and to be fair he said he couldn't live there. Many Thai need that option though so it exists and people do indeed rent them.

48 minutes ago, Dogmatix said:

Have they choked their way through noxious fumes through Chiang Mai's pollution season yet?

90% of these people last a couple years and go home anyways.

9 hours ago, Mylo51 said:

Chiang Mai is already over-run with foreigners seeking a bargain life outside their home country. It will only inflate prices even more here in the north. Soon, locals will be priced out of their own city. 

I was talking to two tinder women in Chiang Mai, both Chinese expats.

 

Both were investing in Air BnB rentals a fair bit outside of the old town center. Both said that rentals were very slow. They expected to be over-compensated for their paint job and Ikea furniture selection.

 

Chiang Mai has too many apartments and Chinese people buying apartments just to get some money out of China soaks up a lot of them. The locals love them.

5 hours ago, DonniePeverley said:

 

 

 

 

Same with London. Central London is ridiculous.

 

the boroughs like Slough, Cryodon and things become cheaper. 

 

Just a horrible Weatherspoons purgatory.

 

If you're lucky.

On 10/31/2025 at 2:57 AM, snoop1130 said:

 

They are already considering starting a family, viewing Thailand as a safer, more relaxed environment.

 

If they start having kids, education will become a concern and the cost of it will be quite high for a good international school with western standards.  

I'm not sure why this is considered to be newsworthy, hundreds of thousands of us have abandon our home countries in search of a higher quality of life. If you're very wealthy these days it really doesn't matter, but if you're living on a limited income the quality of life in Thailand is infinitely higher than in the US or in Europe. 

So a couple of digital nobody's, no tax, no pension, no savings still better than UK.

 

2 hours ago, Hanuman2547 said:

If they start having kids, education will become a concern and the cost of it will be quite high for a good international school with western standards.  

 

Oh but don't worry they'll come back to use the NHS for the birth. This is what the UK needs to ban. If you leave, then you go. 

 

Thailand needs to make it mandatory you have insurance if you are staying on any long term visa. Most people get confused thinking their travel insurance covers them after the first year, but these insurances are invalid if you have been out of the UK for longer than 6 months of the year (or sometimes a year) - so you then you have to get proper health insurance in Thailand. 

 

Then the cost of sending kids to school. They are chatting nonsense and are coming to Thailand for a nice long holiday. 

 

I have an uncle who was born in the UK, never worked or contributed anything to the UK, moved to Canada when he was 21. But is on the verge of getting a UK pension, and comes back all the time to use the NHS and dentist work. 

 

Scandalous this loophole isn't closed. 

On 10/31/2025 at 5:02 PM, HappyExpat57 said:

No mention of their type of visa.

So far here for a month, no real finances as they both have online work, probably just a tourist visa.

10 hours ago, Sir Dude said:

Staying sort-term in Thailand is easy... but staying long term is a pro-job of sorting stuff out. Do not believe these articles that claim it is so easy... it's not.

 

Very true. Secure long stay visas, minimum one year rental contracts, post paid phone accounts, local banking, Thai driving licence, certificate of residence... not straightforward at all these days. 

"Content creator" to me is the same as "part time model" on any girls profile.

 

Just had a look, she does (unless she has multiple channels, the female favourite "we have moved to XXX, look what we got for $1" type influencer stuff.

18k followers

 

Couldn't find him

 

 

I wonder what their pension plan is......

12 hours ago, Zack61 said:

Not all but a great many and it’s only getting worse. 

Recently spent a couple of years in Aus, not by choice. Moes hot-dogs @ $3 a pop got a fair workout.

Pleased to say I made it back in one piece.🙃🙃

On 10/31/2025 at 1:02 PM, HappyExpat57 said:

No mention of their type of visa.

They both work online... work it out for yourself!  🙄

They are on a back packer's budget, it won't work. They will soon be back in the UK looking for a job.

On 10/31/2025 at 10:14 PM, still kicking said:

I hope they got a return ticket.

Probably use Go Fund Me when the 

There's a british couple on tiktok who says he plans on home schooling his children in Thailand. They film everything of their life, but not surprisingly doesn't show the supposed home learning they are doing.

 

They've gone down the 'everything is so cheap' routine and tastes like 'michellin level food' - clearly they've been reading some 'online booking courses for social media'. 

 

But they don't engage in putting their children into school. It's an eye opener for many the costs. These selfish parents don't want to go into that. Home school my arssse. Most are thick as dog waste, so what they going to teach children - and then there are the other aspects of schooling that is essential.

 

If you are coming with children, you have to put them into a school. 

2 hours ago, JJ-Thailand said:

They are on a back packer's budget, it won't work. They will soon be back in the UK looking for a job.

 

Funds of mummy and daddy and the student loans will run out. 

2 hours ago, Grumpy one said:

Probably use Go Fund Me when the 

 

 

These influencers are clearly being paid up by tourist authorities around the world. Dubai does it on a mass scale. I just do wonder why the trigger words for the Thai influencers are always 'CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP'. It's just not, unless you want to live in a shoebox, and eat raw chicken in dishwasher water. 

 

It's this constant pivot towards 'budget' that really confuses me. Thailand has some of the most stunning beaches in the world, and could pivot to the luxury and beauty of it's natural nature. But nope it's as if these influencers have been given the code word 'CHEAP'. 

 

And of course it's a lie. Then authorities here wonder why there are so many trashy tourists. Sort out your marketting. 

On 11/1/2025 at 1:22 PM, Easterneye said:

Bang on the money , trouble is there will be thousands like em that have zero idea about Thailand and will berate others living in the uk hell ( apparently  )  

Ofcourse when reality hits in the form of a horrendous accident or some awful thing like cancer comes along they will be familiar with the online gofundme global insurance policy .

Having said all that I wish em both well and promise not to say I told you so when they creep back into the uk a bit later on with their tails between their legs 

They are young people, what cancer? Stop this BS

On 11/1/2025 at 11:03 AM, GoodieAfterDark said:

 

So many "experts" in bar girls and how to live the good life in Pattaya. A few years ago when I was visiting Khon Kaen, a German guy knocked at my apartment door. He looked like a homeless and was riding a bicycle. He told me to me horrible stories, and gave some advices. The following sentence I have heard over and over: "It is very hard to find a good Thai women". I have heard  such words from Thai people.  

I would rephrase it:

It is very hard to find a good Thai women, especially if you are looking for her at the BJ bars and happy-ending massage parlors.

On 11/1/2025 at 9:04 AM, KhunLA said:

Sensing a lot of envy in the replies ... such positivity 

 

Good for them, wish I was that smart when younger.   Self employed online, work smarter, not harder.   

 

Would be interesting, their opinion after smog season, but online work, can move anywhere.

 

True, they can give it a try, they are young and can move if it does not work out, nothing ventured, nothing gained.

 

One thing they will have to watch out for is being out priced by the property prices in the UK if they wish to move back in say twenty years time, that catches a lot of people out, they move back and can not afford to buy a house.

 

I left a perfectly good job in the UK and took a riskier freelance job, it was for six months, my thoughts were if I can not find another one I can always go back to a permanent job but thirty years later I was still a freelancer working all over Europe and the USA, so small seeds can grow into big trees.

 

One of my sons move to New Zealand from the UK three years ago with his NZ architect wife and baby girl, he set up his own business and now it is so successful he wished to move the family to Thailand as the tax in NZ is crazy so he is coming over for three months to look at private schools for the daughter and decided where to live in Thailand, he said he can give it a try for a year or two and then decide what to do next. 

 

He will have no problem with Thailand as he has both a British and a Thai passport even though he was born and brought up in the UK as his mum is Thai. 

 

He can work from home anywhere in the world.

 

A lot of miseries on this blog are constantly knocking what other do or are trying to achieve due to jealousy, but they do make me laugh when I take fifteen minutes breaks now and then from my software work and I read their misery comments. 😄

 

They do not seem to realise they are temporary visitors in Thailand as I am, I for example have to get an extension on my non-O visa every year, there is no guarantee the rules might stay the same, anything can happen re politics at any point of time in the future.

 

I have an escape plan in place if that happens, that includes property already in place in the UK.

6 hours ago, Hellfire said:

I would rephrase it:

It is very hard to find a good Thai women, especially if you are looking for her at the BJ bars and happy-ending massage parlors.

 

They do not have much choice, it is unnatural anywhere in the world for young women to fancy old guys and so if they want one of those they can only get one if they pay for them, they are usually bar girls, if they can sell their bodies for money they would not think twice about fleecing a stupid old farang. 

 

I do laugh about the stories I hear though, why are the majority of the Thai women in the stories from Isaan I wonder?

16 hours ago, lamyai3 said:

 

Very true. Secure long stay visas, minimum one year rental contracts, post paid phone accounts, local banking, Thai driving licence, certificate of residence... not straightforward at all these days. 

 

Monkeys with brain damage could sort out the simple paperwork needed to extend a non-O visa extension, it takes me one hour a year to do the paperwork and an hour to go through the process at the Immigration office, what is it you find so difficult?

 

Banking apps, phone accounts are easy to deal with in Thailand, the car driving licence took me one hour.

 

I don't need a rental contract but they can't be that hard to get. 

1 hour ago, JamesPhuket10 said:

 

Monkeys with brain damage could sort out the simple paperwork needed to extend a non-O visa extension, it takes me one hour a year to do the paperwork and an hour to go through the process at the Immigration office, what is it you find so difficult?

 

Banking apps, phone accounts are easy to deal with in Thailand, the car driving licence took me one hour.

 

I don't need a rental contract but they can't be that hard to get. 

 

I have no problem with it personally, but I've had everything set up and in place for years, including bank accounts etc. Anyone who's had extensions going back a number of years would be well aware that the procedures are getting more complicated all the time. 

 

In any event the people in the OP aren't on a visa that would let them set up a bank account, postpaid phone etc, and they probably have little in the way of long stay visa options open to them after the DTV. 

On 11/1/2025 at 2:15 AM, bkk6060 said:

Content creator and something online.

Sound like the typical weak don't really want to work unmotivated lazy people.

Too many of these types around now.

While I don't necessarily disagree with you, it doest bother me as isn't this the perfect example of the competitive market ? The vast hordes who create content will be winnowed, more will then try, rinse and repeat.  That said, I am surprised how much they can be paid, this old Aussie guy (I say old but he's about my age)

 

https://www.youtube.com/@fiascodagama1

 

said on one video, his most recent yearly expenses for travel, accommodation visas, airfares etc is about AUD $20k-$22k a year , his U tube subscriptions pay for this with a bit left over  This is substantially more then I thought, as I assumed for most it was beer money at best.

 

Maybe the couple in the OP do OF content as well 🙂

 

As with all these things, the worst part is glossing over the visas needed but good luck to them 🙂

 

Cloud cuckoo land! They have no idea. I did a cost "Thai to UK" back in 2019 and the bottom line was Thailand was far more expensive than UK. The usual quotes like rent, electricity and fuel are whiped out by: health insurance, smaller car and free education. Food is another wild herring! I have yet to see caterpillars  crawling out of my cauliflower and have 3 mushrooms costing nearly £2!!!, steak need I say more. Infact food quality is world's apart!@@