8 things that will drive you crazy in THAILAND

you have a knack for covering the content better than every other Thailand vlogger has tried to do - bravo!

Hi Cal. It is an honest story and I think that everyone who knows Bangkok and Thailand, will fully recognize themselves in your video. Thanks!

Cals videos are truthful and real.Unlike most Youtubers.The man knows a lot of things of Bangkok and Thailand.Please subscribe to him and i have been watching his videos for ages.Yes i think more positive things about Thailand than negative,but i encountered all of them so i think all things that have been said on this video is absolute truth.Well done,Cal

Awesome vlog as always ! Very informative and useful..Thanks for always sharing quality content. Stay blessed always

A respectful sharing of your own personal frustrations, many of which will be shared by Thais and expats alike it seems :). Curious to know where you have selected for your new condo location and I look forward to your next share of the positive aspects of life in Bangkok. :)

The sidewalks in Pattaya are even worse than Bangkok and even non-existent in some places, although they aren’t much better in America either. The sidewalk issue is one of the most annoying things in my opinion and dangerous too.

Hey, Great Video! I've been following you for a short while now as I planned my first trip to Bangkok. We had a great time. We just got back from Bangkok on June 30th. A lot of your advice really helped. Thanks. I also appreciate you telling the negatives. I followed a lot of advice of Philippine expate you-tubers and they rarely gave the negatives of living there. I've been in the Philippines 1 year and it has been pretty stressful. (I'm a 57 year old from the U.S. (South Carolina)). I had always thought Thailand would be a really great place to live. But for now, we are moving to another smaller city in the Philippines and committed for 1 more year. During this whole coming year, I am going to work on a move to Thailand. So I look forward to your videos. But I think I will be looking for a different Thailand city. I prefer less crowded places, but I need good internet to do my online work. Keep the videos coming with the good and bad on Thailand. Thanks.

If everything was perfect in Thailand, it would be paradize and would atrract way too many people. You could also have talked about sewer smells that you have in many parts of the city, or the fact that you never find a trash can when you look for one, but all in all, with all these issues, I still love Bangkok and Thailand!

Great video..thank you!

Thanks for the valuable information! Our next trip isThailand. This helps us be adequately prepared!

Showing both sides of the coin is key. Thanks again for the great work!

This video is sooooo accurate lol I agree with everything Cal mentioned. A number 9 for me is how Thai people are so nice and polite in everything except when it comes to public transit. You’ll get killed for a seat on the BTS lol. And a final, number 10 would be Mai Pen Rai, or the Thai philosophy of “it is how it is”. This is the reason the 8 things on the list won’t change, because Thai people just accept things the way they are.

Thank you. It is very pleasant to watch this video when you are not enunciating each word like an ESL teacher does. I think that it will benefit your English learner audience if you just talk normally since you have English subtitle already.

excellent video, accurate and important discussion!!!!

Sup Cal, always love your content. Always bring a unique twist to Thailand content and not regurgitated content like every other vlogger. I have a question, what would you recommend to do in Bangkok at night aside from partying/drinking? Let me know. 😂

I live in a village surrounded by farms. It is lovely and I am content. The problems are: 1- Mean dogs roaming free attacking my pup as we walk with a leash. I have to carry a walking stick, cane which is actually an Irish Shillelagh that has saved my dogs life numerous times. I don't enjoy being in the middle of a dog fight.  2- The smoke. I can understand the farmers burning a field before planting, but the constant burning of all trash, garbage, brush, debris is horrible. Your neighbor will have a bon fire in the yard while they stand around breathing the smoke.  3- The noise. Since the dogs are free day and night they bark a lot. The villages have big loudspeakers on towers that they blast news in the early morning. They play music for a while to get you awake for the message. Then the neighbor straps on his gas powered weed whacker back pack and works from 6-7 am for a few hours. I don't even notice the chickens anymore. During festival times they set up huge loudspeakers outside and have drunken karaoke parties that last 12 to 15 hours. And it is not good singing. Seems like the same song all day. You can hear these parties from 2-3 kilometers away.

Thumbs up 👍 Cal

Hi Cal. Today, you taught me a new word, TOUTS. I was raised and educated in the United States and I've never heard of this word. I'm used to the word SOLICITATION or SOLICITORS. In regards to sidewalks, I think Vietnam has nice sidewalks. I will be in Bangkok in OCTOBER for one month. I'm very excited to go despite all of the negatives in this video!

As a Thai person born and raised in Bangkok, all these problems have also created frustration for me. I live with it and am used to it, but I don't want to overlook it. I am glad that foreigners dare to come out and present many things that should be improved. And I want more foreigners like you to come out and talk about this matter. It's even better if the same story is presented in a leading news television. Because Thai people's voices are weightless and nonpowerful, which are not the as the voices that come from foreigners. Our sectors are working hard on correcting and improving things, and many things have been improved a lot. May you and everyone always be happy and safe while living in our country.

Oh this is true we told our friends want to move to Thailand but first week June still a NO from immigration for 60 days.😢