Did we make a MISTAKE moving to a RURAL THAI FARM? White woman, THAI man and two young children, 🇹🇭 

Your repeated viewers on this channel are all enjoying you two “city slickers” sharing your progress creating a farm & homestead out in the quiet countryside in Thailand. Ages ago I took a chance around your age and accepted a job in Africa despite people thinking I was crazy to give up my job security. I ended up loving the adventure and learning experience which resulted me to live and work in five different countries over three decades. I am glad I made the “big move” when I was a healthy, young adult. Being in a new country always has its challenges ( at first) and you have doubled the challenge with farming (No, it’s tripled. You also have two little ones!) 😝 You two are a good team, sensible and able to laugh and support one another. You’re making priceless memories with your kids and each other. 👍🏽 Congratulations.

Anything worth doing requires a pioneering heart. You have two ! And you've the brains to transform any mistakes to benefits. Keep educating us. It's a stimulating joy 😊 🙏

Really love how real you guys keep it! No sugar coating. Life is what you make it and I can't wait to see how the farm and family develop

Reflecting on my own experiences and observations, I truly believe that your decision to move from the UK to Thailand is a wise one. There are several reasons why life in Thailand can be more fulfilling and less stressful. One of the most striking aspects of life in Thailand is the strong sense of community and family. It's common to see the younger generation taking care of the elderly, creating a supportive and caring environment. This is a stark contrast to what I've observed in the UK, where many elderly people often face struggles alone. The cost of living in Thailand is generally more affordable, with no council tax or property tax once you own your property. This can significantly reduce financial stress and allow you to enjoy life more. The weather in Thailand allows for a more outdoor lifestyle, and even those with limited means can find shelter and food at temples. In the UK, many people have to make tough choices between heating and eating due to high electricity costs. Lastly, healthcare in Thailand is accessible and of good quality. It's free for Thais over a certain age. In contrast, the UK's healthcare system, while comprehensive, is often struggling with long waiting times and lack of support. In conclusion, while every country has its pros and cons, the sense of community, lower cost of living, better weather, and good healthcare make Thailand a great place to live. I believe you've made a wise decision. Enjoy your new life in Thailand! I did the same and am never going back!

Living the dream guys , new project for Nat !! Fill in the trench infront of the chickens, build a portable pen and let the chickens take of all those weeds, they'll love it and you'll use less expensive feed

Give all food left over to the chickens. Plastic and glass bottles. Keep in different cages. Every month bring in the recycling guy. Plus he may give 100 b or more. Depending how many beer bottles. How's you mate doing on holiday

It warms the heart to hear Thai people complain about Thai workmanship. Welcome to Thailand young man. 😂

as a yorkshire man who has lived in Thailand for 12 Years I really didnt expect that accent to come out of that face haha

I did live up country in Thailand & they did have recycling plants where you can go and sell plastic & glass bottles & cardboard,metal, everything you not got that near you.?? Or they would have somewhere you can dump it and somebody will collect it to sell it.. You as a family have made the right choice 👍I think England is terrible now.... not a happy place to live 😮

Cam I must say your glowing! I don’t know if it’s the Thai sun or the fact your so much more relaxed out there but you look amazing!! I am very jealous! 😘xx

Excellent video, you two. Straight from the horse's mouth. No frills & spills. A true reflection of life out here in rural Thailand. Keep it up; keep it real, & I'm sure you'll have a fantastic family life that many others only dream of.

Rubbish,Recycling….. I remember feeling abit helpless myself when I moved to deep rural Thailand, all plastics,cardboard/paper, aluminium/metal cans are fully recycled in Thailand ( you can sell all of it ! ) first off get some large bins to sort out all the materials , find out where the local recycle merchant is - when your bins are full take them there an you’ll be paid !!

Dig one big pond and forget the trench idea. Keep going guys, remember nothing is easy that's worth fighting for.

Great lifestyle for you all, I’m happy for you, love watching Camilla, yourself, Mallory, Kaya and your vlogs, as for your haircut Nat, it’s not that bad 😊, has Mason gone home now? It appears he enjoyed himself 😊 Blessings to you all 🙏🏼

Fair play guys - following your dreams, living your life and finding your happiness. Very inspirational! Good luck and us updated.

Life is a learning cycle.... with your positive attitude, you can succeed.....

Interesting. We were in UK when we had our pond dug. We have similar issues. They took all the good soil and dug a huge pond putting the hard rock in the wrong place. We wished we had been present. Soi dogs are a problem everywhere. You both look more healthy since you been in Thailand. A great place for the children to grow up. Enjoy life. Just remember everyone would like to be doing what you're doing.... You're doing it.

🌹Cheering for both of you There's nothing we humans can't do. Someday it will be successful.🤞

I would definitely buy eggs from you guys if I lived in Thailand. Wishing your family all the best with good health and happiness! Stay STRONG 💪God Bless!!

You still have the solution of installing solar panels and say goodbye to the electricity bills. According to my research the cost of solar installation is about 460 000 thb for 15 solar panel providing 4700 watt in full sun.

nate the main thing is to get the farm fenced six foot high, and fence the things you dont want eaten and let the chickens do the weeding, and your ponds make concreate ponds start from the pond and make each one higher so you can have flow of water from one pond to the next and back into the pond, then you can have lots of ponds easy to clean and harvest in stages, also look at crayfish and snails and frogs, check out some of the youtubes vidios there are some good ones out there. do it in small stages make wooden mould for fence post do one at a time

The plastic bottles are worth money, there will be someone who collects them locally and give you a bit of money for them.

I love how quiet it is and peaceful I would've loved to live there.e I enjoy it so much ❤

Great videos 😎👍🌳🌳🌳🌳

good luck on your journey guys

Well done both of you for coming back and to Thailand and living on the farm you created 😊 We live in a semi rural area in Thailand so there's a bit of passing traffic. We put our glass and plastic separately in bags and leave them out front of the driveway and locals pick them up for recycling. We appreciate them taking it and it's less rubbish in our bin. We do have the rubbish truck once a week though so that's a bonus. Have a great day and btw the kids are little cuties 😀🙏

I found this channel through Isan Drew. I love your unique perspective on rural Thailand 🇹🇭👍

You guys will never be poor because you both work hard and laugh as you do so….💙

Well I’ve just found your channel and I can’t believe your English accent I was expecting you to speak Thai fab video guys

Bro! Your English accent is off the chain! Bloody love it! This is sweet! Gonna watch now

Happy to see you are doing very well in the new chapter of your life.

Great video. I really enjoyed that.

Looking good tho! Everything will work out! Everything grows fast tho 🙌

New to channel. Great video. Best of luck with the farm. We are planning to buy a farm as well. Enjoy the space and quiet and of course nature!

You can use the fish water that you pump out to water the trees and plants, good fertilizer

Happy Life !!!

Been a great watch lad, keep doing what your doing. Makes me miss our small farm in Korat. Can’t wait to move there permanently once the daughter has finished school in 4 years.

Your life is so cool! I'm so glad i found your channel! หนูเป็นคนอเมรีกา พุดไทยเป็น ถ้าเคยเจอผู้ชายไทยแบบนี้จะรีบไปย้ายบ้านอยูประเทศไทยเลย ชนบทก็ได้จ้ะ :)

We love you guys!!!!! Straight from the U.S.!!!!!!

I am Thai living in England.My sister has a farm in Khon Kaen now she has nine dogs on the farm they're nice but they're not her dogs the problem is she can't afford to feed them.Thanks for sharing your journey Best of luck .

Looking good guys, keep up the great work! Ive Subbed!

Fellow escapee from the UK also living in the countryside here, welcome, you just popped up in my recommendations so will subscribe and follow your channel, best of luck guys

Bro, your living the great Thai life with your wife and beautiful kids. Keep doing what your doing, things will get better. I live in Thailand for the last 4yrs. And I'm not going back to the States. I'm also a Thai national.

The eggs are coming along great,well done on your efforts. Great channel.👍

What a great lifestyle Enjoying your videos Thanks Chris Aust

Great vlog again guys 👏 the only thing I’m wondering about is why have you added subtitles to this one, are people struggling to understand your accents? 🇬🇧🇹🇭

Keep up the good work keep smiling 😊

People that make mistakes and learn lessons from the mistakes grow in intellect. Repeating the same mistake over and over is where people go wrong. As the old saying goes, nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Wow I love rural Thailand life. Keep up the good work!

Don't give up and come back to the UK this country is finished everything is too expensive. I will be joining you next year when I retire, but not farming lying next to the pool will be as much as I will be doing.

Much luck to you both & the kids .❤️🙏🇦🇺🇹🇭

I live on the dead end of the alley and what we usually do is we collect all the plastic rublish or some leftover metal of all kind and from time to time we load up in our car and drive to the rubbish shop or store.They will buy it.

Good Life is not money, fame but living in the simply life! I’m glad that you guys are still happy with some issues and looking super fit !!! Btw your haircut looks great like Thai students 😁.

My wife and I live in near ubon ratchathani. We grow all kinds of stuff. We have about 60 acres. You might look digging a well and getting solar panels and a pump you really don't need batteries. We just run our pump during the day and it oxygenates the ponds and we an elevated tank so at night we still have running water.

Wow, that's a lot of work! Bravo to both of you all for doing so much so quickly, especially in this heat! I'm trying to convince Poon to buy a small piece of land instead of just a plot in a development so we can do a small garden and chickens.

Hi guys Just stumbled on your video while late night surfing RU-vid, very refreshing to see your video and I loved the attitude of you’re here to make a million just make a living , that will help you so much , so many younger people come with the idea of being a millionaire in no time , the way you should think of it is would you ever be a millionaire back home in the Uk , probably not unless you win the lottery, and in the Uk you are constantly trying to keep up with others , but here in Thailand you don’t have that need , so good luck on whatever you’re doing and learn every day , I retired early here and come 17th august will have been here for 1 year and enjoying it , still not good with the humidity levels but getting better with the heat , Regards Davy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇹🇭

We have no rubbish service on the farm but there are people that drive around buying plastic and glass bottles. Its how they make a living. Ask in the village or market, they will put you in touch with someone.

The issues you mentioned about England are the same issues and even worse here in the US. There are two great divides; the conservatives and liberals…it’s awful. I’ve been to Thailand 30 times since 2005 doing compassion trips in ethnic minority villages, refugee camps and orphans. I’ve fallen in love with the country which means I’ve fallen in love with the people who make up the culture. I hope to retire there in the next couple of years. Until then, I get to live vicariously through your vlog. Thanks for what you do.

New here, good stuff and best of luck

Fist time seeing any of your vids wen he turned round with his accent made me laugh loved it .new sub from Manchester

Life is a journey. Trial and error. Enjoy every moment. Maybe set up a larger hopper system to feed the chickens. And storage water system. Chicken poo is great fertiliser. If the trenches are too much hassle just refill what you don't need or find an alternative purpose.

Great video’ I think I can relate as I am from Cheshire, moved to the states over 35 years ago ‘ got very tired of America and the many problems that the country has and am looking forward to coming to Thailand on 28th this month. I am very excited to see you or channel as I am hoping to do something similar ‘if you Dont mind a little later on if I can pick your brains a little and learn from the people who have done it . I will be living in the Kamphaeng Phet area, I dont know if you are close but thanks gofre putting out the video, great Job

Check in town to see if anyone collects plastic bottles etc. A couple come by every 1-2 months give a few baht to you… all good

New sub here. looking forward to your journey

Not sure if both the kids can swim yet, but if not it might make you feel a lot better to get them survival swimming lessons, they even have them for babies. Really helpful for hot countries with bodies of water and ponds everywhere. 🙏🏽

You are doing a grand job and it's going to be a huge learning curve for you both. Have you thought of planting Durian trees? They will take about 5 years to fruit but they are a huge cash crop when they produce fruit.

Thanks for the video which I enjoyed. I was born in a tropical environment so I can understand what you are saying but I was not a farmer. I was about to ask that you do not have dogs till you showed them and spoke about them. Glad that you feed the wandering dogs. I think they could be very useful. Since you are raising chickens you might attract pythons or animals which want to eat your chickens, so the dogs may come in handy and give you warnings. In this video I did not see any night footage like, Are there any lights near your chicken shed, or how do the family spend the nights after a hard day's work. Cheers and good to know that both of you are enjoying your life there.

Yes , communication is a definate problem here in Thailand. We wanted 2 roofs extended out from existing roofs - we had a thai translator to help explain. - we agreed on a price and they started . they finished the first roof and i asked when they gonna start the lower roof ? What lower roof guy said . Yup- oh you want another roof - read extra money. So-you know what you need to do. Draw up a plan ( diagram) with exact measurements. If you want anything done , get them to sign it as assurance that they understand it. Lived in London for a couple of years- very true about the agression. I got shoulder barged in the library once ( THE LIBRARY !!! ) Couple of street fights and multiple close calls. I am much happier in Thailand. Cheers for the Vid

Glad your getting on well mate. Lucky you, I'm back to work. They are right about the hair mind you. Haha.

hi guys thanks for sharing, ok negatives first, if you feed the dogs they will stay stop feeding them and they will gradually come less and less, or keep feeding them and adopt as your own, but their owner may want them back at some point or compensation, fish trenches don't appear to be working, is the water seeping away or just natural evaporation, maybe could dig to 2 or 3 small ponds for different types of fish and use the soil to back fill your trenches this would also free up the land to grow fruits and vegetables or any other projects you want i know this would be at a cost but worth considering, again thanks for sharing and you really have hit the ground running take comfort from your successes and learn from your mistakes, Camilla how is your Thai speaking going, i know when I'm in Thailand i struggle with the tones and village i go to in Surin most people speak Khmer with a little Thai, Laos, Issaan mixed in so its super confusing for me but like to try rather than get my partner to translate all the time, every place has its positives and negatives and its only natural to compare your western lifestyle to your new Thai lifestyle (same same but different) as they say, wishing you all the best of luck but i somehow think you wont need it, life is for living and your courage to make the move to Thailand is already being rewarded keep smiling and enjoying life cheers.

555 discovered the channel yesterday. My head fell off when I heard your northern uk accent

yeah, shoddy digging work. You'll just have to build some plank bridges , or bamboo which should be cheaper.

Good video, your digger driver was probably on the Lao Khao while digging out your trenches 😂. Interesting about the rubbish collection. Our village gets collected but everyone still burns it, I hate the smell cos it's not good to be breathing that toxic smoke so regularly. The worst part is our guys who collect it only drive 5 minutes down the road, tip it off and burn it there, doesn't even go to a landfill or anything. At least Thais are alot more productive in recycling compared to back West.

This is incredible! One of our main goals is to live off the land like this! Would definitely love to collab some time and connect! Amazing work! New subscribers here with notifications on! Amazing channel!

It hard work and you guys can do it much better life than the uk and good for the kids. You will look back and say we did it love from nick and kerrie perth Western Australia

Enjoy your new life yes no stress I found you from Ricky channel thanks for being wonderful friends to him at this extremely difficult time in his daisy and lily life's please please I'm in Australia and you wouldn't believe how many young kids drown every day your children are at the age if you turn your back for one minute they will be in that fish pound this is very dangerous please take care

Great video, not jealous at all ! 555. The pros will always far outweigh the cons Would it be worth investing in a goat to help with the weed suppression ?

BRO, I was not expecting THAT accent!!! HAHAHA jokes, thanks for the vid, love what you are doing, I will be over there soon too, I'm subbed! Good luck guys :)

Great. For sure even when I mow the lawn at home I feel that great sense of fulfilment of doing some real work..... off course there will be struggles etc and not forget the average Thai in a village wants to get the xxxx out to the UK or bkk to earn cash...so you bucking the trend. I guess you can gauge it as you go along. Kids of course a game changer in every respect.foook i know this with 2 of them here in pattaya for last 3 months. . Bear in mind though the zapps family from Argentina raised 4 kids and lived in a 1920s ford as they toured the world over 15 years !!! So fully doable.

❤👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻There will be ups & downs. Main thing is you are both following your dream & thats wonderful. 💞💞💞💞🇬🇧living 🇸🇪

I dont know why people move to rural thailand to become small farmers/self sufficent. In most developed countries, you can move out to the rural areas and find a few acres of land for the same price as farm land in Thailand and start a farm on that.

โอ้ว ! สำเนียงอิงลิชท่านพี่เป๊ะมาก Wow your english skills perfectly. Thai ?

Great vlog, just found your channel Just curious, would solar be affordable and an option there? Lots of daylight? Might offset the hydro or would it just not be worth it?

I think you've answered your own question about making a mistake - the smiles on your faces answer that. The trenches are a bit of a pain. But if all else fails - could you get them filled in and dug straight or could you expand the pond you already have OR could you build a new pond? I know it's money, but if you ask around, there might be some builders who have the equipment and are delayed on a job - rather than wait for the job the start they might come and do a couple of day's work on the farm filling in and digging new holes. With regard to the plastic, might be worth checking to see if there is anyone that will collect the plastic - our friends have a man who comes and collects all their plastic, bottles and tins - no charge as he then sells it - just a thought? You guys are doing a great job 😇

Do you plan to make a short video about the price you paid for your land and the house ? It would be really interesting.

Learn from your mistakes. Shouldn’t you have supervise the digging of the trenches. The layout, depth, width, the direction & straightness, etc. When I visit my friend in Isaan, I always try to buy things not packed in plastic for their everyday used. Yeah plastics are hard to disposed. Planted a few mango sapling we bought from a shop years ago. Many years later, my friend point to the trees and said ‘These are the mangoes we bought last times’ 😳 Wow! p.s. Every household grows mangoes. No one buys. Plant only for self consumption.

Whats the expression? This is Thailand? tbh things are much better in modern Thailand than years ago (thinking back 30 years); modern Thailand is a nice balance between old and new. I suppose the big question for you is can you make a living farming in Thailand? I don't see alot of farmers making money so you might need to try out different things and hussle a bit to make money (like the Thais do). We did bits of Thai farming, and came to the conclusion we would just do it for fun, making our own food and sharing any extra with friends and family. We prefer Thai country (where we live) to Thai city (dirty and noisy). Anyways wishing you good luck, and I am sure this youtube channel will create lots of opportunities for you.

for all your plastic bottles, tins, and glass bottles - I'm sure you can find someone local to take them away coz they can make some cash. We then just burn the pastic wrappings etc

You Are complaining ,.. sorry, but I had to say that. Lol,lol,lol But you guys are blessed in so many ways ,you will figure it out.. You just needed to vent.. We hear you….

Smokeless stove burner..helps...

Needs a few goats to keep the grass and weeds down, make sure your trees are protected if introducing goats. Liner is not the ideal way to hold water, try clay. The chickens are doing well. Looking good so far.

PLease buy a push lawn mower to cut the grass each week. 7:00

to many you guys are living the perfect life i know id swap in a heartbeat . Ive been planning for the last 8 years to move out there and next July its happening , i just had to be sure the money wouldnt run out first as im only 54 . How do you guys go about Visa's ? Last thing could you fill the plastic bottles with sand/dirt and make walls out of them maybe even kennels for those strays to sleep in ?

What province are you living in with your beautiful family? Looks very interesting!

I’m literally going to quote ‘where it gonna flow dinnaman’ constantly now 😂😂

The sky at night In the village area's are amazingthe stars are great to look at. why don't you get rid of the trenches and replace them with two big ponds like your other one.

as for plastic bottles , you'll need to stop buying bottled beverages and just pick up potable water along with your supply of chicken feed and what-not using a large capacity water tank, which would mean buying a work-horse pick truck. Lemon water is the BEST.

Cool Video! How much did you guys pay for the house and the land? I'm looking at a 3 rai farm with a house and it is 7 Million Baht - you guys must have had some great jobs back in England!

to be more consistent the title should read "white women, brown man and two light brown young children".

Just fill them in. Simples !!!!