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SOI COWBOY suffered a flood and outdoor tables were built separate from the dancers who are inside and some expats like to drink with friends and only step inside to use the toilets
Being a fat, bald, alcoholic, graffiti artist that goes to Nana Plaza and discuss my secret CIA missions with bar girls I really can't identify to these stereotypes but did enjoy the video
@@RomanVarl ahh the expats shaking in the morning and wonders around under buddhadays looking for bars that serves booze in coffecups.. high quality there=)
By far the most informative youtube channel on the platform for Thailand, another factual video. I am glad you covered the TB 22,000 living budget, it is existing not living, i get asked this every week from people back home. Never bored watching your videos Pat 👍🙏
Not boozing here is a major game changer. Since i cut my drinking down to the odd beer here and there my life is so much more stable and structured. Without discipline here in Thailand your life and time is limited in my opinion. I also believe that having a Thai woman who loves the temple more than the bar will prolong your happiness here. 😁👍🇹🇭
I lived in Japan for many years being married to a Japanese woman now divorced, always an outsider a gaijin, never really was accepted even by members of her family , now marred to a Thai teacher loving Roi Et, and now a farang.
I was 12 years Mitsubishi. From an acceptance angle I found Japan more judging and not as accepting as Thailand. Thailand not my favorite for heat and pollution, Thailand my favorite for everything else 😊
It is always a pleasure to watch your clear and precise analysis Pat, about living in Thailand from the perspective of a foreigner as of a thai national, very well narrated. The video filming and editing prooves a high professionel standard and last but not least always entertaining! Thank you!🙏🙏🙏
Pat is a real pro. He is a really intelligent and knowledgeable guy, but makes his videos interesting and relatable for everyone. I’m luvin the content. Glad I came across the channel. …..Big up Pat Brah 😎
Yo Pat! Can you make a video about bangkok landfills and recycle problems? People are still throwing their garbage to canals and chao praya or is it too risky? Love your informative videos!
My take on "Expats" An expat is someone who leaves their home country by free will. An immigrant is someone who leaves their home country out of desperation.😊
Perhaps the detail is being able to differentiate under the rule of law. My ex, for example, came from Hong Kong to the US with a bachelors degree, finished her masters and worked her way up the engineering tree through Apple and finally landed at Google. She made nearly double my salary by the time bonuses and stock options were tallied. She did all this legally of her own free will. Desperation would be both a nasty word, as well as, an inaccurate word for greater opportunity. Immigrants have always been seen by and large as those seeking a greater opportunity within the bounds of the society/culture they are moving into. The only reason the West suffers confusion is because the issue of legal and illegal immigration (which is human trafficking and exploitation) is so strongly gaslight by the Woke virus. I'll gladly take farang, immigrant, alien, expat, as I know the spirit of opportunity underlies all of them.
Pat describing the decapo of the hiso wannabe was the most "Pat" description of all time. You are an original, lad. Such a refreshing change from the rest of the internet.
I always end up watching your video's with a quiet smile on my face , is it crazy yet sensible Thailand or just the diversity of people and places that you portray. I don't know but I still enjoy it all , cheers Pat, regards to you both and stay safe. :)
It's particularly amusing to me when I see entire families of Thais wearing their muzzles to a restaurant and refuse to remove them until the food arrives. More disturbing though is how so many Thais still muzzle their young children, oblivious to how they're harming their children by this action. They will suffer permanent low level brain damage due to oxygen deprivation and too much CO2 in their tissues. This brain damage will manifest itself with a lowered IQ and a high chance of developing dementia when they grow older. It can not be reversed.
Great video once again Pat. Just wanted to add some clarification/correction. Only income in a certain tax bracket will be taxed at that rate and not the whole sum. For example 460,000 baht will be taxed as the following: The first 150,000 will be tax free. The next 150,000 will be taxed at 5% The next 160,000 baht will be taxed at 10% So the total tax on income will be 0 + 7,500 + 16,000 = 23,500 baht per year Per month = 23,500 baht/ 12 = 1958 baht per month. 24:02
Main issues for foreigners in Thailand, 1. Dwindling financial circumstances 2. Dating working girls 3. Declining health 4. Alcoholism Not in any order , just an observation of foreigners in Thailand.
Personally, I find it easy to live on around the 22k baht per month. I pay 8k baht for a lovely 2 bedroom house behind OnNut, ride a scooter to get around, cook 75% of my meals and still get to get out at night once or twice a week. Free pool, happy hour drinks…it can comfortably and happily be done!
I played it safe and said 50 because otherwise you get the gloaters commenting who look down on the ones living cheaply for me. 30k is doable after rent/bills
I had only one job in Thailand. During the interview, I made the boss an offer, try me out for a week. If I didn't perform to his expectations, I would leave and he wouldn't have to pay me a baht. I'm glad to say, that it was the best job I ever had. I had too much fun, worked hard, and played hard.
Pat, you always manage to come up with a really interesting video, and this departure from your normal " learn about an area" type vdo is no exception. Well done.
Very interesting A to Z 👍 you know the saying, you can please some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time thanks for sharing ❤️🏴x
Nice wide ranging video Pat. Sums it up quite well. I and my GF go to Benjakitti park early mornings on the weekends and wondered why no cats (but saw the dog park). We then traverse the "green mile" to Lumphini and see cats aplenty. Maybe there will be cats at Benjakitti once they realise it can be a chill place too.
PAT: Loved the street art pics. What particular areas are you finding the best stuff lately? I know about the areas around Charoen Krung...in the soi 20's-30's, and graf park. Any other great areas? The stuff you showed is top shelf!
Great info, as usual. Thanks. Re Benjamin Hart, of Integrity Legal in Bangkok’s critique of Bangkok Pat’s recent vlog (being this one, which I had missed), the word "loophole" is just that... a WORD (it's listed in dictionaries, if anyone wants to check that out). A word which aptly sums up what Pat was conveying, being that those who can afford to employ tax accountants (or lawyers) so as to avoid paying taxes which can be avoided, shall do so (and I have no issues with folk or institutions paying only that which is due but, for the tax system to be FAIR there would need to be freely or more affordably available tax advisers - perhaps paid for or subsidised through taxation, ironically - so as to avail EVERYONE of such an equitable state of being). Klaus Schwab &co DO LOVE that word “equitable”, after all. If Mr Hart has a better and/or more easily as well as descriptively understandable, by a broad audience, word than "loophole" to infer the above-referred to aside by BP, I've yet to hear it. And that's not a criticism of Ben Hart... Merely an observation. Further, BP is not a trained lawyer nor tax accountant (to my knowledge). He speaks as a layman in such matters to, in the main, laymen in such matters. That's what the [Comments] section is for, so that others can debate, confirm, refute and or otherwise correct that which a RUclipsr has said, accordingly. Claiming (in the Integrity Legal response) to not being pedantic or overly-semantic does not excuse the managing director of the firm for going on to be doing precisely what he claims he is not, in this instance, as it matters little whether Pat uses the word "enforcement" (which he did) or A N Other (such as "implementation") of the NEW (for new they are) regulations from January 1st 2024 and which ARE, despite Ben's protestation to the contrary, a SIGNIFICANT change to the former system unless, of course, receiving money a year or more previous to the year it was deposited in Thailand meant it was NOT taxed in Thailand NOW means that IT IS thus taxed in Thailand isn't considered significant. This stuff should be taught in school, surely. It seems somewhat odd that Ben Hart, who ordinarily decries and denounces “Globalist” agendas of the WEF, UN, Club of Rome et al seems to be seeking to minimise this particular aspect of their intended unilateral fiscal controls of humanity with the aims of enslaving (under the guise of emancipating) any and all who are not members of the 0.001% of parasitic plutocrats. Has Ben been got at? We wonders… Aye, we wonders. Mr Hart, of course, shall not likely see this comment because despite me ordinarily agreeing with and supporting his oratories and opinions, I am neither above nor below calling him out as and when I consider such to be judiciously appropriate. Sorry if I’ve sometimes brushed up against your conceit, Ben. Consequently, I find that for a year or so I have been “shadow-banned” from commenting on the Integrity Legal RUclips vlogs in that I can see my comments but other comment participants cannot (and sometimes even I can’t see them, after composing and posting them). A shame because I shall be requiring to take legal advice in Thailand in the not too distant future on a range of matters and had both hoped and assumed a call to Integrity Legal might be in order but am, since, far from comfortable with trusting an entity so thin-skinned and seemingly duplicitous as to surreptitiously ghost a participant in the conversations some of his vlogs occasionally prompt. Better the devil you know, I suppose.
I juat kept it as brief as I could, what he said about it wasn't exactly clear, I would have expected him to clarify and explain the process in that video, thus 'correcting' me. Everyone knows that once they start enforcing it the big boys will avoid it where possible while the lower levels (expats) will be made an example of in the media being busted. It looks good and shows the people they are enforcing it. You will not see some high level Thai getting busted in the media for dodging income tax. I think Ben knows that, well he should if he's been here long enough.
@@BangkokPat That's what I thought. That's also what Benjamin thought, in my considered opinion (but he couldn't resist employing your own broadcast as a means to sowing seeds of fear, uncertainty and doubt in the minds of his audience so as to hopefully drum up a few more prospective client approaches to his firm - I am minded to conclude).
@@SebDangerfield-yu7cm In a pinned comment on this video is the official booklet from the BMA, explaining it in full as well as the income tax form itself. You can't ask for much more than that. I added this because people will obviously want the full official version, because I knew I'd been brief in my explanation.
@@BangkokPat Brilliant. Thank you. Taxation without representation!!! Who'd've ever thunk it? We're regressing back towards feudalism, little shadow of a doubt. Never thought I'd ever say it, but am glad I'm old so don't have an entire lifetime ahead of it to look forward to. Bah humbug. LOL
Excellent stuff Pat, not going to say I know it all however after spending quite a bit of time in Thailand over the last 10 yrs I still found it entertaining and interesting. Great stuff, thanks.
Enjoyed 25 days in Thailand, improved my language skills. No complaints except the heat. Great to see the kids enjoying Songkran😅. Happy to be back in Australia with my cat.
Pat, I guess I won't run into you at Benjakitti Park. That's too bad. Keep up the great work. Love your sense calmness and balance. Great term on the "fantasists' that think they can tell people what to call them and your comments about the crazy commenters and the crazy people that get crazy about the crazy people and cannot tolerate any criticism of the country. Anyway, all the best.
@@graerindley6312 Thanks @graerindly6312. We were just joking because Pat has posted videos before from Lumpini kindly feeding the cats. He was just lamenting in the video that he is not a big fan of Benjakitti because there are no cats. For myself, I love Benjakitti Park, both sides. I imagine Pat does as well except for the cat issue. Fortunately, there is a place for everyone. I am going to post in a separate comment a list of some strange and interesting parks should you or anyone be interested. Thanks.
Great vid pat , im hoping to retire 6yrs time , i have been checking out Philippines also especially as seems alot less hassle of visas ! I have been 2 times to check out
H = Heat! It’s downright toasty for quite awhile now, but I’d rather be too hot than too cold. Thanks for an entertaining look at the things we expats (and I’m fine calling myself an expat!) know and love/hate/tolerate.
For clarity, the word expatriate or expat in short refers to a foreigner （usually from the west) who is transferred by their employer (MNC) to work in Asia. Their compensation usually comes in generous package that includes accommodation in swanky neighbourhood, medical benefits, international schooling for their children, country club membership and “hardship “ allowance. If you are just a foreigner working in Asia on local terms, then you are referred as foreigner worker, eg domestic maids, construction workers, language teachers. But those days are long gone. Interestingly, Caucasian still like to call themselves expats instead of foreign workers or professionals. They stwant to tag to that prestigious label . Agree?
Who would want to call themselves an immigrant if an expat is more socially respected? Nothing to do with hating immigrants who arrive on boats in the UK, that's a totally different topic altogether, but the woke agenda mob go around getting themselves offended and wound up
Thanks for the response. The woke mob is a bane to society. I wonder how does a neutral term farlang got convoluted to a derogatory term ? Farlang sounds better than gweilo in HK, which means foreign devil.
No I don’t agree. I’m a retiree living in Thailand. I would be inclined to call myself an immigrant if I could get citizenship but since I can’t (for all practical purposes) then I call myself an expat . . . and a farang as long as we are on the topic of labels.
I love to engage in a conversation with the people at fruit carts, whenever I'm getting guava! I just say, id like some farang, like me, and it always makes them chuckle :))
Much as id like to believe different .... I am sure that 180 days is an accumulated annual limit for tax residence ..... and that leaving after 179 days and then returning is not going the pass muster .....
Good point about Luk Kreung. I filmed a pretty model at Paragon. She said that her mother is Thai but she doesn't know anything about her father. She said she sometimes makes 100 k Baht for a photo shoot.
13:40 It's not that it's a "myth", as almost all Thai teachers get paid around 20-25k/baht/month. 7/11 workers get paid around 15k/month or less. Security guards and many cafe staff, street sweepers, mall custodians and etc... get paid less that 10k/month. It's just that it's a myth that a "farang" could do the same thing and be happy. I can't imagine a farang being happy living in a 2/3k baht/month shoebox apartment with no a/c and only a fan. Eating street food every single day. You'd be existing, not living. I lived in a condo complex located near a university, to cut down on costs, a lot of these students would share a 23/sqm condo room with 5-6 other people. Talk about a nightmare, but Thai people will do what they need to do to get by, even if they hate it. A farang doing the same? No way.
Great video, as always. Keep up the great work. Leaving Vietnam and going to Thailand next week, with my vietnamese wife. Trying to convince her to move with me to somewhere in TH, instead of Vietnam.
@@BangkokPat my wife has been there twice already and totally agrees. Her main concern is that it would be harder to buy a house and harder to open a coffee shop, since i am American and she is vietnamese and neither of us speak Thai. So we travel to TH several times a year, to see visit various cities and figure the the legal requirements.
First went to Bangkok about 25yrs ago and one of the first things that struck me as a bit strange was the amount of people wearing face masks. I was told it was because of the car fumes, it was an Asian thing before bird flu, certainly long before covid.
Stop apologizing for the governors and politicians forcing you to wear masks to make you scared into getting a shot I lived in Thailand 99 to 2007 seeing masks wasn't that common
Hi Pat, Had a chuckle about Thailands new tax rules, more than 180 days living here your considered a permanent resident for tax purposes, does that mean that now I am a permanent resident I can own land, don't have to do 90 day reports, pay the same price for Theme parks and National Parks, same price for medical treatment at hospitals?? I just see this as another sting by Thai government towards, farangs, oops I mean expats, oops I mean elderly retired person. Keep making the good videos. cheers
It is primarily targeted towards businesses avoiding taxes on overseas earnings. The question is whether ordinary expats will be caught up in the policy.
Another example of why this is the best thwi channel tbwre is, hilarious "captain Thailand" amd we all know at least one of those! Fantastic thought provoking video
@@BangkokPatI can think of one who has a RUclips channel in particular who obsesses about "toxic farangs" who seems far .more.toxic himself and has a very superior manner, someday he too will become older and grumpy, that's evolution,captain Thailand is very funny indeed, you really are a natural film maker pat and should be snapped up bu the BBC etc, great stuff
Saw that this was a “non-woke and honest look” in the description and you had my like. So freaking glad to have this view expressed, unlike other Bangkok podcasts or videos.
You gotta be realistic and honest, why f**k around and pretend everything is so amazing, awesome and can't be believed? And I think my viewers expect that.
"Was the video about living on $600 a month my video 😂 Unfortunately, I really did live off that amount for a while... I wouldn't want to again but it's possible... Great video!"
I just started watching you and enjoyed your take and personality, but when you talked about the ridiculous notion of the word expats being racist, you won me over!!! That was some excellent graffiti! Also, liked your balanced take on masks, even though, I don't like them. I will continue to look for more of your videos before heading out that way. That toilet was gross..lol! Thanks for all the great, random information!
Taught English conversation in Japan during the late 80s. Back then it was a sweet gig. Cared for my students very much but I would never go back to doing it again.
Where you been brother. Glad you posted another video. Top quality cinematography, editing and music. You really have a calling for film, storytelling. When you come to Laos, look me up. Daniel
Regarding tax allowance for the over 65s and/or disabled; there is an allowance of 190,000 Baht for them on top of the 150,000 Baht threshold. Thus, as I see it, those people can deduct 340,000 from an income of 460,000 leaving 120,000 taxed at 5%. You can check this out on many websites and Bing AI confirmed this.
Subbed for the honesty about new tax enforcement. The online experts say we're silly to worry yet none say what we need to do... apart from hiring them.
The forms and official BMA info are in a pinned comment, you can read it all for yourself. Maybe it's made to sound dramatic and complicated for the reason you just mentioned....
@@BangkokPat Thanks Pat, very useful! Spent time yesterday on the Dept. of Treasury DTA explainer; home.treasury.gov/system/files/131/Treaty-Thailand-TE-11-26-1996.pdf That clarified things for me. Just hope the Revenue Agent is on the same page as well.
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SOI COWBOY suffered a flood and outdoor tables were built
separate from the dancers who are inside and some expats
like to drink with friends and only step inside to use
the toilets
Being a fat, bald, alcoholic, graffiti artist that goes to Nana Plaza and discuss my secret CIA missions with bar girls I really can't identify to these stereotypes but did enjoy the video
Nothing wrong whatsoever with being proud of it Martin 😎😎
Now that you've blown your cover where are you running off to?
@@innercynic2784 That's classified
I am an Expat, I am a Falang and I am Bald. I live in a house called Baan Falang. It is 42C today and I love it. Thanks for the video Pat.
Great to hear you are living a fulfilling expat lifestyle Steve!
If you are an alcoholic, you've hit all the points ))
@@RomanVarl ahh the expats shaking in the morning and wonders around under buddhadays looking for bars that serves booze in coffecups.. high quality there=)
I think we ALL live in Baan Falang lol
@@genestone4951 i have "alien" stamped in my passport and u do too..we are all aliens..haha
Nobody else captures the real feeling of the city like Pat. Chill as always👌
By far the most informative youtube channel on the platform for Thailand, another factual video. I am glad you covered the TB 22,000 living budget, it is existing not living, i get asked this every week from people back home.
Never bored watching your videos Pat 👍🙏
Not boozing here is a major game changer. Since i cut my drinking down to the odd beer here and there my life is so much more stable and structured. Without discipline here in Thailand your life and time is limited in my opinion. I also believe that having a Thai woman who loves the temple more than the bar will prolong your happiness here. 😁👍🇹🇭
agree 1000%
Should have went to church at home to get one then FFS 😂
I fully agree with you.
Agree. Drinking n driving? Its actually risky! 😂😂😂
20:48 ... thank you very much for bringing us this superb art collection, Pat
For the cat snack fund
Thanks very much for your kindness!
Great video! Love your insights, commentary and sense of humor.
Cheers Mike 😻😻
I lived in Japan for many years being married to a Japanese woman now divorced, always an outsider a gaijin, never really was accepted even by members of her family , now marred to a Thai teacher loving Roi Et, and now a farang.
So same same ? 😂😂😂
I was 12 years Mitsubishi. From an acceptance angle I found Japan more judging and not as accepting as Thailand. Thailand not my favorite for heat and pollution, Thailand my favorite for everything else 😊
They only want foreigners for the money. Young Thai ladies chase young Thai men. Next you'll be building a house.
Now you're a farang and ATM for her family and never accepted as equal here too, reality
I worked in Tokyo on a few short-term work assignments and I always got along well with the other office workers.
Great video Pat, very informative and enjoying the dry humour as always! cheers.
Another excellent video thanks Pat. Just back from Thailand myself and the Thai people couldn’t have been nicer to this old Farang 👍🇹🇭.
Cheers and glad to hear you had a prejudice-free trip!!
Great video as always Pat! Love all the topics you went over & thanks for sharing 😊
Great video, good points covered, thank you!
It is always a pleasure to watch your clear and precise analysis Pat, about living in Thailand from the perspective of a foreigner as of a thai national, very well narrated. The video filming and editing prooves a high professionel standard and last but not least always entertaining! Thank you!🙏🙏🙏
Thank you Pat. Just saw your video for the first time and loved it.
Thanks!
Thanks for your kind support!
Good job of covering so many topics. You explained them all in good fashion.
Pat is a real pro. He is a really intelligent and knowledgeable guy, but makes his videos interesting and relatable for everyone. I’m luvin the content. Glad I came across the channel. …..Big up Pat Brah 😎
Cheers, part two is in progress....
@@BangkokPat Can’t wait lad 👍
Amazing stuff Pat. Congrats with 40000 subs. You are doing great.
Yo Pat! Can you make a video about bangkok landfills and recycle problems? People are still throwing their garbage to canals and chao praya or is it too risky? Love your informative videos!
My take on "Expats" An expat is someone who leaves their home country by free will.
An immigrant is someone who leaves their home country out of desperation.😊
That'll upset the wokes 😳😎
Perhaps the detail is being able to differentiate under the rule of law. My ex, for example, came from Hong Kong to the US with a bachelors degree, finished her masters and worked her way up the engineering tree through Apple and finally landed at Google. She made nearly double my salary by the time bonuses and stock options were tallied. She did all this legally of her own free will. Desperation would be both a nasty word, as well as, an inaccurate word for greater opportunity.
Immigrants have always been seen by and large as those seeking a greater opportunity within the bounds of the society/culture they are moving into. The only reason the West suffers confusion is because the issue of legal and illegal immigration (which is human trafficking and exploitation) is so strongly gaslight by the Woke virus.
I'll gladly take farang, immigrant, alien, expat, as I know the spirit of opportunity underlies all of them.
Always love your work mate , the graffiti part was excellent ! So crisp and clear. Thanks Pat 👍🏼🍻🇦🇺
Love a bit of good quality graff. Plenty more all over this city!
Let's have a campaign to proudly reclaim "EXPAT". It's a fine word. It has a touch of hi-so, romance, status, sophistication... I like it!
You mean expatriate?
Pat describing the decapo of the hiso wannabe was the most "Pat" description of all time. You are an original, lad. Such a refreshing change from the rest of the internet.
A lot of them still about, wankering their way around the high end rooftop bars and clubs around Thong Lor
Good content, I like your sense of humor
Thanks always a buzz to see a new vlog from you. And again very relevent for someone with an interest in Thailand.Cheers.
Glad you enjoyed it Brian, cheers mate
Great job...I would not havethought condos were that cheaply priced.....well done as usual!!
Best wishes
Richard
I always end up watching your video's with a quiet smile on my face , is it crazy yet sensible Thailand or just the diversity of people and places that you portray. I don't know but I still enjoy it all , cheers Pat, regards to you both and stay safe. :)
I'm a British immigrant in Thailand and I love it. I'm not bald, I don't drink and I don't wear a mask. I think I might find my people one day.
How much do you think a brit expat needs for similar lifestyle to you please ?
Nice to know you are a proud man Joe!
It's particularly amusing to me when I see entire families of Thais wearing their muzzles to a restaurant and refuse to remove them until the food arrives. More disturbing though is how so many Thais still muzzle their young children, oblivious to how they're harming their children by this action. They will suffer permanent low level brain damage due to oxygen deprivation and too much CO2 in their tissues. This brain damage will manifest itself with a lowered IQ and a high chance of developing dementia when they grow older. It can not be reversed.
No such thing … 😂
Great. I'm a fellow non-masker. Masks are truly disgusting. Can't understand the sheeple who still wear them.
Great video once again Pat. Just wanted to add some clarification/correction. Only income in a certain tax bracket will be taxed at that rate and not the whole sum. For example 460,000 baht will be taxed as the following:
The first 150,000 will be tax free.
The next 150,000 will be taxed at 5%
The next 160,000 baht will be taxed at 10%
So the total tax on income will be 0 + 7,500 + 16,000 = 23,500 baht per year
Per month = 23,500 baht/ 12 = 1958 baht per month. 24:02
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UrCAKeJmToOBBrCOygror86BQQ39SFEe?usp=sharing
Here's the official handout and form
@@BangkokPatyou’re a star. I’ll be needing this. Cheers!!
I have same calculation and understanding although as pay said it's still unclear and unclarified
Brilliant video, as per usual, cheers!
Nice work Pat. Interesting and thought provoking. There's a rumour that the "Lumphini Cats" want you as their poster boy. 🐈⬛
Main issues for foreigners in Thailand,
1. Dwindling financial circumstances
2. Dating working girls
3. Declining health
4. Alcoholism
Not in any order , just an observation of foreigners in Thailand.
Good points Christian, and hard for some to accept.
But ,at least dating someone 😊
Personally, I find it easy to live on around the 22k baht per month. I pay 8k baht for a lovely 2 bedroom house behind OnNut, ride a scooter to get around, cook 75% of my meals and still get to get out at night once or twice a week. Free pool, happy hour drinks…it can comfortably and happily be done!
What no wife?
Lived with 20k in Bangkok last year. Pretty easy when you can take care of yourself. 🙂
I played it safe and said 50 because otherwise you get the gloaters commenting who look down on the ones living cheaply for me. 30k is doable after rent/bills
@@BangkokPatwow, after rent and bills, you live like a King! 😝
@@Steven-t9sNo, then it would be minimum 100k baht
I had only one job in Thailand. During the interview, I made the boss an offer, try me out for a week. If I didn't perform to his expectations, I would leave and he wouldn't have to pay me a baht. I'm glad to say, that it was the best job I ever had. I had too much fun, worked hard, and played hard.
Pat, you always manage to come up with a really interesting video, and this departure from your normal " learn about an area" type vdo is no exception. Well done.
Thanks Alan, gotta add a bit of variety l think. Last 3 vids had history so it's nice to change things.
Very interesting A to Z 👍 you know the saying, you can please some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time thanks for sharing ❤️🏴x
I love the way Thailand works, I dont want it to change, I love the challenge
If it ain't broke don't fix it....
I really enjoyed that clip. Like the humor.
bang on Pat. another awesome vid.
Yea that story was a heads up so to speak...thanks for the intel Pat.
Nice wide ranging video Pat. Sums it up quite well.
I and my GF go to Benjakitti park early mornings on the weekends and wondered why no cats (but saw the dog park). We then traverse the "green mile" to Lumphini and see cats aplenty. Maybe there will be cats at Benjakitti once they realise it can be a chill place too.
Too lazy to walk the green mile those cats.
@@BangkokPat Often see a dog walker with two or three white husky type dogs walking the Green Mile (but no cats LOL).
I love seeing the graffiti in Bkk. The sub-culture of street art is more than bubbling up..Thai Artists deserve proper exposure imho.
Great video! Very balanced and informative content.
PAT: Loved the street art pics. What particular areas are you finding the best stuff lately? I know about the areas around Charoen Krung...in the soi 20's-30's, and graf park. Any other great areas? The stuff you showed is top shelf!
Along most big canals, Ratchathewi has a graff park. So many other places...
Spot on observations Pat! The Graff in Krungthep is awesome. Plant some cats in Benjakitti😇
Enjoyed the video & funny in parts 😊
I’m luvin it Brah. Pat really makes first class content. 👍 just luv it lad.
Cheers Jon, glad you had a good chuckle in parts....
Creative, amusing and informative as always. The best expat vlogger. Hoping to bump into you when I go to Thailand for the first time in June!
Thanks Rich, get yourself to Lumphini Park after 6pm and you may see me hangin' with the cats.
Agree 50000 a month can have a good life here, nice condo, eat a mixture of local and western food, leave the aircon on so important lately
That's about a decent figure Mikey, I almost said 40 after rent/bills but that would have restrictions.
50 is was to much. 40 nearer the mark. In rural thailsnd
@@gordypattison3543 I’m in bangkok
Great info, as usual. Thanks.
Re Benjamin Hart, of Integrity Legal in Bangkok’s critique of Bangkok Pat’s recent vlog (being this one, which I had missed), the word "loophole" is just that... a WORD (it's listed in dictionaries, if anyone wants to check that out).
A word which aptly sums up what Pat was conveying, being that those who can afford to employ tax accountants (or lawyers) so as to avoid paying taxes which can be avoided, shall do so (and I have no issues with folk or institutions paying only that which is due but, for the tax system to be FAIR there would need to be freely or more affordably available tax advisers - perhaps paid for or subsidised through taxation, ironically - so as to avail EVERYONE of such an equitable state of being). Klaus Schwab &co DO LOVE that word “equitable”, after all.
If Mr Hart has a better and/or more easily as well as descriptively understandable, by a broad audience, word than "loophole" to infer the above-referred to aside by BP, I've yet to hear it. And that's not a criticism of Ben Hart... Merely an observation.
Further, BP is not a trained lawyer nor tax accountant (to my knowledge). He speaks as a layman in such matters to, in the main, laymen in such matters. That's what the [Comments] section is for, so that others can debate, confirm, refute and or otherwise correct that which a RUclipsr has said, accordingly.
Claiming (in the Integrity Legal response) to not being pedantic or overly-semantic does not excuse the managing director of the firm for going on to be doing precisely what he claims he is not, in this instance, as it matters little whether Pat uses the word "enforcement" (which he did) or A N Other (such as "implementation") of the NEW (for new they are) regulations from January 1st 2024 and which ARE, despite Ben's protestation to the contrary, a SIGNIFICANT change to the former system unless, of course, receiving money a year or more previous to the year it was deposited in Thailand meant it was NOT taxed in Thailand NOW means that IT IS thus taxed in Thailand isn't considered significant.
This stuff should be taught in school, surely.
It seems somewhat odd that Ben Hart, who ordinarily decries and denounces “Globalist” agendas of the WEF, UN, Club of Rome et al seems to be seeking to minimise this particular aspect of their intended unilateral fiscal controls of humanity with the aims of enslaving (under the guise of emancipating) any and all who are not members of the 0.001% of parasitic plutocrats.
Has Ben been got at? We wonders… Aye, we wonders.
Mr Hart, of course, shall not likely see this comment because despite me ordinarily agreeing with and supporting his oratories and opinions, I am neither above nor below calling him out as and when I consider such to be judiciously appropriate.
Sorry if I’ve sometimes brushed up against your conceit, Ben.
Consequently, I find that for a year or so I have been “shadow-banned” from commenting on the Integrity Legal RUclips vlogs in that I can see my comments but other comment participants cannot (and sometimes even I can’t see them, after composing and posting them).
A shame because I shall be requiring to take legal advice in Thailand in the not too distant future on a range of matters and had both hoped and assumed a call to Integrity Legal might be in order but am, since, far from comfortable with trusting an entity so thin-skinned and seemingly duplicitous as to surreptitiously ghost a participant in the conversations some of his vlogs occasionally prompt.
Better the devil you know, I suppose.
I juat kept it as brief as I could, what he said about it wasn't exactly clear, I would have expected him to clarify and explain the process in that video, thus 'correcting' me.
Everyone knows that once they start enforcing it the big boys will avoid it where possible while the lower levels (expats) will be made an example of in the media being busted. It looks good and shows the people they are enforcing it.
You will not see some high level Thai getting busted in the media for dodging income tax.
I think Ben knows that, well he should if he's been here long enough.
@@BangkokPat That's what I thought.
That's also what Benjamin thought, in my considered opinion (but he couldn't resist employing your own broadcast as a means to sowing seeds of fear, uncertainty and doubt in the minds of his audience so as to hopefully drum up a few more prospective client approaches to his firm - I am minded to conclude).
@@SebDangerfield-yu7cm In a pinned comment on this video is the official booklet from the BMA, explaining it in full as well as the income tax form itself. You can't ask for much more than that.
I added this because people will obviously want the full official version, because I knew I'd been brief in my explanation.
@@BangkokPat Brilliant. Thank you.
Taxation without representation!!! Who'd've ever thunk it?
We're regressing back towards feudalism, little shadow of a doubt.
Never thought I'd ever say it, but am glad I'm old so don't have an entire lifetime ahead of it to look forward to. Bah humbug. LOL
Excellent stuff Pat, not going to say I know it all however after spending quite a bit of time in Thailand over the last 10 yrs I still found it entertaining and interesting. Great stuff, thanks.
Bang Sue Grand was that at the end?..... It looked like it.....
That was a clip from the train window from Don Muang to Bang Sue. It was the nearest clip I had to hand that I could use at the last 20sec
Enjoyed 25 days in Thailand, improved my language skills. No complaints except the heat. Great to see the kids enjoying Songkran😅. Happy to be back in Australia with my cat.
Pat, I guess I won't run into you at Benjakitti Park. That's too bad. Keep up the great work. Love your sense calmness and balance. Great term on the "fantasists' that think they can tell people what to call them and your comments about the crazy commenters and the crazy people that get crazy about the crazy people and cannot tolerate any criticism of the country. Anyway, all the best.
Try Lumpini park close by, if thats convenient.
@@graerindley6312 Thanks @graerindly6312. We were just joking because Pat has posted videos before from Lumpini kindly feeding the cats. He was just lamenting in the video that he is not a big fan of Benjakitti because there are no cats. For myself, I love Benjakitti Park, both sides. I imagine Pat does as well except for the cat issue. Fortunately, there is a place for everyone. I am going to post in a separate comment a list of some strange and interesting parks should you or anyone be interested. Thanks.
I like the GRAFF part and CityPop jam 🎨 🎶
Great vid pat , im hoping to retire 6yrs time , i have been checking out Philippines also especially as seems alot less hassle of visas ! I have been 2 times to check out
the distinguishing factor between expat and immigrant for me is whether you can get a passport or not.
Another very informative video, with great content and variety. Thanx.
Thanks very much and hope you're well.
Great video Pat very informative, Looking forward to part 2 👍
All the cats live in Lumpini Park next door to Benjakitti Park lol.
Another great video Pat 👍
Thanks Richard👍
H = Heat! It’s downright toasty for quite awhile now, but I’d rather be too hot than too cold. Thanks for an entertaining look at the things we expats (and I’m fine calling myself an expat!) know and love/hate/tolerate.
For clarity, the word expatriate or expat in short refers to a foreigner （usually from the west) who is transferred by their employer (MNC) to work in Asia. Their compensation usually comes in generous package that includes accommodation in swanky neighbourhood, medical benefits, international schooling for their children, country club membership and “hardship “ allowance.
If you are just a foreigner working in Asia on local terms, then you are referred as foreigner worker, eg domestic maids, construction workers, language teachers.
But those days are long gone. Interestingly, Caucasian still like to call themselves expats instead of foreign workers or professionals. They stwant to tag to that prestigious label . Agree?
Who would want to call themselves an immigrant if an expat is more socially respected? Nothing to do with hating immigrants who arrive on boats in the UK, that's a totally different topic altogether, but the woke agenda mob go around getting themselves offended and wound up
Thanks for the response. The woke mob is a bane to society.
I wonder how does a neutral term farlang got convoluted to a derogatory term ? Farlang sounds better than gweilo in HK, which means foreign devil.
No I don’t agree. I’m a retiree living in Thailand. I would be inclined to call myself an immigrant if I could get citizenship but since I can’t (for all practical purposes) then I call myself an expat . . . and a farang as long as we are on the topic of labels.
When Thai kids point and say Falang ,Falang I always get a laugh by pointing back and saying saparot, saparot (pineapple).
Hahaha... I loved that. You had a good sense of humour. I'd love it if a farang called me saparot, although I prefer to be a chompoo. Hahaha
Great video topics as always, Pat. I was surprised that you didn’t have K is for khlong.
Khlongs are in every other video and it's not really "expat" enough to be included!!
What an awesome videoPat,and so entertaining and informative,very much information served with your lovely comments.😊😊
Cheers, you gotta be honest otherwise everything is unbelievable, awesome or amazing on RUclips.
@@BangkokPat that’s so true Pat,and the way you make your videos,with some pinch of your British humour make your videos so likeable 👍👍
Yup, we have lots of expats arriving in dinghies over here….
I love to engage in a conversation with the people at fruit carts, whenever I'm getting guava! I just say, id like some farang, like me, and it always makes them chuckle :))
Much as id like to believe different .... I am sure that 180 days is an accumulated annual limit for tax residence ..... and that leaving after 179 days and then returning is not going the pass muster .....
Good point about Luk Kreung. I filmed a pretty model at Paragon. She said that her mother is Thai but she doesn't know anything about her father. She said she sometimes makes 100 k Baht for a photo shoot.
13:40 It's not that it's a "myth", as almost all Thai teachers get paid around 20-25k/baht/month. 7/11 workers get paid around 15k/month or less. Security guards and many cafe staff, street sweepers, mall custodians and etc... get paid less that 10k/month. It's just that it's a myth that a "farang" could do the same thing and be happy. I can't imagine a farang being happy living in a 2/3k baht/month shoebox apartment with no a/c and only a fan. Eating street food every single day. You'd be existing, not living.
I lived in a condo complex located near a university, to cut down on costs, a lot of these students would share a 23/sqm condo room with 5-6 other people. Talk about a nightmare, but Thai people will do what they need to do to get by, even if they hate it. A farang doing the same? No way.
Exactly 👍🏼
love it! I've been waiting for this one.
Great video, as always. Keep up the great work. Leaving Vietnam and going to Thailand next week, with my vietnamese wife. Trying to convince her to move with me to somewhere in TH, instead of Vietnam.
I would advise you to continue with that convincing......Thailand is much friendlier
@@BangkokPat my wife has been there twice already and totally agrees. Her main concern is that it would be harder to buy a house and harder to open a coffee shop, since i am American and she is vietnamese and neither of us speak Thai. So we travel to TH several times a year, to see visit various cities and figure the the legal requirements.
First went to Bangkok about 25yrs ago and one of the first things that struck me as a bit strange was the amount of people wearing face masks.
I was told it was because of the car fumes, it was an Asian thing before bird flu, certainly long before covid.
Correct , I noticed that when I 1 st visited Bangkok/ Thailand in 1998
Stop apologizing for the governors and politicians forcing you to wear masks to make you scared into getting a shot
I lived in Thailand 99 to 2007 seeing masks wasn't that common
I even noticed Asian tourists here in Brisbane doing it ftom 15-20 years ago
Hi Pat, Had a chuckle about Thailands new tax rules, more than 180 days living here your considered a permanent resident for tax purposes, does that mean that now I am a permanent resident I can own land, don't have to do 90 day reports, pay the same price for Theme parks and National Parks, same price for medical treatment at hospitals?? I just see this as another sting by Thai government towards, farangs, oops I mean expats, oops I mean elderly retired person. Keep making the good videos. cheers
For tax purposes a resident but always a tourist at immigration
It is primarily targeted towards businesses avoiding taxes on overseas earnings. The question is whether ordinary expats will be caught up in the policy.
Another example of why this is the best thwi channel tbwre is, hilarious "captain Thailand" amd we all know at least one of those! Fantastic thought provoking video
Captain Thailand is well stuck in his ways....
@@BangkokPatI can think of one who has a RUclips channel in particular who obsesses about "toxic farangs" who seems far .more.toxic himself and has a very superior manner, someday he too will become older and grumpy, that's evolution,captain Thailand is very funny indeed, you really are a natural film maker pat and should be snapped up bu the BBC etc, great stuff
Saw that this was a “non-woke and honest look” in the description and you had my like. So freaking glad to have this view expressed, unlike other Bangkok podcasts or videos.
You gotta be realistic and honest, why f**k around and pretend everything is so amazing, awesome and can't be believed? And I think my viewers expect that.
@@BangkokPatthat's why I just subbed. Not that I'm moving to Bangkok, but back to Thailand is on the way.
Great video Pat 👍
Thanks Paul, don't forget my Phahurat video👍
@@BangkokPat just let us know when
@Pat there's a reason it's called, "Bring-a-kitty" park!
You forgot the big "D", dual pricing!
Done it in a couple of videos already, but that will be under 'S' in part 2.
@@BangkokPat
I just came across your channel recently.
Excellent A to Z sir Pat, you get a big A for Awesome. 🙂
Thanks and luckily that word didn't make the A to z, it may do under Y for youtubers....
"Was the video about living on $600 a month my video 😂
Unfortunately, I really did live off that amount for a while... I wouldn't want to again but it's possible...
Great video!"
Having to and wanting to, are two different things ! Just like living in a van down by the river/ beach. 😊
@@mauimixer6040 Or when you loose everything and have to start again! It teaches you to appreciate what you have😁
Great acting on the Pay Phone!
Cheers, I saw the phone booth and had to use it somehow, those are rare in Bangkok!
Quality viewing as always Pat !
I just started watching you and enjoyed your take and personality, but when you talked about the ridiculous notion of the word expats being racist, you won me over!!! That was some excellent graffiti! Also, liked your balanced take on masks, even though, I don't like them. I will continue to look for more of your videos before heading out that way. That toilet was gross..lol! Thanks for all the great, random information!
Very glad you have found the channel! There are well over 150 videos for you to catch up on, some may not be your cup of tea but you never know!
@@BangkokPat Yeah you never know. I have a sense of ha ha, as your videos seem to have.
Taught English conversation in Japan during the late 80s. Back then it was a sweet gig. Cared for my students very much but I would never go back to doing it again.
That phone box is epic! Can you share the whereabouts please?
Under Hua Chang bridge, near Ratchathewi bts station😎
@@BangkokPat Thanks a lot
Interesting vlog Pat, enjoyed that
Well done Pat very informative and entertaining
Cheers Sam, hope all is well mate.
Welcome back Pat.
I was begining to wonder where you went.
I took April off, as a well earned break. The camera cuts out in this 100 degree heatwave.
@@BangkokPat Top man Pat. I had no idea of the extreme temperatures in Bangkok 🔥
Hope you are well rested 🙏
Loved the captain thailand point...👌
21:31 that Spade piece is SICK!
it sure is. It was taken in 2017.
Where you been brother. Glad you posted another video. Top quality cinematography, editing and music. You really have a calling for film, storytelling. When you come to Laos, look me up. Daniel
Thanks Daniel, just a break for April, and it's so hot that the camera switches off for safety reasons when it hits 99-100 degrees
Regarding tax allowance for the over 65s and/or disabled; there is an allowance of 190,000 Baht for them on top of the 150,000 Baht threshold. Thus, as I see it, those people can deduct 340,000 from an income of 460,000 leaving 120,000 taxed at 5%. You can check this out on many websites and Bing AI confirmed this.
Great video once again! Ty ❤🎉
Great Honesty Pat!! I tend to drink too much in the Tropics but im no Expat 555
Great to hear that mate, cheers 😎
Great video Pat!
Nice video, but could you set time stamps as well? It's much better for the viewing experience.
Good point, give me a few minutes and I will.
Thank you for another enjoyable video. It was worth the wait!
Subbed for the honesty about new tax enforcement.
The online experts say we're silly to worry yet none say what we need to do... apart from hiring them.
The forms and official BMA info are in a pinned comment, you can read it all for yourself. Maybe it's made to sound dramatic and complicated for the reason you just mentioned....
@@BangkokPat Thanks Pat, very useful! Spent time yesterday on the Dept. of Treasury DTA explainer;
home.treasury.gov/system/files/131/Treaty-Thailand-TE-11-26-1996.pdf
That clarified things for me. Just hope the Revenue Agent is on the same page as well.