@Ruth ******
I'm glad you met some nice friends. My ratio for real friends is about 1 out of 10. The 9 will offer me investment opportunities, will want to waste a lot of time picking my brain about experience and business here. One of the worse ones I documented on video, a "friend" tricked me into a bad situation:
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I think in Chiang Mai for example, there is a great community of expats and digital nomads. I am just really far away from that :)