CAMBODIA OR THAILAND? WHAT RETIREES NEED TO KNOW BEFORE CHOOSING!
[Music] Hi everyone, how we doing? Thanks for joining me again for another video. Today I want to speak a little bit about Cambodia and in particular CM Reap. Now if you’re a regular viewer to my channel, you will have known that I recently visited Camreap. I actually went to look at the temples and just have a a general look around, but I did spend quite a bit of my free time doing a little bit of research. Now, I’m not thinking about moving to Cambodia. I love living in Thailand, but the thing is I want to come up I wanted to come up with a B plan. Uh the rules are changing all the time here in Thailand. In the old days, for instance, you could stay here forever. You just got in a mini bus and you went over the border someplace, Cambodia, and uh you did that once a month and nobody uh was worried about it as long as you had a current stamp in your passport. But those days have long gone now. Immigration has tightened up uh quite rightly so. And uh they’re always changing the rules and making it tougher. although they do welcome well- behaved uh guests into the kingdom as always. Now what would happen if they suddenly changed the rooms uh they suddenly changed the rules and they said okay well if you’re on a retirement visa I’m talking about generally not just me if you’re on a retirement visa currently you need 800,000 Bart in the bank or you need to show 65,000 B a month income coming in every month. Now, what would happen if they changed that and said, "Uh, you need 3 million in the bank or even 5 million or you need to show 100 or 120,000 a month coming in." Uh, a lot of people just couldn’t do it. Uh, myself for one, uh, I I couldn’t show 3 million in the bank. I have assets and everything, but liquid cash, I couldn’t do it. So, it got me to thinking, if the worst came to the worst and I had to leave Thailand, where would I go? Uh, I’ve got no particular interest in going to uh places like Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, Japan. Um, they they don’t really interest me. I’ve been to the Philippines. It didn’t really uh do it’s quite a nice place, but it didn’t it’s not really my sort of place. I’m giving you a personal opinion now. Um, I haven’t been to Vietnam. Maybe that’s another one to take a look at. Uh, but I went to Cambodia 25 years ago and Cam Reap this time. And I’m asking myself the question, if the worst came to the worst and I had to leave Thailand, could I live in Cambodia? I’ve done a bit of research online. I went there recently, as I’ve just said, and I want to tell you my findings and I want to give you my personal opinion. Now, by no means am I an expert on Cambodia. I spent very little time there. But from what time I from what time I have spent there and from what I’ve seen, I’d like to share with you today. And at the end, I’ll give you my conclusion. and I’ll let you know is it a place I actually think that I could stay. So the first thing I want to talk about as far as Cambodia goes, well let’s talk about CMRE, not Cambodia. I’m talking about CMRE because it’s like comparing uh Bangkok to maybe Huahin. They’re completely different, aren’t they? I wouldn’t want to live in the capital. I went there about 25 years ago. I’m getting older. Uh if I move and retire properly, then it’d be somewhere smaller like CMRE and CMRE is geared up for tourists. Uh that’s what I particularly like about it which I’ll go through here. So first of all, as far as CMRE goes, uh let’s talk about crime. From what I can gather, it’s very very safe. There is the occasional pickpocketing in tourist areas, things like that if you’re not careful, but then that’s everywhere, isn’t it? And from what I’ve read, um crime against tourists, like vicious crime, you know, violent crime is is very very rare. So I don’t think that’s something to worry about in Cam Reap. The next thing is the people. How how are the people compared to Thailand? Well, quite frankly, I found them very, very friendly. It reminded me of when I first came to Thailand 30 years ago. Now, the ties are still nice people, don’t get me wrong, but they’re different. They they’ve got to learn. When when I first got here 30 years ago, there hadn’t been a lot of foreigners. Uh there weren’t a lot of foreigners coming here just on holiday as it were. There were business people here. Uh people who who work for companies and things. And over the years, you know, you’ve a lot of the foreigners who come here have not not been well behaved and they grind down the staff and, you know, they’re not as friendly and polite as they used to be. And a lot of that’s got to do with our fault, not theirs. Okay. So, as far as Cambodia, that hasn’t happened yet. I found the staff all extremely, very, very friendly, very nice. They still give you the Y when you go in. Tuk tuk drivers, for example, amazing. Uh, most of them spoke the language because there’s so many tourists there. Uh, very friendly. Didn’t try to rip me off. uh and in some cases they say well you pay me what you think I’m worth and uh so the people the people come across as extremely genuine friendly and it didn’t come across as fake. So that’s the first thing the visa system from what I gather is a lot easier in Cambodia than what it is in Thailand. I’ve just gone through the process of what you need to do to obtain a visa here in um Thailand. In Cambodia it’s a lot easier. you you’re going to go for the uh the E-class visa as opposed to the tourist visa. And then once you’re there, you’d apply for something called an EB visa, I believe it is. Uh but it’s just nothing like Thailand. So I believe you can if you use an agent, you can get the uh year-long there’s no there’s no such thing as a retirement visa in cab in Cambodia, okay? It’s it’s kind of a business visa, but they don’t have a problem. Nobody has a problem staying on year after year after year. Uh, and from what I can gather, if you use an agent, the cost is going to cost you around $300 a year uh to get a a year visa in in Cambodia. There’s no stipulation that you have to go to immigration or go online every 3 months. You don’t there’s no minimum amount you have to have in the bank. Okay? It’s that simple. So, again, uh you know, if you’re one of this this video is really for people who are going to retire out here and they’re thinking, is Thailand getting a bit expensive? Is there an alternative? So, just with the visa there, the the money you’re going to save, $300 a year, uh you put it into perspective with what you need to to stay in Thailand. Is that a correct word I’ve just said there? Okay, let me talk about the food a little bit. Um now, as again, I wasn’t there for a whole long I wasn’t there for a long period, but I did make the effort and I did try some Cambodian food. One of the things that winds me up more than anything is when I make a video here in Thailand, just going off subject a little bit, but when I make a video here in Thailand, uh, and I might go out for a pizza or show somebody I’ve had good fish and chips, I always get the same comments where people say, "You’re in Thailand. What are you doing eating foreign food? You should be eating Thai food." And my answer to that is, "Yeah, if you come here for 2 weeks, that’s all well and good. But when you live here full-time, you can’t eat Thai food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner 365 days a year." And anybody who says they can, I’d be very dubious about it. So it’s the same thing. If you go out to Cambodia, you’re going to want your own home food, aren’t you? So I tried everything. Now the good thing about Samreap in particular because of the temples and there’s so many tourists going there and they’re not gangs of young men or mongers and uh not them sort of tourists. It’s mainly couples, okay? Families and couples, but for the most part couples. And you see young couples anywhere from kind of I don’t know 24, 25 going right up to 40, 50. They’re real tourists, you know, they they go there to to look at the many temples. So, first of all, talking about the foreign food, because there are so many foreigners who go there for the temples and they all congregate in one area and that’s generally pub street. So, if you if you live there and you thought to yourself, oh, I fancy a pizza or I fancy a steak or something. It is available. You don’t necessarily have to live in a tourist area. You could live in the city. Uh, and I did go into the city and it’s very, very clean in the center of town. Uh, and I’m I’ll talk about apartments and things in a bit, but you’ve got that on hand. It’s like it’s like I can compare it to patio. It’s like living in Jump for instance, uh, just as an example. Uh, and you want to go out and have a a Burger King. Okay, I don’t know if they got a Burger King in in Jump, but if they didn’t, just for the sake of this video, it’s 10 minutes over to Patio and you’ve got everything. Burger King, McDonald’s, the whole range. So, it’s similar in Cambodia. If you wanted some foreign food, it’s available for you. Now, the thing with the Thai food, it’s dirt cheap. If you go to the market, I had a meal on next on the river. They’ve got some great little markets there and the food’s delicious. It’s very similar to Thai food, but it’s not spicy. It’s completely uh not spicy at all. In fact, I had a problem because I had to keep asking them to put lots of chilies in them. They’re kind of looking at me like, "Are you sure?" H But the food was nice. A typical um Cambodian chicken fried rice, for instance, $1.50. Okay, what’s that? 50 B. Uh very, very cheap. If you eat uh foreign food, you’re going to pay anywhere between $4 and $6. Now, the dollars is a currency in Cambodia. Uh when you go to an ATM machine and you make a withdrawal, you’re going to get US dollars. The local currency ring is it’s basically it’s used for small change. Okay? You can spend it, uh but it’s small change. Now, if you withdraw dollars from an ATM machine, the charge is quite high. It’s between $4 and $6 a transaction. So, you’d need uh you’d need to keep that in mind. uh the most they’re probably cheaper ways to get your money, get your hands on your money, maybe go into the bank and withdraw it. If you live there, you’d find all of this out. Uh but generally, it’s dollars. So, when you’re talking about the currency, that that’s what you need to uh take into consideration, not the local currency. Um, one myth as well, and I did mention this in another video that I made uh recently about uh uh Cambodia, is that people will tell you, you know, if you spend a $50 note uh and your meal is $7, you’ll get the change all in Riad. That’s not true. especially in a tourist area, they’ll give you the change uh in dollars from the $50 and they might have to make up one or two dollars in Riad, which you can four 4,000 Riad from memory is a dollar. So once you get a couple of, you know, 10,000 RAD, you can go and spend $2 in a market and get yourself a little meal. Okay. Uh so you’ve got the best of both worlds. You got the uh foreign food, which is very very good. Very good. And on a par with Bangkok, I’d say. And then you’ve got the local food. And it’s like everywhere else. You can go to markets or you can go to uh tourist areas. Now, as far as getting all your daily items, your needs, toothpaste, toiletries, um everything that you need uh to live on, food, shopping, if you want to cook at home, I did make the effort and I had a look around. They do have a metro, which is the kind of like a wholesalers. Uh they have a uh Lotus, a big supermarket, and they also have some independent shops. You can pretty much get anything. Um, you’re not you haven’t got any villa supermarkets. So, you’re not going to get uh exact name brands from your own country like you’ve got like you can get it here in in Bangkok and and Patia. That’s uh you can get any absolutely anything in in Bangkok or Patia. It’s all imported. It’s not quite the same in Cambodia. Uh there’s I couldn’t see anything I mean I had a really good look in the supermarkets and I couldn’t see I couldn’t think of something like oh I won’t be able to get it. I mean, they they had uh just about everything and uh a lot of foreign food uh that’s imported from Thailand actually. Now, it’s a bit of an alcoholic’s paradise is Cambodia because uh alcohol is just dirt cheap. Uh you’re typically going to pay uh 50 cents for a for a half a pint of Anka beer draft uh which is peanuts. What’s that? 20 B. Um a bottle of spirit. I did check out they’ve got a local Thai whiskey here that they sell in 7-Eleven called something like 265. Uh, and for a liter it’s about 365 Bart whereas over there it’s 275 B. So it’s actually cheaper in Cambodia. They have all the international brands, all the scotches, vodkas, everything. Uh prices I couldn’t see a lot of difference between here and uh in here in Thailand and Cambodia and in fact it looked cheaper over there. If you’re a smoker, which I’m not, you I looked at some packets of cigarettes. They worked out UK money, let’s say dollars, about $5 US a pack of 20 uh international cigarettes. Um, I used to smoke, so I just I wanted to have a look. Uh, drum rolling tobacco, which is uh from the UK, I think. Uh, 50 grams, which would cost you probably $25 in the UK. Uh, $4.50. Uh, so you can pretty much get what you what you need to get in Cambodia. Um, non-ourist areas. Okay. Again, so I I did go and explore non-ourist areas because the tourist areas are great because you can get your pizzas and your burgers and your uh whatever it is you need, foreign bits and pieces. uh local areas is is considerably cheaper. Uh I never got food poison at all when I went to restaurants. As I said earlier in the video, people are friendly. The transportation is great. You can get around in tuk tuks dirt cheap. And uh the way I look at it is you could live out of a tourist area cheap. Uh and if you needed your bits and pieces, you could go into a tourist area. Um talk about transportation a little bit here. Uh you could buy a motorbike there. The the most popular scooter that I seen there was the Honda Dream. They didn’t have the selection of bikes that they have here in um Thailand. You’ve got everything here, especially scooters. So, the Honda Dream is a 125 scooter. Uh it looks a little bit dated, but it’s fine. Uh it’s $15 a day to rent a scooter in in CM Re, double to what it is here. So, if you’re there, you’d probably buy one. And and from what I can talking to the tuk tuk, I can’t give you exact numbers. Uh but the price of the scooter over there is about a third more expensive than it is here in Thailand. So, if you lived here, for instance, and you you went to Cambodia, like if I I’ve got a scooter that I bought here, which was 102,000 B, the Honda ADV 160. I’m sure I could put that in the back of a pickup truck and for a few thousand uh get it taken over there. But if you’re not in that situation, uh that you could buy a scooter while you’re there, but the local transportation, obviously, you haven’t got MRT, BTS. Um I don’t think there’s boat over there. I might be wrong. Somebody who’s who’s been there a long time will probably correct me on that, but certainly not in Cam Reap. But the tuk tuks are dirt cheap, friendly guys, as I said, and you can go anywhere for a couple of dollars, you know. I mean, really, really good. And they’ll even wait for you. Uh, I remember there was one day I went, I can’t remember. I said to him, I wanted to go somewhere and he said, $3. I went there and I didn’t give him any guarantee of a job going back. He just said, "Oh, I’ll wait here just in case." And I was in wherever it was. I went to I was in there for about half an hour. I think it was one of the supermarkets I was looking at. And uh I came out and he was there all smiles and you know you feel a bit don’t you? So yeah I did I I I paid him $6 there and back and uh excuse me and I gave him a a dollar tip as well. Uh okay now when you read on forums about Cambodia people will tell you it’s dirt cheap. Okay it is cheaper than Thailand but it’s not dirt cheap. I mean you do need a fairly decent income to live there. I think you could get by I think you could live fairly well on a on a pension even from the UK. Uh you could live pretty good. A one-bedroom apartment in CMRE, you’re looking anywhere between $200 US and $450. Now, depending on what kind of an apartment it is, obviously will uh judge will will give you the price what you’re going to pay per month. But even if you took the top end at $450 a month, what’s that? I mean, it’s it’s not even what $18,000 Bart, 16,000 B, I don’t know. You can convert it into your own currency, but it’s cheap and you could even go cheaper than that. So, if you wanted to live there and you were quite happy to live, say, in a big studio room with a kitchen area in the corner and a door that leads to your bathroom, you could probably get something like that for $100 a month. I’m I’m guessing. Um, okay. Now, the level of English that people speak there from what I could see even in the non-ourist areas was better than here in in uh Bangkok. And the reason for that is because thousands and thousands of tourists travel to CM Reap every year. So, anybody who’s doing any kind of business, they live uh in Camry. I’m talking about the Cambodians, they want to speak English because they want to be able to communicate. I had no problem whatsoever communicating with everybody. And even in the local market, uh a guy uh he couldn’t speak much English, but he could actually speak Thai, you know. So, I don’t think uh even out of the tourist areas, you know, they the English is very broken. Of course, it is in the tourist area that you can have a discussion very fluently with all the waitresses and the bars and everything. uh the ve very good um it’s very good for that sort of thing. Um you are going to experience the odd power cut. Now when I was there this is something that happens fairly frequently but not as often as it used to years ago apparently. So I went back to the hotel one afternoon. Uh I’d been out I’d had lunch. It was about 2:00 and I thought well I’ll go back and have a little sleep you know 1 and a half hours and I’ll come out later. And uh the whole street was out and I said to the owner very nice guy he said yeah I don’t know how long it’s going to be out. Sometimes it’s out 5 minutes, sometimes it’s out for an hour. And so all I did, I went over to a local coffee shop on the other side of the street and that that side of the street had power. It was just this side where my hotel was. So I wasn’t very lucky. I I sat and had a a very nice uh a couple of coffees actually. I spoke to one of the waitresses there. A bit quiet. I had a snack and I could see Starbucks. Yeah, they have Starbucks in Camry. I could see that Starbucks was dark inside and it’s not going to be like that normally. So, I sat there drinking coffee and as soon as I seen the lights ping on in Starbucks, that was it. Bill paid and back to the hotel. Uh, but you have to be aware of that. You know, if you’re one of those guys, you need everything to work absolutely correctly. You get irritated when things don’t go right, then Cambodia Camry probably isn’t the place for you. You need to be one of those people with a mindset like, you know, it happens. You know, I’m here. I’m enjoying the country. I’m having a nice lifestyle. It doesn’t always go right. You know what I mean? You need to have that mindset. Uh just something I want to touch on really if you’re one of those people who don’t want to be near tourists although thousands and thousands of tourists go to Samreap every year to look at the temples and what have you uh you you you can put yourself away from that kind of uh scene that that’s a small area as I said earlier the tourists tend to stay in hotels that are in right in the city center and when they go out and eat and drink they tend to kind of hang around Pub Street the western areas some of them might want to get into the local culture a little bit and just branch off a little bit like I did when I went to the market at the river and had dinner one night. But generally speaking, if you lived in the city, uh, you wouldn’t be seeing foreigners on each coroner because I know there’s a lot of guys, they don’t want to live in areas where it’s just nothing but foreigners, you know, expat areas. And I, for one, I I like to be in the middle. I don’t want to be totally local, but I don’t want to be living in a tourist area. Hence, where I live in in Bangkok. It’s a nice mix. I’m in the I’m in a kind of in a tourist area where they’ve got everything. 5 minutes on my scooter and I’m I’m in a totally tight neighborhood. Um, now internet is is very very fast. Uh, I was very surprised actually, especially in the center of the city. You can get a good internet package for between $10 and $20 uh a month. Um, the hotel where I was staying, I hooked on to their internet was very, very good. Uh, just a quick tip, if you’re here in Thailand, if you’re an expat already living here in Thailand and you fancy going to uh, Thail Cambodia for a few days, you can actually buy a very, very cheap roaming package like I did. So, I’ve just recently changed from true to AIS, which the service is better when you’re out of Bangkok. And uh I phoned them up, speak English, and uh they advised me if I’m going to Cambodia for 3 days, buy the uh uh Roman package 199 Bart, which gave me three I think I think it was three, however they measure it, KB is it? MK anyway, the three and then they slow it down after that. But that was fast enough, you know, I mean. So if you’re going from Thailand to Cambodia and you’re going on a little visit and the phone’s important to you uh for checking your emails and keeping up uh keeping um in touch with people, then it’s very very cheap to do that. Okay. So was there anything negative about CM Reap when I was there? Uh and and Cambodia as a rule. I couldn’t see a lot of negative things, but there is one thing you have to think about if you’re getting on in years. I’m 65 now. Uh thankfully touchwood. I’ve still got my health. I I take statins and some other bits and pieces, but generally speaking, I’m I get around and um no no major problems at the moment. Something you need to think about if you’re going to live in Cambodia, the hospitals are not on a par with Thailand. You know, in Thai in Thailand, the hospitals are absolutely excellent. Uh first class, worldass. Uh you pay for the service. Uh but they have different levels, but they’re all very very good. Even the public hospitals for the ties here in Thailand, not so much in in Cambodia. Now, from what I’ve read, simple things like um uh I can’t think of a thing, a simple uh injury, an injury, a broken leg, for instance, or something like that. Yeah, the the Cambodian hospitals can deal with it. Infections where you have to have injections, you know, maybe you catch something uh viral, they can sort all that out, but things that are quite um major, like maybe a heart attack or a stroke. I’m not saying they can’t. I haven’t looked into it, but from what I’ve read, uh, most people in Cambodia, uh, who who can afford it, what they do, they’ll fly to Ho Chi Min City or they’ll go over the border to Bangkok, uh, and that’s what they do. So, you have to keep that in mind. And in fact, when I was having a a meal in the Red Piano, which I talked about a lot in my last video, very uh, nice restaurant on the corner of Pub Street, um, junction of Pub Street, I should say, I was talking to one of the waitresses. is I had quite a nice conversation with her about uh all things Cambodia uh and all things Thailand while I was waiting for my meal and uh she actually said she’s got a sister who became ill and she actually had to take her to a hospital in in in Thailand and what she did they took the bus and they went over the border got it sorted and came back. So you do need to be aware of that. If you’re somebody who you think’s going to visit hospitals quite a bit uh then be aware uh you might need Cambodia might not be the the place for you. Okay, so that’s most of the information that I’ve got uh for you based on my visit. And as I said, I’m no expert. I didn’t go to the capital. It was only a 2-day visit, but you can take in a lot in 2 days. You really can. So, my summary on the place for me personally, could I live in Cambodia? The answer is yes, I certainly could. Now, I don’t want to leave Cambodia. Uh Thailand, as I mentioned at the beginning of the video, I don’t want to leave Thailand. Uh my level of Thai speaking is up to a better standard now. So having to start from scratch again would be difficult. Although as I mentioned most of them speak English over there. Uh and I love Thailand you know I love everything about it but as I keep saying it’s constantly changing. It’s not everywhere changes and improves but it is getting stricter. It is getting harder to do things. And if it gets to the point where I couldn’t jump through the hoops that they want me to jump through then I don’t want to go back to the UK. I really don’t. Now I’m not slating in the UK. I’m not running it down. I’m just saying again personally I don’t want to go back to the UK. I don’t want to. So where else is there to go? And as I said the other countries that I mentioned at the beginning don’t really interest me. So after visiting Cambodia, yes, I could live there. Um I could get a cheap apartment, $2, $300 a month. The food is very palatable. Uh I can buy most of the items I need to cook. I do a lot of cooking. Uh I don’t know about clothes shopping. I didn’t look into that. But don’t forget as well because uh Cambodia and Thailand are very very cheap. You could do a every 3 months you could do a shopping trip to Bangkok. Uh it’s 5 a half thousand Bart return on Air Asia or if you’re really living on a tight budget there’s a there’s a bus I think it takes like 12 or 16 hours but it’s dirt cheap you know if you could handle a I know guys who can I can’t handle a 12 16 hour uh bus ride just not not because my body won’t take it. I just find it so incredibly boring that I’d probably throw myself out the window halfway you know. So you can fly every 5 and a half months. Now, I intend to go on another uh ex another exploring mission, you could say. But the next time I go, I want to go for maybe 5 days and I want to really start looking at things. As I keep saying, I’ve got no plans to leave Thailand and move to Cambodia. But if you’re one of those guys, you’re thinking of coming to Thailand or perhaps you already you’ve retired here in Thailand already and you’re on a a kind of minimal uh budget or you’re your money doesn’t go as far as you thought it um would, then it’s something you could think about. You know, could Cambodia suit you? you you’d certainly save a lot more living in Cambodia. But as far as the entertainment scene goes, if you’re one of those guys who likes to entertain the ladies, I can’t really give you any information on that other than there’s in Cam Reap for instance, there’s no go bars, that’s for sure. I didn’t come across any bars that were full of ladies. I was told that there are freelancers that hang around walking street around uh after midnight, but as I was there to see the temples, I was I was in my hotel room by 10:00, 10:30 latest, so I didn’t actually see them. So, if you’re one of those sort of guys who wants to uh you know, have many dates as it were, uh I don’t know if if if dating, online dating would work in Cambodia. So, if you’ve got a partner already and uh perhaps the two of you could go there and see what you think of it. Uh even a Thai girl if she’s married to you, she might not mind because it’s so easy to get back to Thailand, isn’t it? Right. I that’s all I can tell you about it at the moment. So, for myself personally, as I say, I could go and live in Cambodia, but I don’t want to, if that makes sense. Now, if you’ve enjoyed this video, please give me a thumbs up. Uh, it helps with the YouTube algorithm. If you’ve got any questions, something you’d want to ask me about Cambodia that I might have missed out on. I don’t know if I’d know the answer. Uh, but you can certainly ask me and leave your question in the uh the comment section below. I answer all my comments and uh perhaps it’s something else somebody else wants to know as well. Okay, thanks for watching me again. Thanks for listening. I hope the video’s been informative and if you’re going to Can Bodier anytime soon, have a good time. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks for watching. [Music]
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I found cambodia very good , siam reap is great , phnom phen is a bit sketchy , sihanouksville was brilliant 12/15 yrs ago , different now ive herd . I plan on going again this november , im done with pattaya
Questions for the next time: is the weather very hot, do girls have to take care all the family like in Thailand?
Cambodia? Hear what happened to that Australian for accidentally breaking an ATM screen?
Very interesting video, great info ๐๐
Great info thank you!!
Cambodia is now at the price range that Thailand was in the 80s
always great to have a plan b . great video thanks for posting
If they changed the money requirements they would grandfather the conditions for current retirees…..this has happened before when they doubled the requirements ……there is precedence……..
If you were to move to Cambodia , would the channel name change to cambodia bound ๐ . great video, keep up the good work.
Hi Peter, can I ask what type of medical insurance you have. Itโs what makes me think itโs not viable. Very expensive when youโre 70.
i am g0ing Vietnam then CAMBODIA , pass 0n Thai…see which is best?
I moved to Siem Reap in January. I love Thailand but for long term stay, Cambodia 1 year, multi-entry visa is just so easy. The Thailand retirement visa is a no go right out of the gate.
Very interesting video. I have never been to Cambodia but I also have it as plan B. Not for the same reason as you but there are some rumours that foreigners spending more than 180 days per annum would have to pay tax here. Hope nothing happens with that. I have also considered Vietnam but from what I understand it is more or less to get a long term visa there.
BTW you mentioned you take statins. I advice you to stop taking them ASAP. It is not kolesterol that block your veins. High kolesterol levels is no problem, the whole brain consist of kolesterol. The only reoson that many doctors prescribe statins is that the pharmacy companyโs makes fortunes from selling statins so they put a lot of pressures on the doctors to prescribe them. Google and find the info yourself. I stopped taking statins 7 years ago.
Thank you. Good information.
I LIVE THERE IS GREAT I LIVE HERE 15 YEARS AND I KNOW VERY WELL EVERY TOWNS
Thank you for sharing !
I am staying in Hua Hin right now and looking around for a new spot after this.
Cambodia seems too be a place to consider. ๐๐
Neither go on lengthy holidays getting monthly rentals
Just asking myself how much sense it gives to make such a video after having been here only for 2 days. Guess that's also the reason you had your troubles with naming the local currency. Yes, sure quite a few of your points are accurate, but, on the other side you missjudged as well quite some points completely. I would say normal in one is basing his experience on such a short time, and referring, for the rest of, by : I was hearing…
Cambodia ia a sXhole and people are blatantly only after your money
Thank you. Very good video.
You decided to leave Thailand and moving to Cambodia! Changing the channel to Cambodia bound?
Thats shocking. What happened?
Great video Peter — well done! Excellent very informative — keep up the good work. I saw you recently on a Sunday lunchtime coming out of the popular Royal Oak pub with a pal discussing business matters perhaps. You are much taller and stockier in real life, And after a few drinks you headed purposefully towards Sky Train holding an animated conversation with your chum. Post roast beef and Yorkshire pudding perhaps? Where you going to Soi Cowboy or Nana Plaza. If not where could you possibly be heading on a quiet relaxed sunny Sunday afternoon in Bangkok. The mind boggles?
Thailand is great for a short vacation.The long-term visa is a real struggle.
Cambodia has only 17Millions People , but it is still has large land area and Scenery is very Beautiful โคโคโค Cambodian donโt have so many Sexy women & Lady Boy?๐๐๐
Sort of a double-edged sword, this. The more YouTube videos about good spots like Siem Reap, the more westerners show up, and itโs over – another overpriced city devoid of morality and higher visa requirements.
What is the Cambodian definition of "work"? In Thailand it is extremely restrictive and has nothing to do with getting paid.
In the hypothetical scenario at the start of the video (changes to retirement visa), wouldn't you be eligible for the DTV Visa? A combination of that type of visa, tourist visas and student visas (although they've been cracked down on) would be fine for most people
I agree about the food… I crave an occasional Sizzler or Pizza company when I've been living off Thai food for a while..
Most Thai people have an occasional western meal so it would be really strange for a westerner to never have it…
Excellent thoughts..thanks
Consider doing the Shuttle Shuffle…and have the best of both worlds: 6 months in Thailand & 6 months in Cambodia.
Riel ๐ ๐
If you are married to a Thai then the visa situation is much easier
Informative and well presented video. Thank you.
Another great vdeo
Many Thanks
Good research, enjoyed from Toronto Canada
stop saying they are nice people(everywhere is nice) when your time spent is only couple of days of course they are nice when you are tourist, not saying that they are not! Siem Reap is very different compare to Thailand. My suggestion is keep an open mind look into Vietnam keep Siem Reap as a last resort, there are many stories you have not heard of Cambodia. Keep the options open. the cost of living is high compare to Thailand, medical and other infrastructures are not really there. Just sharing an open view.
Great topics for sharing as Cambodia has come a long way since the wars and genocide ended and the country started to rebuild within the last 20 years. Hoping Cambodia is not going to be like Thailand and that makes both countries unique in its own ways. I've been traveling to Thailand many times and I always enjoyed it. I had a great time like BKK, Pattaya, Phuket, and Chiang Mai.
There are always pros and cons no matter where we live as life is too short to do the things we don't love doing but life is very precious. Sharing is caring. Peace out from a genocide survivor!
If you go on many government safe travel websites, Thailand, Cambodia are increased caution or yellow, while Vietnam is normal safety or green. I believe the Australian website says Cambodia is classified as green, but Thailand is still yellow. Which surprised me as Vietnam is not a democracy country. But there you go as safe as many Asian countries like Japan, Malaysia and Singapore.
So what is the ER visa? I have just been on Google and ER visa is a Cambodian retirement visa! I believe you mixed up Vietnam with Cambodia, as its Vietnam that does not have a specific retirement visa!
The worst food in the world is the disgusting ,Mc Donalds ,Burgher King ,etc
If you have stolen the payroll at your place of work, Cambodia could be for you. But if you are looking for a country with more than a veneer of civilization, Thailand is a wonderful place.
Excellent, honest down to earth video.
Thank you very much.
I have lived in Surin just over the border in Thailand and not far from Siem Reap for about 16 years.
So I have a good idea what you are talking about.
How is the Credit Card acceptance? Wise, Mastercard etc.