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Southeast Asia

Money

+5

I Got Laid Off And Bought A Plane Ticket The Same Week

Oct 16, 2026

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3 min read

I Got Laid Off And Bought A Plane Ticket The Same Week

I have told people to build the income before they buy the ticket. I did it the other way round, and the move fixed less than I needed it to.

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Reality Check

+5

He Is Jealous Of A Photo I Took On Laundry Day

Sep 30, 2026

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3 min read

He Is Jealous Of A Photo I Took On Laundry Day

My friend back home wrote so jealous under a photo I took on the walk to the laundry. He spends his Thursdays driving his father to the doctor.

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Andrew No Refunds

Reality Check

+5

Everyone Who Tells You To Get The Proper Visa Did Border Runs First

Sep 23, 2026

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3 min read

Everyone Who Tells You To Get The Proper Visa Did Border Runs First

The loudest people telling newcomers to get the proper visa did years of border runs, back when nobody checked. They are right about the rule. I know, because I was on the minivan too.

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Andrew No Refunds

Reality Check

+6

You Do Not Buy A Plant For Five Weeks

Sep 9, 2026

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3 min read

You Do Not Buy A Plant For Five Weeks

2 completely different lives out here are sharing one word. One came to move. The other just wants an ordinary life somewhere warmer, and almost everything he needs is the opposite.

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Andrew No Refunds

Reality Check

+5

I Like Living Abroad. I Hate The Traveling.

Sep 6, 2026

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3 min read

I Like Living Abroad. I Hate The Traveling.

Living in another country and traveling are 2 different things. Out here you are not really allowed to say you only wanted one of them.

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Andrew No Refunds

Reality Check

+4

The Best Desk I Ever Had Was A Drawer Turned Upside Down

Sep 6, 2026

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4 min read

The Best Desk I Ever Had Was A Drawer Turned Upside Down

I carried a 220 dollar monitor across borders for a year. The best work I have done out here was typed on a wardrobe drawer with a 250 baht keyboard on the table underneath it.

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Business

+5

Nobody At The Meetup Has Ever Paid Me

Aug 12, 2026

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4 min read

Nobody At The Meetup Has Ever Paid Me

Every room I went to for work was full of people selling what I sell. The ones who actually pay have a shop on the street below and no reason to come upstairs.

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Andrew No Refunds

Reality Check

+4

Everybody Passes The First Month

Aug 2, 2026

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5 min read

Everybody Passes The First Month

Everyone tells you to go for a month and see if it suits you. Month one is a holiday with a laptop in it. The month that decides it is month 4.

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Reality Check

+5

It Took Me Months To Eat Dinner Alone

Jul 31, 2026

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4 min read

It Took Me Months To Eat Dinner Alone

I spent a year eating standing up, at carts and on the edge of a bed. The problem was never being alone. It was the second set of chopsticks getting taken away.

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Andrew No Refunds

Digital Nomad

+3

I Wrote Like Myself And Got Called A Bot

Jul 25, 2026

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3 min read

I Wrote Like Myself And Got Called A Bot

The machines got good enough that being careful online now reads as fake. So real people are learning to write worse to prove they are alive.

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Andrew No Refunds

Reality Check

+4

I Was Friendly For A Year And Stayed A Stranger

Jul 19, 2026

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3 min read

I Was Friendly For A Year And Stayed A Stranger

I spent a year being friendly and stayed a stranger. What finally let me in was a motorbike and a favor at 6 in the morning.

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Andrew No Refunds

Business

+5

The Weekend I Made One Restaurant Exist

Jul 11, 2026

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3 min read

The Weekend I Made One Restaurant Exist

People ask their phone where to eat now, and the best place on the street is not in the answer. You already carry the skill to put it there.

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Andrew No Refunds

Lifestyle

+3

Every Room Is Starting To Look Like The Same Room

Jul 3, 2026

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3 min read

Every Room Is Starting To Look Like The Same Room

Every room in every city is the same room now. So the place moved out into the street, where the smart lock can't reach it.

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Andrew No Refunds

Reality Check

+4

You Can't Work From A View

Jul 2, 2026

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3 min read

You Can't Work From A View

The wifi stopped being the hard part years ago. Quiet is the thing you can't carry in the bag, and it never shows up in the photo.

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Andrew No Refunds

Reality Check

+5

Work Was Never Supposed To Be The Dream

Jun 27, 2026

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3 min read

Work Was Never Supposed To Be The Dream

"Do what you love" was never permission. It was a quota. And the bar just went up to two million dollars.

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Andrew No Refunds

Reality Check

+3

They Call It A Phase Because They Left

Jun 23, 2026

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4 min read

They Call It A Phase Because They Left

It's not a law of nature. It's an exit report. The good part arrives later than the patience most people packed.

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Andrew No Refunds

Reality Check

+4

The Web Is Being Rebuilt. Not For You.

Jun 22, 2026

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4 min read

The Web Is Being Rebuilt. Not For You.

You didn't lose a client. You lost a reader. The web is being rebuilt for the thing that reads the page instead of you.

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Andrew No Refunds

Reality Check

+5

Kampot Is The Compromise. Most People Can't Handle That Word.

Jun 19, 2026

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5 min read

Kampot Is The Compromise. Most People Can't Handle That Word.

You pick what you're optimising for. Then you live with it.

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Andrew No Refunds

Reality Check

+5

The Antenna. You Either Build It Or You Don't.

Jun 17, 2026

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4 min read

The Antenna. You Either Build It Or You Don't.

You either build the antenna or you don't, and the only way to build it is being out here long enough to get it wrong and live through it.

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Andrew No Refunds

Reality Check

+4

The Wrong Degree Was Always The Right One.

Jun 16, 2026

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4 min read

The Wrong Degree Was Always The Right One.

She left a medical degree to learn digital marketing.

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Andrew No Refunds

Reality Check

+5

Retrain. It Takes Weeks Not Years. And You're Already Ahead.

Jun 9, 2026

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4 min read

Retrain. It Takes Weeks Not Years. And You're Already Ahead.

The market changed. The tools are cheap. The retraining is shorter than you think. Move.

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Andrew No Refunds

Minimalism

+5

If You Can Live Without It For Three Months, You Can Live Without It Forever

Jun 4, 2026

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4 min read

If You Can Live Without It For Three Months, You Can Live Without It Forever

The storage unit is not a logistics solution. It is an unanswered question, billed monthly.

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Andrew No Refunds

Reality Check

+4

Escaping And Chasing A Dream Are Not The Same Thing.

May 31, 2026

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5 min read

Escaping And Chasing A Dream Are Not The Same Thing.

The destination is identical. The architecture underneath is completely different.

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Andrew No Refunds

Reality Check

+5

The Dark Side Of The Smile.

May 26, 2026

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5 min read

The Dark Side Of The Smile.

Thailand smiled at me for two years before I understood what the smile actually was.

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Andrew No Refunds

Money

+4

The Single Point of Failure.

May 20, 2026

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4 min read

The Single Point of Failure.

The fintech worked perfectly until it didn't. This is not a Wise story.

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