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Retiring To Asia
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Hey y'all, my name is Michael, I'm 57, and I retired to SE Asia in December 2023. After working many years in law enforcement, followed by a second career in banking, I wanted to retire while I'm young enough to be able to do some of the things I've always dreamed about! Follow along to see everything I go through and what this new life is like.
Do This ONE Thing and Save 10% On EVERYTHING When Retiring Abroad! 💵
If you're planning to retire to another country, ANY other country than where you live, you NEED to know this secret. If you're already retired and living abroad, you could be wasting A LOT of money! Doesn't matter where you're from or where you're going, you can do this ONE thing and save money!
#retirement #retireabroad #savemoneylivebetter #thailand
I used small examples in the video but let's kick it up a notch. Instead of a 20,000 THB rental let's look at a 4,000,00 THB condo or home purchase. You're a foreigner so you're paying cash. Today, that condo would cost you $116,296, but using this secret, it would only cost me $108,108. Why waste more than $8,000? Watch and learn!
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#retirement #retireabroad #savemoneylivebetter #thailand
I used small examples in the video but let's kick it up a notch. Instead of a 20,000 THB rental let's look at a 4,000,00 THB condo or home purchase. You're a foreigner so you're paying cash. Today, that condo would cost you $116,296, but using this secret, it would only cost me $108,108. Why waste more than $8,000? Watch and learn!
*not finan...
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Sea Zen Condo Bang Saray | High Quality and LOW Prices
Просмотров 9 тыс.12 часов назад
Today I'm showing you several units in Sea Zen here in beautiful Bang Saray. You'll see 1 and 2 bedroom units with some for sale and others for rent, long and short-term. This building is in a quiet area of town, close to the beach but still walking or biking distance to many restaurants, cafes and the night market. You're going to love these rooms and the property amenities. All of these thing...
🏊 Beautiful Bang Saray: Tour This Jaw-dropping Pool Villa Townhouse!
Просмотров 5 тыс.16 часов назад
Wow, here's a townhouse with a pool for you. Three bedrooms with a private pool all to yourself just a few minutes from the beach. Fully furnished and ready to be your home or your rental property. Rachel and I will show you how affordable these are. The cost of living in Thailand is super low and homes like this make life in Thailand a real paradise. Come check it out with us. #thailand #bangs...
Exploring The Death Railway, River Kwai Bridge, And Kanchanaburi!
Просмотров 69421 час назад
Thailand is packed with history and amazing sights to see. Today we're on a day trip to visit the infamous Death Railway, the Bridge On The River Kwai and some of the sights around Kanchanaburi, Thailand. #thailandtravel #kanchanaburi #lifeinthailand #thailand Little excursions like these are very important to enjoying more of your life in Thailand or if you're just here to visit Thailand. Subs...
Bang Saray Condo for Rent Under $250
Просмотров 10 тыс.День назад
Bang Saray is a beautiful little beach town just 20 minutes from Jomtien and Pattaya. Today I'm showing you condos for rent that start at 8000 THB (229 USD). You'll see three units in the video. One is for sale only and the other two are for rent or purchase. Great location that is walking distance to EVERYTHING. You can walk to the night market, morning market, all the shops and the beach is o...
Bankok Sunset River Cruise | Life in Thailand
Просмотров 40021 день назад
Today I'm taking you along on a private long-tail boat Bangkok sunset river cruise. We'll visit some amazing places and see some gorgeous sites. Take a look at what life in Thailand is like. Whether you just here to visit Thailand or living in Thailand as an expat, you really should get out and enjoy the beautiful scenery of amazing Thailand. #bangkok #Thailand #thailandtravel The best way to s...
🏊 Big Pattaya Pool Villa for Rent - Or Custom Finish Another to Buy
Просмотров 1,6 тыс.21 день назад
Today we're looking at a Pattaya pool villa to rent. This neighborhood is in a great location near easy access to Bangkok, Pattaya, Utapao and more. Very affordable at under $34 per day equivalent. You can relax by your own pool in a big villa. Would you rather own your own pool villa? You can decide on the finish package, with or without pool, and grab the last one available in the neighborhoo...
❓Answers to Your MOST Asked Questions about LIVING in Thailand.
Просмотров 2,1 тыс.28 дней назад
How do I get a retirement visa in Thailand? Can I extend my stay if I'm just a tourist? How do I open a bank account? What do I need to do to get a Thai driver's license? What do I need if I want an education visa? These are some of the most asked questions about living in Thailand or staying longer. If you've wondered about these things, this video will answer those questions and more as I sit...
Top Deals On Prime Pattaya Condos For Rent Or Sale!
Просмотров 4,1 тыс.Месяц назад
Great central location that makes getting to all of the Pattaya nightlife, Pattaya Beach, Walking Street and more super quick and convenient but it doesn't feel like city living. Check out Olympus City Garden with us. We'll show you 1 and 2 bedroom condos for sale or rent. Learn more about the cost of living in Thailand and what moving to Thailand or retiring to Asia is really like. #pattaya #p...
🚀 Quick + Easy + CHEAP: Don Mueang Airport To Central Bangkok
Просмотров 626Месяц назад
Want to know how to get from Don Mueang to Central Bangkok fast, easy and CHEAP? Flights in and out of Don Mueang Airport (DMK) in Bangkok are increasing. There's even a new free shuttle bus between DMK and BKK if you're flying into one and out of the other. Today I'll show you a fast, easy and cheap way to get from DMK into the city center. One of the best things about living in Thailand is th...
AWESOME Central Pattaya Condos for Rent
Просмотров 3,8 тыс.Месяц назад
Take a look at this! Bigger one bedroom units in an amazing location that is walking distance to Walking Street, Pattaya Beach, baht bus, and all of the action in Central Pattaya. This is one of my favorite buildings I've seen, especially if you want to be in the middle of the action. #pattaya #pattayacondo #lifeinthailand #retiringtoasia The best way to support me and the channel is by hitting...
Hot New Pattaya Condos In A Prime Location!
Просмотров 2,3 тыс.Месяц назад
Hot New Pattaya Condos In A Prime Location!
Guide To Retirement In Thailand: Living The Dream On A Budget!
Просмотров 14 тыс.Месяц назад
Guide To Retirement In Thailand: Living The Dream On A Budget!
Cha Am Beachfront Condos 🌅 Super Affordable Prices Near Hua Hin
Просмотров 4,3 тыс.Месяц назад
Cha Am Beachfront Condos 🌅 Super Affordable Prices Near Hua Hin
How to take the TRAIN from Hua Hin & Cha Am to BANGKOK
Просмотров 1,6 тыс.Месяц назад
How to take the TRAIN from Hua Hin & Cha Am to BANGKOK
Luxurious Pool Villa In Hua Hin - Ideal Location And Ready For You!
Просмотров 8 тыс.Месяц назад
Luxurious Pool Villa In Hua Hin - Ideal Location And Ready For You!
Bangkok to Hua Hin By Bus 🚌 Hotel and Market Tour Too!
Просмотров 6 тыс.Месяц назад
Bangkok to Hua Hin By Bus 🚌 Hotel and Market Tour Too!
Unbelievably Affordable Hua Hin Condos 🤑
Просмотров 22 тыс.2 месяца назад
Unbelievably Affordable Hua Hin Condos 🤑
What?! Dinner For Two In Thailand Costs How Much?!
Просмотров 1,4 тыс.2 месяца назад
What?! Dinner For Two In Thailand Costs How Much?!
Pratumnak Value Condos. Check these out.
Просмотров 8 тыс.2 месяца назад
Pratumnak Value Condos. Check these out.
Explore Chiang Mai with a Doi Sutep Sunrise Temple Tour
Просмотров 3742 месяца назад
Explore Chiang Mai with a Doi Sutep Sunrise Temple Tour
🌟 Spectacular Views And Deals! Pratumnak Condos For Rent Or Purchase
Просмотров 4,3 тыс.2 месяца назад
🌟 Spectacular Views And Deals! Pratumnak Condos For Rent Or Purchase
From Honeymoon To REALITY: My First 6 Months In THAILAND
Просмотров 12 тыс.2 месяца назад
From Honeymoon To REALITY: My First 6 Months In THAILAND
Close Call At Thailand's Mae Klong Train Market In Bangkok!
Просмотров 4732 месяца назад
Close Call At Thailand's Mae Klong Train Market In Bangkok!
Secrets & Tips For Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK) + Navigating Pattaya Bus Chaos
Просмотров 24 тыс.2 месяца назад
Secrets & Tips For Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK) Navigating Pattaya Bus Chaos
He Sold EVERYTHING and Moved to THAILAND | Regret It?
Просмотров 2,1 тыс.2 месяца назад
He Sold EVERYTHING and Moved to THAILAND | Regret It?
Spectacular Jomtien Beach Views Plus Fabulous Short Term Rental Offer!
Просмотров 5 тыс.2 месяца назад
Spectacular Jomtien Beach Views Plus Fabulous Short Term Rental Offer!
Soi Cowboy | Walk Down Famous Bangkok Party Street
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Soi Cowboy | Walk Down Famous Bangkok Party Street
Can A Luxurious Pool Villa In Thailand Fund Your Retirement?
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Can A Luxurious Pool Villa In Thailand Fund Your Retirement?
I got very lucky i just bought a condo when the thai bhat hit a weak point against sterling which made it about a 3% difference in my favour .. i think your peak 7% will be more difficult to achieve in reality but the theory is sound in that when you have fixed dates for financial data being released you can predict currency movements to a certain degree 7 % everytime is unlikely
Check the charts and make the move when it's right. Simple math doesn't lie. Congrats on the condo and timing.
Thank you very much for this information,I just found your channel,
You're welcome and welcome. Hope you enjoy it.
you will be paying half in tax
Not at all accurate
Right on! Livin' it!
Enjoying it
Very much appreciated this tip! Thanks friend.
Hope it helps.
I would love that 2nd place, the 40m2 studio but I don't want a yearly contract. Im looking for month to month, tell me do these places do month to month?
Sorry, only yearly contract. Send me an email. I think Rachel has some monthly Pratumnak units.
Great video. I am already using wise but will keep an eye out on future exchange rates. I’ve added the alert as you’ve mentioned. I’ve moved to Thailand and looking for any tips and tricks I can find. As a side note, were you in Central Marina last week? If it wasn’t you, you have a doppelgänger. Rob Pattaya.
I was there but I think more than a week ago. I don't keep track of time much.
Good video. Using wise since 2 years. Didn't know about the peaks and downs, will do it 👍
Glad it was helpful!
Wise trigger feature and interest rates are really good. Thanks for sharing.
You bet
Hi Michael. My name is Shawn and I moved to Jomtien with my wife a month ago. I know about the interest from Wise, but it says you have to be a US resident. We do have a US address with Wise but live here full time. Can we hold money in Wise and get interest without breaking the law?
If you're still a US resident, you're not breaking any laws, regs or policies. I'm still a legal resident of VA paying state and federal taxes.
@RetiringToAsia Thanks.
Wow. Moving to Hua Hin in early October from New Zealand. Just had a look at NZD to THB exchange rates - looks like at least a 10% trough-to-peak variation. Didn't realise how easy it was to set up the exchange parameters on WISE. Not often you can get a 10% ลดราคา (lót-raa-kaa) with under 2 minutes work!!! ขอบคุณ ครับ (kòp-kun kráp).
Awesome! Enjoy the move. Hua Hin is great.
@@RetiringToAsia Starting off by doing 1 month of volunteering work with 'Rescue Paws' in Khao Tao. Still deciding between Hua Hin, Cha Am and Jomtien for my retirement - might spend a month in each to help me decide!
Great info on the time to get currency at times to benefit all of us,,,. Thanks for the heard up.
Thanks for watching.
wow great advise, I have a wise account already so I'm halfway there...lol. but I don't have a Thai account yet.
Great. All you have to do, when the rate is good, is hit that Convert button and you're set.
Awesome video, finally someone explained the famous wise app. Only one question, for those that don’t have an actual bank account in Thailand, how do we go about getting the funds once there? -any other way to collect the money transfer to the Thai account in wise once on site?
Without a Thai bank here, I think the only way to pull funds from Wise is with the debit/atm card and I believe, not sure, it's tied to your home funds and not the converted Thai funds. Check with Wise for more details or confirmation. Opening a bank account is super easy if you use an agent. I did a recent video interviewing the agent I use for everything. Check that video out for details on opening an account next time you're here.
Great information it makes a lot of sense, great content as usual much appreciated
Thank you
Very good info on retirement thank you😊
Thanks for watching
Smart 😊
Once in a while I'm like that. 🤣
One more question please: How do I drill down to that page on google finance?
Shoot me an email. No need for Google finance.
You dont save anything, if you have a budget of $2000 a month, whether you get 69,000 or 70,000 baht, its still $2000 a month. So you are not saving anything, you just have an extra 1000 baht to play with.
😂😂 new math? Since we don't use dollars here...your $2000 got you 68,000 baht, but I got 74,000. If your budget is 50,000 THB/Mo., yes we both pay 50,000 but I have more left over. Looks like a savings to me but you do you. Thanks for watching.
I don’t live in Pattaya yet, so can I open a Thai bank account from the US? I hear it’s not easy. Great info!
You can't. To open a Thai BANK account you have to be here and have a Thai phone number but you can open a Baht account with Wise and use this method to get baht cheaper.
Ok, thank you.
Amazing content. Thanks for sharing (I think Wise is brilliant too)
Thanks for watching
You’re on it! Already had mine set to 37 automatically after it fell below of course 🤪 See ya in October 😎 Drinks on me 🍻
Sounds good. Thanks for watching.
Great, how much did it cost? Length of time? How to organise?
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Great video...looks like you have settled in nicely to your new life...I've been following you since before your move. Thank you for the great, informative, and entertaining content. I LOVE IT..."If you've got ugly comments, keep 'em to yourself. Nobody wants to hear 'em"...lol...
Thank you for sticking with me!
Thank you, great info. Subbed fair way back. Great channel 👍🇦🇺
Thank you!
Outstanding video! Great advice and step-by-step how to - well done. Thank you for preparing this. Cheers!
Glad you found it useful. Thanks for watching.
Awesome video, thanks for the great info
Thanks for watching
Super brilliant! Wow you nailed it. So I have a question say I have balances in both USD and Thai Baht and I’m using a physical WISE Visa card at the local Lotus store the card reader takes from the USD side how do I prevent that so it pays whatever I’m buying from the Thai Baht side… hmmm let me know thanks Michael great video 👌🙏🔥
Good question, and sadly, I don't know the answer.
@@RetiringToAsianonetheless lincredible video❤🙏💕 I gotta find out
You should be able to ask to use local currency no conversion definitely at ATM but I would expect in store also
@@daveholt5676 hmmm I will try this on the next purchase thank you!
I want to thank you for providing extremely useful information. Awesome job...I owe you a coffee when I get there.
Awesome thanks.
Absolutely love this video. More tips and tricks like this please. I always do the same thing, convert my BHT when I get more, but never broke the pattern down the way you did here.
Thanks so much. Glad you liked it.
Wait, so you can open a savings account with Wise and keep some funds in Baht? Is there a limit to how long you can keep it that way?
You saw my account page. I keep a balance of Baht and dollars. Transfers from baht to Thailand move faster than if I transfer from my usd account too. It's NOT a Thai bank account. Just an account holding converted funds.
I use Wise all the time for quick transfers but have seen reports before of peoples Wise accounts getting hacked. Therefore I'm nervous keeping any large balances in there
It maybe my old laptop that is the problem, but that Wise link is not working, not sure if anyone else is having the same issue.
I just checked it and it's working for me. Try copy and paste to a Chrome browser. What country are you in?
@@RetiringToAsia Jomtien Thailand just up the road from you, 👍
did copy and paste work? if not, email me and we can figure it out.
Excellent video. Covers everything I have been pondering about transferring money when I finally get to move. I don't think it could have been more complete without becoming over-talkitive. Absolutely the best Thai video clip I have seen in over three years scouring for info. Thank you so much.
Wow, thank you so much for that.
Do you think the highs and lows of baht value are correlated with high and low season? Thanks for the info btw.
Possible. The current strength of the Baht is said to be coming from the PM change but not sure. Might blow the October pattern. 🤞
I have an extremely savy Thai who shops for anything big for me in Thailand, with her seemingly never ending ways of obtaining discounts, there's always a good saving...plus converting funds at the right time...a win win.
Ok, you might get things cheaper than me! 🤣🤣
@@RetiringToAsia I'm just thinking she has contacts in the right places, yet she laughs when I suggest such 😅
Excellent vlog, thank you. Have you ever wondered what the correlation is with so many male expats in SE Asia having tattoos? Much more than the average of males in one's home countries.
555 nope. Can't say I've ever wondered that. 🤔 Until now....
@@RetiringToAsia Definitely has to be some correlation, as it's much more than just coincidence.
Certainly supply and demand. Demand for baht is higher November to February because it's peak season. Makes sense.
@@RetiringToAsia ?
My guess is it is because many tattoo folks have a personality it's very high in creativity and trait openness... And my guess is, those same people are the type of people that would leave their home country and go live Halfway Around the World....
Excellent informative video, well done
Easy to do but most people don't think about it. Thanks for watching.
Arbitrage away....smart
Arbitrage made easy. 😀
The easiest way to save money when you're living in another country.
Love your Videos I am comming over in Dec 24 first out of country. Do you have a consulting service to help people come there and get adjusted. Thanks is there a way to contact you.
Thanks for watching! You can email me retiringtoasia@gmail.com
Great place. Is it too quiet there and too far from Pattaya?
Not for me but that's a question only you could answer for yourself. I like it quiet and not busy or jammed with traffic.
Im grateful for my financial team. They are generating significant income for me, for a fee of course, that I plan using for retirment. Im going to keep my savings and immediatley start drawing my option premiums and dividend income in retirement. I have a better peace of mind if I have those savings in my back pocket for emergencies.
Very nice units at a great price! You did a great job with your presentation and explanations. Thank you!
Thank you. I appreciate it.
Great video as so well down and what a deal!! What would you guess electric runs in the 1 bedroom? I would guess a lot with thpse windows.
Electricity isn't expensive here. Lots of shade as you saw in the video and blackout curtains. It depends on how much you run the AC vs. just use the breeze and a fan. Easily under 2000 THB to run AC a lot. My bill is usually 800-1100 in a 2BR villa.
Fantastic video woow great price thanks
Thanks for watching
Such beautiful scenery in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. Have you been to the Death Railway?
Great video my friend. 👍🏼 Thanks for sharing your time with us. Cheers from 2 Canadians 🇨🇦 living in Mexico.🇲🇽🥰✌🏼
Thanks for watching from Mexico.
I'll Offer and Buy that Luxurious Villa in Hua-Hin for 4 Million BTH....Cash....
hahaha. It sold full price. Please don't waste people's time with low ball nonsense offers.
@@RetiringToAsia ....Offer just went Down...3.5 Million BTH....🙂
😂
Where did these awful subtitles come from
The accuracy wasn't good. Was hoping it would be better. Next time.
i like the subtitles.
I especially liked being able to caption in Thai but was not impressed by the accuracy of the captions. I'm still working on it.
great video. Like the range of units you shared in one video and the captions are great. Thanks
Thank you. Used new captions service and have to work on the accuracy. I like that I can now include captions in Thai.