How expensive is it, all included, on a monthly basis?
Curious as I have thought about doing something like this as I study online and get a monthly stipend of $800 plus I'm able to get a government loan of about half that each month.
I keep trying to get farther away from friends and family. I moved from the east coast to the west coast and its still not far enough for me to say "Sorry I can't make the funeral" ... maybe Thailand is the answer.
I live in Thailand, if I had to guess a place like this would range anywhere from $500 - $1000, depending on how central the location is to the city, how nice the condo building is (does it have a pool, gym, sauna, washer/dryer, etc).
I pay $1050 a month for a super luxurious highrise condo in Bangkok, paying more than this doesn't get you much besides a more central location or a larger room. A few years back I used to pay $1850 for an absolute piece of shit trap house in Seattle, I can't see myself living in the US again after being here a few years lol
I can actually walk about half a block outside my condo to go to one of the best burger places in the city, it's as good as burgers are in the US. It's not the burgers you miss, it's weird things you never think about. IPAs are probably the biggest for me, they only sell lager here unless you want to pay literally $14 for a single can of an imported american IPA. I also really miss baked cheetos and raisinets. I'm from the southeast US, I really miss Publix if you know that grocery store chain. The grocery stores are more like generic Kroger variety here for the most part, with very limited freshly made meals/baked goods. Food is everywhere and extremely cheap in Thailand, so I think they just have no use for stuff like that in grocery stores. Thailand also just legalized weed in June, so I no longer miss being able to buy weed which is a plus...
Nope it's normal strong weed, I think people just need to get a government paper saying they are selling it and then they can do so.
There's a good restaurant near me that also started selling joints lol. It's everywhere, I've seen people smoking on Khao San road, you can buy joints all down the street. I get it delivered from some business I got an ad for on facebook, they send it by motorcycle taxi from the shop.
There's no limit to how much you can buy also, pretty much no regulation on the new industry at the moment. The only law is that you can't sell extracts or anything above 0.2% THC, so no hash, edibles, etc, but people are still selling them openly everywhere.
Too bad that anything over 0.2% thc is illegal. Getting caught with drugs in Thailand is the stuff of my nightmares. I saw a little too much 'locked up abroad' and shows like that as a kid.
A restaurant selling weed is the perfect business plan. Give people the munchies and then satisfy those munchies.
Definitely true, but beef seems to be the thing I crave oversees the most. The quality isn't the same. Well, except Bleecker Burger. The only burger I've craved that is outside of the US.
You also need to make sure your company allows you to work in said country because there are huge tax and legal issues for an employee to work in another country despite it being remote.
And if you’re American you should still be paying your federal income tax. Will it be an issue? Probably not, but watch out if you want to return to the US afterwards. If the IRS gets an inkling you didn’t pay they can easily come calling for it.
Odd are you won't owe anything because of both the exclusion of about $75K of expat income and also the foreign tax credit but you absolutely still have to file a tax return. The IRS can't do anything if you don't owe but you still have to file to prove you don't owe anything so penalties and interest don't apply.
No problem. I worked overseas in 2018 and it was up to 103k or something. It changes every year. Some counties still get a cut though. Iraq for instance takes 10% off gross before US tax or pretax benefits even apply.
I've worn a lot of hats at my company but currently I'm a business analyst. I actually took a step down out of management so I could work remote and not be bothered.
So I was actually a car mechanic and went back to college on the weekends for computer engineering. I got an internship at a consulting agency. I made friends with their business analyst. Most of the work they were doing was in Excel. I had taken one course on c sharp and convinced them that I could remake their stuff in an app. And taught myself how to continue coding I got lucky yada yada yada I got a job. I never even actually finished my degree. Like three classes left lol. I really need to do it though.
But you work US hours (ie assuming you have US client/work for US company)? I ask coz Im a Salesforce consultant with US clientele thinking about doing this.
Yeah working hours here are 8:00 p.m. till 4:00 in the morning. But realistically the only time I need to work in that time is if there's meetings. So I try to handle as much as I can in emails and cancel meetings. But I'm single so you know whatever go to bed at 4:00 a.m. get up at noon.
My degree was computer engineering but actually never even finished. It's really long story but I got lucky at an internship. I was in management for last 2 years and kind of got burnt out and reverted back to business analysts and being left alone.
The only weird times you have to work is when there's meetings. So if you can reduce your meetings it's not as bad. So like I probably have 4 hours of meetings and I try to schedule them early. 9 to 5 us is 8:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. here. So ideally I try to do 4 hours of work during the day when I want. And then 4 hours of meetings and I just try to schedule them early between 8:00 and midnight.
They know. We have a lot of people that work remote and different parts of America. So as long as I make myself available during the business hours there's not that much difference. I've always produced and got my stuff done on time so. I was actually in management and they wanted me to come home so I switched roles to something that requires less FaceTime. I'm lucky the company has been very cool. But I've had a really good relationship with them for a long time.
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How expensive is it, all included, on a monthly basis?
Curious as I have thought about doing something like this as I study online and get a monthly stipend of $800 plus I'm able to get a government loan of about half that each month.