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New city, new story.
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Same family, new dreams.
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Life looks better when you wander with the Kings.
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All right.
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I don't know if they're ready for this.
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we just had our second baby we're moving to vietnam
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all right
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so guys first of all this is your first time seeing
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the channel welcome um this is wander with the kings sean amanda this is kalia kalia
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and our son keanu who is currently at daycare hanging out with his friends.
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So we travel a lot.
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We've always traveled a lot.
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And we've done a lot of cool things with our lives.
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And the next chapter of our story is packing up our family of four,
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moving 9 ,000 miles from where we currently live in Middleton,
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Florida, and landing in beautiful Vietnam so we've got depending exactly
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when we leave T minus six six and a half months from the time
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that I'm making this video so this could come out in a month from now
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but the timeline is going fast it will go even faster now
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that we have a little baby a second child to keep
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alive yes the groundhog day has a different ending yeah same thing over
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and over but now it's with a plus one
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and yeah time will fly
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so we wanted to bring you guys along on this journey with us
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because we love watching YouTube videos of Vietnam of all these places all around the world
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and one of our favorite things is watching people move become expats and
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so it's been a dream of ours for quite some time
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we have previously lived out of the country in mexico we'll talk just a little bit about
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that but we want to talk to you about why we're leaving the u .s
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and why we're moving to vietnam
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so there will be a ton of videos in this series
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going out we're going to cover literally everything we possibly can
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from you know our current situation to the move to vietnam
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why we're doing it um the expenses related to it yeah the visas the why we chose vietnam the steps
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that you need to take what we're doing with our stuff literally everything um
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so whether you are an individual an older person looking to retire
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or move with a spouse or your family like us
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and you're looking for something different
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that you feel like the u .s maybe can't provide you
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right now this will be a great series for you yeah
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so we've got some notes here and some topics that we want to discuss
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and let's just dive in so first things first why the hell are we moving to vietnam why
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in the grand scheme of things what are we trying to accomplish with this move i think
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that the first thing is family time for sure yeah
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so we both work full -time obviously i'm on maternity leave right now she is almost three weeks old um
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but just just a big thing these younger years of our children's lives are so crucial
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and we hate sending you know our oldest one to daycare
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i don't want to send her to daycare um we want to be more more present with each other
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and more present with our children especially before you know they start their own activities
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and things like that just really cherish these times that we have.
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Yeah because as I'm sure you parents know whether you have kids currently in the house
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or they're out of the house that time goes by really really fast
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and it seems like in a lot of other countries family
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even though we say family is very important here in a
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lot of other countries they seem to put more value into the time
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that they spend with their family and less value in the time
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that they spend doing work and it's tough you know things are expensive here
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and everything and it you just you're trying to keep up with everything going on
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and so we just feel like if we change some things in our life
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and move halfway around the world for many reasons again
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that we'll be able to focus a lot more on family
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and a lot less on not like we worry about keeping
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up with the Joneses we live a pretty simple life again
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we'll kind of show you our situation at some point one of these videos
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but yeah we just want more focus on the kids especially in these early years
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because I forget the statistic but very quickly
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they will be out of the house and we will spend hopefully still a good amount of time with them, but not nearly as the amount of time that we currently spend with them.
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So I want to cherish those moments while we still can.
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And it's just, in our mind, it's easier to do that in Vietnam.
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I would say the second reason, and again, these are in no specific order,
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but more enjoyable lifestyle, like our dollar stretches further.
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So you guys who live in the U .S know that it seems like our dollar has been stretching less and less.
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It's been getting us less and less as time goes on.
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I'm in the financial space, so I understand the idea of devaluing the dollar and it's losing its buying power, which is unfortunate.
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But it's not losing its buying power a lot of other places yeah
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and we we travel to so many other countries
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and we're just like no we can do all these other things
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when we go to these other places
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but as soon as we're home it's like all we do is work yeah
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and some of you know whether it's eating more
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or the things i really like to eat i'm six four
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like 225 pounds i didn't get this big from not eating
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i really enjoy eating we'll talk about food here in a second
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but like just little things
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that we don't want to have to worry about like i don't get my hair cut here
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because it's like 50 before tip amanda goes and does her nails
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or wax appointments or little things like you know whatever it may be it's just
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taking the taking keanu to a play place here you gotta
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be like 25 dollars to go to a play place
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and just like what the what are we talking about here
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and so in a lot of other countries
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but again specifically vietnam is what we're talking about
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because that's where we're going the cost to do things to
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pamper yourself to you know get the haircuts get the massages
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whatever it may be take the kids to the play places go
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and do the fun things go out to eat go out
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to eat are literally a fraction of the price yeah
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when we were just last in vietnam amanda
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and i did our little parents day and we went
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and got she got a foot massage and i got a hair washing
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which turned into essentially a shoulder head massage and it was fantastic
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and i think it cost us ten dollars for the both of us
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and that was probably a little on the pricier side yeah
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that was like right off kind of one of the main streets
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but again we just want to be able to take better
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care of ourselves we want to eat better food we want to do a lot of these things
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that we feel like are going to enhance our lives um
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and you know i i'll wait for the food portion to talk about cooking
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and everything like that but yeah i think that's a big thing
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or just our dollar is going to stretch further
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which will allow us to do more we don't particularly want to spend less like we will
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spend less because yeah by default
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but the goal isn't like hey we're just going over there
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because it's cheap
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and we want to spend as little money as possible yeah
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we're not trying to live on a thousand bucks a month like this is not
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that yeah well you know we have set a budget for ourself
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which we'll talk about budget at some point
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but we've kind of set a budget for ourself
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and our family of four of three thousand dollars again we'll kind of break
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that all down at some point in another video
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but yeah we can do a lot with it that's a big deal
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so do you want to talk about slower pace of life
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uh yeah just i think with the financial flexibility i mean
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there's a couple different things going on especially going on the other half of the world
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so the work hours are obviously going to be very different
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so it's not going to be taking up all of our
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waking hours it's going to be very early in the morning probably for sean most of the time
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while we're still sleeping which he does
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that anyways right now yeah i already wake up at 3
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34 o 'clock to go to the gym every day
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so yeah and we'll be able to go to the gym together again yes
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which that was a big thing in our past pre -parent life
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that we really enjoy doing
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and I've been trying to figure out the dynamic it doesn't work anymore yeah not the same
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but yeah so just
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that slower pace of life like one of the things with
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the money is like hey we don't have to do as much to cover what we need
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so we can focus more on the things
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that we want to do again enjoy the family time creating these memories uh
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and just kind of relax like it's like having a pension income
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or an annuity or social security when you're in this retirement age
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and you're like my burn rate my nut is covered every month
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if my bills are three thousand four thousand dollars whatever they may be wherever you're at
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and all of that's covered by guaranteed income you are far less worried about what the market
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and everything else is doing or busting your ass to make more money
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because you're like i'm good i'm good
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if i do more i'll have a little bit more but
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if i'm good with where i'm at then i'm good and
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so we've done some things financially again we'll get into our financials
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and stuff as this rolls on and how we prepared
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and what we're going to be taking over there and everything and what we're doing for money but
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That slower pace of life was something that we were really focused on making happen, especially for me.
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Yeah, you have crazy work.
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Yeah.
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Just trying to take care of the family, man, you know?
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Your brain just doesn't turn off.
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Yeah.
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If you know how that goes, you know how that goes.
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So we'll see how it goes when I get there.
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I actually don't know.
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It's often focused on making money and taking care of the family.
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Normal man shit.
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Yeah.
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So next up, cost of living.
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Yes, cost of living uh we kind of touched on it just briefly
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but by default it will be less expensive obviously than what we're spending now
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and the ability to do more
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so that's kind of the overall objective there yeah um we have calculated what we need for out there
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which we are budgeting about 3 000 and then plus our expenses here
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that you know we'll get into but just having the flexibility
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to not have to work all the time yeah yeah again
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it's it's crazy the whole thing here again is keeping up
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with the joneses it's like i gotta make more i gotta make more
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and it's really hard to give yourself an out um like
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again we've always been fairly minimalistic we have one car we share a house again all stuff
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that we'll kind of talk about later but But, yeah, it's just we just want those dollars to stretch further.
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We want to get more value for our dollars.
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Again, it's not like I particularly want to spend that many less dollars.
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I just want to get more value for what I'm doing, whether that's groceries, whether that's experiences.
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Have you guys fucking tried flying someplace in the U .S.?
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I'm not talking about during these oil prices.
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Obviously, everybody knows that's been crazy with the war and everything that happened or happening, if it's still going on while you're watching this.
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But just in general, flying around the U .S is so expensive.
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So going and visiting these other states, cool, great.
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Yeah, like write home and tell your friends about, I went from Nebraska to Iowa to check it out.
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And, you know, great experience.
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Awesome.
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Not a knock on Nebraska or Iowa.
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But when you're in Vietnam or Southeast Asia or Europe,
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your ability to get places for a substantially cheaper amount of money is way, way more available.
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so you can just create more of these experiences for less
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so cost of living is a big deal we'll break down
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what our cost of living is here we'll break down what
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our cost of living is out there what we project it to be
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and then what it's actually going to be
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when we get out there to give you guys real numbers on a family um for all the things
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that you want to know about because those are the things
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that we want to know about yeah all right the culture
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i want to talk a little bit about the culture
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because i think this one is kind of unique yeah just well we just love asian culture to begin with
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but um southeast asia just has kind of its own vibe about it
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and it's something
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that we really connect to yeah um we've can we've been there separately before we were dating
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and then obviously we've been multiple times together and it's just something that we always go back.
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We're married now.
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Yeah, obviously.
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We've been married for a while.
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Not obviously. Who knows?
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It's true.
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We are married.
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Yeah, we've been together for what, almost nine years now?
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Yep.
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Coming up on nine years.
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But yeah, so just Asian culture in general, it's very family focused.
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It's big on respect and just about being a good person
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and just respecting the nature and animals and things like that
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so that's that's just the type of environment
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that we want to be in
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and also raise our kids in like she said very family focused like
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when we went out there at the multiple times we've been out to different countries in southeast asia
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and we've had kianu with us people whether they're like more buttoned up countries that we've been to like japan and
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And Taiwan, even people there are still like, oh, my gosh, super cute, baby.
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Like, let me hold your kid.
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Let me do this.
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Let me do that.
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Yeah, and I think just accessibility for things for kids, too.
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So you brought up Taiwan, so it made me think about this.
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We went to the zoo, and there were little mini toilets everywhere in the bathrooms.
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Like, you would never find that here in the States.
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And the ticket was, like, $3.
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You know how much is it to go to the zoo here?
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It's not $3.
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I think it was $6 for all of us to get in.
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Yeah.
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Besides the point.
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Yeah.
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Um, so yeah, just, we love Asian culture in general, the people, the belief system, just the vibe and the feel.
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And I think that kind of leads into, uh, the safety of it.
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Safety is, safety has always been a big one.
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Not so much for me.
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Again, when you're as big as I am, when you're covered in tattoos, when you have a beard, people assume that you might,
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you know, you might try something but I'm extremely
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nice and non -confrontational person
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but women i know it's a big deal for elder people
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i know it's a big deal for obviously we have kids it's a huge deal
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when you have kids everything's like is everything trying to kill my kid is
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that bird trying to kill my fucking kid i don't know
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but now you gotta worry about the schools yeah i'm not
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gonna go there yeah don't don't touch me on the school
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situation out here in the u .s whether it's the shootings
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or the lack of education either way um it's all a
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problem uh just in general the safety is is a big deal
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and we've never felt safer in our lives than we're
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when we're in countries in southeast asia and i don't want
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that to be like uh a shot at anybody in
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that culture out in southeast asia
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that is a compliment to say whatever you guys are doing the energy
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that you put off is very welcoming um especially like we love all the cultures out there.
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Thailand's known to be really friendly.
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There's just something different with Vietnam that you're like, man, those people, they're just like, they're just such warm and welcoming people.
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So I love that.
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Last thing, geographical location.
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Um, I would say it's well, where Vietnam is very centrally located in Asia in itself.
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And I think it's just a really good spot to be to go visit all of these other places
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that we love going
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and we love Japan we now love Taiwan yeah we're loving China the more
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that we learn about it just like more explore more places in the Indonesia
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and Philippines and within the country in Vietnam yeah there's
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so many cool things to see
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so again the affordability we are specifically looking at Da Nang and we'll talk about more of that here in a second,
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but just flights from Da Nang to Ho Chi Minh, Da Nang to Hanoi, like you're talking about pennies on the dollars.
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30, 50 bucks round trip.
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Yeah.
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For me, even flying to Orlando or Miami or something over here in Florida, that could easily end up getting to a couple hundred dollars,
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you know, depending where I'm going.
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If I'm super lucky, I can get a flight for a hundred dollars.
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If I'm super lucky and I'm going at a very specific time.
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For a one hour flight yeah that's like the best case scenario uh that doesn't happen in many places
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so do you want to kind of transition and talk about when we realized america
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maybe wasn't for us in terms of continuing to raise our family
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because this wasn't something that was just like you know flip a switch
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and we're and we're moving now like we had thought about it we had done a lot of traveling and whatnot
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so you kind of want to talk a little bit about um just the thought process yeah the timeline
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so when international moving became like a real plan of course or even a thought so we started dating in arizona um
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i had we started dating on a trip yeah we were
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living in arizona surprisingly lived 10 minutes from each other and
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that we later found out um it worked out just beautifully yes um
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so we were living in arizona when covet happened
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but in the start of our relationship sean took time off to go travel southeast asia
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and it was like i didn't take time off from a
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relationship no no he took time from the united states
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while we were together already playing i'm like hey i really like you
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but I have this like six month tour through Asia yeah you
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and your best friend me yeah me
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and my best friend are you okay with it
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and she's like sure I'll come out there
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and see you yeah I'll come out there and see you
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and we'll see how this goes we'll see how dedicated you
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really are yeah I mean it's hard it's a lot to ask of somebody yeah
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so attractive yeah my my previous history wouldn't have provided a ton of confidence
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but I was looking to grow up as well
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so find a person that's already grown and you know doing her own thing
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which is great so anyways carry on um yes
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so in the there was kind of like two things so he had that trip plan
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already when we first started dating
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and i in my head um was like i am
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so over being in arizona i really want to move back to the pacific northwest
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which is where i had graduated high school
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but we both grew up in Arizona
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so it's kind of like you were already traveling I had in my head
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that we wanted to leave Arizona to begin with so
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when you came back from your trip we moved in together and
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for a year or something like that but then COVID happened
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and that kind of opened a lot of doors
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and you had such a great experience in Southeast Asia
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and specifically Da Nang yeah I went to in 2019 yeah and I was like this is fucking great like
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i've never even heard of this place this is amazing i don't even know how we ended up there
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and your best friend stayed for an additional six months you
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came back to the states to come back to live with me
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and he stayed there because he loved the apartment yeah it was just hanging out
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like i'm paying like a hundred
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and something dollars for this studio that's insane dude yeah so
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that kind of planted the seed for us um especially
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so we had talked about going um to vietnam for i mean basically since 2019 um
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but when covet happened my my job basically made me remote
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and then so that allowed us the flexibility to go to washington
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because we were like do we go do we jump ship now
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and i'll no no we have like so many things
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that are not ready for us to yeah we had i
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had student debt we had some credit card debt we were pretty good at saving
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and whatnot amanda's had the same job for the last 15 years yeah
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which she'll be leaving which she's very you know kind of obviously freaked out about
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because that's a drastic change yeah but um
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and we just weren't financially in a position to do something like that
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or at least we didn't think we were we didn't really
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have any passive income um our first passive income came from the rental house
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that we left left which was the house
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that amanda had originally bought in arizona when she was really young
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and so when we moved to washington we now had a stream of passive income
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so we probably could have built something off of that at
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that time with how affordable vietnam was
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but we just weren't ready we didn't know half we didn't know five percent of the things
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that we know now yeah so yeah we move up to vancouver washington
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and uh we're there during covid and so a combination of covid
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and the rain was not ideal not what we were picturing in our heads um
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but you know when it was good out there during those good months
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if you're the pacific northwest you know it's like one of the best places in the entire world to be
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and so we ended up buying our first house there together
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and we were in it for uh two years
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and then we started to get that itch that bug again and i've noticed it takes us about two years
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want to go somewhere habits yeah which will play very consistent which will play into uh
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our next stop Mexico and then our Florida stop
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so yeah we were in Washington bought the house together realized
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like man this isn't exactly where we want to be
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and the location we're in the rain thing is like real
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like it's just raining all the time we didn't afford the Oregon side
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so we had to be on the Washington side
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and it's much dark you think Portland is dark
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and rainy no Vancouver Washington is dark and rainy it's real
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and it's really just right there 20 minutes yeah it's in this position anyways i digress
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so it was also fairly expensive there um and getting more expensive and
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so our thought was like hey we have this lot the
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smaller lot we kind of want some land we want more um
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so we started looking at texas and we end up going out to what was it
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oh weatherford weatherford texas just outside of the fort worth dallas area on the fort worth side
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and we found two beautiful acres and we ended up buying it
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because we wanted to build a house our own
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and i know crazy maybe it was impulsive
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but yeah it was definitely impulsive i do impulsive things you'll learn this um
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but we bought a piece of land
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because the vision was still not let's move overseas the vision
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was like hey we want more property we want to have
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this area for our family to stretch out i wanted baby
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alpacas yeah baby a lot of things a lot of baby things are cute uh
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so we buy that and then was literally it was february 2022 yeah
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because we bought it we bought our house april 2021 february of 2022 we bought this two acres
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and literally i think it was july or november
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so like a few months later we were like yeah let's sell it july
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or no how did you go from july to november
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because i can't remember what date it was i a couple days ago i looked
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that the email it's probably july i think it was july what did we spend on
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that piece of land 129 000 it's been 129 000 on
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a piece of land yes a few months later we decided after going back to washington
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and talking we don't want to be in texas for multiple
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reasons the property taxes the requirements to build all of these things
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that were just like
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that we did not do our proper research really beforehand we're like oh what else can we do
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and at this point we're like well I had gotten into the insurance space and was able to be working from home.
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At this time, Amanda was also still working from home.
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And so we're like, we have a little bit more flexibility.
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Do you want to consider moving out of the country now?
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And so we quickly made a decision like, hey, Asia, because we're also in this stage where we're trying to start having our first.
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baby, which ended up taking us a while.
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But we're like, hey, let's go move out of the country and have a baby.
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That'd be cool, right?
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Yeah.
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It was cool.
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But Asia was not on the list because we didn't want to alienate ourselves from our families.
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My family would have come and visit because they're big travelers, but it would have alienated us a little bit more from Amanda's family.
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And that's like literally halfway around the world.
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So it would have been really tough
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for that change so we decided let's do something a little bit more familiar a little closer to home
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let's move to mexico mexico also has very favorable things
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so uh dual citizenship yes the parents of the child born there can apply for permanent residency
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so at this point it became kind of a strategic plan on multiple levels of why we chose mexico
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and the timeline which of going there and
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so we end up going back to arizona for a very short period of time checking on the the uh rental
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and everything and then we make our way down to mexico
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and we'd actually gone to mexico a little bit early to check things out because we were considering guess what buying
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boy when you're young you just do wild yeah especially at the place
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that we really like because we ended up moving into a place very close to a place
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that we were looking to buy and the places
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that we were looking to buy weren't finished yet and so
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when we ended up getting out there yeah i guess what happened they never got finished
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so that would have been our money um
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but anyways it takes us quite some time to sell the
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piece of property in texas don't think we just bought it flipped it
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and turned around and sold it we didn't it took us like a year
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and a half yeah quite some time right before keanu was
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born right it was literally like two three weeks before Keanu was born yeah
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so we go down we're in Playa del Carmen Mexico we
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drove down from Washington to Arizona then drove from Arizona to Playa del Carmen uh
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which is like it's basically as far in Mexico as you can be on the peninsula
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so don't do that especially with a trailer what an experience oh my gosh extremely stressful especially
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when you're one driving yeah we snap the axle on our
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trailer as soon as we cross the border like one hour into Mexico maybe it was a leaf spring
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but it wasn't leaves me yeah uh luckily we got fixed there pretty quickly great people saw us right away
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but yeah fucking horrible experience anyways
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so we're in mexico we're having a great time uh we're still not pregnant yet
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and we got pregnant a few months after moving yeah
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so we're there we're having fun we're i was gonna say
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single we're not single we're single without kids yeah we have
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no kids um dual income no kids whatever they call it uh
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so yeah we end up having a great experience down in Mexico.
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There's a great community of like natural birthing type stuff down there.
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So got plugged in with some really cool people, ended up having some, you know, nice apartments, just a cool experience overall.
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We were there for a year and a half and we had our son Keanu there, which again gave him dual citizenship.
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So that was fantastic.
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But we got the itch.
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We kind of got the itch and we realized, hey, Mexico is not exactly where we want to land where we want to stay we had some close friends
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that we spent a lot of time with out there who were kind of a older retired couple
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that ended up packing up they had bought a place out there they sold the place
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and ended up moving out to Thailand they left like right before we ended up leaving
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and we decided to move to Florida because my sister
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and her family's here my parents were coming out from California
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and we all wanted to be close to each other for a little
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while so we're in florida
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that happened 2024 june 19th 2024 we move into this brand new house
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that was built with my parents again we'll talk about
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that more at some point in time
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but we've now been here since june 24th 2024 june 19th
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2024 it's now a little over two years past the timeline
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so you know what that means we're sweating it's time to move there's things
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that we really love about this area like we are 30
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minutes away from I think what are the best beaches in the entire country
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but I don't know it's just the cost of things I mean the cost of living all the things
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that we kind of mentioned before there's wild stuff going on with the government
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and just all all sorts of things
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if people are not aware I am mixed my dad is black my mom is white
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and so just having the dynamic of
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that is always been interesting throughout my whole life
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but we just felt like it was time um we were
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ready to move we've done multiple trips over to southeast asia since we've been here
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and yeah we were just we decided we were just ready So we've been thinking about this for a while.
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We knew we were going to get pregnant with our second, our second.
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And then it was just like, Hey, how quickly after do you think that you will feel good enough for us to end up leaving?
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And it was just then checking off boxes.
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Yeah.
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Cause we moved from Mexico to the States when Keanu was four and a half, five ish months.
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I kind of had a hard time postpartum with him so I wanted to give us a little bit more time
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postpartum with this one
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because I didn't know how the transition from one to two
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was going to be zero to one took me out
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so I'm giving myself more flexibility with one to two
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but at least I have the comfort of knowing we can hire help out there like very inexpensive
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and that is just one of the things that the luxury things
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that we know will be able to afford out there to give us a better quality of life
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and especially leaving the help here
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so that's making the transition a little bit easier for my mental load
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but we have a timeline in in our mind
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so six to seven months from now yeah I think that's
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pretty solid again we've been out to Southeast Asia multiple times
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we've done apartment tours with the expectation of moving out there to get an idea obviously there's been some changes
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and there'll be changes over time on minuscule prices of things
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but But we want to talk about the next and last topic, which is why we chose Vietnam,
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but more specifically, Da Nang, because we were considering potentially other spots to land as our first stop.
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So we did, on that same trip, we went to Da Nang.
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We did also go to Ho Chi Minh City.
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I've heard really good things about Ho Chi Minh City, so I had really high expectations for it, but I think...
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And it's so big because there's so many districts.
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We weren't there long enough to like...
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Explore all the districts.
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We did the touristy stuff.
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So obviously that's going to be the most crowded areas and things like that.
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So this is not a knock at Ho Chi Minh at all because we definitely have plans to go there.
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But Da Nang really resonated with us.
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And I think it just kind of reminded me of the things that I liked about Playa del Carmen.
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It's kind of the beach town but there's better infrastructure
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and a little bit more modernist um so i think
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that kind of solves the issue of the things
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that we did not like about playa del carmen
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and then just being by the beach i mean we're by
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the beach now we were by the beach before even
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when we can love the beach now yeah especially
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because he can swim yeah i swim by myself i swim
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by myself with his vest on yeah he's obsessed with the water um
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but just the overall vibe there we made some friends there
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while we were there um so i think
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that would be a good first landing space for us especially
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since we already have a little bit of a community there yeah
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and we just got a great feeling from denon
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and you know the the access to food there not like again not like ho chi min
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so really the three kind of places
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that we were looking at was um up to this point still doing research
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but in ho chi minh we were kind of looking at some stuff
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but really more specifically looking at district 9 the the vin homes out there
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and looking at family oriented places that are very walkable safe for kids
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if you haven't checked out district 9 and you have a family definitely check
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that out when we get out to vietnam we'll do some stuff about going out there
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and showing what it's like but it's a city within a city it's pretty amazing what's out there and it's extremely
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affordable right now way more so than Danang yeah so
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that kind of drew us there but Ho Chi Minh has no beach
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so you know we do love the beach then we were
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also looking up north around Hanoi at an area another kind
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of city within a city outside of Hanoi about 30 minutes
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called Eco Park very green very luscious area out there
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and again very family oriented not as affordable as the district 9 in ho chi minh
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but you know still really gives you that awesome family vibe
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and you're only about 30 minutes away from uh hanoi like the city yeah like the airport
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and stuff like that so those are two spots we were really heavily considering
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and those are definitely two spots where we still may potentially end up living for a period of time
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but because of the familiar familiarity with danang
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and uh the beach the food all the things to do it being an international airport
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which was really convenient how kind of I don't want to say big
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but small it felt but it has
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that kind of feeling where it's like you get the big skyscraper type buildings with the hotels
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and whatnot but it's still very easy to get to
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and navigate the pace of traffic is substantially slower there than it is in the two other cities yeah
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so I think it's gonna be a good transition coming from the states to denying just because
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of the the slower pace of life i think it you know
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if we were to go straight into ho chi min after
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coming from the small town in florida we'd be like oh this is very overwhelming
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because it was overwhelming when we were there maybe not
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so much in the you know the vinhome community
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but um yeah i think we'll definitely start off in denon
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at who knows how long we'll be there for you yeah
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yeah we really maybe we'll do two years in denon and then we'll go to another one of the spots.
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But again, so the whole idea with this series and whatnot, we're going to break down literally everything,
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what we're packing, what we're leaving behind financially, how we're doing this, what our finances look like, what we have saved, what we have as passive income, what exactly we do for work,
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like literally anything that you can think of, we'll be talking about it.
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And then if you have questions and you want things, you want us to discuss things, the whole visa thing, you know,
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what hospitals we're kind of looking at for kids over there, what potential schooling situations we're going to be doing, because we've been doing a ton, a ton of research.
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So we don't have all the answers yet, but we do plan on sharing as much as possible with you guys,
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because we know that there are other families out there looking to do this.
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There is a, I'm not saying this in a bad way, like we don't love the U .S., because we do love the U .S.
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You're very fortunate to be here.
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Yeah, it is extremely, we're extremely fortunate to be, we've got the golden ticket to be born in the U .S.
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But we know that there is a large exodus of people because of multiple reasons going to other places.
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One of the big ones is financial.
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So like we want to be as transparent as possible with you guys on this journey
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and showing you why we're doing this and the cost of everything
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and whatnot and how you have the potential to do it too if you have these few things set up.
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But yeah, if you have questions or you want to know things, let us know in the comments.
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We'll make videos about it or we'll do Q &A type deals.
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And then at some point in time, we'll start like a little membership portion where we'll get on
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and we'll answer questions live with you guys
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and help people get some things solved in their lives
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and figure some stuff out on how they can move out as well.
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But yeah, we're really looking forward to the change.
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We are counting down the days, the weeks, the months.
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It's coming fast.
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It's terrifying.
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It's exciting, but also a little scary.
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It's time we get our shit together.
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But yeah, do you got anything else, babe, that you want to add?
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I'm not exactly sure what we're going to talk about in the next video, so you'll have to stay tuned, but we'll be trying to put these out on a very
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regular basis i'm talking you know hopefully three a month for sure um
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they probably won't all be this long this is about 40 minutes
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but still you get a background of us yeah i wanted
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to give you guys an insight on what the king family is working with
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and uh maybe next time you'll see keanu probably not a little crazy anyways anything else
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that you love you love you
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if you haven't checked out some of our other stuff go check it out thank you thank you
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so much for the support and the comments
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and everything the engagement we absolutely love it especially if you're positive
587
if you're not positive piss off me come on I'm postpartum don't say me
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but outside of that whoa catch you on the flippity -flip catch you on the flippity -flip peace y 'all
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “Goodbye America: Why We Are Starting Over In Vietnam”. Questo video contiene 588 frasi e 7067 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 38:46. Chi parla va veloce, circa 182 parole al minuto: aspettati suoni legati e ridotti. Il 88% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è facile da seguire.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| southeast sostantivo | /sawˈθɪjst/ | sudest |
| pace sostantivo | /peɪs/ | passo |
| stretch verbo | /stɹɛt͡ʃ/ | tendere |
| timeline sostantivo | /ˈtaɪmˌlaɪn/ | linea temporale, linea del tempo |
| flexibility sostantivo | /ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪti/ | flessibilità |
| transition sostantivo | /tɹænˈzɪʃ.ən/ | transizione |
| flip verbo | /flɪp/ | capovolgere, spadellare |
| passive aggettivo | /ˈpæs.ɪv/ | passivo |
| vibe sostantivo | /vaɪb/ | atmosfera |
| dual aggettivo | /ˈdul/ | duale, doppio |
| affordable aggettivo | /əˈfɔɹ.də.bəl/ | conveniente, vantaggioso |
| swim verbo | /swɪm/ | nuotare, natare |
| financially avverbio | finanziariamente | |
| topic sostantivo | /ˈtɑpɪk/ | tema, categoria |
| fort sostantivo | /fɔɹt/ | forte, fortezza |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| end up verbo | andare a finire, finire |
| go out verbo | uscire, andare fuori |
| check out verbo | investigare |
| bring up verbo | menzionare, nominare |
| figure out verbo | scoprire, rendersi conto |
| find out verbo | scoprire |
| go back verbo | tornare |
| grow up verbo | crescere |
Frasi da ripetere
Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:
- I don't know if they're ready for this.
- We've always traveled a lot.
- Your brain just doesn't turn off.
- I'm not talking about during these oil prices.
- We've been married for a while.
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — un’azione iniziata prima e ancora in corso | has been stretching · It's been getting · I've been trying |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | We've always traveled · we've done · it's been |
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | is covered · was still not let · was born |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | guys who live · power, which is · left which was |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 227 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come we're, we'll, I'm. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: southeast /sawˈθɪjst/, northwest /nɔɹθˈwɛst/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: transition /tɹænˈzɪʃ.ən/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, citizenship /ˈsɪtɪzənʃɪp/, massage /məˈsɑ(d)ʒ/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: flexibility /ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪti/, affordable /əˈfɔɹ.də.bəl/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, citizenship /ˈsɪtɪzənʃɪp/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: halfway /ˌhæfˈweɪ/, horrible /ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/, hire /ˈhaɪɹ/, wherever /(h)wɛɹˈɛvɚ/, habit /ˈhæb.ɪt/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: southeast /sawˈθɪjst/, anyways /ˈɛn.iˌweɪz/, pace /peɪs/, stretch /stɹɛt͡ʃ/, flip /flɪp/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: transition /tɹænˈzɪʃ.ən/, passive /ˈpæs.ɪv/, dynamic /daɪˈnæm.ɪk/, halfway /ˌhæfˈweɪ/, guarantee /ˌɡæɹ.ənˈtiː/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come southeast, pace, stretch.
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.