Don't move to rural thailand before watching this..

[@thenakedguru]

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[@zandig666]

Love your vids bud they are uplifting and informative !!

[@theadventuresofbrockinthai4325]

Hey Ryan, I totally agree with you about living in the countryside in Thailand. I have been in Thailand 16 years now and spent 13 years in the Korat area and a little of that was in a small village. Then my Thai friend talked me into moving to Bangkok. It was the worst mistake that I have done. I am now planning a move in October to the countryside of Sakon Nakhon. My friend has 4 rai of land and I will build a house and live out my days there. I will also make trips to other countries as I can afford it. I have friends in the area so it will be good for me. I was raised in the country 10 miles from the nearest town so I can fit in with no problem.

[@betweendrinks8885]

Read and study something / do meditation to take advantage of silence - have hobbies - plan and go holiday somewhere regularly- ( re vegetable garden ) we have shade system and watering every hour from 8am til 6pm

[@julianshalders6047]

A very extensive coverage of living in rural Thailand ryan, not for everyone mate , you've found your niche in life ryan , beautiful loving wife and wonderful little kids and a great out look on life and a very interesting channel, which progresses into self sustainable living and happiness for your wonderful family. 👍👌🙏❤

[@positiveworld-view8677]

My philosophy lesson 🙂 Blessings to ALL

[@pensionandapassport]

I'm in Sakon Nakhon, I agree solo living in the Thailand countryside would be difficult.

[@matt38]

Hi Ryan thanks for the walk & talk always enjoy the raw honesty and advice, your little piece of paradise is looking so vibrant with all the different natural colours from all of the plants. Good on Rosie your protector from the wild dogs. 🙏🐕

[@PembrokeshireBoyinThailand]

Very sage advice Ryan. Rural Thailand is a world away from the coastal holiday spots. I visited Yasothon for a week which was very interesting especially as I was the only ferang, thank goodness I had my intended with me

[@GrahamQ]

I’m so tempted to go rural Thailand but being close to a decent hospital worries me!

[@graemeaylward8313]

Thanks Ryan for another interesting vlog. One of the bits of info you omitted for those wishing to move to Rural Thailand, is availabilty of electricity and water which you need to check befors you by land. In some Rural areas in Isaan, it is not possible to use the artesian water, as it is too salty for both crops and human consumption, a problem we encountered. However we were lucky to be able to tap into the village supply, nearly a kilometre away by negotiation with the village chief. Obviously we had to pay for the pipeline which wasn't too expensive. Electricity was a little more problematic and took many months to sort out, and was quite expensive. Internet availability can also be a problem as broadband or fibre optic cables are sometimes difficult to obtain in rural areas. However, all these problems are minor compared to the benefits of a rural life, especially the wealth and variety of wildlife, particularly the insects which I love, even though I have been attacked by angry wasps on more than one occasion, I still find them fascinating crestures! God Bless you and the family as always 😇🙏❤

[@Landofsmiles999]

Love the reality of your content, solid.

[@rossjurecka5372]

Great for retirement , I just love it here in Isaan , can't wait to start growing trees again . And enjoying my 3 Thai dogs .....😊

[@UdomitBeppa]

Hello Ryan, Thanks for the honest Information and clear advice! I really enjoy your videos and follow you now because I look forward to coming to Thailand by End of the year. Wish your family and you a nice time and all the best.

[@thenakedguru]

Thanks for coming along for the ride 🙏

[@wendy-0101]

❤️🙏🏻Ryan. Many points I needed to hear. For me it will be rental during Swedish winter. ❤️💞💞💞💞Wishing you all a beautiful weekend & safe trip!

[@villagefarang]

We live roughly 50 km from Chiang Rai town and moved here 16 years ago after 30 years in Bangkok. What attracted me most was the beautiful nature and access to mountains, rivers, reservoirs, trails and excellent roads for driving, motorbiking, or cycling. The view from my house is stunning and we are blessed with good power, water, internet and plenty of space for our cats and dogs. The social life is probably the main drawback. Most expats live closer to town and have very different interests and levels of experience here in Thailand. We live a very comfortable life but our closest friends don’t live anywhere near us and it isn’t always easy to find time to meet up somewhere. We have found things we like doing to keep us active and healthy, and fortunately we really enjoy each other’s company even after 26 years together so it all works out for us but I imagine not many people would fancy our lifestyle. I don’t mind our 45 minute drive to town but I don’t want to do it more than two or three time in a week. Anyway, there are many ways to do rural Thailand and not all of them include farming or living with the relatives. I very much agree that it works better if you have an amazing partner and I wouldn’t be very happy living on my own.

[@thenakedguru]

Absolutely, many ways to cook an egg, thanks for sharing 🙏

[@johnhynd4522]

Very good advice and I agree with your assessment. My partner is from Buriram and I’ve visited her family on many occasions. I feel it’s a little remote for me, but nice to visit. We live and work in Bangkok, but my plan is to retire next year in HuaHin.

[@thenakedguru]

Good to check it out first and a good choice for the long term 🙏🙏

[@michaelj2528]

Always interesting and informative and entertaining and honest ,

[@thenakedguru]

Thanks Michael 🙏

[@RickyIsaan]

You're definitely right about not needing a social lifestyle, took time to adjust too, but I enjoy the peace and essentially being free of social stress or dramas. It definitely feels abit werid seeing another farang in town (which is rare for me), you both know you're there and you feel like you should almost acknowledge each other or say hello, but it never happens lol 😂

[@DominanteMegaLit]

All my life I have been living rural in the outskirts of Sofia city... We had animals, a 600 square meters of land and all of the good stuff, man. But I would really like to emphasize on the animal care and management: You pointed out everything so correctly, real, and raw, but really, people who do want to live in rural environments and want to focus on raising animals, which I prefer to call Beings, should understand the seriousness of the matter. If you take care of living beings you should act promptly and understand their behaviours, characters and specific purposes in Life. Don't get cattle, let's say, if you don't know what their needs are. On that note, I just adore your approach man, you guys know your crafts well and got plenty of wisdom. All Beings look so happy and in harmony. Setting their habitat is one thing, but giving as much energy and thought into the care itself, is a whooooole another matter. If one goes living rural, one should be prepared for the 24/7, 365 Management position! Salute, Guru, you are the best!

[@WalkingmanPattaya]

All good advice and truthfulness. I enjoy nature by watching your videos now at 65. Lived in rural Alaska for 22 years, few to no comparisons. We could pick berries once a year and fish or catch crab 3-4 months a year. I was working at a fish processing plant 7-12's and later up to 60 hour weeks as hands on management, BTW Ryan, google says Pattaya is also known as the Hawaii of the East. 555 PS. Why did you not scroll all the patrons? I did not see my name at the end of the vlog.

[@thenakedguru]

You are right actually, these are members specific to this channel but I’ll add in the patrons 🙏😁🇹🇭

[@mrboogang]

God I could live there tomorrow without a second thought. The country life, the animals, the nature, rain is completely me. My problem is my corporate life and a wife who would never move to the country. Rock and hard place comes to mind. Lol. I envy your lifestyle brother. You have so much to be proud and happy about. I work as a highly specialist ICT project manager, so my career has no option whatsoever to live like I really want to. Sigh.

[@ohiosquire4212]

Rural Bururam is going to be perfect for me. Plenty of fishing, peace and quiet and I can be anti-social to my heart's content. 🤣🤣🤣

[@tammyiwaniski]

Great vlog mate - keeping it very real😊🙏

[@thenakedguru]

Thank you Tammy 🙏🙏

[@donjordan8174]

I’ve lived in major cities (Los Angeles, Shanghai etc) with extensive biz travel working for years… now retired at 69 rural live is ok… and if you ever need to go somewhere plenty ro do within a car or place or train ride…

[@thenakedguru]

🙏😁🇹🇭

[@margarettownsley9500]

Great vlog Ryan thank you

[@randomworld4662]

30k is a huge salary in rural Thailand its 3 time more then average salary 12k a baht

[@thenakedguru]

Average for foreign teacher here 👍

[@nikkimclay5474]

the average is 12k baht / month ? what is the average living cost ? ( think Ryan has done this ) thanks

[@thenakedguru]

In rural Thailand where we live the average is 9k baht 🙏🙏

[@helendymock8265]

I think you have spelled it out pretty well Ryan. Good job it will be very helpful for many. Love the white turkey baby ❤

[@thenakedguru]

Thank you Helen 🙏🙏

[@cesarosorio6395]

Good morning Ryans.from New Orleans 🇺🇸

[@garystaff3617]

Great guy great advise %100

[@martinomelbourne2714]

Nice one Ryan. At least your honest.

[@michaelo3212]

The nomad visa is a stream of the LTR "long term residency" 10 year visa and in true thai style it has nothing to do with residency 😅 I'm currently working from Bangkok on this visa. The benefits are come and go as you like, much less expensive than the Elite @ 50k baht for 10 years but the best thing is probably no reporting and zero tax for nomad stream. Downside is the requirements to get it, if you don't work for a large company it would be very hard to obtain. Hope this helps 😊

[@thenakedguru]

Good additional info 👍

[@brendan_x_mac]

I’ve been eyeing this one for some time. This is just working for a high revenue private or publicly traded company right? Did you just ask if they would allow you to work from that timezone and then sort out payment & logistics? Cheers in advance for any info

[@michaelo3212]

@@brendan_x_mac Hi, the visa stream is actually called "work from Thailand" so it's not really being sold as a nomad visa. The employer needs to be worth more than $250 million and doesn't need to be publicly listed but that's a bonus and it's easier for immigration to assess the company's value. You also need to have been employed for 3 or 5 years (sorry I can't remember which) and you need a minimum income (again I can't remember but it's on the BOI ltr website) for the last 3 years. For me timezones aren't a problem as I work for one of these evil global mega corporations 😁and work through many timezones. Hope this is helpful, happy to answer any questions on it. Cheers

[@louis7884]

Great vlog! For sure one kind of lifestyle can be heaven for one and hell for another... About the social aspect, don't you sometimes need to have deep/interesting discussions with friends or people ? And if yes how do you manage to do so ? What you built with your farm and your family is amazing, keep cherishing it!

[@duded471]

We can do anything Solar, farm Bio waste for gas and backupbpower Ur sorted❤

[@SeanMarkin-fj8hz]

Hello, thanks for the video, lovely👍 Have you set up a company to sell produce? Thanks Sean

[@aliowl]

I'm just home from 5 weeks in Thailand. I would like your lifestyle but I really do need to be by the sea or at least 15 minutes away. I'm thinking Andaman sea coastline somewhere.

[@mythai9593]

Why not try a simple aquaponics set up for the veg.

[@farangdan]

We live in uthai thani and it's super rural and remote.. Maybe you could have mentiined reliance on transport and therefore an ability to maintaine the car or bike etc.. Live yiur works thanks.. 🎉😅

[@jeanhenderson1277]

What are all the little tin dishes on the trees for please

[@kuzinit2374]

I would like to have a condo on a seaside fishing community semi close to a city but not to far from farmlands

[@Dbc3]

look in to Permaculture techniques for your tropical food production

[@yanknoz9710]

Hi Ryan. I did not see the link to your book. Can you help, please.

[@michaelluxton9179]

I.thought Buriram was too dry for rubber trees ( ton yang).

[@mattalford389]

I love the quietness and the peaceful existence. I definitely prefer it to loud Cities and tourist areas. Another thing though about being rural, is it's trickier to get the necessities at any time you want, for example there's no 7-11s out there!!!

[@thenakedguru]

Yes it’s defo not for everyone 👍🙏

[@nikkimclay5474]

no 7-11 😂😂 no microwaved plastic sandwiches !!

[@pierrekingbkk]

Since the channel is about ranting too , you mentioned about beautiful rice field and noticed next to the rice field a ’perfect’ corn field most probably F1 hybrid corn seeds and at what price were the seeds purchased by the farmer? We need to also understand how agro-industries companies have made huge profit on chemical fertilisers as well as chemicals used on most vegetables or cereal grown in Thailand. Lot’s of rural farmers have lost the traditional way of growing rice and corn.I am pretty certain that the corn field has been chemically treated to repelled insects or fungus .Same as in western world produce more and the benefits falls to very few food processing companies. Wondering to what extend living in rural Thailand is as healthy as we may think?!

[@Ned88Man]

I live in 'rural' Thailand, but not really. I am in a provincial capital (Nong Bua Lam Phu) in Northwest Isan. I never know what to tell people when they ask if I am rural or urban. I guess if compared to you Ryan, it would be more urban, but its just a few clicks away from being in the middle of nowhere. It's a happy medium I suppose By the way, speaking of snakes, have you come across any large pythons? Keep it up, It's inspiring watching you and your family

[@myretiredlife96]

Some other considerations in rural Thailand are few if any western restaurants nearby; noise from animals - dogs, roosters, cows; smoke nuisance from neighbours burning off rice stubble, vegetation waste, cooking fires; loud neighbours who yell to each other, play loud music and teenagers on loud motorbikes; and be prepared to wake up early with or before sunrise as all the neighbours do.

[@malcolmday9398]

I just purchased your book. I do have a specific question on how to open a Thai bank account before applying for a retirement visa. Is that in there? All the best to All.

[@thenakedguru]

It may not be as specific as you like as I mention using an agent, I’m only familiar with retirement and work permit doing it - you could ask he and I can try and help 🙏

[@billyderry6526]

I’m laughing to myself here, just wondering what this Beautiful house and farm would cost in England 🤣 you really live in a wonderful location in Thailand, I’m a landscape gardener in manchester and we travel all over thailand in winter for our holidays, we’re going round the Andaman this January. Keep putting your vids on, I love them.👍

[@thenakedguru]

Thanks Billy - appreciate it 👍🙏

[@gaetanomacaro3132]

Retirement is 50

[@kleerogers]

If you are an introvert, move to rural areas, if you are an extrovert like me move to Hua Hin, Chiang Mai or Bangkok, simple

[@Landofsmiles999]

The stats on retirement are: 80% of people die within 10years of retirement. A cardiologist will tell you to, never retire, keep busy with a part-time earn $200-400 a week earn.

[@fluke1464]

How can I contact you ?

[@cabdriver361]

Nice bit of information on living in rural Thailand. Personally I wouldn't consider it unless I was fluent in Thai language. That would be essential for me otherwise I would never speak to anyone but my wife. But as a bit of a lazy bastard it would probably be nice to be sitting around a lot of the time. I would want a swimming pool though for exercise. I guess it's possible to have a pool in rural Thailand, but all the locals would probably want to use it. Keep the videos coming, still one of my, must not miss vloggers.

[@thenakedguru]

Thank you 👍🙏

[@jcoghill2]

What are those trees and why are you collecting tree sap from them?

[@mythai9593]

They are rubber tree's.

[@jcoghill2]

@@mythai9593 I thought so. I never heard of Maple Syrup coming from Thailand.

[@WanderlustReports]

I guess that intellectual stimulation would be what I'd miss the most. No disrespect from me towards rural Thais, but I'm pretty sure we would not share many hobbies, centers of interest...

[@thenakedguru]

That’s it my friend 👍

[@jasonjenson9108]

Could add yaba and lao kow heads, soi dogs, motorcycles with no lights and ignorant exhausts, no immunity toinfection, and ag vehicles.

[@crackerjacksailing]

I’d say you will need the Thai language skills as very few can speak English.

[@thenakedguru]

Yes good point 👍👍

[@DiabloValleyPeds]

That can be either a Plus or Minus = I would hope if one were becoming a Ex Patriot in a foreign nation that it would be a Plus.

[@wchaleyjr43]

I'd like it very much I'm a car diesel technician and could start a little business there!!

[@Sagan_Starborn]

I found when I moved to Nakhon Phanom that one of the things I really had to get used to was the paradox where Buddhism states that cruelty to animals should be avoided, yet they break the legs of the frogs they intend on eating sometimes days later. Also the pladuk (catfish) in tubs writhing against each other with essentially no water. I can't count the number of stray dogs I have seen killed by a car targeting them to deliberately kill them at random. Thai people are super nice, until they aren't, and the transformation from nice to homicidal is startlingly quick for a farang.

[@Ned88Man]

the whole country is like that. Say one thing do another. It's the local MO

[@nikkimclay5474]

Do Thai people like to retire to rural areas as a lifestyle choice like many of us do ? or is it considered to be a poor area & perhaps not of the same status like a modern city ? Just curious ! I know Damo has chosen this life but do many others ? Im not moving to Thailand but im buying your book to support you & Im interested in Thailand in modern day !

[@thenakedguru]

They usually work in the city and build a home in their home town to retire in later life 🙏😊🇹🇭

[@STARRUNNER45]

💚💜💚💜💚💜💚💜🪬💚

[@Mekhong3876]

Bitten all day! Great vlog!

[@thenakedguru]

😂🙏🇹🇭

[@lilly6766]

I link to the instagram business please! ❤

[@robertbennett1287]

1) A single person can't buy a farm so no worries on the gf situation. The risk's of getting involved with gf or parental land ownership are the number one reason for deliberation. How much investment are you prepared to walk away from. 2) The culture difference is vast. The indigenous are hive minded. Westerners are always outsiders and second to family unless you control the purse string's from the outset. 3) The local Esan diet is unacceptable to many westerners. 4) Attitudes toward land boundaries, garbage and privacy can be exasperating. 5) You need to be comfortable alone and you have to be diplomatic with annoying neighboring farmer's. Cow's and dogs can be problematic. 6) The farm can be the best quality life in Thailand for some, but realism is essential and minimize emotional and financial involvement with external family. The farm life isn't suitable for most urban and citified westerners. 🙏

[@macks573]

Mate, if you really want to go self sustainable, learn permaculture. If you understand and apply it well, it transcends weather. I had the same hot season in Malaysia and my veggies never stopped producing. Also, diversity is key in sustainability. Hope that helps

[@thenakedguru]

Cheers for the info. 👍🙏

[@thomasjohnrobinson4658]

I do my visa on income,which is a minimum of 65000bt a month.My local immigration needs it to come in in one lump sum at roughly the same time every month AND they demand it come from a bank abroad direct into your account it must be on the statement as a FT foreign transfer.As for air polution here in the north PM2.5 this year lasted over 4 months,its like living ia a twilight zone.The mountains disappear in the gloom.Its a disgrace,no one cares,locals seem to accept this sort of thing.

[@jimmycricket7385]

Retirement shortens life-span? Hahahaha yeah, I hear ageing shortens lifespan too! Hahahaha

[@M1k3y_t]

He is making a point when you retire you don't want to just stop, have you heard of phrase 'stop dead'