Title: Passport Sis Moved To Thailand….and Became HOMELESS AF!
Created On: February 18, 2024 at 08:17PM
From: Oshay Duke Jackson
A woman has described how she wound up ‘homeless’ in Thailand after relocating from the U.S. to South East Asia to become a ‘digital nomad’ with no financial safety net.
Kiawanna Moore booked a one-way flight from her native Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to Japan back in August 2023.
At the time, she left ‘not having any plans and I didn’t know anything about Japan,’ she admitted in a TikTok summarizing her experience.
‘I SOLD EVERYTHING I OWNED & MOVED ACROSS SEAS…’ she declared in the title of a YouTube video documenting her flight to Tokyo.
Not long after she’d arrived in Tokyo, she’d realized the city was too expensive and promptly decamped for Thailand
But, a few weeks later, a new video appeared on her channel: ‘TOKYO IS THE WORST PLACE TO STAY !! I HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO MOVE.’
This montage captured her as she flew from Tokyo to Thailand in search of a more affordable yet still exotic locale.
‘I realized Japan was extremely expensive and I wasn’t gonna last long with the amount of money that I came with,’ she explained in the TikTok.
So she decided to relocate to Thailand, again heading there with ‘no plans’ and ‘not knowing anything about the country.’
Elsewhere on her social media, she confessed that she only had $7 in her bank account when she arrived at the Thai city of Pattaya, where she had been trying to get settled since.
While she stretched her money for five months, she confessed in the TikTok: ‘I still wasn’t able to figure out how to make income. I ran out of money.’
‘And that is how I ended up homeless in Thailand,’ she concluded.
It’s also unclear whether Kiawanna applied for or obtained a work permit allowing her to be legally employed on Thai soil.
Thousands of viewers took to the comments, some steeped in harsh judgement of Kiawanna’s situation, while others extended encouragement and advice.