why my Girlfriend is leaving me and moving to the USA [3jJQbSAPVzQ]

So I think it's about time that I address

the whole situation about why I'm leaving

Thailand soon, why my girlfriend's going

to the USA, and how our relationship's

going to survive as a long-distance

relationship. As you might remember, last

year around July I got myself a student

visa here in Thailand, and that allows me

to stay here for about 11 months, which

means I could have actually stayed here

until around May or June. But I'm going to

be leaving next month in March to go to

Japan, and that's because my girlfriend

suddenly just decided to go to America in

March, and for some reason she didn't want

to wait until May. I thought it would be a

better idea if I stay here for as long as

I can until my visa actually ends, and

then I go back to the UK, and then she

goes to America. But she seemed really

insistent on going in March. I don't

really understand why. I guess there's

some kind of reason. I guess it was a bit

of a surprise, and it's kind of forced me

to change all my plans, but it's not

really a big problem. I guess actually

it's better for me to go to Japan straight

straight from Thailand instead of going

home all the way to the UK and then all

the way to Japan and then all the way to—

I don't know where I'd go after Japan. So

it's kind of more convenient so that I now

just take a short flight over to Japan and

then take the long flight back to the UK.

It means I turn 2 long flights into only 1

long flight, so I guess it kind of works

out. It was just a bit of a surprise. So

the reason why she's going to America is

because, well, money has kind of been a

bit of a sticky issue for us. I don't

really make as much money as I used to. I

can't really afford to be paying for

everything and paying for trips and

travels for 2 people. I can afford to

support myself and pay for my own trips

and travels, but I'm really struggling to

be able to afford to support 2 people and

pay for 2 people's travel needs like

hotels and food and transport and that

kind of stuff. So I kind of need some

financial support and help from my

partner. But the problem is the wages in

Thailand are just very, very low. So for

example, when I was out and about in

Bangkok a few months ago, I saw a looking

for staff sign outside of a shop, and I

used Google Translate to translate what

the sign said, and it said something like

1 hour is 50 baht, which is like $1.40 for

1 hour. So if you're going to do full-time

work at some kind of very low skill job

like working at McDonald's or you're

making food or serving customers, the most

you're gonna make is probably $1.50 an

hour. So for a whole month of work, I

think that comes to around probably just

$200 or $250 a month for

full-time work doing a low-skill job. And

now you might think that's nothing, how do

people survive here? In Thailand, $200 for

a month of work is actually not that

terrible, but you do have to lower your

living standards and your quality of life

by quite a lot. For example, imagine

working at McDonald's in the UK or

America, yes, you will make enough money

to pay for rent and food, but you're going

to have to live outside of the city, on

the outskirts of the city, or maybe share

the rent with a roommate or friend or

partner. And you're going to have to

really lower your quality of life to be

able to survive. You can survive by just

working at McDonald's, but you wouldn't be

able to have a very nice apartment or live

very central in the middle of a city. I

live in a pretty nice apartment. My rent

is only about $300, and To people from the

West, that probably sounds extremely

cheap, and they might think I'm living in

like a rubbish place because it's so

cheap. Actually, $300 for rent in Thailand

is quite expensive. It's like middle tier,

not high tier, but it's definitely not low

tier. It's like middle range. And if

you're working at McDonald's or a

low-skilled job where you're only making

50 baht an hour, there's no way you could

afford to live in a place like this

because, because almost your entire wages

would be going towards paying for the

rent. So yeah, my apartment is pretty

nice. It's fairly modern. It's not super

new. I think the building was actually

built 8 or 10 years ago, but it still

feels pretty nice. And it's got concierge,

it's got a reception, it's got an entire

team of staff on the ground floor like

security guards, parking attendants, shop

people, cleaners, that kind of stuff. And

it's got a swimming pool and a gym, and

it's pretty central to the center of

Bangkok. It's not that far away from the

center of Bangkok, and the transport links

are pretty good as well. So this place is

a nice place. The problem is, after I pay

the rent and I pay my mum the £500 every

month that I owe her because she helps me

pay for my tax, I literally have no money

left after I pay my rent and my mum and

the food and other things like my

subscriptions every month. I've got minus

negative money left over after my YouTube

earnings. I'll get like £700-800 from

YouTube and then already I've got to pay

my mum £500. And by the time I've paid

everything else, I'm actually down

negative money. So I don't have the money

to be able to afford to do much in

Thailand anymore. So my girlfriend sees me

struggling and obviously she wants to help

me out, but she just can't really seem to

find a way to be able to make more money

in Thailand because the wages here are so

low. And her idea is she goes to America

and gets a job and makes a lot of money

there, because in America they make like

20 times more than what they make here in

Thailand. I think in America if you work

at McDonald's you probably make $15 to $20

an hour, which is almost 15 or 20 times

more than what you make here working at

McDonald's. So even if she just worked at

McDonald's, she'd be making nearly 20

times more money than what people make

here. But I'm kind of skeptical about this

idea because, okay, yeah, Americans make a

lot more money than people in Thailand,

but then the cost of living in America is

also way higher than the cost of living in

Thailand. There's no way I could afford

this kind of lifestyle if I was living in

America. I think in America, to live in a

like this and also have the quality of

life I have, you'd have to be making

thousands every month, like $3,000,

$4,000, maybe even $5,000 a month to be

able to live like I'm living. So I'm not

really convinced about this whole plan.

But what do I know? I've never lived in

America before. All I've done is Googled

cost of living in America, and I was

pretty shocked at the prices I saw. For

example, eggs in America costs like $4 or

$5 just for 12 eggs, for a dozen eggs,

whereas it's only about a dollar here in

Thailand. So even a box of eggs in America

is like 4 or 5 times more expensive than

what it costs here in Thailand. For

example, my mum moved from Malaysia to the

UK probably because she thought she could

make more money in the UK, and she works

as a housekeeper working for minimum wage.

And yeah, she makes probably 10, 15 times

more money than my aunties do in Malaysia,

but it's not like she's rich and she's

really loaded because she has pay the UK

cost of living prices. And my aunties in

Malaysia, it's not like they're broken

poor. They still have multiple properties

and cars and vehicles and families and

phones and nice stuff. So it's all

relative to the cost of living in the

country that you're living in. As for the

relationship, yeah, it's going to become a

long-distance relationship. And as you

know what they say, long-distance

relationships tend to not work out. But

I'll try and keep an open mind and see how

it goes. I'm not going to burn any bridges

or close any doors. I want to leave the

doors open and leave the bridges

crossable. So I don't really want the

relationship to end. It'd be nice if we

could meet up again further down the line,

some point in the future. But I don't

really want to go to America because I've

already talked about this before, so I

don't really want to repeat myself. I'm

just not really interested in going to

America. I think long-distance

relationships can work, but you to have

effort being put in by both people to

actually make it work. If one person

doesn't really try or care anymore, then

it probably won't work out. I think long

distances kind of act as a filter for

relationships. Weak relationships won't

survive, but if the relationship is strong

and stable in the first place, then the

distance is not really— it shouldn't

really be a big problem. But I guess we'll

have to wait and see how it goes. Keep an

open mind. Maybe she'll go to America and

make loads of money, $10,000, $20,000 a

month. And I just want to kind of enjoy my

last month in Thailand. This is my last

full month here, and I want to do a bit

more traveling, go to a few more places

that I haven't seen yet. Might go to Koh

Larn, might go to some other islands or

some other seaside kind of places. I have

been to a lot of places in Thailand. I've

been to Phuket, I've been to Kanchanaburi,

been to Pattaya, Khon Kaen, some mountain

place in the northern part of Thailand.

I've been to Khao Yai. So I do feel like

I've seen quite a lot of the country.

I've explored quite a lot, even though

most of you think that I never leave my

apartment and I don't go anywhere. That's

not true. Living in Thailand has been kind

of an interesting experience. It's been

very different to how I expected Thailand

to be. I remember a very long time ago,

maybe 4 or 5 years ago, I used to say

stuff like I will never go to Thailand.

Why would I ever go there? Looks rubbish.

Actually, it's much nicer here than I

expected. The Thai people are probably the

friendliest, nicest, most well-mannered,

respectful people I have ever encountered

in any of the countries I've ever been to.

People say that Japanese people are

extremely nice and polite, and that's only

true when you're a customer in a shop or a

store. The people outside on the street

They're mostly nice, but then you get

these grumpy old Japanese men or kind of

yakuza rough guys who are very rude and

not very pleasant.

I haven't come across any unpleasant,

horrible, disgusting people out here in

Bangkok. You know, people who spit on the

street or just kind of rude or obnoxious.

I haven't really seen any people like that

here in Thailand. Everyone's just been

really nice and really respectful out in

public, which I was very surprised by and

I really appreciate. South Korea is even

worse. You've got loads of grumpy old men

everywhere just spitting and tutting and

giving you weird looks. And then you go

into shops in Korea and they just seem

angry or pissed off at you, like you're

annoying them. So yeah, I really like the

vibes and the atmosphere of the people

here in Thailand, and the warm weather is

really nice. I really like not having to

be cold anymore. Although sometimes it

does get unbearably hot when you're

outside traveling and you've got no

shelter from the heat. And I definitely

feel like Thailand is my second favorite

country. I still like Japan more, but I

would never want to go to Japan in the

winter because it's so damn cold. So I

think Thailand's a good country to add to

my rotation of countries to come to,

especially when it's cold in the winter.

I think Thailand would be a good place to

spend my winters in. I don't know when

I'll be back in Thailand. Maybe next year.

I mean, I could go to Japan for a few

months, 3 to 6 months, and then come to

Thailand for 3 months and then back home

to the UK for 3 months. And that would be

how I spend my year. And I'd like to thank

everyone who stuck with the channel during

this entire Thailand saga. I know we lost

a lot of people along the way.

Unfortunately, being in Thailand for such

a long time has meant that many of my

viewers got bored and lost interest. I

guess you could say life has kind of

settled down a bit and become less

chaotic, which, which kind of explains why

so many people have lost interest. I guess

it's kind of unavoidable. Maybe being back

in Japan again will help spice things up a

bit, make things a bit more interesting

and freshen up the channel. Who knows? I

guess we'll have to find out.