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Visas, family life, money and travel, explained in three minutes by people who live this.
The fastest way to burn out a travelling family is to treat month three like day one of a holiday.
You will hear a lot about how cheap stablecoins are for moving money across borders. Some of it is true. The full story has a second half.
International school fees in Phuket can run to hundreds of thousands of baht a year, so many families quietly ask the obvious question: what about…
Headlines say Thailand is "opening the door" to Bitcoin and Ether ETFs. Read the detail before you get excited, because for most of us living here…
Heads up before your next flight out of Phuket. From 16 October, checked bags leaving Thai airports can be opened without the owner present.
Plenty of remote workers assume a nomad visa and a tax bill are two separate worlds. They are not.
Airfares across Southeast Asia dipped hard after the summer peak, and a Vietnamese news report from August shows how far. From Ho Chi Minh City,…
Here is the sentence that surprises most nomad parents: Thailand does not have a single family visa.
If your Thailand life runs on back-to-back visa-exempt stamps, read this twice.
Worldschooling families have a problem: lessons need to survive a move every few weeks. A 2026 guide on AI for roadschooling argues that is exactly…
If you invoice clients abroad, payment fees are a quiet tax on your income. A July 2026 comparison puts numbers on it, for a 1,000 dollar…
If you are moving to Thailand with children, tuition is only the headline. A 2026 relocation guide gives rough yearly fee ranges per child: about…
A June 2026 roundup counts about 55 dedicated digital nomad visas worldwide, over 60 if you include remote-work permits. The headline is not the…
If friends or family are planning a visit this season, there is good news. Four new direct routes to Phuket start in October 2026, according to…
Flying from Europe or America to Phuket means a six to twelve hour time shift, and kids pay for it harder than adults. A 2026 family travel guide…
Domestic flying to and from Phuket gets easier this quarter. Thai AirAsia has said it will scale up capacity for October to December 2026, according…
Thailand has a five-year tax exemption on crypto gains, and it is easy to misread. Here is what a Forvis Mazars summary of Ministerial Regulation No.…
Headlines about a Thai tourist fee keep landing in your feed, so here is what is actually confirmed as of August 2026.
If you hold your own crypto, the seed phrase is not a password. It is the money. A May 2026 guide from a hardware wallet maker lists ten self-custody…
As of today, the easiest route onto a Destination Thailand Visa has closed.
The dream sold to everyone building an online course was passive income. Record it once, sell it forever, wake up to Stripe notifications. It worked…
Upwork reported in February that demand for AI-related freelance skills grew 109% year on year. AI video generation and editing jumped 329%. AI…
If you write for clients, something has quietly changed this year. Agencies are reporting that close to 95% of their clients now either ask for an AI…
If you spend 180 days or more in Thailand in a calendar year, you are a Thai tax resident. That single line catches a lot of people who still think…
Most freelancers and consultants lose deals in the same place: the moment the client has to choose. You send over a menu of options, custom scopes,…
The interesting shift in online income this year is not a new platform. It is a change in what people are building.
Most families who homeschool or worldschool abroad get the teaching part right and the record keeping part badly wrong. It rarely matters until it…
The 2026 figures are uncomfortable if you have built your life around working remotely. Fully remote workers report burnout at 61%, hybrid at 57%,…
Freelancers spend somewhere around 35% of their working time on admin. Scheduling, invoicing, chasing payments, writing the same onboarding email for…
Thailand cut its visa-exempt tourist stay from 60 days to 30 this year, and added a Digital Arrival Card on top. If you have been getting by on…
Here is a number worth sitting with. Around 55% of remote workers say most of their meetings could have been an email, a recorded video, or a shared…
Microsoft's latest Work Trend Index surveyed 20,000 knowledge workers across ten countries and pulled in usage data from Microsoft 365. One finding…
The single most common planning mistake we see from families moving to Thailand is treating school as a step you take after arriving. It is not. It…
Every few months someone in a Phuket group chat shares a rendering of the light rail line and asks whether it is worth waiting for before choosing…
The interesting shift in AI this year isn't better writing. It's tools that actually do the sequence: plan a task, run it, check the result, adjust.…
This is the question our members in Phuket ask more than almost any other, usually about three weeks after they arrive and realise travel insurance…
Parents who travel with children get very good at introductions. Playground, pool, cafe, beach. The kids meet someone within ten minutes and it looks…
Here is an uncomfortable test. If you are booked out more than two or three weeks in advance, you are undercharging. That is not a compliment about…
A study of roughly 500,000 tracked remote working hours landed this year, and the headline number is uncomfortable. The average remote worker gets…
Most remote job listings say "work from anywhere." Almost none of them mean it.
Freelancing is still profitable in 2026. What has changed is what you get paid for.
The era of casually stringing together visa exemptions in Thailand is over. If you are planning to stay long term, the paperwork now has to be real.
Most families moving abroad do it in the wrong order. They fall for a place first, book the flights, and then start asking what happens with the kids…
Ask ten freelancers what AI tool they can't work without and you'll get ten different answers, but a pattern is finally emerging. 74% of independent…
Every year there's a new stack of apps promising to fix remote work. Every year, most remote workers are still tired, still distracted, still working…
"How much does it actually cost to live in Phuket?" is probably the question we get asked most in the Digi Yesmads community, usually from someone…
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