A Day in The Life of Expats Living in Thailand

Lloyd & Mandy

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00:19G'day guys it is Monday morning here in Thailand this is pretty much how most days start here

00:27depending on how many times Lila wakes up during the night I'll usually get up early jump in the

00:33ice bath have a quick little shower and I'll get up with Lila like maybe like five or six o

00:40'clock

00:40and just give Mandy like an extra hour of sleep because she's the one who wakes up with Lila

00:46every time she needs to feed in the middle of the night and sometimes actually sometimes that's only

00:50once and sometimes it's twice sometimes it's a little bit more so I like to get up and come up

00:58here on the rooftop and just get a little bit of work done check my emails we actually had a

01:04really

01:04good weekend of not working at all we didn't look at our computers even once we went to our favorite

01:11beach club on Saturday and spent the whole day there with Lila she was great she went for a swim

01:17it wasn't too hot it was very crowded though and then yesterday we had some friends over for lunch

01:22and watched a bit of UFC which was awesome and today it is Monday and so I guess we're gonna

01:29take

01:29you through what a typical day looks like for us here in Thailand and I'll start with a very funny

01:37email I received from one of our subscribers I'll read it out to you guys so this email is from

01:42Troy and

01:43he just says that it appears that we consented to being in an article from news.com.au and he

01:49thought

01:49he'd share it with us in case we weren't aware and I'll read the article out actually the article is

01:53called why young Aussies are fleeing the country and it's got a big picture of me and Mandy and this

02:00is

02:00on news.com.au website as well as msn yahoo like it's on a lot of Australian news websites and

02:09uh the

02:09answer is yes we did consent to this article I basically got an email from a finance journalist

02:14a couple of weeks ago who I guess was uh doing some research into the numbers of the cost of

02:21living in

02:21Australia and apparently the amount of young Aussies that are leaving the country is increasing by like

02:2810% every year and less Aussies who are overseas are coming back so I mean that might not seem

02:34like

02:34a big deal but effectively what that means is Australia is losing its young population and so

02:39he quotes us here and saying despite running a business and working part-time on the side the

02:44Byron Bay couple were struggling to get ahead with Australia's cost of living he says the couple said

02:48they were trying to do the right things by settling down and working full-time but they were unable to

02:53get ahead due to Australia being one of the more expensive places to live in 2018 we were both

02:58working full-time and had saved up enough money to get a two to get a deposit for a two

03:04-bedroom apartment

03:04on the Gold Coast but I spoke to my boss and the mortgage broker and they both told me it

03:11was a bad

03:11idea because there was basically going to be a downturn in my work and we could just afford these mortgage

03:19payments as it was so if I lost any of my work or if Mandy lost any of her work

03:24or if Mandy got

03:25pregnant etc etc we pretty much would have been screwed and that's what we said in the article

03:30the funny thing about the email is that Troy shout out to Troy by the way he asked us not

03:35to promote

03:36Thailand too much because all the Aussies will end up moving here and ruin it and he wasn't being like

03:41a dick about it or anything I think he found the humor in it and I'll find the humor in

03:46it too like

03:47to be completely clear we're not we're not telling anyone to do anything we're not telling anyone to

03:52leave Australia we're not telling anyone to move to Bali or Thailand or Mexico or wherever we've

03:57lived we're really just showing that there is another way if you're struggling to make ends meet

04:03because of the cost of living and because of the hours you have to work and you might feel trapped

04:09but there is another way like there is a possibility to make an income online from anywhere and while this

04:16cost of living crisis is going on which I think is going to end I think within like a decade

04:22things

04:22will get better but you can move somewhere and get ahead like you can start a family and be home

04:27to

04:28work with your family like I spend every single morning with my daughter Lila and the two of us

04:33take care of her together although I'm not gonna lie like it's mostly Mandy she's the mum she's way

04:38better at it than me but I'm here to help out whenever she needs and that has made life so

04:43much

04:43easier for us plus the fact that if we ever want to go and visit family or friends we can

04:48go anywhere

04:49we want and still be earning money online like right now we're running three businesses the YouTube

04:55channel this is our main business we also have a school community that we run we do free live Q

05:01&A's

05:01every Wednesday we've got a hundred people in that group right now and it's going awesome like we've met

05:06some amazing people through that group and we love it we're building that and then we have

05:10a startup that we're in the process of launching a product space business with our business partner

05:15in Australia which I can't talk too much about because we're literally literally like in the

05:19process of trademarking this product we have a lot going on but like still we get to spend every day

05:25with our daughter and together and we work the hours that we want to work and the amount of income

05:32we can generate isn't limited to how much our boss wants to pay us and because we're living in a

05:37place

05:37like Thailand where we can really really cut down on our expenses we're able to start getting ahead

05:43a little bit hey so I actually read this book just last week actually I finished it by Dan Martell

05:50and

05:50it's called buy back your time I've read a lot of business books since we started online business about

05:55six years ago but this one really hit hard because it's all about freeing up your time from doing

06:02the small tasks that really could be outsourced to anyone else so that you can focus on the big tasks

06:08as well as just freeing up your time to be with your family and to rest to I guess rest

06:15your brain a little bit

06:18and so we actually hired our first virtual assistant a couple of weeks ago and uh it's been amazing

06:24like I delegate some of the tasks that pretty much anyone could do for our businesses and it has been

06:31a massive change because I've been able to focus on things that actually grow our business and I don't

06:37feel overwhelmed I don't have to stay up late at night putting in the hours working while Mandy and

06:43Lila are sleeping just so that uh I can keep up with all the tasks so I'll leave a link

06:48for the book

06:48down below it's called buy back your time it's absolutely amazing and that's the reason

06:53I'm able to get up and have coffee with my daughter at 6 30 in the morning and I'm about

06:59to

07:00go to the gym all I have to do is check a few things send a few messages fire off

07:04a couple of

07:05emails maybe have a meeting and honestly most of my work for the day is done and I know that

07:09sounds

07:10crazy it's a Monday and we just had a weekend off but that's kind of how things are at the

07:14moment

07:15obviously you go through seasons where you're a lot busier than other times but this virtual assistant

07:20for us has been an absolute game changer okay so I guess it's pretty obvious why that journalist did

07:26reach out to us this video we published in August which was called why we left Australia has

07:36almost 400,000 views and it's getting like 5,000 views every single day it's got about 15,000 likes

07:45on

07:45it there's also 500 dislikes so there's probably 500 people who are really annoyed at what we said in

07:52that video but it seems to be resonating with a lot of people and obviously that's why the

07:58journalists reached out to us to get our point of view and I don't think we said anything in that

08:02video or that interview that was untrue or unfair we just shared our experience like we always do and

08:09if that resonates with people or if that turns people off then it is what it is sort of thing

08:14look at that crazy

08:27all right we just got to our gym which is mojo gym I'm gonna have a workout and you're just

08:34gonna chill

08:35out with Lila for now yeah she's my weight that I carry around so sometimes we just take turns in

08:47working out one of us holds Lila sometimes the lady who works here at the gym holds her for us

08:53sometimes Mandy just straps her to her chest while she's on the treadmill or doing weights which is

08:59awesome but um either way we figure it out and we both get a workout in and this gym is

09:05really cheap too

09:26it's a pretty good gym it's only about 890 baht for the whole month unlimited which is like

09:3425 bucks us pretty bloody good but um it does get a little bit busy around this time of year

09:41december january i think that's all gyms at this time yeah i mean that's why in in general

09:49or just thailand in general now we'll go home have some breakfast i've got a meeting i think

09:57while i was going to have a nap at home yeah yeah and then we'll go do something this other

10:05definitely need some fuel on the way home we might run out at any minute

10:33i haven't figured out if fuel's cheaper here than it is back home or not i feel like it changes

10:39too much

10:39to really know i'm just going to take bear for a walk bye

10:59let's go

11:03come on bear let's go

11:06all right so speaking of time saving it is about 12 o'clock and i've already got all my work

11:13for the

11:13day done which is in large part thanks to our virtual assistant i don't know managing my time

11:19like getting up in the morning super early and while i'm spending time with lila i'm scheduling

11:25things i'm sending emails organizing the day and the week we're doing a road trip down south for a

11:30couple of weeks and usually i'd be spending a lot of time researching places figuring out planning but

11:37our assistants helping us out with that which is awesome and speaking of saving time and money if

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13:26for supporting us and this channel for almost three years now on our journeys bear just loves having a

13:33sniff around sniff absolutely anything

13:39hey he does stress me out a little bit sometimes when he's off leash because um

13:43he doesn't seem to have any awareness of like scooters and cars he'll just run out onto the road

13:49with no thought of consequences um so sometimes i have to put him on a leash but i try not

13:55to

13:55most of the time so i think lila's just gonna have her usual midday nap for an hour or two

14:01whatever

14:01and then uh we're gonna go for a drive and check out this new cafe our friends told us about

14:06it's about

14:07a 20 minute drive up towards the mountains near the winery so that should be good we'll take the camera

14:11with

14:11us and i'll show you guys around

14:41so

14:43grab like bear do you have to do that now you're done so for a long time we were going

14:52to the

14:53grocery store and getting groceries and cooking our own breakfast bear which was fine but um

15:00it's actually a little bit more expensive and it was taking up a lot more time for us so now

15:05we've started ordering our breakfast from grab and we found a couple of places that do like a

15:11really decent breakfast this is a rice with holy basil pork which is like minced pork with herbs

15:17and stuff an omelette and fruit and it's a hundred baht delivered which is like i don't know four

15:23dollars australian three dollars us and it saves us the time we have to go shopping or like the time

15:30to cook and prep our breakfast and then like clean everything up with the dishes i know it doesn't

15:37sound like much but when you're running a business or a few businesses and you have

15:41a baby and a dog it's a really good time saver and so we used to feel guilty for ordering

15:47out too much

15:48but now we've said stuff it we're just going to do it because it saves us time and money and

15:53it's good

15:54healthy food anyway this is just like a hustle phase that we're going through as well like we don't do

15:58this all the time when we show day in the lives like right now we're in a hustle phase but

16:04like if

16:04we weren't in a hustle phase i probably would be cooking us three meals a day or two meals a

16:09day

16:09or whatever but just different phases call for different things and this has been like taking a

16:13huge load off of my plate not having to cook every meal yeah or even like yesterday was sunday we

16:18um

16:19spent the day at home watching the ufc we had some friends over and mandy made a big platter of

16:24food

16:24because we still enjoy cooking but when we've got stuff to do for the day this just like saves like

16:30an hour yeah and we're when you're cooking the same thing every day too it doesn't it's not as

16:36exciting as cooking like a new meal or something one place that we will recommend here in hawaiian

16:41is a place called healthy cafe they cook with all coconut oil so you don't have to worry about the

16:46doyle's or anything like that yeah we order breakfast from there quite often

16:50yeah

16:52are we here tonight

16:54will you stay for good

16:59are you from the past

17:02life i feel like

17:07i've known you before

17:23all right we just drove out to the chocolate house which is uh it's actually called fuwichit farm

17:30and it's um about 30 minutes drive outside of hawaiian and this is like a cacao farm they sell

17:37all types of chocolate ice chocolate hot chocolate chocolate bars pretty much anything

17:43you can think of chocolate related they grow it all here with the cacao as you can see

17:49everything's homemade

17:52they do chocolate ice cream

17:55and they've also got these cool cactuses i think we're going to take a cactus home

18:01i really want one for the office slash studio there's no plants survive in there it's too hot

18:08thanks to uh chad and kath for recommending this joint it's pretty cool it's here cacti i guess

18:16they grow these all here this place is huge and it's just full of cacao plants something going on

18:22back here i don't know what but actually i don't even know if i'm supposed to be walking back here

18:26anyway i'll show you guys the menu and what they sell here

18:55wow got the dark rum flavor delicious

18:59what what if it's real rum tastes like you know that rum and raisin dark chocolate yeah it's awesome

19:05okay we're actually on the hunt for a cactus for lloyd's office because it's a bit too hot in there

19:10and all the other plants that we've put in there have almost died we've had to get them out there's

19:15so many different cactuses here i've never seen this many colors of them they're so cool

19:19they're a bit small we want something quite big yeah i'm wondering if they grow

19:24or if that's just as big as i get do you want one of those ones it just looks like

19:29a dick

19:33sounds like there's some sort of party or something going on

19:37so this is all the cacao yeah very cool how are you going lola she's a bit warm it's getting

19:44a bit

19:44warm out here yeah it's actually a really cool time of the year it's been like low 20s i think

19:51it

19:51dropped down to 16 in bangkok the other day and there was a big news report about how it's the

19:55coldest

19:55day on record for like decades everyone was walking around with jackets on and stuff it's pretty funny

20:04the drive out here is so nice the countryside around here is just incredible there's so many

20:10like pineapple farms and just jackfruit farms i saw a bunch of jackfruit trees on the way here

20:17just so much nature i love it okay this is a cacao juice soda

20:29just tastes like a kind of like a lemon soda or something really

20:36it's refreshing cacao juice i want to try stop plugging it you're going to plug it off

20:49that's really nice really nice and we got

20:55a big block of 75 dark chocolate because we love dark chocolate

21:05how long is that going to last

21:07a big set pretty big it feels pretty big it's huge one day

21:14so if you do want to come out here it's basically on the way back from the monsoon valley

21:19winery which is um i talked about it in a previous video i took my mum there

21:23highly recommend it's a good little stopover and it's a nice drive out here as well

21:28really scenic countryside

21:54okay we just stopped off on the way home at rajabakti how do you say it we never know

21:59uh rajabakti park um which is just outside of hua hin and it's like it kind of is feels like

22:07an army barracks there's these massive statues they're so beautiful like the most beautiful

22:13statues i've ever seen they're huge there's tours you can do here but we just drove in and everyone

22:19was smiling but we're not sure if we're supposed to be here or not there's about a thousand young men

22:24it looks like just all sitting down looks like they're meditating in uniform we have no idea what's

22:30going on we're going to go look at these statues and hopefully not get into trouble or anything i

22:36think we're okay there's other tourists here right now so we think it's okay but yeah it looks like

22:40they're just they're sitting cross-legged on the concrete meditating staring at the statues and it

22:45looks like there's other people fighting with swords as well so let's go see what it's all about

22:50yeah we drove in and everyone just smiled and waved in army uniforms and like we didn't have to pay

22:55or

22:55anything so i don't know i think we're all good let's check it out yeah that's sword fighting like

23:04this feels like some ancient warrior stuff

23:19the big camera just died as i was trying to get footage of these beautiful statues

23:27unfortunately hopefully we got something it would be so cool to fly the drone here but i

23:31don't think it's appropriate with the military training i'll get shut down

23:39we might get sordid because they're fighting with swords right now

23:55i love those birds there's so many of them around here

24:23that's it for today cheers for watching

24:25we hope this gave you a little bit of an insight of what it's like living in thailand

24:29obviously some days are a little bit more quiet than others some days are more hectic if you

24:33enjoyed the video and found it helpful at all please hit the like and subscribe button and we'll

24:37see you in the next one cheers all right one last thing before we go check out this sunset from

24:43our

24:43rooftop

24:44so

24:55run away

24:57run away

24:58run away

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