The Other Side of THAILAND - Living in Rural ISAAN 🇹🇭🏡 

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I think living in rural Thailand away from “farangs” does not necessarily mean you feel alone. For 47 years I was a career educator in five different international schools overseas. Not only were you pulled in five different directions by the classroom, high expectations were placed upon you by the administrators at these high performing schools. I now appreciate my solitude in rural Thailand and have no desire to meet other “farangs”. My canine smiling buddy and tropical garden keeps me happy. It all depends on one’s personality.

@@williamhartz8707 its not lack of farangs... its more that there is nothing to DO in most villages except work work work and the usual village life with gossip localmarket some partys(marriage funeral or buddha things) and village is pretty dead after 8pm ..many expats dont work..or learn thai..just sits there in there "dreamhouse" and gets bored or worse pretty fast. Hobbys and learning language is vital if u want to live rurallife and thrive there..in all my years in thailand i heard of maybe 1 of 10 really MAKES it in rural thailand and that's mainly because they studied thai and dont drink..most give up after 1-2 years..

and feel alone thing..i do speak pretty good thai(and even some isaan) ..have u EVER tried to tell a simple western joke in thai and seen the point just fly over their head? Mr.bean clips works..but other than that is pretty..gone ..se-asians are different..humor is different upbringing is different as traditions and moral is different..thats WHY "farangs" seek each others company so many times in se-asia. After a while u start to miss somebody to talk to that really gets you. Even after many years in se-asia i have more common with a Finnish man or a German than a Thai even when i dont speak finnish nor german.

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Keep busy is the answer

Hey mate! Thank you, was a little strange speaking for so long rather than the 60 seconds on other platforms, but we'll get there! For sure, when you're back, a trip across the border would be great! 👍

Hey Bro 👍 Thank you I've seen a few of your videos. All the best!

Thank you!

Thank you so much!!

Thanks mate! Appreciate it 🙏

Awesome! Thank you!

Thanks bro! I've done the other socials for a while so I'm used to it 😂. Definitely shows more about them - they are just bored with their own lives.

And of course you know all about running a successful You Tube channel

Glad you enjoyed the first one mate! For sure! Forced uncomfortable situations are when we learn the most I think

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Thank you bro! More vids coming soon 🙏

Hey mate! Thanks for subscribing 😀. Rayong is a great area! If you like it a little quieter than the city, head down to Laem Mae Phim. That area and the other beach areas are great down that way!

All the best!

Appreciate it bro! 🙏

Thank you bro! 🙏

I will do mate! Going to try 1-2 per week to begin with 👍 hope you can make the move soon!

Thank you mate! I've been watching your videos recently for some tips 😄. Need to plan a trip towards where you are soon!

Near Prang Ku!

@@JoeinThailand1 Oh that is quite a way away.

Thank you mate! That's almost the same as my age 😅. Whereabouts are you?

Enjoy!

Definitely looking forward to !!

Oh nice not too far! Have to meet in the city some time

@@JoeinThailand1 Yeah sure, that would be cool. And if your looking for any collab stuff for your channel, I love filming and editing. Bit similar to you, I was mostly doing tiktok, but now want to do something more substantial. So far only made a few videos for youtube.

I met her in Bangkok mate! I'll include some more info on it, in the next one

Thank you 🙏

Thanks bro! Looking forward to seeing you here soon 👍

Drop me a message if ever nearby 😀

Marriage visa. I could also get one through our business, but the marriage one is easier 😀

Hello Thank you for your reply I hope things work out for you@@JoeinThailand1

Ah nice! Whereabouts? Yeh that's true, but I have no plans to go back to the corporate world at all even if everything goes wrong 😂😂

Deposit and mortgage

Making videos?

problem with starting business in Thailand is workvisas and that a"farang "can only own 49% of the company and that people copy you directly when u have some success. I have one Swedish/Finnish friend that lives in central Thailand and have a pretty big oilcleaning factory now with 12 employees and trucks.buying cheap dirty cooking oil from restaurants and factories and clean it for further process. Problem is that many Thai now copies it and starts pricewar with lower standard and salaries and low factory cleaning process

For sure! Already have that style

I have a limited company here with my wife mate, so I work in Thailand. Thanks 👍

@@JoeinThailand1 just wondering because zero free Thailand health care visas etc

@robertbest4398 My wife's a health insurance agent so she sorts my private healthcare - thinks its only 30k a year for me, but I'm only 30 years old. It will get more pricey with age. Visa wise, I could get one through our business, but already have a marriage one.

Yes it was the best idea 👍

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Never did mother Jude raise such a stupid child lol 😂

I'm in Sisaket, about 30-40 mins from the Cambodian Border

@@JoeinThailand1 Go see my friend Gary he runs Ryan's Resort with his wife Nok.Been there since 2009.Good man plenty of knowledge.I live 20k south of Kumphawapi since 2008 an still only Farang in village do get occasional westeners visit with girlfriend.Suffer them but being from London don't deal with Germans you will find out why strange folk.Think Germans only like Germans.You will learn a lot in a few weeks the rest has to be lived.Even then you won't understand Thailand

You sound like the sort to only go there to be fair 😂

No idea what you just said mate😅

My wife already has her own house and I live in it. Not once been asked for money, infact she put all the money in to start our business 👍

Lol you believe what you like bro 😂

Don't be like that just watch as it all Fxxks Up

I've married 2 bargirls from the Phillipines been travelling to Asia for 30years I've seen and heard it all most marriages the man has met the lady in a tourist area that's a fact. People who have met a woman in the province just walking around and bumped into them is very rare you don't see lots of foreigners in the province as for internet sites most of the ladies are freelancers and will ask for money 💵 do your research and you can work it welcome to the real world !

@johnerdelyi4208 Maybe that is the case, but I met her in Bangkok mate 😂 none of the situations you mentioned. She worked a corporate job and even though her family have done very well for themselves, she left to do her own thing for a while. Now we came back to run the fertiliser distribution business as our other company is all online.

@@johnerdelyi4208 Spot on The guy is a Walter Mitty.The thing is some clowns on here will believe him.( Got 24 yrs in this country) Never Did Mother Jude raise such a stupid child.Som Nom Nar

Best of luck!

I love that it annoyed you so much you needed to comment and help boost the post for more people to see 😄

Yet you're watching it on RU-vid for your entertainment

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You know I quit that job right? But anyway, you'll be pleased to know we have our own businesses and make wayyyy more now. Must be a struggle trying to exchange so many baths to baht every month!? 🙂👍

@@JoeinThailand1 lol

Did you comment on the right video? 😂 Also, you'd renounce your British Citizenship, not English, but I guess that tells me everything I need to know haha

@@JoeinThailand1 if thailand is now your forever home. Then you should be happy to renounce your citizenship and get a thai citizenship. It's called :talk the talk and walk the walk. Meaning you believe thailand is heaven for you and you have no reason to ever leave it.

​@@orangeguy3314 Dude, you really need to chill.

@@ccrider8483 you really need to stay in your own lane.

@@orangeguy3314 u do know that is nearly impossible for a westerner to get a Thai citizenship? Have u even been in Thailand other than 2 weeks in Phuket?=)

Hey! The background is there as I have 70k+ followers on other short form platforms that constantly request more background information on me. Referring to other things like the business will help to get repeat watchers as they want to know more about those things. Impossible to cover all aspects of my life in one video. If you're after more lively videos of Pattaya it's probably not the channel for you mate 👍

I notice this too, a lot of people just start these RU-vid channels and talk about absolutely nothing of interest.

@@JoeinThailand1 I said nothing about Pattaya, but I acknowledge the inference and assumption that I am a monger looking for Soi Six videos. I live in the countryside, in Isarn. Actually I have lived in Thailand for 21 years full time and have been to Pattaya four times for a maximum of three days each visit. Nice try though 🙂 By "lively" I was trying to be polite. I actually meant less boring. "More lively" really just means express some personality. Smile. Say something mildly amusing - a witty observation or two. It's a format that is becoming predictable, to be honest. People see other bloggers doing very well and jump on the blogging train hoping to do the same. But they do so by offering nothing, and it's almost getting clichéd. I'm being serious lol. It's getting a tiny bit irritating. I often get a sense that the blogger in question feels as though he is doing the world a favour by launching a channel. Honestly. The perception is "well guys, I'm finally here, how lucky you all are" And yes, you could say "well don't watch if you don't like it" but how can I avoid it?The algo seems hell bent on flooding me with new expat bloggers I used to really enjoy the blogging community. Bloggers were mostly fun. Now it's just uninspiring morons walking through a field saying "this is where we grow our Bananas". You probably think I am being an arse for the sake of being an arse but really all I am doing is challenging you to go against the grain and put a little thought into each video. Assuming you are reading this - which you probably aren't, as I suspect you shadow banned me already.