hi welcome back today i'm going to be talking about the top 10 reasons
why thailand is an amazing place to live so the first thing on the list is you just get a lot more
for your money in thailand and this is across the range of incomes and spending habits you can live
in a 500 a month apartment no problem and even cheaper if you go into places like chiang mai
or udon tani or isan but even in bangkok you can find five six hundred dollar
a month apartments and and live quite comfortably or you can go right up the scale
to very affordable luxury living they all have amazing amenities swimming pool a wonderful gym
sauna steam room game rooms it depends on the place that you go but it's it's all quite
affordable and if you want leave a comment in the description if you want to find prices i can do
some housing tours and so on across that spectrum it's also very easy to get help in thailand so if
you're looking for a maid or a nanny or something like that it's very easy to even get a full-time
maid that can live with you for not a lot of money if you want somebody part-time that's easy too and
you won't break the bank number two getting a decent job is possible in thailand so we have
an affordable lifestyle but you know you need to have an income here and there are a lot of options
for doing that so tech is really starting to blow up in thailand so they're really
looking for tech talent so if you're a product manager or an engineer especially these kind of
things there's a job for you in thailand for sure there are a lot of digital nomads that's work and
live in thailand and make a good living because they're they're working for foreign companies the
other possibility is to start a company here so there are a number of programs that thailand has
to encourage tech startups and uh and they will do it if you start one in chiang mai for instance
you get a few years tax-free which is amazing uh to really help out and there's venture capital
available uh in both in thailand and outside a lot of possibilities for getting income
the third reason there is a variety of living situations in thailand that you can choose so
there's the modern city of bangkok where i live and bangkok's amazing it's really it's really
one of my favorite cities in the whole world but there's also the relaxed city of chiang mai with
cafes and the old city and the ancient walls so on it's really beautiful up there mountains
it's gorgeous you can live in koh samui and work in the tourist industry or or some other
other possibilities phuket there's isan in the northeast of thailand which has amazing spicy food
and much more rural and and much more inexpensive to live or some place like kopangan which has
an abundance of yoga retreats and all kinds of spiritual uh places that you can go and explore
that if you're inclined there so there's a variety of situations and places that you can live in
in thailand with a whole mix of costs associated with it the fourth reason that thailand is amazing
is the food wow wow the food here is amazing certainly thai food is the best in thailand it is
it is incredible and sometimes the best food that you can possibly get here is right on the
street and you can go not only thai food you can go to high-end western restaurants you can go to
cafes they have all kinds of things here there is an abundance of different types of food that
you can choose if you want to go at any night in in bangkok if i want to have argentinian steak i
can walk right down the street and have it if i want to have japanese sushi really nice japanese
food i can go down walk down the street and go get that and anything you can imagine lebanese
food thai food japanese chinese anything that you can imagine you can find it in thailand and
i cannot mention food without mentioning the fruit the fruit in thailand is like no fruit you've had
before it is sweet it is fresh it is wonderful especially when it's mango seasoned or you get
pineapples fresh from pattaya it is incredible the fifth reason it's awesome to live here is the
culture thai people are some of the nicest people in the world they're legitimately nice there is
a culture of of being polite as an expat you feel that thailand is a very welcoming culture and they
have a long history of having foreign people here and having a very good relationship with them so
the culture is fantastic very sweet very nice culture that's that's very easy to integrate with
finally there's a good expat community in thailand so it's i'm putting this in the
culture part because that's all part of being an expat and the culture that you experience so there
is the thai culture that you experience being here but there's also the expat culture there
is a strong expat community and you can find your niche here either with the local thais or with uh
other people from around the world it's really an exciting environment number six of
why thailand is so amazing is you are so close to all kinds of beaches and amazing activities
anywhere you are in the country so you can take a one or a two hour flight for like 60 or 80
round trip and you can be in an amazing beaches you can be on beautiful white sand beaches
some of the best in the world in a very short time from bangkok you can drive for two hours and be
in pattaya not only can you go to the beaches and do things on land but there's all kinds of things
to do in the water so thailand has some amazing diving if you want to learn how to dive you can
go to koh tao and for 300 and about three days you can learn how to dive and you can get your
certification i've recently taken up sailing as a hobby and there are all kinds of places if you
like that to rent a sailboat to get your skipper's license to join in regattas and so on so there's a
lot to do very close anywhere you are in thailand number seven the weather is great it's always
summer here we do have two seasons in thailand there's the dry monsoon season and then there's
the wet monsoon season june july august that's the wet season we usually get a lot of rain it's warm
and but it's cool it's it's tropical thunderstorms and then it clears up it doesn't rain all the time
and then in the months of october to march is the dry season where it's a little bit cooler and
not so much rain really pretty pleasant but it's always summer in thailand so you can always go
out to the beach you can walk out every single day in shorts never need a jacket it's awesome
okay number eight in thailand it's really easy to get around plane tickets are really cheap
you can go almost anywhere in the country for under a hundred dollars round trip which is
amazing if you want to own a car you can do that it's very easy to do and you can drive around
but if you don't you don't need to so the public transportation is is very good in bangkok you just
live next to the thing called the bts which is the elevated train system or there's something called
the mrt which is the subway and that's actually underground other option is you can take grab
which is like uber or lyft it's very cheap very easy to do and and grab will get you anywhere
you can do you can do grab from here to pattaya if you want you know two hours away for not a
lot it's not outside the realm of possibility to get a car and a driver if you want to get a
van with a driver who's full-time that's pretty affordable actually and back into the affordable
luxury that's a luxury but if you have a family and you have a good job sometimes the company will
actually provide a car and a driver for you so that you can get around which is fantastic number
nine the nightlife in thailand is fantastic it ranges from very chill cafes with food some drinks
live music and it's really pleasant it's it's a wonderful experience usually outside or often
because the weather is lovely at night there's all kinds of rooftop bars and restaurants it makes for
a wonderful wonderful experience you can have dinner very affordably on a rooftop restaurant
and have a gorgeous view watch the sunset sipping wine then you can go into sort of the relaxed bars
and and and you know sport bars and that sort of thing where where it gets a bit more lively there
might be a band a live band that's playing bangkok and thailand have a lot of great music options and
you can explore that and then all the way up to mega clubs that play edm and electro and hip hop
or whatever you're looking for and they are packed they are huge anyway the nightlife is a whole
range and it's really fantastic great to explore in thailand some of the best around the world okay
and then finally my top 10 reason why it's amazing to live in thailand is there just feels like
there's so much more excitement here in thailand in southeast asia and in asia in general there's
an energy here that's that's very different and i encourage everybody to really experience that
firsthand especially if you live in europe or america it's a very different feeling so i hope
that helps i encourage you to leave a comment and subscribe if you like this content and i invite
you to explore thailand and come move here as an expat it's a fantastic place to live cannot talk
more highly about it it's really wonderful so hope you have a great day take care bye