🌏 Thailand | Your new Home away from Home

Selim Shlomi Benbasat
Dec 19, 2022
3 min read

Updated: Jul 15

For the first time after 46 years of living on this beautiful planet my wife and I went for a long trip, a dreamy honeymoon in Thailand, targeting; Phuket, Koh Samui, Koh Phangan, and Bangkok.. it started off as a vacation and ended up in shifted our lives to Thailand.

The First picture I took of Thailand from the plane

A day before COVID happened if you would show me my life as it looks right now, I would tell you that only a mad person would imagine the 3-piece suit city boy that lived all his life in large cities like New York, London, Tel-Aviv, Istanbul having offices in other big cities like Paris, Milano, Warsaw, Saint Petersburg, Sao Paolo, Mexico City, Miami, Johannesburg, Singapore, and others. If one would have told me that I would be living on a magical island or a sea shore city and all I needs is to wear flip flops, shorts and a t-shirt and the most important thing is never to forget my sunglasses, I would tell you that you are hallucinating....

Having children in Israel and Turkey and living in Thailand just sound mad to anyone before COVID, I'd guess, and now when I tell our story all I get is... why not?

Then why not dear readers?

What's the fear that does not allow us to make this step and shift our lives?

Our first breakfast from our Honeymoon at The Shore at Katathani

Is it comfort? Cause there are magical places that do not require a lot of it..
Is it career? Did we really know what we wanted to be when we grew up?
Is it money? Did we really take the time to plan or learn how much we really need to live off well in a dreamy location? and why are there already 40+ million people that call themselves NoMads with a GDPC larger than Canada...?
Is it family? Can't we create the comfort of a family wherever we go? or bring the ones we call family next to us..? I can share hundreds of stories I had seen here to validate this point, feel free to ping me for more ideas to ease the shifting process DM me on WhatsApp or Instagram
Is it fame? ....Social Media et al.. I'll skip this question..
Is It fear of the unknown? Duh we will always be a flight away or a phone call away from our loved ones and our previous lives and as long as we keep our communication open this can be eased up...
Is it the fear of being alone? really... these days we die later than 90-years on average and still, we can walk and enjoy every day, isn't it? apart from that we have large communities of Expats and Nomads here's a link to our Koh Samui Shifftt Community and Hua Hin Shifftt Community
Is it medical care? Na... I was amazed to discover one of the top 5 best hospitals in the world here in Thailand. (Bumrungrad)

Then what is it?

I would guess it may be courage,,, well I always say that courage is just a fear without cloths! I am here to answer all your unaddressed questions.. as I think that we all deserve to live in heaven while visiting this life...

💬 Ready to Find Out What Your Life Could Look Like?