No. I'm not a Brit, I'm English and I wouldn't go there if you paid me to go. I'm not that desperate! This popped up. Thank you but no thank you. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

UK government is evil.

You are and always willl be my favorite Thai KZbinr I always thought pineapple grow on trees until moving here

Gordon I really enjoyed watching your vegetable garden and your fruit trees growing.Thanks Mike

Thanks Gordon for your thoughts, wise and sprinkled with humour. Love your garden, birds etc. Wish the brothers had made a better job of the farm, it would have been nice to see it prosper. Wish you and your family good health and happiness in 2025. God Bless 🙏, ☘️☘️☘️🇮🇪.

Xxxxard Uk dictators

My 78 year old father has Retired in Thailand I pay £150 a month in Poll Tax My father pays £130 a month for his apartment Electric water rates & rent all included. His health has improved after nearly dying of Cancer were they gave him 6% chance of survival 10 years ago. Get yourself gone the UK has gone .....

If we keep electing the same two party’s , nothing will change .

She bought the land with your money.

They rely on VAT etc. putting the cash back from where it came. Born before 1953 and you are on the old system which is far short of the modern pension. The runts will not change .

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Pension gets paid to UK Bank Account You send it to a crypto exchange (CEX or non KYC DEX) You buy BTC or stable coin with your pension. Move crypto to your personal wallet (Hard wallet) So far all above board and legal. Later… transfer crypto to an exchange (Non KYC) where you sell BTC / stable coin for your local currency. (Could all be done on same day) It’s a little convoluted, but may work ? But, your cost of living (and being out of this Sh1t hole) is worth so much more than being UK resident with all its woes.

I think you go to the Philippines for 6 months

My understanding is that Wise is not a bank account it is a MSB money service business though others may know different ?

It was bad before, but it seems the current government have declared war on pensioners. We are an easy target. My wife is from the Philippines and now a British citizen. We paid thousands of £s in immigration fees, paid lump sums upfront to the NHS, jumped through all the hoops, interviews, and paperwork for 5+ years, claimed absolutely zero benefits (not allowed), and still claim nothing. I told my wife she would have been quicker getting into the UK and better off, if she came across in an inflatable dinghy!! Great info BTW 👍

A good video but as you said most of your sums were on the low side. The only advice I can give is how I did it. I brought enough to buy my home outright as well as my transport. So now my outlay is food and ancillary costs as in health care insurance property upkeep and a few beers a week. But if I did come under pressure I cut back on the beer and restaurants till I am out of the fog. I worked for a multinational and the financel controller said to me I am putting on the company pension scheme he pointed out at 24 that might sound stupid but said believe me you will thank me in the future which I do regular as I was able to retire at 60. A private pension is key here.

Good of you to share the jeopardy. 🖖

The UK government are all bigots. They discriminate based on my address.

starmer has a new rule to lower the pension before the rise comes in. So basically he is cancelling the pension rise so none of us win

I have my pension paid into wise, there was no problem setting it up. Assuming your friend is correct it may be because Wise is not a bank, although it performs almost all activities of a bank.

The cost of living has increased a lot here in the last few years and the exchange rate has been a double whammy! So if you think you can retire here on a State pension, do think twice.

The yearly increase in pension it to help cover inflation in the uk, Thailand has zero inflation so technically you don’t need it in Thailand. That said, I am on a state pension & it has to be a consideration of where to live. Philippines as you say you can get the increases but for me it’s not as nice as Thailand

It’s a disgrace, an absolute disgrace.

You guys need to move to Malaysia. There are many brits in Malaysia

What happens to your status as a uk citizen when you leave

Australia is non aligned also. After being an Australian resident for many years I decided to move to the Philippines to get the full pension.

Great break down Gordon! Imagine trying to live on 150 pounds a week in the Uk!!!

Great vlog Gordon.

Love your gardening, I am looking for a house and land like you, in a nice rural area.

Widow's pension, ha ha ha. My Thai wife's sister married a Belgian guy and her widows pension is 50% higher than my frozen English state pension. But escaping the shit hole that England has become since Thatcher is worth any price.

Don't go planting money trees GT you won't live long enough to get a cash crop my friend. Even tho you've got a green thumb. Bushyboy Oz.

Or they come with a rule that youll have to report in every year. So a flight to the uk that kind of shit.

Great breakdown Gordon and realistic unlike some I have seen. People move to Thailand to live not simply survive. I am planning to move in the next year or two to join my Thai fiancé, but will retain my properties in the U.K. and probably come back twice a year, for a few months at a time. My fiancé owns 2 houses on the outskirts of Bangkok, which she will eventually sell as we plan to settle in Maha Sarakham and build a house on the 15 Rai of land she owns, so no rental in my budget. However I still think I need ฿50,000 a month in line with your suggestion to lead a reasonably decent life. This does not of course include any flight costs.

Solution: Buy a plot of land of 4,000 sq metres with borehole, fruit trees and ruin for 10,000 Euros in Central Portugal. If you are a UK citizen live on your land for the allowable 90 days in a tent or yurt if need be. After 90 days fly from Lisbon to either Malaysia (90 days), Thailand (90days) or Philippines (90 days). One can live fairly comfortable with rents averaging $250pm on around $1000pm. After 90 days in Asia return to your yurt or tent in Portugal for a further 90 days. Simply repeat the above. The UK government will have your address in Portugal as your home which qualifies you for any increase in your state pension.

Worth all the effort for tasty tomatoes, we haven’t seen the aquaponics for a few weeks, what’s going on in the lower pasture?

My wife has a green thumb as they say. Everything she plants does so well. It is amazing how much food can be grown in a small area too. Thanks for another nice video Gordon 👍

I am about to retire in Thailand in the next few weeks and found the video and comments very interesting. 1. Sure I realise I won't be costing the British Govt hospital care, free prescriptions, free bus pass and my state pension will be frozen. 2. But I won't be spending any £ here so the Govt won't get the VAT on almost every item or bill I would pay On balance I still feel I deserve the yearly state pension increases as that cost is way less than No. 1 above I will be registering as a Non Uk Citizen so I don't pay any income tax on my state pension and 2 minor private pensions combined. Definitely won't be living life in Thailand as a tourist If my thai wife starts being over generous with family and donations, then the Philippines isn't so far away. Thanks GT and all the commenters as the content in invaluable

i heard Tickle was severely ill around 12 months ago, I was shocked to see you. maybe it was mis-information

As an immigrant in Thailand, .I really don't know how you can't see the hypocrisy in your rant about asylum seekers. The warped view that asylum seekers are welcomed with an open heart by the UK government is far from the truth. You sound xenophobic. and bigoted. You need to come back home and join the Reform party.

How long did it take for those pineapples to fruit? I grew one from a supermarket pineapple but gave up on it after two years with no fruit (maybe it didn't like being only in a pot -- I'm in Calgary, Canada where it gets down to minus 30C, so it has been dragged from outside to inside every time the temp drops below about 15C).

You are addicted to gardening, me too, it is a beautiful passion Gordon ❤️ I actually didn't know for a long time how a pineapple grows and blooms, - thanks for showing again 👍 my favorite is banana plants, It is not only the fascination of banana leaves, which are water-repellent, but then when the plant is blooming and the bananas are growing It is just so beautiful 🍀and yummy !

Simple answer is UK is a RIP OFF country now.

Stay with your Channel until that apple tree fruits, please. We can wait.

Hilarious 😂 one immigrant giving out about other immigrants 😂

We have millions of pineapples all around us in MaeCham. I concur in everything you say Gordon. I think its a dophine rush when you see a plant you put in the ground flower or fruit. Its unfortunate for us we are only here 5 months so plants are not looked after properly. We pay a guy to look after things but you know your self what that means a week before we arrive....keep up the great work.

Good stuff, thanks

Buy crypto in UK..then, figure it out for yourself.

Thanks👍

Thanks Tom, life is but a dream before the long sleep. 555 GT

Canada has been like that for at Least 50yrs