We moved from Koh Samui to HERE! (Our little secret).
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2024
- We lived on Koh Samui for 16 months but decided we would be happier HERE. Where is here you ask? Well, check out the video and see why we just couldn't resist!
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Gardener Cafe - 3053, Thong Nian, Khanom District, Nakhon Si Thammarat 80210
Chill-Lay Beach Bar&Restaurant ชิลล์เลบีช - หาดนางกำ Don Sak, Don Sak District, Surat Thani 84220
Hiya Ed and Tomo.
Great intro. Perfect views. Good tunes.
All the food looked so good. Great places.
Enjoyable video. Beautiful fur baby.
Really enjoyed your narration. Great information. And advice.
Great video. Good vibes. Thank you for sharing.
Liked. Shared. Happy Weekend.
Nicky, you are just awesome-toast (because that's what I'm eating at the moment). Thanks for your continued support and kind words. Hope you are in the midst of a great weekend!
Wonderful video, thank you for sharing!
You are very welcome 🙏
Heck ya! You found one of the many hidden gems in Thailand! I drove through there on way to Pak Nakhon, and Chian Yai. All that Thailand offers without the rush of tourism. Enjoy your new home!
Yeah it’s pretty nice. I actually was thinking “Do I really want to tell everyone about this? What if the place explodes?!” 555
Thanks for the kind words, Dean.
My wife’s family is in Pak Nakhon
Khanom and Sichon is nice and quiet (have been there a few times) but transportation to international airports is a bit of a hassle. If you would like friends and family to come to visit often, getting there is rather inconvenient for them. Same if you want to travel internationally. It can be rather isolating as a result.
Thanks for your thoughts. The airport is about 90 minutes away. Samui airport was much more convenient but the pluses here for us far outweigh the minuses. We recently traveled internationally and leaving our car very close to the airport cost us just ฿100 per day, and included pick up and drop off service! That’s hard to beat! We don’t feel isolated at all but that’s just our opinion. Living in a smaller community with good friends makes us feel very much at home!
Wow! Amazing place! Enjoy! ❤
Thanks for the kind words. We love Khanom and are very happy that we moved here! The quiet/slow life here really suits us.
Hello Ed&Tomo As me and my husband are planning to move to Thailand from UK, we were looking for someplace that we can call home and stumbled upon this video just want to let you know that I enjoy it very much.
Great content, great personality, brilliant, I am now subscribed.
Thanks for the kind words and you are very much welcome to our little community. Glad you discovered us and hope you find our videos helpful. Best of luck with your search!!!
Wow! You are a natural producer/director. Tomo is adorable!
Those kind comments are much appreciated and good to know that university money is paying off. 🤣
I've lived on koh samui now for 9 years and things have changed and the prices have gone crazy.... My plans are similar to yours... What's the average rental price for a small one bed villa in your area?
Too early for me to have that answer but rest assured we will be doing some research on the topic soon! I can say this - not nearly as many place open to rent here. People say “It’s like Samui 30 years ago” lots of open land. The RE explosion here has yet to happen.
Thumbs up 👍 Tomo & Ed
Thanks, MSR!
Great video…. New viewer/subscriber. Smart and helpful advice. 👏🏻👏🏻
Well, welcome to you and thank you for taking the time out to comment! I hope you enjoy our work and that we can give you a reason to laugh every once in a while.
That coastline is underrated. Nakhon Si Thammarat alone is amazing, but up to Chumphon is lovely too. I think you made a good choice, less touristy :)
So very true! And I’m looking forward to exploring all of it! Thanks for the kind words.
@@eddy_creative yes but nothing to do
Congratulations on the new place!!
Thank you, Erik. Hope all is well with you.
@@edandtomo all is well, wrapping up fixing up the house in the next month or two, then selling it, then leaving the US for retirement in Thailand. Cheers!
Safe travels and best of luck!!
wow! very good movie making 🎉
Thank you very much for those kind words!💪💜
Greetings from Australia. i've watched quite a few Samui type vids, which lead me to your channel. Ed and Tomo videos are my new fave. Looking forward to your future Khanom / Thailand adventures
Welcome aboard! Thanks for the inspirational comment!!
Hi Ed and Tomo, glad you have found a place to maybe settle. We loved Khanom last year after watching your videos at Margarita Beach. We are heading back that way in August on our way to Koh Samui and Koh Phangan. Maybe can we catch up with you while we are there. Look forward to seeing your next adventures. Sally and David from Perth Australia
Hi guys, Meeting up in August here in K. would be awesome.
Send us an email a few weeks prior to.
Thanks for the kind words and your continued support!
E & T
Hey! Super great opening! Very clever. Rare to see original stuff and you pulled it off. I can imagine you spending a full day in front of your laptop working on that as I sometimes do on a video. And it payed off nicely for you. A great video and a nice view count. BTW, I wrote to you over a year ago when you were on Reeshard's old travel show and I told you you'd be great next door neighbors, if that rings a bell. I don't think I had my channel then but watching all of you YTers on Reeshard's show inspired me! And my daughter was a frequent guest of his too. BTW, I hope Reeshard is doing well. Perhaps you know. I'd think ifsaid he got laid off with the economy problems at the time but if so why not just make the move to Thailand? I miss his show. Congratulations on your move. Continued best wishes.
Indeed I remember your comment! It put a smile on my face as I recall. The original idea came simply enough from the famous line “There’s no place like home.” My first thought was to do a video titled “There’s no place like Khanom” and it the background of the thumbnail the word “Khanom” wold have the word “home” with the opacity reduced. Then the idea just kept spinning and growing to include the opening with Tomo playing Dorothy and the whole spinning house. It had enough of a parallel to topic I wanted to discuss that it felt that I could marry the two together in a creative way that might serve to keep people watching.
In the end I thought “this title won’t make people watch” So I opted for what I did because the words Koh Samui are highly searched.
Anyways, I truly appreciate you taking notice and taking the time to say as much. You are the first to have even commented on the actual opening.
Yeah, too sad what happened to Richard an it seems to have hit him pretty heavy. Did you see that hiking video he did? I’m not sure if he was milking the emotion for clicks (and lord knows he wouldn’t be the first person to have done that) but it did come across that he was in a heavy place. But that was a long time ago now so, I hope he’s back on his feet and doing well.
I’ll take a look at your channel when I get a chance. I’ve got a lot going on at the moment but will check it out.
Thanks again 🙏
Ed
@@edandtomo Yes, I did see the video and felt the same way. He seemed so depressed. His show seemed to give him genuine joy, and we all liked watching, so I was surprised he didn't start it again. As a guest he knows better than me, maybe if you email he will respond. I hope he is okay and we see him again.
Let’s hope he’s doing well these days.
TOT phone booth at 2:31. Seems you did some time travel as well.
Haha I was sooo close to stopping for a little comedy there! Rest assured I will make use of it sometime soon!!!! Ps I tried to send you an email recently, Mike, just to say hello but didn’t go through the old work email address I expect. Email me at edandtomo@gmail so that we can reconnect
@@edandtomo I have a very common name and never had a work email address. Any hints? I'm scared.
Yup, different Mike! My bad.
Love the music, very similar to Kruangbin !! Beautiful place and good food, what else can you ask for? We are here in Dakar, Senegal and will be in Thailand in about 4 months for our final retirement home. Good luck with the new place!
Glad you enjoyed the music, it’s always key to my work. Best of luck with your prep! It can be tough downsizing but trust me. You need so much less here to live, especially clothing!
Very beautiful place .. thanks for sharing. ❤❤
You are very welcome 🙏
Enjoy the experiences champ
Thanks much!
Congratulations on your move
Thanks, Gabrielle, much appreciate your continued support! Hope you’re having a great weekend.
Looks perfect!
Thanks!!
This place seems to be a very good choice😀
So far, so great! Thanks for taking the time to comment, Peter. Much appreciated!
Congratulations. Khanom is unique and should be on the list of anyone looking for a quiet place to retire to. You don't need to have beachfront property as there is easy access to Haad Na Dan beach. Note this isn't the only beach in Khanom District and there are many locations to pick. Staying inland is cheaper, quieter and with easier access to local food and stalls. The beach at Na Dan while not built up like any at Koh Samui, is still taken up by tourist outlets. Big shout to CC Beach Bar & Restaurant. 🙂
Big Yes to all of that! Thanks for taking the time to write.
Awesome area..
You got that right! Thanks for commenting.
Good stuff!
LOVE THE NAME CHOICE!!!!!
Thanks for sharring.💯👍🙏
Thanks for visiting, Philip - much appreciated and enjoy the weekend.
@@edandtomo Definitely your life is beautiful. You found your Shrangi - LA. Stay blessed.
I went to Koh Samui for the first time this year because family was visited. Extremely strange place. Doesn't feel anything like Thailand to me (coming from the north). All I saw were Europeans and even the staff at many areas were not Thai. The entire 5 days I didn't even see a single Thai tourist. Unlikely I would ever go back when there are so many other places like Khanom to visit.
An understandable opinion. Sorry to hear you didn’t enjoy it. Sounds like you would love Khanom!
@@edandtomoAgreed. I will 100% check it out this or next year.
New sub. Congrats on your channel, but you're wasting your time on U-tube, you should be making movies. Looking forward to your adventures👍
Hahahah my brother just texted me this morning after watching the new one joking “Documentaries next?”
Thanks for subbing, Randy very much appreciate you doing that and taking the time to write.
This is Nang Kham beach , fare away from Khanom beach. Add maps link next time please
Thanks! Will add those later today was crunched for time yesterday and slipped my mind but you can see the name of two of the 3 restaurants within the video.
NICE. The name of the estaurant, please
Links updated in description box. All the best.
@@edandtomo thx
Looks like paradise but what happens when you get bored of lying in a hammock? Retirement is a double-edged sword. You need a purpose, man.
Well thank you, Daniel much appreciated you sharing your thoughts.
How about reading, gaining knowledge? Engaging with neighbors/shop owners on occasion? Hiking? Fishing? Strolling the beach? Going for a swim? Bike rides? Nature photography? Snorkeling? Not being able to find something to do - *when you actually want to do something* - is the sign of a simple mind.
Who TF gets bored lying in a hammock? If you're not in your 20s, people don't need to be busy just because they can't stand to be alone with their own thoughts. Maybe some people's thoughts scare them. Many of us don't have that problem. Some people revel in the tranquility of silent stretches. No TV, video, internet 24/7. Birds chirping & waves crashing are wonderful sounds.
One of the weaknesses of recent generations is they haven't learned how to 'be still.' They constantly have to bounce off of things, just to say they are doing something & to post on social media. In person, many of them express how miserable they are within 10 minutes of conversation. But hey, they're 'busy.'
As for purpose? We define our own purpose. Society and social media do not. *Following social trends & using social media as a way to show you have a purpose is a clear sign that someone in fact has no purpose.* It is a weakness.
Thank you, Scott! Good for others to consider that what might seem like boredom is actually happiness. 👍
Hi Ed, great video. Can you confirm the name of the place and if it’s in Thailand or Malaysia? Also what is the cost of living and prices like.., is it as low priced as Thailand outside the main tourist islands and towns? Cheers
Khanom. Thailand. Generally speaking food is 25% cheaper here as is rent.
@@edandtomo is that 25% cheaper then other parts of Thailand, or the tourist spots like Koh Samui? Cheers
Thank you for sharing your new home adventure. A lovely alternative to the island. Looking forward to following your dispatches, rgds
Thanks!!
The problem is that no one speaks english there
All the more reason for me to study the lingua franca ;)
And there's bugger all to do, great place but rural Thailand can be extremely boring for most people, well done for adapting though and it's beautiful and cheap
KHANOM 9:12
Ahh yes....that drone shot might be just south of Khanom but hey, it's really close. And congrats on being the first one to discover that. Well done!!