This is why it's very hard to settle in Thailand 

“They don’t speak English” You mean YOU don’t speak Thai.

Time to learn Thai.

Great rant, I laughed my ass off. Get that beer down your neck and forget about everything 😂

Im not complaining I'm just complaining, are the best videos.

As a guy who used to live in Pathumthani and currently living in Pattaya, I totally understand where you are coming from. Love watching you rant, 555.

This is why I’m currently learning to speak Thai, years before I retire and move there. When I leave the UK and retire there I will be able to converse with the locals 👍

Totally get it, thanks for sharing your honest thoughts and feelings.

I love your 'I'm not complaining but...' videos 😅

Time for you to move home mate!!!

"Its not a negative critique" 🤣🤣🤣

Your fucking brilliant 😅 tell em that's just the way it is!

I am an American retired and living in a small village in Phetchabun. You need to be extremely comfortable in your own skin to comfortably live where hardly any English is spoken. I have my few down days but the majority of my days here are positive and quite enjoyable. But if you are the type of person that needs to converse with other English speaking people you might want to stay in the tourist area's as the village is no place for you.

I sit with my Thai family and have a great time because I make the effort to speak their language and they love that and engage with me. But yeah… sometimes it can feel isolating

Good that you tell the world what thailand is really like. So every knows. It will wake up lots of foreigners. Especially men with thai girlfriends.

I think you need a vacation. In your latest videos you seem stressed and unhappy. Maybe a trip back to the old country for a visit?

The MOST IMPORTANT phrase in this whole video........ "I LOVE IT HERE".

It's good that you accept the responsibility of this problem. It also means you can change it. I'm sure you already know that if you studied some Thai language, it would be far less of a problem. Start with small goals...learn vocabulary and grammar...50 words, then 100 words, get up to 500 words and you'll be golden. Sometimes adults have to do things we don't like or want to do. With the internet and RU-vid, it's all FREE. And the fun thing is you can practice your Thai with her family. They will get a kick out of it and also be very supportive. Then these family gatherings won't be such a problem for you. They may laugh, but it's NOT at you. It's just them expressing happiness. And you can somehow integrate it into your YT channel. Document your progress. That may increase your motivation.

Nice mosquito farm behind you…

You should find a nice local place and enjoy the air con with a nice foot massage.

Mate your not missing much in terms of talking to rural farmers anyway. Maybe for a few laughs but that's about it.

Its everywhere the same its really hard if people dont like you there are always difficult people

It's not so much that you have no desire to learn Thai...it's that you realise that even if you learned it...they would have nothing to say that would be worth the effort of learning Thai....peasants are peasants are peasants...God bless their simple souls....but for a Western in-depth heartfelt conversation..look elsewhere...

4 days a week in Bangkok and 3 days a week with your family as a new routine,don’t feel guilty just go and do it.

Good lad back with another banger. Keep it up please,

Welcome to my world Dave ??

It’s never paradise, it’s always a push pull, good and bad no matter where or with whom you find yourself.

Great video.

I agree it is hard in the village when you speak limited thai but I have found that when the drinks start to flow communication seems to get a bit easier

Brilliant ..Ive been there 15 years and speak Thai ,I get what your on and ive been there seen it done it .. Keep cool.

Yeah I've been mentioning this to my friends. I'm relocating to Thailand this year my girlfriend is from Surin, and if we live there, I will be in the exact same situation you just talked about

You’ve been there for years and you never considered seriously learning the language? Who’s fought is that? You’ve got a limited growth mindset. That’s a result for failure.

I also live in rural Thailand (far south) but I have not found that I feel excluded or left out at all. I think that has a lot to do with your personality.

In a foreign land, you will ALWAYS be a foreigner. You will ALWAYS be seen as a guest. It is nearly impossible to fully integrate into a new society with different culture and language and be recognized by them as one of their own. The best you can do is to put a smile on your face and go along with things that you don't understand. It often feels like isolation but once you fight it, you'll be miserable in a foreign land. That's the way it is and it comes along with the choices we make.

How many cups of coffee do you usually drink in a day?

Did you notice that the others have their shirt buttoned?

So you traveled from WigWang to Pontoon Tanee and cannot stand the heat? How wears denim in this weather.

you should integrate more. i like the rants, and all, but, and i know its not easy. it would be interesting seeing you interact more with your new family to be honest. learn more thai

I agree with you 100%. You are complaining. "Complaining" or "Critiquing" is not the perfect word, though. You are "venting." An example is a parent who would be complaining about driving her child to school. Driving your kid to school isn't a complaint; it is just something you can vent about. You could complain about it; however, (in my opinion) "venting" is a better term.

The first step to integration is mastering (learning) the language

The heat is quite something and needs acclimatisation to. It's in what you eat, when you eat and how much. Fluids is a different topic!

I understand the intense heat, you won't find any relief in Bangkok. In factั่ it will be hotter there at night time.

I can't imagine Agnifilo trying a case, she seems to have difficulty putting her thoughts together.

My freind, I understand, plz go to the gym....maybe swimming in a pool....or a ice cold bath! Manage it my freind! Bless you! I hope to retire there in a few yrs also😊

Why don’t you go to a professional Thai language school like they have all over the country and learn how to speak the language duh!

My second April in Thailand and daily 42 C ! My 3 dogs don't leave the air-conditioned bedroom , hahaha .....

I hate visiting the in-laws in Surin. Boring as he'll. No one speaks English. The brothers all support Liverpool. Squat toilets. Green tap water etc etc. I'd rather just stay in Bangkok and enjoy the conveniences.

Easy for people to pass judgment it just shows their ignorance, I know exactly what you’re talking about and I agree with you

My wives fathers home is in Sing Buri and we visited once from Chiang Mai over Songkran to do that same ceremony where you bless the elders and honor the ancestors. I was actually really touched but the honoring of the deceased family members and strongly feel we should be doing the same back in our home countries. Having said that those central plans regions of Thailand are absolutely horrible and depressing. It's not just you, those places suck and should be avoided at all cost. You're crazy if you think you're going to retire there and do ok. Please don't do it. 🙏

I’m in da nang Vietnam Totally different mind set Culturally and emotionally

I guess you better improve your Thai. Anyway, brilliant rant ! Not easy to be in a com[pletely different culture.

It feels like -1 in London. I need some heat.

I would have stayed and drank with them, I've done that before and it was a good laugh!

I'd be funny if it wasn't so sad. The frustration pouring out of you , I feel for you . It seems like you're just a fixture . Round peg in a square hole. The least she should have done is to inform you, then you could have stayed in BKK

It kind of goes with the territory. I would want to know the language just so I could understand a little of what's being said. Many thai women don't want you knowing thai. Count yourself lucky to have a good one.

I feel your pain lol

I don't want, i never wanted to, hahaha

I live in rural Thailand, l have a few friends here swiss American German all can speak English so lm ok.

This must be a commercial from a Thai language school on why foreigners should need to learn Thai, right ? ... right ? Best thing of a whole extended family or community not being able to speak English, is that it at least keeps away part of the foreigners. Would be completely overrun if otherwise.

Stop being so insecure and do your own thing. Man up.

That denium shirt is too hot for thailand. Wear a thin cotton t shirt instead. Less hot.

Over 104 degrees f not worth it…..im Asian you can’t fool me

Yes mate they never give you any info , which is vital, and can see why ya get passed off, bin there an done but ivory infuriating

Wrong premis. It's very easy to settle here after 30 years never ever considered returning to UK

Have a can of hard'n up😅

You have some patience!

You always complain about the heat, yet you are ALWAYS wearing long sleeve blue jean shirts. WTF. are you to slow to figure it out?? lol. Alpha Omega rarely.

Keeping it real since 1969

Please accept our sincere sympathy for the nightmare your life is 😂😂😂😂😂❤

Sell everything and leave! Head back home and regroup. Get a job, save up and return when you’re fiscally ready.

You can't tell that the ritual is about paying respect to elders?

Great,but you sound totally pissed.

You don't have enough subscribers to pretend that you are making any money from youtube.

You don't belong there.

The buy a coffee helps you not the channel and you have no choice but to stay there because you haven't got a pot to piss in