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    Mukdahan

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    Theres a handful of expats who meet in very specific places on different days of the week, the nightbox on Friday & Saturday nights & an expensive western style bar called the Picking Cowboy on the other side of the road from it. Theres also a younger crowd of often changing English teachers who you might find in the same places on the weekend. The golf club is also quite popular amongst the older expat group, but as I'm not interested in having "a good walk spoilt" I don't know when a likely time to meet them there would be. 

     I myself find, that the lack of much of an expats scene is a big part of the charm of the place, a consequence of which is a very friendly Thai population, there are a lot of Thai style bars/nightspots etc.

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    Thailand announces huge changes to tourist visas in bid to boost tourism

    in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits

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    1 hour ago, CeeGee said:

    Maybe for the first time in history the Thai Government will issue an actual factual statement.

    ie This scheme will start on this date

        It will run between these dates

        If successful it will be extended for the following dates

        It covers the following visas

     

    it would make a change because it seems that every time they announce anything it prompts pages and pages of debate on what they actually mean.It also left to individual officials to interpret the rules as they see fit.

    There is no black or white in Thailand everything is grey

    This is deliberate to allow room for all the corruption...

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    Why are expats so bad in Thai?

    in ASEAN NOW Community Pub

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    6 hours ago, poanoi said:

    i have a friend that honestly wanted to learn,

    but he just cant pick up on the tones at all,

    he dont even hear them, its actually worse than that,

    he does not hear them when i say exactly where it is and when i

    pronounce it particularly.

    he also cant pronounce the sounds here

    I've been here for 8 years & spent 5 of them completely immersed in Thai in a small village with my wife, I'm exactly the same, yes I can speak very basic Thai, can count, ask for things etc. but my ears can't pick up the tonal differences, & a lot of the time Thais don't understand my basic Thai because I don't get the tones right. While I do slowly learn more Thai, I can understand a lot more than I can speak & can't see me ever being abled to speak it even close to fluently because of the tones, & of course getting older doesn't help either...

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    Cost of Living in Thailand: Save money? You're having a laugh!

    in Thailand News

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    53 minutes ago, crazykopite said:

    Koh Samui and Koh Phangan are regarded as the most expensive places to live in Thailand you can pay upwards of 150 baht for a meal that would cost 40/50 baht in other parts of the country , gasoline and diesel is more expensive as for furniture it’s double what you would pay in Bangkok but saying all that there are plenty of Thais who drive in nice cars how they manage I don’t know.

     

    No they're not... Phuket & the Andaman sea coast, Khao Lak area are both a lot more expensive than Samui or Phangan, go take a look.....

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