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reptile91602

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  1. They will build the same as they are the poorest country in the world outside of Africa and since much of the money donated will go through the gov. it will not go towards building proper homes or helping the people. After spending lots of time in Nepal and in Thailand it is amazing how far Thailand has come and how little the Nepalese have grown as a country. People can criticize Thailand for its corruption but it is no where as bad as Nepals. There are lots of reasons but seeing how you can't get anything done here in Thailand on your own home or property without huge headaches it is strange to watch how messed up it is in Nepal.
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  2. I put thisin my facebook.

    My wife and I came out of Nepal just 18 hours before the quake hit. I have been going there for some 30 years now and I can tell you directly that you couldn't find, in the world, a more loving group of people as the Nepalese. There is little serious crime in Nepal because of the unity they feel towards each other and outsiders as well but unfortunately they have had terrible kings and politicians steal everything from them over the years and left them with a country, much of which looked trashed even before the earthquake hit. Make sure that the charity you choose has nothing to do with the Nepalese government and you will be helping these people in a big, big way. They truly could use your help!

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  3. I made a few kind of smart ass comments yesterday but I thought I should give you some good advice.

    1st - If you are marriied to a non Thai and you are not sure she can handle a third world country, don;t move here. There are just better places to retire that are more normal than Thailand. Also most of your choices for a place to stay are littered with prositutes and most foreign woman don't want to see that everyday they go out.

    2nd -- If you are not married don't move here because there are better places to move to with the kind of money you have to spend. Keep looking, like south america. some great places there and the language is just a whole lot easier to learn. More savvy expats and you can actually own your own stuff there and the visas are much easier to get and the girls are better in general.

    I don't know why anyone would come live here unless they have a Thai wife who has been tested true through the years or is into heavy playing around near the oceans. Again south america has a better selections of beaches and girls with real faces and bodies to play with and the music and the cost of alcohol and wine and cheese.Oh well.. The only reason I am here.and I have been here over 20 years is because I have a great wife and she has a great family or at least most of them are.and we live in a quiet part of central Thailand where there is nothing much to do and we see few foreigners unless we go into town. Some people just wuldn't like that.

    Good luck.

  4. """"It's nearly 6.00 pm and the birds have been singing for the last half hour. The day has been a scorcher as March and April always are, but if you stay out of the sun and catch the breeze it's bearable .Mother emailed earlier from the UK, damn cold she said- tell me something new.


    Family are fine, The 2 year old grandson is playing outdoors with his cousins, riding a broom, the three of them think they're on a plane or motorbike, i'm not sure. Neighbours wander round, the usual grannies and aunts. There's always humour in the air, sometimes voices are lowered( gossip time) but laughter is always breaking out.


    It's been mentioned already, but it's undoubtedly true- if you have interests- a job, hobbies, farming, intellectual pursuits- whatever grabs your fancy- then you're halfway to contentment already.


    Secondly, once you get to over 50 for example, you need a family, a warm environment and surroundings- i'm lucky in that apart from my own family, my wife has a lovely sister and brothers with great nephews and nieces and now their offspring. This sort of thing can be luck- i know some farangs who have married into dysfunctional families- their error was impatience- they were too eager to settle down and didn't really grasp who they were marrying and would be living with.


    In my view if you have these 2 things life in Thailand is wonderful.""""



    Again an article that spews the truth. I am one of thelucky ones as well by luck I assure you. If my wife wasn't a good Thai wife I would never be in this country. Iwould do my best to look elsewhere yet would I really ever find something better. It alweays comes back to family.


  5. """"It's easy to form negative impressions of Thais in general. The easiest thing to dislike about them is that they don't live in an authentic experience with others. They are generally deceitful in all aspects of their relationships. To the outsider, this is not understandable. The foreigner or expat also has a negative view of Thais for their lack of responsibility and commitment. They reneg on business deals and personal promises. They manipulate the facts to suit their self absorbed interests. Thais don't read, they are not interested in classical art, music or world history.



    Thais generally have little or no awareness of western culture. They live in a total state of denial about their society and its reality. They have little or no intellectual curiosity or passion about much. They have little work ethic and their sense of value is most limited to material things and money. Just look at the way Thais splay out money at any event. Random acts of truthfulness and honesty are big news in the Thai press. Thais love secrecy, exclusion, and opaqueness in society, business, and life in general. Thais rarely if ever take responsibility and never say I'm sorry, I made a mistake. When expats get together, it's easy to complain about Thais because something has always just happened that has them shaking their heads about Thais. Expats who don't complain about Thais are living in the same false reality and unauthentic life experience. Expats who never complain about Thais or Thailand are being deceitful to themselves or they've become Thai thinking in a land where Thais will never accept them for who they really are.""""



    One of the best analysis of Thai people I ever read and the conclusion is right on. Even my Thai wife and family say wow that is right on!


  6. Living in Thailand is like living every day in the twilight zone, some good episodes and others disasters. Like building anything here that Hasn'nt been built by the Thais for hundreds of years. I laugh every time I see a 20 or 30 thousand baht house for sale and think of the moron that buys it thinking he has something of quality. Building anything but a teak house is a joke hear unless you have sat and watched the builders every step of the way and don't leave them for even 20 minutes which of course is just not practical.

    The western music they play which is primarily 4 or 5 western bands from the 50's or 60's or all out the 1950's which was probably some of the worst music that ever came out of the US, although it did lead up to some great stuff.

    The real interesting fact about picking on the thai people is that so many think they are up to par for the 21 century when they are still living in the 1950's. If they understood where they exist in the world and except it for what it is it would be difficult to find fault with them other than trying to teach them more modern ways that are helpful to their people but too many Thais are just too lazy to care.

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