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SOI COWBOY suffered a flood and outdoor tables were built separate from the dancers who are inside and some expats like to drink with friends and only step inside to use the toilets
Being a fat, bald, alcoholic, graffiti artist that goes to Nana Plaza and discuss my secret CIA missions with bar girls I really can't identify to these stereotypes but did enjoy the video
By far the most informative youtube channel on the platform for Thailand, another factual video. I am glad you covered the TB 22,000 living budget, it is existing not living, i get asked this every week from people back home. Never bored watching your videos Pat 👍🙏
Not boozing here is a major game changer. Since i cut my drinking down to the odd beer here and there my life is so much more stable and structured. Without discipline here in Thailand your life and time is limited in my opinion. I also believe that having a Thai woman who loves the temple more than the bar will prolong your happiness here. 😁👍🇹🇭
I lived in Japan for many years being married to a Japanese woman now divorced, always an outsider a gaijin, never really was accepted even by members of her family , now marred to a Thai teacher loving Roi Et, and now a farang.
I was 12 years Mitsubishi. From an acceptance angle I found Japan more judging and not as accepting as Thailand. Thailand not my favorite for heat and pollution, Thailand my favorite for everything else 😊
Yo Pat! Can you make a video about bangkok landfills and recycle problems? People are still throwing their garbage to canals and chao praya or is it too risky? Love your informative videos!
@@RomanVarl ahh the expats shaking in the morning and wonders around under buddhadays looking for bars that serves booze in coffecups.. high quality there=)
Main issues for foreigners in Thailand, 1. Dwindling financial circumstances 2. Dating working girls 3. Declining health 4. Alcoholism Not in any order , just an observation of foreigners in Thailand.
Many have bragged to me about 20...25 years retired in Tbailand....write a Book about their Life....page one....da da da....page two....same as page one....etc etc....the old Men i knew 50 to 65 years ago had stories to Tell....they ended incredibly interesting lives rather early....but hated monotany and predictability...few of the new Expats live boldly or recklessly or make spontaneous actions....those Days are Gone.
Enjoyed 25 days in Thailand, improved my language skills. No complaints except the heat. Great to see the kids enjoying Songkran😅. Happy to be back in Australia with my cat.
Very interesting A to Z 👍 you know the saying, you can please some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time thanks for sharing ❤️🏴x
Much as id like to believe different .... I am sure that 180 days is an accumulated annual limit for tax residence ..... and that leaving after 179 days and then returning is not going the pass muster .....
My take on "Expats" An expat is someone who leaves their home country by free will. An immigrant is someone who leaves their home country out of desperation.😊
Re cats (lack thereof) & Benchiktti > surely after 12+ days it's been mentioned ...fair to speculate the mini dinosaurs are at least partly responsible > woof!! 😉
Personally, I find it easy to live on around the 22k baht per month. I pay 8k baht for a lovely 2 bedroom house behind OnNut, ride a scooter to get around, cook 75% of my meals and still get to get out at night once or twice a week. Free pool, happy hour drinks…it can comfortably and happily be done!
I played it safe and said 50 because otherwise you get the gloaters commenting who look down on the ones living cheaply for me. 30k is doable after rent/bills
Hi Pat, Had a chuckle about Thailands new tax rules, more than 180 days living here your considered a permanent resident for tax purposes, does that mean that now I am a permanent resident I can own land, don't have to do 90 day reports, pay the same price for Theme parks and National Parks, same price for medical treatment at hospitals?? I just see this as another sting by Thai government towards, farangs, oops I mean expats, oops I mean elderly retired person. Keep making the good videos. cheers
It is primarily targeted towards businesses avoiding taxes on overseas earnings. The question is whether ordinary expats will be caught up in the policy.
I just returned from Thailand for a month and for me I'm glad to see some Thai's not wearing masks and seeing their pretty smile's once again. But the smog is of course something to be concerned about too. Thai people have very pretty smiles and I just prefer to see it when I'm walking around,,,,,,,,,,
Good point about Luk Kreung. I filmed a pretty model at Paragon. She said that her mother is Thai but she doesn't know anything about her father. She said she sometimes makes 100 k Baht for a photo shoot.
That income tax is a bit of a nightmare. I would personally have to pay £20,000 pa., to be regarded as a Thai resident, yet have to fluff around with visas etc. It would not be so bad if the Thai government provided free residential visas as compensation.
First went to Bangkok about 25yrs ago and one of the first things that struck me as a bit strange was the amount of people wearing face masks. I was told it was because of the car fumes, it was an Asian thing before bird flu, certainly long before covid.
Stop apologizing for the governors and politicians forcing you to wear masks to make you scared into getting a shot I lived in Thailand 99 to 2007 seeing masks wasn't that common
I love to engage in a conversation with the people at fruit carts, whenever I'm getting guava! I just say, id like some farang, like me, and it always makes them chuckle :))
Morning from an expat farang Brit living in Hua Hin. Thanks for that detail on that 29 year olds head separating from his body. I'm trying to eat my cornflakes 😂😂😂😂
I had to use the shot of the apartment panning down to show the canal somehow. I was going to tell that story in my Bangkapi video last year but decided against it, too gruesome, but I had already filmed it so don't wanna waste expensive film....Cheers!
About the masks! Its always funny foreigners complain about! Locals have done it for decades and im sure they know why! Not the mask wearers are stupid....the complainers are! Some should use their brain!
I had only one job in Thailand. During the interview, I made the boss an offer, try me out for a week. If I didn't perform to his expectations, I would leave and he wouldn't have to pay me a baht. I'm glad to say, that it was the best job I ever had. I had too much fun, worked hard, and played hard.
I will happily take on the expat badge of honor starting May 31st. When I arrive in Bangkok. Not sure why that would be anything other than what. Always has been, someone who lives outside their normal country. Thailand is a wonderful country. It is full of wonderful people. Yeah there's some bad ones too but where are you going to go where there are none? Yeah such a place doesn't exist. The only issues I had really were the air quality and the heat. The air quality didn't seem to bother me any and I walked a lot in Bangkok, and the heat I gradually got used to. I'm not looking forward to it but it is what it is. I know some bar girls. They can be fun to be around for vacation. Me. I'm looking for more permanent situation and I found one I think. Not a bar girl or a massage girl. I can't wait to see her. I don't have any problems with the word farang. In the US. I'd be called an alien. now I have a problem with that. Because it's used in a derogatory term. I think if an ignorant person called me that, a farang, with the intent to try to wound me it still wouldn't matter because I choose how I react, not them. I'll choose to just walk on and laugh. I got a lot to learn in order to be happy there. I appreciate you making videos like this so I can add to my knowledge base and be happy in my new country.
8:30 Ah! I remember that years ago in one of your videos, you stated « Thai apologists are complete idiots ». Makes me happy that I am not alone thinking the same thing ! You can’t say a thing about Thailand without having bunch of these idiots on your back !
The tax thing is indeed confusing. I am seeing some prominent retired expat RU-vidrs leaving Thailand for extended adventures in Europe or US 6 months at a time, PERHAPS to not be designated as a “Tax Resident”, but they won’t confirm. In my case it doesn’t matter. At 74 and having only a Sicial Security pension, I certainly don’t have the scratch for a retirement or elite visa and can only visit as a tourist 30, maybe 60 days, until Thailand changes it extends on arrival tourist visas for Americans.
"Was the video about living on $600 a month my video 😂 Unfortunately, I really did live off that amount for a while... I wouldn't want to again but it's possible... Great video!"
Farang ... funny looking fruit. Most of these older guys are kidding themselves when they build houses and think they have a family. You're being used.
I know i will be flamed here but I agree with "why white expats and the rest immigrants", while both in reality looking for better quality/way of living.
I laugh or smile when I get called a "Farang" or "Expat" and I sleep well at night.I have been called a lot worse in my life It's Thai culture to use such names, get use to it.
It's particularly amusing to me when I see entire families of Thais wearing their muzzles to a restaurant and refuse to remove them until the food arrives. More disturbing though is how so many Thais still muzzle their young children, oblivious to how they're harming their children by this action. They will suffer permanent low level brain damage due to oxygen deprivation and too much CO2 in their tissues. This brain damage will manifest itself with a lowered IQ and a high chance of developing dementia when they grow older. It can not be reversed.
Great video again Pat, many topics about expat life. Wearing a mask for pollution is oke but many wear a cheap one which gives no protection you must wear type IIR or FFP2 for that. Funny that many see the word Farang as a bad thing still 😊 Hiso wannabe babes no money no honey 🤣 Cost of living still a lot of people think living there is really cheap I also have to explain to people that you must have at least 1500 dollar for a decent life. But what funny is I see some you tubers complaining that the cost of living is getting more expensive in Thailand over years but then again look in ur own country for example in the Netherlands the prices has gone up way more than in Thailand over the years. Benjakitti park is a very nice park but I agree sadly no cats and I like them also a lot.
Hi, even I’m not an English native, thank you very much - ver interesting and yes, funny as well. 😊😂 One thing: I do like Street Art and prefer to see it on any sad grey wall in the world. 😊❤ Take care and live now and today ❣️
PAT: Loved the street art pics. What particular areas are you finding the best stuff lately? I know about the areas around Charoen Krung...in the soi 20's-30's, and graf park. Any other great areas? The stuff you showed is top shelf!
Great vid pat , im hoping to retire 6yrs time , i have been checking out Philippines also especially as seems alot less hassle of visas ! I have been 2 times to check out
Im a blonde haired woman with a full head of hair, I dont care what people call me, alian, farang, or whatever I just thoughraly enjoy your vlogs, alot of stuff is not relevant ( im not going to go looking for girls !!!) however your videos are so interesting
Ask anyone who's using 'expat' as a derogatory term what this word actually means. I guarantee you that 90% or more won't know what it means at all. Hint: Ex Patria.
Expat = Expatriate I became one when I started working and living in another country. In the Far East & SE Asia that also usually meant your had a house maid at least which equals rich in most western countries, but normal (even girls working in the bars had a ya ya) in Asia still. Like many words the meaning evolves (gay being one of the most extreme examples). I enjoy your videos. Masks, like in Japan mask wearing is normal if you have a cold, or if your immune system is compromised, one has to assume this is the case today.... Baldness - in the Philippines - where I was and expat - your are Kalbo, and is not an insult. Our daughter is mestisa and born in Angeles City - and your insight on mixed race kids and the general view that my asawa worked in the bar (she was and electrical engineer employed on Clark by the US Air Force's 3rd Engineering Squadron) is invaluable. Alcohol - drinking beer is safer than drinking water, and the British Empire was built by men who never took a sober breath after breakfast. O.K. my excuse but I was expatriated to Taiwan when bottled water was hard to find.... also I joined the Hash House Harriers.....
Keyboard Warriors - ASEAN website is ripe with this type of behaviour,,,, I don't know if they are expats in Thailand but I see people come to the website genuinely asking questions to learn and they are shredded by these KB warriors degrading the OP with comments... how to learn if you are bullied online... I am sure there must be many more websites for ex-pats that are trying to learn and crushed ... great content Pat,,,
So many bored isolated "stone table expert" expats having no other life than fighting on the internet and ignoring that maybe their life choices were a little wrong.
@@BangkokPat Been proudly banned from the old Big 3: Ajarn, ThaiVisa & Teak Door. Woke cancel culture was a thing in Thai Expatland long before it oozed onto Twitter.
@@Boddav Mideasterners, South Asians and other primarily Muslim Central Asian people are Kaek. Latin Americans are more white to Thais than to white folks, so farang as well. The first class I taught in Thailand involved a group of middle managers in a state enterprise teaching me the vocabulary of racial designation as a great way to tease the farang, knowing how some of us feel about "racism". Hilarious.
So you are actually Thai/British? That was a surprise. You speak native Thai too? Would expect that but apparently quite a few Thais grown up abroad never got into it because mom didn't think twice about things like that. Grown up in the UK? Thai mom?
Great video, as always. Keep up the great work. Leaving Vietnam and going to Thailand next week, with my vietnamese wife. Trying to convince her to move with me to somewhere in TH, instead of Vietnam.
@@BangkokPat my wife has been there twice already and totally agrees. Her main concern is that it would be harder to buy a house and harder to open a coffee shop, since i am American and she is vietnamese and neither of us speak Thai. So we travel to TH several times a year, to see visit various cities and figure the the legal requirements.
13:40 It's not that it's a "myth", as almost all Thai teachers get paid around 20-25k/baht/month. 7/11 workers get paid around 15k/month or less. Security guards and many cafe staff, street sweepers, mall custodians and etc... get paid less that 10k/month. It's just that it's a myth that a "farang" could do the same thing and be happy. I can't imagine a farang being happy living in a 2/3k baht/month shoebox apartment with no a/c and only a fan. Eating street food every single day. You'd be existing, not living. I lived in a condo complex located near a university, to cut down on costs, a lot of these students would share a 23/sqm condo room with 5-6 other people. Talk about a nightmare, but Thai people will do what they need to do to get by, even if they hate it. A farang doing the same? No way.
Us older Xpats visit Bangkok and Pattaya for food wherever the best can be found. Include girl bars. They have Thai food for wives. Soi Cowboy has a great burger joint.
Regarding tax allowance for the over 65s and/or disabled; there is an allowance of 190,000 Baht for them on top of the 150,000 Baht threshold. Thus, as I see it, those people can deduct 340,000 from an income of 460,000 leaving 120,000 taxed at 5%. You can check this out on many websites and Bing AI confirmed this.
there aren't many countries where a foreigner could be accepted as one of their own very fast or from the start one of such countries is of course united states and another is russia, but with the latter there are certain conditions
Great video once again Pat. Just wanted to add some clarification/correction. Only income in a certain tax bracket will be taxed at that rate and not the whole sum. For example 460,000 baht will be taxed as the following: The first 150,000 will be tax free. The next 150,000 will be taxed at 5% The next 160,000 baht will be taxed at 10% So the total tax on income will be 0 + 7,500 + 16,000 = 23,500 baht per year Per month = 23,500 baht/ 12 = 1958 baht per month. 24:02
For clarity, the word expatriate or expat in short refers to a foreigner （usually from the west) who is transferred by their employer (MNC) to work in Asia. Their compensation usually comes in generous package that includes accommodation in swanky neighbourhood, medical benefits, international schooling for their children, country club membership and “hardship “ allowance. If you are just a foreigner working in Asia on local terms, then you are referred as foreigner worker, eg domestic maids, construction workers, language teachers. But those days are long gone. Interestingly, Caucasian still like to call themselves expats instead of foreign workers or professionals. They stwant to tag to that prestigious label . Agree?
Who would want to call themselves an immigrant if an expat is more socially respected? Nothing to do with hating immigrants who arrive on boats in the UK, that's a totally different topic altogether, but the woke agenda mob go around getting themselves offended and wound up
Thanks for the response. The woke mob is a bane to society. I wonder how does a neutral term farlang got convoluted to a derogatory term ? Farlang sounds better than gweilo in HK, which means foreign devil.
No I don’t agree. I’m a retiree living in Thailand. I would be inclined to call myself an immigrant if I could get citizenship but since I can’t (for all practical purposes) then I call myself an expat . . . and a farang as long as we are on the topic of labels.
It is always a pleasure to watch your clear and precise analysis Pat, about living in Thailand from the perspective of a foreigner as of a thai national, very well narrated. The video filming and editing prooves a high professionel standard and last but not least always entertaining! Thank you!🙏🙏🙏
Pat is a real pro. He is a really intelligent and knowledgeable guy, but makes his videos interesting and relatable for everyone. I’m luvin the content. Glad I came across the channel. …..Big up Pat Brah 😎
Cats shouldn’t be allowed in any of the parks they predate on the wildlife and don’t belong there, the monitor lizards are natural inhabitants and don’t bother the locals just leave them alone and they will leave you alone.
There is no wildlife for the cats to predate, as the lizards were put there 40yrs ago to control the rat problem. The cats are just like pets hanging out getting fed and lying around.
@@BangkokPat and what about the birds ? Cats will always kill it’s in their nature there are way too many, and there is lots of wildlife still there you just have to look.
I'm staying right next to Benjakitti park in Asoke when i take my girlfriend to Bangkok later this year.(We're going to Phuket too. I love the place. It's been a while since i've been and am looking forward to it a lot.Can't wait.
I suppose the one thing in this that applies to me is the alcohol. When visiting Bangkok recently I actually found that I was drinking less, with the heat I was feeling terrible the more I drank and knew I wouldn't be able to function the next day. As for being called a Farang, if that's the worst that you can say to me I am sure I can handle that.
The more time i spend in Thailand the more I want to spend less time here. I think a month here and there renting a nice villa with a pool is the way to go - the rest of it has become so boring now . Hanging around bars etc is lame . Its a good place to relax on the islands but to be honest I think life needs variety and its good to try lots of different places and try to keep the interest in life. Its not cheap anymore and the heat and pollution isn't fun.
So, on 75-100k bht, I can have a home, with rooftop pool,gym,maid, cook , masseuse, food,drings, entertainment and a change of girlfriends when needed ?😮😊😎
My Thai-wife is from Isaan. Her family does not care if the neighbours look up or down on them, well - fathter in law was is strong Muay Thai boxer... I think he changes the way people look on or talk to him very quickly if he don't like their behaviour ... I wish very much that the neighbours of your wife will have to look UP to her one day ...
H = Heat! It’s downright toasty for quite awhile now, but I’d rather be too hot than too cold. Thanks for an entertaining look at the things we expats (and I’m fine calling myself an expat!) know and love/hate/tolerate.
Expat basically means white immigrant, right? :D And cost of living myth? Well, its still there but because of rising prices the needle just moved a bit up. For example, Im from Amsterdam in The Netherlands and the average rent for an apartment is now 2,200 euro or 87,000 bath per month. New York City is almost the double amount on average. That means that a total monthly budget of 50,000 like you say is still extremely cheap relative to 2024 pricing in many western countries.
Great info, as usual. Thanks. Re Benjamin Hart, of Integrity Legal in Bangkok’s critique of Bangkok Pat’s recent vlog (being this one, which I had missed), the word "loophole" is just that... a WORD (it's listed in dictionaries, if anyone wants to check that out). A word which aptly sums up what Pat was conveying, being that those who can afford to employ tax accountants (or lawyers) so as to avoid paying taxes which can be avoided, shall do so (and I have no issues with folk or institutions paying only that which is due but, for the tax system to be FAIR there would need to be freely or more affordably available tax advisers - perhaps paid for or subsidised through taxation, ironically - so as to avail EVERYONE of such an equitable state of being). Klaus Schwab &co DO LOVE that word “equitable”, after all. If Mr Hart has a better and/or more easily as well as descriptively understandable, by a broad audience, word than "loophole" to infer the above-referred to aside by BP, I've yet to hear it. And that's not a criticism of Ben Hart... Merely an observation. Further, BP is not a trained lawyer nor tax accountant (to my knowledge). He speaks as a layman in such matters to, in the main, laymen in such matters. That's what the [Comments] section is for, so that others can debate, confirm, refute and or otherwise correct that which a RU-vidr has said, accordingly. Claiming (in the Integrity Legal response) to not being pedantic or overly-semantic does not excuse the managing director of the firm for going on to be doing precisely what he claims he is not, in this instance, as it matters little whether Pat uses the word "enforcement" (which he did) or A N Other (such as "implementation") of the NEW (for new they are) regulations from January 1st 2024 and which ARE, despite Ben's protestation to the contrary, a SIGNIFICANT change to the former system unless, of course, receiving money a year or more previous to the year it was deposited in Thailand meant it was NOT taxed in Thailand NOW means that IT IS thus taxed in Thailand isn't considered significant. This stuff should be taught in school, surely. It seems somewhat odd that Ben Hart, who ordinarily decries and denounces “Globalist” agendas of the WEF, UN, Club of Rome et al seems to be seeking to minimise this particular aspect of their intended unilateral fiscal controls of humanity with the aims of enslaving (under the guise of emancipating) any and all who are not members of the 0.001% of parasitic plutocrats. Has Ben been got at? We wonders… Aye, we wonders. Mr Hart, of course, shall not likely see this comment because despite me ordinarily agreeing with and supporting his oratories and opinions, I am neither above nor below calling him out as and when I consider such to be judiciously appropriate. Sorry if I’ve sometimes brushed up against your conceit, Ben. Consequently, I find that for a year or so I have been “shadow-banned” from commenting on the Integrity Legal RU-vid vlogs in that I can see my comments but other comment participants cannot (and sometimes even I can’t see them, after composing and posting them). A shame because I shall be requiring to take legal advice in Thailand in the not too distant future on a range of matters and had both hoped and assumed a call to Integrity Legal might be in order but am, since, far from comfortable with trusting an entity so thin-skinned and seemingly duplicitous as to surreptitiously ghost a participant in the conversations some of his vlogs occasionally prompt. Better the devil you know, I suppose.
I juat kept it as brief as I could, what he said about it wasn't exactly clear, I would have expected him to clarify and explain the process in that video, thus 'correcting' me. Everyone knows that once they start enforcing it the big boys will avoid it where possible while the lower levels (expats) will be made an example of in the media being busted. It looks good and shows the people they are enforcing it. You will not see some high level Thai getting busted in the media for dodging income tax. I think Ben knows that, well he should if he's been here long enough.
@@BangkokPat That's what I thought. That's also what Benjamin thought, in my considered opinion (but he couldn't resist employing your own broadcast as a means to sowing seeds of fear, uncertainty and doubt in the minds of his audience so as to hopefully drum up a few more prospective client approaches to his firm - I am minded to conclude).
@@SebDangerfield-yu7cm In a pinned comment on this video is the official booklet from the BMA, explaining it in full as well as the income tax form itself. You can't ask for much more than that. I added this because people will obviously want the full official version, because I knew I'd been brief in my explanation.
@@BangkokPat Brilliant. Thank you. Taxation without representation!!! Who'd've ever thunk it? We're regressing back towards feudalism, little shadow of a doubt. Never thought I'd ever say it, but am glad I'm old so don't have an entire lifetime ahead of it to look forward to. Bah humbug. LOL
A good pal of many years here had been 'friendly' with young Thai single mother! Her kid was a nightmare, no discipline at all, but my pal endured! Recently the kid had a major tantrum! It amazed my pal. He later ignored the kid and the kid asked the mother what was wrong? The reply that shocked my pal was 'He's a Farang'. So all those months of being exceptionally nice suddenly trashed as he was 'categorized' as someone different to what he wanted to be! I've seen it many times in my 40 years of living here! It hurt my friend as he was always very good and kind to the kid! TIT!
Don't look after a child not your own. Of course you're a farang to it, and you can never change said child..why would any farang marry a Thai woman with such baggage?
Farang is actually a corruption of the word farangaseyt (French). Apparently the first white faces Thai's saw were probably Frenchie's. I've explained this on and off for the last 20 or so years, but it goes over heads. It would seem most farangs are comfortable playing the imaginary role of being a victim.
It's not from farangaseyt. It has its roots way long before in Arabic and/or Persian at the time, from where it spread over several languages from Africa to Asia.
solution for A to Z: smoke cannabis...if too much u enter another world of problems...guess life is a circle.. try.B for Butterfly describes my ex th gf...yes it was a very intense flight and a very painful fall...
