Chapter 1: Why is John leaving the U.S. for Thailand?
I booked a one-way ticket to Thailand. I've done a lot of things in my life that many people don't get to do because they chose to do the right thing. You know what I mean? They chose to have a job and a family and go to work every day. I didn't do any of those things. I've just been being a maniac my whole life. So now, I'm going to be turning 40 in February, and it's halftime.
Why are you leaving?
What are you doing?
How did you come to the decision that you don't want to be in the U.S. anymore?
Just look at everything that's happened since 2020. You know, the state of the country in 2020 when everything happened, you know, the C word. You know, since then, the cost of living has gone up maybe 200 percent. Don't quote me on that exactly because I'm not an economist, you know, but it's just.
Even if they say it's gone up.
10 or 20 percent it's really actually significant no we were spending jess and i were spending 200 a week for groceries now we're spending 350 yeah i seen the tiktok where the kid pulled up his amazon no it was uh uh his walmart a grocery order from like 2019 or something like that and things had gone up like two three hundred percent yeah it was outrageous and it wasn't and sometimes if they hadn't gone up they actually did go up because they actually would
still sell that but they'd sell less of it but charge you a little bit more yeah that's called shrinkflation they would just you know instead of being 24 ounces they would shrink it down to like 15 or 20 ounces and then they would jack the price up uh on top of that so not only are they raising their prices but they're giving you less of their products yeah you're raising my price as well i don't get i don't get a dozen hot dogs now now i'm getting 10
Yeah, and I don't see that trend changing anytime soon. I mean, the current political arrangement I happen to agree with. Let's just put that where it is. But I don't see things getting cheaper anytime soon. I don't see the cost of living going down just because we have the president, just because Trump's in office or whatever.
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Chapter 2: What are the economic factors influencing the move?
I just feel like Thailand just it kind of seems like it's right for me. You know, the aesthetic, the culture, the people, the economy, the religion, you know, the way things work over there, the way of life. I just I kind of feel like that's more geared towards how I want to spend, you know, the second half of my life.
You know what we ought to do? You want to look at one of those videos where the guy is showing like one of the condos?
We can dig one up. Yeah, sure. Why not?
Can you, you want to find one like a short one where he's just takes the guy up and he goes, actually, I mean like he'll go off to like the 20th floor of a brand new building and it's like $480 to live in a one bedroom, one bath.
So, yeah, so apartments over there, $480, $500 will get you a decent place, but $600 to $800 will get you, like, a nice luxury place.
Like living in a place down, like a one-bedroom downtown Tampa.
It's the square footage. What's really killing you, because all the apartments are really nice. All of the condos are really nice in certain parts of Bangkok. Now, you can get the older buildings, which are way cheaper, but you don't have the amenities. You're not 35th floor overlooking the whole city. Right. A lot of those places are, I say, 600 to 800.
But then again, it depends on the square footage, well, the square meters. And I've had to learn the goddamn metric system since going into all this because that's what they use over there. So I've had to learn. We don't use it over here for any reason. There's no reason for me to use the metric system here.
People just learn the metric system, you know, just to be like, I know the metric system or whatever. But, you know, I guess over there, all they use is the metric. So everything's in kilometers. Everything's square meters. So I had to do all the math in my head and learn all of the equations.
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Chapter 3: How does the cost of living in Thailand compare to the U.S.?
One good Diddy video a month.
One Diddy StreamYard.
Yeah. Yeah, so that's, you know, the cost of living is just, like I said, it's a quarter of what it is here. And what you get for your money is a lot different than what you get for your money here. You know, a cheeseburger and french fry here is $22 goddamn dollars. Right. That's ridiculous. Like, what are we doing here?
When you go to McDonald's and for two people to eat, it's almost $40-something. Right. Like, what is this?
So what is it there if you want to go out and go to a Thai restaurant? Not even fast food, just go to a Thai restaurant.
So the Western menu is going to have Western prices pretty much over there. But if you eat like a local, if you eat just Thai food, go out for just like a plate of pad thai, which is like chicken rice with an egg and some noodles and some other shit. It's like $2.50, $3 a meal, $4 a meal. Do you get that meal?
What do you mean? If you're a U.S. They're going to look at you and know. Look at you. You're a round guy.
No, they don't give us one. Sometimes they do. They call foreigners farangs. F-A-R-A-N-G in Thai. They do have farang pricing.
Paleface? Um, or is that a compliment?
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