New: expatlifeAll contenthive-129948hive-196917krhive-166405zzansteemhive-183959hive-180932hive-150122photographyhive-185836uncommonlabhive-183397lifehive-144064hive-188619bitcoinhive-101145hive-139150krsuccesshive-124908hive-103599hive-180301hive-109690hive-179660TrendingNewHotLikersjack.russelle (76)in thailand • 2 years agoDo Thais hate foreigners? I don't think that they doIf you come to live here in Thailand for any sort of extended time you are going to fall into a group of locals, probably at a bar somewhere, who is going to have a few members who are quite jaded…gabe.radke (76)in vietnam • 2 years agoYou gotta prepare for TET if you're living VietnamTET is a holiday that a lot of the world might not be familiar with. I know that I certainly wasn't very familiar with it until I moved here and honestly, even though I do live here now, I still…gabe.radke (76)in danang • 3 years agoThe Workshop: A quirky place in Da Nang with some really cool peopleDa Nang has a lot of places in it to hang out; some would say that especially now with tourism being almost completely halted, that there are way too many places. There are also too many…gooddream (82)in vietnam • 3 years agoTotal Lockdown: Day 19 of 20Time flies when you are sitting in your condo basically doing the same thing day in and day out for nearly a month. Isn't that the saying? Well it probably will be at some point in the future…gabe.radke (76)in vietnam • 3 years agoExit visas temporarily suspended in VietnamNobody really knows what is going on right now in Vietnam as far as visas are concerned. This country has been a real attraction for digital nomads over the past 5 years or so and a lot of people…gooddream (82)in vietnam • 3 years agoVietnam is the land of visa confusion right nowBack in 1986 there was this little band called Genesis that soon would become a Phil Collins solo project. There were a lot of stars in that band outside of Phil including Peter Gabriel that…gabe.radke (76)in hive-103393 • 3 years agoAnd so it begins: Panic strikes Vietnam expat community as all are told to leave in 30 daysThose of us that have been living in Vietnam for years or more have always loved the way that this country seemed to have a really fantastic visa policy in that you can basically stay as long as you…gabe.radke (76)in food • 4 years agoCơm Mâm Nhà Vàng: You eat cheaper when you go to a real Vietnamese restaurantThis is a problem for most of us in the expat community here in Danang. Vietnamese is a very tough language to learn and while I don't like to admit to my laziness I, in 2 years, have learned very…nainaztengra (79)in hive-196725 • 4 years agoBetter Life With Steem | The Diary Game | 16/01/2021 | My Life as an ExpatThis is a general belief people have that a Life of an Expat is very colorful and very attractive. It's been 5 years for me now living an Expat life in a Middle East region. That's true that we…jack.russelle (76)in pollution • 4 years agoAir Quality Index (AQI) already looking bad for Chiang MaiEvery year that passes, all of us that live up here in Chiang Mai have a hope that this year will be different. We live believing, totally in vain, that the government will finally come through on…jack.russelle (76)in asean • 4 years agoSpeculation arises that Thailand will have dual pricing for Covid vaccineAh the good ol' discriminatory dual pricing scheme. If you spend any time living overseas you will experience this as the local population gets one set of prices and any foreigners or "farangs" as…gabe.radke (76)in asia • 4 years agoSome purchases just aren't worth it in Vietnam Every now and then i get a "hankering" for food items that I enjoyed as a child or are just my favorite things from when I lived in USA. A lot of these gumptions of mine stem from being a kid and…jack.russelle (76)in expatlife • 4 years agoThailand's constant blaming of the Burmese (for just about anything)It seems to me that no matter what goes wrong in this country the Thai people (not all of them of course) tend to immediately point the finger at their most hated neighbor, the Burmese. From the…gabe.radke (76)in vietnam • 4 years agoTraffic is crazy in Vietnam, yet there aren't a ton of accidents... how?I know from having lived in a number of places in the world that traffic accidents can be pretty gruesome. Personally I have been in a few of them in my life and all of them were in the United…jack.russelle (76)in thailand • 4 years agoCovid restrictions reinstituted in Thailand (some parts) and I think this is a government masterplan I have mentioned several times before that I don't think that this resurgence is real because the Prime Minister has been looking for a reason to quell the protests against him for quite some time…gooddream (82)in asean • 4 years agoThailand vs. Vietnam: Utilities editionBy utilities I mean electricity and water (was that obvious?) and I'll leave out elective things like internet even though I would imagine for a lot of people that wifi is probably just as important…jack.russelle (76)in thailand • 4 years agoLong-term visas for non Thais, but you wont qualifyThis is kind of an ongoing joke in Thailand and it rears its ugly head every now and then. Once in a blue moon some clueless and out-of-touch-with-the-common-man bureaucrat will come along with a…gooddream (82)in culture • 4 years agoYou know you live in South East Asia when these road things are "normal"Culture shock. We have all heard the word but until I traveled and then later moved overseas it was just a word I heard about in sociology class. When you live in western nations, the United…gabe.radke (76)in covid • 4 years agoA friend of mine flew into Vietnam internationally recently, and it wasn't greatYou have to have a very specific and legal reason to get into Vietnam and even then you probably have to wait a while for a flight to actually exist that can actually get you there. src…dragosroua (74)in steemit • 5 years agoOne Year After Moving To SpainToday, October 15th 2019, marks the first anniversary of moving to Spain. Exactly one year ago, me and my partner, @raluca, flew from Bucharest to Valencia with just two suitcases each. I refrained…
