Why Everyone Is Moving To Thailand

why are so many asian-americans trying to move to Thailand right now maybe one of us might be let's talk about it hey man let's run the clips I'm the most happiest and at peace that I've ever been here in Thailand something about this environment it just radiates positivity you're so good I think the biggest thing I gained from living here in Bangkok for the past 3 years is being content and realizing I don't actually need much to live a happy simple lifestyle I live in a one-bedroom apartment that is 650 ft I pay 20,000 tibot which is around 550 USD a month I'm actually located right in Tonga Bangkok which is kind of like the Chic kind of fashionable area some people would consider it like the Soho of Bangkok for Wi-Fi I pay around $20 a month for 500 megabytes per second for electricity I pay around $80 a month and for water I pay around $3 a month I am the biggest idiot ever I totally miss this washing machine is over here right in the kitchen all right Sophia The Moment of Truth can you remind us how many square meters this unit is and most importantly what everybody wants to know how much is it going to cost okay this is a one bit room unit on level 51 35 square met before covid the rent was at 35,000 but right now we have coic discount 20,000 for at least one year contract boom listen if you've been on the internet in a Asian-American Asian Asian space for the past 6 months La past year I know you've seen one of these viral videos live in a luxury skyrise condo in Bangkok for $500 a month yeah I mean and I would say it's not just Asians who are making these videos a lot of people are moving to Thailand but I feel like it's for different reasons than it used to be which you know people would assume that oh you want to move to Thailand it's for debaucherous reasons for some reason you talking about the fat ball white guy with a Hawaiian shirt that is one of the archetypes but I think nowadays with asian-americans it's for different reasons David so we're going to break this down for everybody so please hit that like button check out other episodes of the hot pop boys because who knows maybe we'll go to Thailand well actually I'm going to be in Bangkok all of November and all of December so hit me up on Instagram if you guys are plugged up out there David's moving there for two months um by the way guys check out small ass sauce on amazon.com right now um here is just a few of the Asian-American creators Andrew they're all from America raised in America or Canada and that have relocated permanently to Bangkok Thailand is it permanent permanent forever forever it's for the time being right right right it's like just a moment right now I guess and we want to go over it um this is from the Thailand subreddit why are lots of people moving to Thailand and this person came through with a specifically Asian-American perspective basically saying like I just needed a break I I'm moving there for the same reasons that everybody else is but just like I wanted outside of the way that that I want it out of the Asian-American situation let's be for more specific about how asian-americans are treated here maybe maybe he's getting a little tired of it maybe he felt like he's not getting what he should deserve right right right he was saying like maybe uh on the top end asian-americans are capped and on the bottom men there's a lot of Street stuff where obviously asian-americans usually on the receiving end of negative impacts in the streets right and honestly as a guy who I think he's about 31 years old he's probably worked a job he saved some up maybe he has a job that he can work from home he's flexible he's probably single doesn't have a family of his own so he is in a perfect position to move across the world yeah listen anytime you have a gigantic family that completely changes your situation in calculus right so let's get into the 10 reasons why a lot of Asian-American particularly guys but I think Asian-American women too but mostly Asian-American guys why they're moving to Thailand right Point number one Andrew it's very affordable and cheap so basically depending on what country you come from you will like have a lot more purchasing power in terms of purchasing things like rent food those are way cheaper obviously it is more expensive you want to like drive a Porsche around but that's always how foreign brands are cars are always like more expensive overseas right and I would say the thing about Bangkok I visited one time and it's like it has everything a big city has but your your USD your dollar is going to go so much further there it's like I'm not going to say it has the all the things that New York has because it's a different country and different culture but it has like man you want shopping you want nightlife you want uh Health Care you want food you want social uh interactions you want a social life Thailand's there right like whatever your solid core y Hot Yoga Club is they have that there too and it's safe that's another big thing is that in a lot of big cities it's not as safe usually but it's fairly safe in Bangkok right um I do think by the way these could apply to anybody but they apply to asian-americans as well the uh global economy is seeing major inflation in First World countries so for the longest time everybody wanted to be in a first world country that's why a lot of our parents like immigrated from Asia right but right now in First World countries things especially like housing are getting incredibly expensive so if people want to escape it and go to a place that honestly is more seeing their economic boom sort of like Vietnam or La you know but maybe Vietnam and La you know they don't have the systems and all the accommodations that Thailand has I want to say that Thailand maybe even further along its Arc yeah and I I we can't Overlook the fact that there is a lot of Chinese money or Asia money going into Thailand over the past few years not just China but I think other Japan Korea also they have more businesses Indonesia there's a lot of people from from Asia that are moving there right right yeah not just asian-americans even people from like Mongolia that want to get out of the cold um but for a lot of people they're also moving and for like white Americans we know some people who moved to like Puerto Rico or Costa Rica right but that was uh I feel like largely for tax reasons or their xack Community but but it's like it could be for a similar reason because you're like closer to the West right right right right Point number two the economic development is still there like you said in Southeast Asia it's really like far along it's Arc and there's uh apps like grab food Panda they've all been popular since 2020 so basically if you're accustomed to the Western lifestyle of like ordering things off apps and Ubers and things like that they have that infrastructure set up there as well um Point number three Andrew Thai food and culture s cab um tell them do did you like the food when you went the food is great I mean dude Thai food is trending almost in every country that it's introduced in like I don't even know of a single country it's getting more popular in the UK it's super popular in America all cities in America and especially the big cities and I think Tai Cuisine is just people just love it man and Thai people they do a great job they're super hospitable they know how to do restaurants they know how to treat people right they do have good service so honestly Thai food is just dude if you want cheap food and it's still good and like I'm not going to say that if you eat all the street food in Thailand that you're not going to get like you know some upset stomach or some diarrhea but I'm saying you're going to get like that's just eating street food in general non street food is really good too there look Chad GPT said that Thai food is often considered a top 10 food in the world when you rank the Cuisines into about 75 different major regions taii food is often in the top 10 bro top 10 considering how many Thai restaurants there are in America per Thai person I would have to say Thai food is the most popular considering their population Thai food yes you're right given the population of ties in America is the most popular Asian food in America it's the most popular it's most over yeah it's the most over represented it's the most overrepresented food period in America considering their population in America right Thai culture as well people said the the land of smiles they're very warm there is a Buddhist undertone to everything like that and if you guys know about Buddhism that is a very peaceful harmonious religion in even comparison to other ones Point number four American culture is pretty ubiquitous yeah well if you go over there I mean you're going to not only run into some xats uh hopefully some good-hearted he xats but also like just I mean American culture Western culture is is still prevalent out there uh did you know a top three selling car in Thailand is the Ford Ranger oh yeah which is a gigantic truck David do you know how many durians a Ford Ranger can carry right right right the Toyota hux is up there too that uh crazy little bug minivan uh but yeah people were raving about all the Thai McDonald's and Thai KFC menu items man they look so good they got the chicken cone cheesy chicken um I'll try I'm going to try it Point number five but you while there are American products and uh first tier country amenities you're also outside of the American cultural sphere yeah and I think said you know I I think you're going to see and we can all agree that obviously like if you're a tall white American or tall white British person and rich in in Thailand or wherever you go you're still going to get treated nice but ultimately you're still outside of the power of control of the West so you're not really going to have to abide by or suffer from certain Dynamics you know what I mean in Thailand of like being like Oh I'm like the Asian dude I'm the only Asian dude I'm the short Asian dude at my company or whatever it is or uh the dating scene isn't great for me or whatever it's just like you're outside of the well you're outside of the anglosphere to beere Thailand actually is a country that's never been colonized right which is very interesting because a lot of Southeast Asia was colonized by either the French or the Dutch at some point right um yeah but it's outside of all the Western cultural Wars some people call them identity Wars whatever is going on in the west right now whether people think that those are real or imagined or exaggerated there certainly those fires seem to be raging on right now yeah yeah yeah um Point number six it's no longer just cheap debauchery for westerners anymore uh I was reading that there's a lot of more High net worth super skilled or like internationally tiered skilled individuals that are moving there yeah and I think that's good I think it's good for the culture I think that's good for the local people too you know it's not just like having a bunch of people flashing their cash trying to just uh date as many women as they want and not care about what's happening orever I want to buy that I want to buy that yeah yeah no I I think that the caliber of person that is coming to Thailand and we already know some friends and obviously the YouTubers the Asian YouTubers shout out to Paul Lee and Forest Lee right and the many many others who are spending time in Thailand it's like they're like they had good jobs like they're not losers back home these are people well they were successful these are people who were successful but just choosing a different life right now right right right um they also have like a new Visa things so it's like they're changing some of the rules to get more like high net worth like highly skilled xats rather than like some wild Aussies or you know some rambunctious Russians uh number seven they are escaping things that are happening in their Homeland uh so some people are saying that people are escaping serious things like war or like conscript conscription in a war because there's Wars going on across the globe constantly but maybe more right now than there used to be in the past decade or so um people are sick of identity-based bickering it seems like that's a big thing right now in like almost any anger count just like a lot of arguing over identity right and um yeah but even people from Asia are escaping some of the sort of controlled lives that they have because Andrew anywhere in East Asia if you smoke weed you are in really big trouble right anywhere in East Asia I don't care where it is guess where it is quasi legal Thailand and it's the only country in actually all of Asia including southeast Asia where smoking weed is basically like right there are still rules I you're not supposed to smoke out in public but you can buy it and sell it or whatever's like that right right right Point number eight Ty people are really nice and polite guys I just feel like if you just want to say hi to people and bow to people like all right first of all you can go and bow to people in Japan but Japan's more expensive and it's also like a more like silent bow but like if you like to say hi and bow and you know hit them with the the the Buddhist like you know blessing hands or or you know and there's million different cultures that it's called but like that's cool you could do that in Thailand all the time just like right Kum kab Kum and then you just say thank you and it's just like it's just nice people are just nice they're just trying to say hi and smile yeah for sure the warmth and it's Oran it's a real warmth right it's not a warmth designed to put you at ease so they can like scam you or something like that man got shout out to the Buddhism out there shout out to the real warmth man of of Thailand number nine there's a lot of diversity in a city like Bangkok and Tai people are very open-minded so for example Andrew there's a mini Japan Town in a district called Tong called nihan MAA so it's almost like that's just like chains from Japan you know what I mean and that's like a mini Japan Town within Bangkok so it basically goes to show you that Bangkok is like very Pan Asian actually in some ways yeah bangkok's very International very very International and also I mean as we can see right David there's a lot of asian-americans that are there so there's that growing scene and or or TI people that spent a heavy volume of time abroad or in Singapore and like West you know Singapore listen in the past 10 years is how many Thai international students have you met or Thai immigrants who moved here worked and went back or six months in six months out yeah there's a lot more right right right and by the way this is like southeast Asia is booming in general but like you know there's places like Bali and like you know what I mean like there's a different balance everywhere some people say like puket is like too many tourists or too many Foreigner it just depends some people say Bali is kind of like this uh vacation place that's kind of overran by foreigners now right uh in the past like five 10 years and by the way some of the same things I say happen to Bangkok is happening to Jakarta I noticed that they're getting a lot more like International people moving to Jakarta as well High School in Jakarta what's it called modern day Sparta I don't know anyway shout out to song number 10 uh there are some more westernized aspects of Thai culture that are a little bit rare for Asia for example live performance obviously we already talked about the deregulation of marijuana that's like you know for Asia that's considered like revolutionary oh yeah and uh yeah I mean I hope they handle it correctly but like I mean I would just say the healthc care is very impressive out there from what I've seen um and like the amount of gyms and like it's cool that the hotels have or like the motels or the condom Minion or whatever you can rent they have like all the same gym equipment as America like I think that's so cool because like when you go to Europe as I've been to Italy and France they don't got gyms in those hotels those are old buildings obviously they're beautiful architecture from the 1600s or whatever but I'm saying there's not those elevators are tiny and there is nothing modern in those hotels well I think the thing is like Europe they have had infrastructure for so long and then part of their selling point of Tourism to Europe is Heritage but that sort of prevents them from getting hyper modern right whereas if you look at Thailand it's just getting like modern Western infrastructure more recently so they get like the most updated version of it uh Point number 11 DAV I think we got to talk about the social life I mean that's why maybe a lot of Asian guys would move to Thailand right right well Asian American guy specifically right but yeah I mean anybody yeah but because of all these things that we said it's like you know maybe you you feel like just is an Asian guy like I'm I'm not saying like whether you're dating a lot in Thailand or or whatever you choose to do it's like you're just going to go there and feel like you are like a regular person that you're not being looked at as the singular asan Asian guy or like you're weird for being in this bar because you're Asian and like there's no other Asians here I'm not saying that every Asian-American guy goes through this I would say a lot would say at some point in their life they feel it but it's like weird because like I would say in the west the perception of Asian-American guys is like we are like the mouses and everybody else is like uh you know like a larger animal and a mouse is supposed to cower in fear of a larger animal trying to the mouse is supposed to like hop away the mouse is supposed to hop away even though the mouse is like really smart and good at stuff anyway let's get into the reactions from locals somebody said so these are Thai locals mostly this guy said it depends on their true purpose I don't mind foreigners coming here for peaceful retirement same thing for booming healthare but I just don't H like the foreigners who come here to conduct illegal business or subvert the local population or just basically not respect the system oh my gosh conduct illegal business and subvert the locals that s they sound like criminals you do not want criminals in your country or you don't want foreigners who are even uh abusing their let's just say Western passport in order to pull strings and really you know uh overstep what they should be doing well from what I've heard there there have been some issues with that in the past and obviously it depends on the infrastructure of the government or the system's like ability to address those concerns and I think that's why it's good to have like healthy positive like groups of xack guys who are there checking each other and like keeping each other accountable because I feel like you know I don't want to say it's all one type of person but I would assume that the Asian-American guys who move there they're generally pretty respectful yeah because I think they're more fitting in with the local ties than a complete Foreigner to be honest I'm sure they have more maybe speak it's almost like you're like a second cousin that's coming to live with the family or your a first cousin that's coming to live with the family it's like you're kind of familiar and you're already part part of the culture even if you're not of a tie background right um somebody said there are very few places with a summer year round they look stunning and safe and affordable yeah so obviously you don't want to cross political lines Road Safety is a little bit of an issue some I heard with the motorbikes but overall so watch out for motorbikes yeah but I heard overall there are very little racial or religious problems which is quite rare for a developing country cuz a lot of times those you know there's race Wars religious wars Etc and then uh somebody just said man ultimately Thailand has a great balance of everything you would need it might not be 10 out of 10 at everything but the over all combined score just beats a ton of countries and they they went on to say China's too oppressive Japan's too expensive cambodia's too poor Malaysia has high crime rates and Singapore is just too tiny funny the Goldilocks I guess that leaves Korea though I guess I guess Korea is probably somewhere in between like Japan and like Taiwan I guess yeah I think if you're not Korean going to Korea that's true Korea yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah that's true um ultimately man I'm really excited uh I've actually never been to Thailand I've never been to Bangkok I have been to Southeast Asia well you're going to enjoy all the crab Curry the theong I don't know yeah there's just a lot of dishes out there I would say the thing that I'm most excited to eat that I don't get a chance to eat is the uh they have this like hot pot SL barbecue where it's like hot pot on the rim and then barbecue in the middle or Hot Pot in the middle and then Barbecue on the rim yeah I'm trying to remember the name I forgot but yeah I mean I'm I'm looking for uh forward to checking it out uh check out you guys let me know if you know anybody who's like spending a lot more time in Thailand or in Bangkok or they're just visiting or they're thinking about moving there uh leave your email for the newsletter down below if you're uh interested in getting on on this Asian project that I'm working on and hit me up on Instagram if you are out in Thailand out in Bankok because I'm going to be there all November and all December woo all right everybody uh oh real quick I got to say we do have a friend Andrew he was in Investment Banking in New York moved to work in I Banking in Hong Kong and then left the I banking industry completely and invest is investing in small businesses in Bangkok wow so it goes to show you it's not just like you're not just there for like you know which is all good yeah yeah you're not just there for debaucherous fun cheap fun and then you're in and out yeah you're actually like those are people that are investing and adding to the culture here's the thing here's the thing here's the thing and this is about New York or any type of transplant that's coming to a city that has a very strong a pre-existing culture you want to add to the city somehow yes you're going to add your dollars yes you're going to have fun but you want to add to the city's fabric you want to add to that country's fabric you don't want to disobey you don't want to yeah you don't have to assimilate 100% but you want to add to it you know what I mean for sure for sure I mean as is anywhere in life but like absolutely yeah I mean I think when you add to the fabric of something it's going to give you all that right back all right everybody let us know would you spend time in Thailand are you planning on it let us know in the comments down below uh and until next time we out peace hit me up