Thanks for the interview I had a great time doing it and hope your viewers enjoy the content, may not seem like it but I was nervous..Cheers mate 🙏 🇦🇺 🇹🇭
Peter, we took a left turn on a bike up there once, and ended up riding through the Thai Special Forces compound. That was an experience! Got chased down by men in black. Note to self: Don’t always follow Google maps for a shortcut back to Chiang Mai 😂
Hey hey! Go Pete! Oh behalf of the modeling community, we are all so happy to see you living out your dreams. You deserve it my friend! Thanks for bringing us along on your journeys 🐌✌️
great interview jon and peter, 100% about the cost of living in Australia pushing people to make the move. I'm more keen to check out the modelling as i have dabbled with tamiya kits before
I lived in the Arctic for ten years and the jungles of Mexico for another decade. I love Chiang Mai particularly for it's lack of extreme. It just seems to have a great, gentle balance and plan to stay here...
@@JonInChiangMai Some places of extremes. From cave surveying to Arctic mountain survival. I am old enough to now appreciate the flat and much less extreme nature of Northern Thailand and particularly Chiang Mai.
CM has extreme pollution and fairly extreme heat at the moment. Not very well thought out. There are definitely much less extreme places even within Thailand
Honestly Jon if you have never modelled in your life, never had the inclination to do so, Pete is the Man to watch and learn from. Good video I'd say but then I follow Pete.
Currently on my last 2 months here in West Africa, been here for 3 years for work and will be retiring in 2 months then me and my family will be heading to Chiang Mai. I can’t wait to explore and do all the fun stuff like shopping for a bike, discovering the waterfalls, etc. Hope to meet you both when I get there.
Peter, you are an inspiration ! I am working towards a life in Thailand. The thought of living there helps me go to work each day. This interview made my day !
Thanks for the great interview Jon. Very informative. I've subscribed to both Peter's channel and yours as a result. Additionally, I am most likely retiring to Chiang Mai in a little over two years.
Nice interview Jon! You could mention to Peter that if you google Discovering Thailand or even go to youtube and type in Discovering Thailand, his program doesn't always come up. That might be one reason for no views. I good program for both would be to talk about other places you've visited and say this and this is nice about the other country but this is why you chose Chiang Mai over thoaw over cities. Also, Jon, it looks like the hat could cast a shadow or seem a little dark. You look better without the hat. I know the sun can really be bright.
I am very pleased where you're taking your channel. Great interview, keep it up! Maybe you can find expats who are also willing to show off their condos. 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
These videos give me some peace of mind. I am trying to get to Thailand in the next 4 months or so. I am on VA money and make 1075 a month. Worries that it won't be enough. I am pretty sure now after seeing a lot of budgets that I could live just fine on that.
We have done the same as Peter. We left Adelaide South Australia in April 2021 and moved to Thailand. We retired early with the same thoughts especially the realisation that the extra years of work aren't really getting us more savings against the cost of living. Never regretted leaving Australia and we're about the same age with the same waiting for our super and our Australian pension is still a few years away. Only problem with Chiang Mai is the AQ for a few months but at least Malaysia is close for that time of year.
Do you realize you will have to go back to Australia to apply for the Old Age Pension. Then you will have to spend at least two Years in Oz before coming back to Thailand.
@@darwinstubbie860 yeah all good, that's in about 5 years. Stay for the required 2 years and off again. We're happy enough with doing whatever is needed. Definitely not just saying nah don't pay us our pension, that would be a bit dumb!
@@AuntyJack123 Perhaps I am dumb. I was in Thailand 7 Yrs already when I turned 66, right after Covid started. My gut feeling told me not to go back. No way I would stay in Oz for two years.
Prices have and will continue to increase! Retiring in Thailand for $1000 a month won't be enough. Add in health insurance, transportation, taxes, and visa costs, and your costs will exceed $1000 a month.
Very interesting I just turned 60 and decided to sell up everything in Australia and move to Thailand as well I'm an ex truck driver the way the transport industry and Australia has gone is just downhill
I have the same plan iam in the uk and 60 yrs old in October. I have been grafting hard and saving even harder for the last two yrs . Next yr i will be heading over for my retirement visa its funny even though i am working hard and saving harder i have a big smile on my face 😂 there is no way iam working in the uk till the retirement age of 67 yrs old i now have enough funds to last well in my retirement especially when i sell up and my uk pension kicks in . There are pensioners here that havent any choice but to either eat or heat there house ❤
If you golf, Lanna and Hang Dong Golf are cheaper than the rest, which are more resort style courses, aimed at Koreans and Japanese golfers, who pay a lot in their own countries for golf.
Good luck with the diabolical air quality for 5 months a year. Do some research on the high rates of cancer etc. Chaing Mai has 20-30x the safe AQI every single day Dec-April.
@@JonInChiangMai Very different stats to what I ve seen by a team.of Thai Doctors. Nonetheless its stinks and its very harmful. 160-180 pmi. Worst polluted city in the world
@@JonInChiangMai To make that bare any sense or carry any logic, how many die in southern Thailand per 100,000? Otherwise your statistics mean nothing. Eg If its 10 versus 18 its 80% higher
A word of warning for Australian retirees hoping to retire to Thailand and who get the Australian Pension. Under the new tax law in Thailand, because the Australia Pension is tax exempt back home, it will be taxed at 35% in Thailand. You also have to pay for things in Thailand that are free for Pensioners back home, like medical and dental care and transport subsidies. It is very difficult to get private health insurance in Thailand in your 70s. You are considered a high risk, and you have to disclose any illnesses you had in Australia as these will be regarded as pre-existing. The other thing is that your Pension may be reduced because you cannot claim rent assistance and utilities subsidies either. In my case my Australian pension would be reduced from $1300 to $900 per fortnight and taxed at 35%, leaving me with only $600 per fortnight to live on in Thailand. Thats a 50% cut. So it's a no go for me. I am far better off staying at home.
Yes those receiving tax-exempt pensions are now taxed, but certainly not taxed at 35%, that is incorrect. 35% is the maximum tax rate here and the tax rates are progressive. The first 210,000 is free of tax, the next 150,000 is taxed at 5%, the next 200,000 at 10%, the next 250,000 at 15%, the next 250,000 at 20%, the next 100,000 at 25%, the next 200,000 at 30%, everything over that is then taxed at 35%. I am talking baht of course. Hope this helps those doing the sums and looking at the costs of living here.
Also note that you only become liable for this tax on the amount you REMIT to Thailand in the tax year. So if you leave part of it in your home country, or outside Thailand, then you escape tax on that amount until you take it into Thailand.
Hey Jon I think this style of video is better I for one unsubbsribed from your channel a month ago I got bored of just looking at the inside of condo's Will re sub right now
Hi Jon; nice interview. From a viewing perspective I think it would be more cohesive if you were both filmed at the same distance. You appear too close compared to Peter. Also it is distracting when you jump from shots of him to you because of this change in focal distance.
I’m Australian in Chiang Mai now. Can’t wait to get back to Australia. Too hot and humid here. And I miss Australian breakfasts and food. Also crazy busy here.
You have to be living in Australia to apply for the pension and it's only about 450 dollars a week 900 fortnightly yes then you can get it while living overseas but if your living overseas and come home to apply for the pension the pricks make you live in Australia two years before you can go back overseas to live or they will cut your pension off yes you can go for short holidays but not live they make it hard because they don't want you spending your lousy pension payment in Thailand the best idea is wait till your 67 get the pension then leave and that's OK that's if we make 67 but that's another story why do you think they put it up from 65 to 67 they want us in the pension for as lifetime😮 as possible
@@tomiasthexder7673 I had to look him up being from the US. So he originated that phrase? I admit the joke was stolen, I just didn’t know where it began. Now I know.
Surely the most boring aspect about Thailand vlogs is other foreigners, why they moved here, how long for and how they are doing. I moved here to be interested in Thai topics, not yet another foreigner interview, I'd rather listen to a dog barking.
Check out Peter’s channel youtube.com/@DiscoveringThailand?si=YuLBV7IP412k1-Oc - also sorry for the cricket noises in this video!
Can you send your business email
I want to talk to you related to your business
Thanks for the interview I had a great time doing it and hope your viewers enjoy the content, may not seem like it but I was nervous..Cheers mate 🙏 🇦🇺 🇹🇭
Thanks for coming on Peter!
@@JonInChiangMai I watched the vids and joned your channels. Cheers folks. Great job!
Is this the famous Peter from Discovering Thailand??
@Swimming11 I think that's true now, but I don't retire for another 10 years, so hopefully, I won't have to... fingers crossed 😉
Peter, we took a left turn on a bike up there once, and ended up riding through the Thai Special Forces compound. That was an experience! Got chased down by men in black. Note to self: Don’t always follow Google maps for a shortcut back to Chiang Mai 😂
Nice down to earth interview with Peter. Hope life goes well for him in Thailand.
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I totally agree, living costs and the evolving culture in Australia feels a bit "dead end" to me too. Thanks for the insights.
Thanks :)
It's great how you highlight the condos of CM along with what makes it ideal. Yes to more interviews with folks who have chosen to live there!
Thanks mate, yeah I'm hoping to do more :)
"Just do it!" ... love this spirit and attitude! Carpe deim. Thanks for a great interview. Best to you and Peter.
Great interview with Peter, very interesting listening to another Australian's view on moving to Thailand.
Thanks mate :)
Hey hey! Go Pete! Oh behalf of the modeling community, we are all so happy to see you living out your dreams. You deserve it my friend! Thanks for bringing us along on your journeys 🐌✌️
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great interview jon and peter, 100% about the cost of living in Australia pushing people to make the move. I'm more keen to check out the modelling as i have dabbled with tamiya kits before
Thanks mate
I lived in the Arctic for ten years and the jungles of Mexico for another decade. I love Chiang Mai particularly for it's lack of extreme. It just seems to have a great, gentle balance and plan to stay here...
Can you share more about that balanced vibe?
Yep Chiang Mai is awesome, sounds like you've lived in some great places!
@@JonInChiangMai Some places of extremes. From cave surveying to Arctic mountain survival. I am old enough to now appreciate the flat and much less extreme nature of Northern Thailand and particularly Chiang Mai.
@@jnsa9454 😂
CM has extreme pollution and fairly extreme heat at the moment. Not very well thought out. There are definitely much less extreme places even within Thailand
Honestly Jon if you have never modelled in your life, never had the inclination to do so, Pete is the Man to watch and learn from. Good video I'd say but then I follow Pete.
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Currently on my last 2 months here in West Africa, been here for 3 years for work and will be retiring in 2 months then me and my family will be heading to Chiang Mai. I can’t wait to explore and do all the fun stuff like shopping for a bike, discovering the waterfalls, etc. Hope to meet you both when I get there.
Nice, good luck on the retirement to Chiang Mai :)
See you all in a few months, finally detaching myself from a career traveling the world.
Well done taking the leap. I did it 22years ago from the uk to Spain. I have never looked back. Maybe Thailand will come into the equation later….!!!!
Peter, you are an inspiration !
I am working towards a life in Thailand.
The thought of living there helps me go to work each day.
This interview made my day !
Thanks for the great interview Jon. Very informative. I've subscribed to both Peter's channel and yours as a result. Additionally, I am most likely retiring to Chiang Mai in a little over two years.
Thanks! Appreciate that :)
@@JonInChiangMai You’re very welcome Jon. I’ll be sure to look both you and Peter up when I get there!
Peter great inspiration and you will have a good life in Thailand I subscribed to your channel
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Great video, goal setting and achieving your dreams... life your best life Sir, you only get one
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Nice interview Jon! You could mention to Peter that if you google Discovering Thailand or even go to youtube and type in Discovering Thailand, his program doesn't always come up. That might be one reason for no views. I good program for both would be to talk about other places you've visited and say this and this is nice about the other country but this is why you chose Chiang Mai over thoaw over cities. Also, Jon, it looks like the hat could cast a shadow or seem a little dark. You look better without the hat. I know the sun can really be bright.
Thanks mate, yeah his channel should start appearing when searched soon I think. Yeah I prefer without the hat but the sun is brutal and I'm bald haha
You’re not finding him in channel search because he just changed his channel name yesterday. In a week, all will be sorted on it’s own. 🙂
I am very pleased where you're taking your channel. Great interview, keep it up! Maybe you can find expats who are also willing to show off their condos. 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Thanks, yeah that would be good to see as well :)
If I lived in Chiang Mai, I would have to get away from February through April just to avoid the bad air.
Most foreigners get out then. Can go to Bangkok or down South are good options during that time.
These videos give me some peace of mind. I am trying to get to Thailand in the next 4 months or so. I am on VA money and make 1075 a month. Worries that it won't be enough. I am pretty sure now after seeing a lot of budgets that I could live just fine on that.
Yep you could live on that amount :)
Some great points on living on a budget! Chiang mai you can certainly love life here on what can be seen as a tight budget.
Yep true, most budgets can find a place in Chiang Mai!
We have done the same as Peter.
We left Adelaide South Australia in April 2021 and moved to Thailand. We retired early with the same thoughts especially the realisation that the extra years of work aren't really getting us more savings against the cost of living.
Never regretted leaving Australia and we're about the same age with the same waiting for our super and our Australian pension is still a few years away.
Only problem with Chiang Mai is the AQ for a few months but at least Malaysia is close for that time of year.
Do you realize you will have to go back to Australia to apply for the Old Age Pension. Then you will have to spend at least two Years in Oz before coming back to Thailand.
@@darwinstubbie860 yeah all good, that's in about 5 years. Stay for the required 2 years and off again. We're happy enough with doing whatever is needed. Definitely not just saying nah don't pay us our pension, that would be a bit dumb!
@@AuntyJack123 Perhaps I am dumb. I was in Thailand 7 Yrs already when I turned 66, right after Covid started. My gut feeling told me not to go back. No way I would stay in Oz for two years.
@@darwinstubbie860 ok up to you. Good luck to you 👍
Great interview. Really thoughtful questions.
The waitress hovering in the background at 4:36 was only one of multiple highlights.
Thanks, haha yeah
If you don't drink, smoke, and gamble, you can afford to live well.
Yep true!
The Lucky Country is no longer
So true. And if you don’t womanize or overdo it you’re set to go.
Good content, really nice guy as well. Greetings from Germany
Thanks mate :)
Good interview Jon, and Peter was very interesting.
Thanks!
subbed! i love chiang mai i plan to move and retire there as well...keep them videos coming boss
Thanks!
I did see a familiar face in the thumbnail and it wasn't you, Jon. I did watch some videos from Peter already. Seems to be a nice guy.
Haha yeah, 2 RUclipsrs in one thumbnail :)
Prices have and will continue to increase! Retiring in Thailand for $1000 a month won't be enough. Add in health insurance, transportation, taxes, and visa costs, and your costs will exceed $1000 a month.
$1k is still doable, all depends on what you want :)
Very interesting I just turned 60 and decided to sell up everything in Australia and move to Thailand as well I'm an ex truck driver the way the transport industry and Australia has gone is just downhill
Thumbs up 👍 Jon
Thanks mate
I have the same plan iam in the uk and 60 yrs old in October. I have been grafting hard and saving even harder for the last two yrs . Next yr i will be heading over for my retirement visa its funny even though i am working hard and saving harder i have a big smile on my face 😂 there is no way iam working in the uk till the retirement age of 67 yrs old i now have enough funds to last well in my retirement especially when i sell up and my uk pension kicks in . There are pensioners here that havent any choice but to either eat or heat there house ❤
Nice! Good luck on the move mate :)
If you golf, Lanna and Hang Dong Golf are cheaper than the rest, which are more resort style courses, aimed at Koreans and Japanese golfers, who pay a lot in their own countries for golf.
Great video!
Thanks :)
My understanding is that Australians must live in Australia for 2 years once eligible for the pension. Until then, it is not portable
What restaurant/coffee shop is that? Looks peaceful.
Hmmm can't remember the name but it was very close to the iron bridge and the bottom of Loi Khro road.
His Thailand channel is gone. Do you know what happened?
Sorry my mistake, the link should be working now :)
👍👍👍👍👍 great points Peter.
Good luck with the diabolical air quality for 5 months a year. Do some research on the high rates of cancer etc. Chaing Mai has 20-30x the safe AQI every single day Dec-April.
About 8 people per 100,000 extra die per year in the north than in the south
@@JonInChiangMai Very different stats to what I ve seen by a team.of Thai Doctors.
Nonetheless its stinks and its very harmful. 160-180 pmi. Worst polluted city in the world
@@JonInChiangMai To make that bare any sense or carry any logic, how many die in southern Thailand per 100,000? Otherwise your statistics mean nothing. Eg If its 10 versus 18 its 80% higher
www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2772351/lung-cancer-pm2-5-deaths-surge-in-the-north this is one of the studies, I’ve seen several
Do some research on high cancer rates in Australian farming areas, he's probably decreasing his risk
The air is almost unbreathable
I wouldn't say unbreathable, but yeah not too good at the moment
A word of warning for Australian retirees hoping to retire to Thailand and who get the Australian Pension. Under the new tax law in Thailand, because the Australia Pension is tax exempt back home, it will be taxed at 35% in Thailand. You also have to pay for things in Thailand that are free for Pensioners back home, like medical and dental care and transport subsidies. It is very difficult to get private health insurance in Thailand in your 70s. You are considered a high risk, and you have to disclose any illnesses you had in Australia as these will be regarded as pre-existing. The other thing is that your Pension may be reduced because you cannot claim rent assistance and utilities subsidies either. In my case my Australian pension would be reduced from $1300 to $900 per fortnight and taxed at 35%, leaving me with only $600 per fortnight to live on in Thailand. Thats a 50% cut. So it's a no go for me. I am far better off staying at home.
What’s a fortnight?
Every two weeks
Yes those receiving tax-exempt pensions are now taxed, but certainly not taxed at 35%, that is incorrect. 35% is the maximum tax rate here and the tax rates are progressive.
The first 210,000 is free of tax, the next 150,000 is taxed at 5%, the next 200,000 at 10%, the next 250,000 at 15%, the next 250,000 at 20%, the next 100,000 at 25%, the next 200,000 at 30%, everything over that is then taxed at 35%.
I am talking baht of course.
Hope this helps those doing the sums and looking at the costs of living here.
Also note that you only become liable for this tax on the amount you REMIT to Thailand in the tax year. So if you leave part of it in your home country, or outside Thailand, then you escape tax on that amount until you take it into Thailand.
@@thailandsnippets901 Where did you get these figures from? The latest I heard was 150k are Tax free, everything above is taxed at 25%
Hey Jon
I think this style of video is better
I for one unsubbsribed from your channel a month ago
I got bored of just looking at the inside of condo's
Will re sub right now
Thanks mate, appreciate that, trying to do lots of different vids from now :)
Hi Jon; nice interview.
From a viewing perspective I think it would be more cohesive if you were both filmed at the same distance. You appear too close compared to Peter. Also it is distracting when you jump from shots of him to you because of this change in focal distance.
Thanks mate, appreciate the feedback :)
What about the smoke in Chiang Mai ?
Common remark. MY THAI GIRLFRIEND. often reason men move to thailand
I’m Australian in Chiang Mai now.
Can’t wait to get back to Australia. Too hot and humid here. And I miss Australian breakfasts and food.
Also crazy busy here.
You have to be living in Australia to apply for the pension and it's only about 450 dollars a week 900 fortnightly yes then you can get it while living overseas but if your living overseas and come home to apply for the pension the pricks make you live in Australia two years before you can go back overseas to live or they will cut your pension off yes you can go for short holidays but not live they make it hard because they don't want you spending your lousy pension payment in Thailand the best idea is wait till your 67 get the pension then leave and that's OK that's if we make 67 but that's another story why do you think they put it up from 65 to 67 they want us in the pension for as lifetime😮 as possible
If you don’t waste your money on booze, smokes, drugs and woman you really will have a better life and have a lot more money…
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I spent most of my money on drugs, alcohol and women, and wasted the rest.
@@mmaranta785 did you end up like George Best? 🤣
@@tomiasthexder7673 I had to look him up being from the US. So he originated that phrase? I admit the joke was stolen, I just didn’t know where it began. Now I know.
Surely the most boring aspect about Thailand vlogs is other foreigners, why they moved here, how long for and how they are doing. I moved here to be interested in Thai topics, not yet another foreigner interview, I'd rather listen to a dog barking.
Your opinion is the minority but thanks 😊
I personally find inspiration from other foreigners, love to hear people’s stories and how people make things work in different parts of the world.
Nobody tells the truth, that's the problem. Nearly every single man 50+ is there for one reason only
@@KeepingItRealBro I'm here for the music
@@clivebaxter6354 Yes and I love the pointy temples and natural beauty of the bush.