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    Urgent - UK style Meat Pie needed.

    in Hua Hin and Cha-Am

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    Best quality:

     

    3 Hua Hin Ham Bacon & Meat Company, 2/38 Soi 41 (Soi 41 is on the sea side of Phetkasem Rd), ☎ +66 32 513 144, e-mail: [email protected]. M-Sa, 08:00-18:00; Su, 09:00-17:00. British-run makers of hams, bacon, sausages, pies, burgers. Importers of beef, lamb, pork, fish, veg, grocery items. Their products are sold in many of the shops catering to Westerners in Hua Hin and beyond. Their spotless little shop sells all their meats and pies, as well as a good selection of British and continental foods ranging from pickled eggs to Bisto to olive oil. During holidays you can order cooked turkeys, hams, and other seasonal meats from them. (updated Dec 2016 | edit)

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    Possible move to Hua Hin, advice sought

    in Hua Hin and Cha-Am

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    1. Immigration here is a breeze (esp. compared with  another place I have experience, Chiang Mai). For a rental you show a copy of tabiian-baan ID card, and owner's phone. What could be easier?

    2. Air is  good. There is usually a slight breeze which helps with the heat.

    3. Gulf of Thailand sucks in terms of wave actions and cleanliness as compared with Krabi, Khao Lak, Phuket. As you lived in BKK, this is probably a "don't care" for you. 

    4. There must be at least 50 decent restaurants in HH. Seems to me that might be enuf for anyone.

    5. Rentals are widely available at decent prices. Determine your area, drive around to find rentals. Services exist to help, I find them useless

    6. HH is a 180 baht minivan ride and 4 hrs from BKK. Train is easy too, but more expensive and slower.

    7. Can get daily newspapers easily, not true of other places I have lived

    8. Availability of Thai language schools in HH is poor (similar to every other place I have lived except CM)

    9. Two hour ferry to the eastern shore of the gulf, but expensive

    10. Excellent bus service direct to/from BKK airport, ~370 baht

    11. Hospitals in abundance

    12. There is not an abundance of gyms, but enough

    13. Easy access to the south of the country via bus or rail. 

    14. No airport to speak of. One flight to KL. A plus for me as a committed low-carbon Luddite

    15. Enough bar action and associated  pool, darts leagues.

    16. I am told the golfing is great

    17. Phetkasem Rd traffic can be a pain but nothing compared with BKK 

    18. See https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Hua_Hin

     

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    Cost of living

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    I have visited, but never lived on Samui.

     

    I have lived in Phuket (Rawai-Nai Han), Ao Nang (Ban Chongplee), Hua Hin. Plus Phang Nga (Khao Lak), Chiang Mai, and Udon. You can find a place in any of them for 12k baht/month. The difference is what you get for your 12k .

     

    My best bang for the buck was Nai Han: town centre, 3 BR, 2 Ba, kitchen, garden, furnished.

     

    Udon was the cheapest: 1 BR, 1 Ba flat,  good kitchen.

     

    I am renting downtown HH: 2BR, 2 Ba, good kitchen, garden and I am just over your price limit. My number one criterion is a decent working kitchen.

     

    I found Ao Nang to be the most expensive and least desirable place that I have lived since being here.

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    Illegal Africans in Thailand: "The more we get rid of them the more they come," say police

    in Thailand News

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    On 11/2/2017 at 9:49 PM, Ochomo said:

    You sir speak a lot of sense:

    The Largest Rice Importers In The World
    Rank Country Rice Imported (1,000 metric tons)
    1 China 4,700
    2 Nigeria 3,000
    3 Phillippines 1,800
    4 Iran 1,600

     

    Sorry white gentlemen but Thailand needs Nigeria more than you think. Deal with the black people or ship back to Europe and whatever cold climes you crawled from.

    What does rice importation/exportation have to do with illegal immigration? The people arrested by Thai police are not rice brokers.

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    Spraying insecticide in Hua Hin

    in Hua Hin and Cha-Am

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    On my street in central Hua Hin a truck comes by every couple of months with no warning and fogs the area with a noxious chemical. Dead beetles indicate that it is an insecticide. Can anyone tell me what it is exactly they are spraying? And is there a schedule that tells residents when this will happen so they can leave? Thanks.

    Came for Songkran.... nothings happening!

    in Hua Hin and Cha-Am

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    I think you can expect fighting to begin in the late afternoon of the 12th as it gets hotter. I have observed a lot of people doing their shopping this AM in preparation for being house-bound. Some have gone to the wat. I think it is  safe to say  that on the 13th things will commence early and continue thru the weekend.

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