ScarpoFongness4U

Well said crab, well said.

I still see the weed in Thailand's not worth inhaling.

the stuff grown in Florida and California far surpasses everything else everywhere anyway,

and the price is about 50 percent of what it was 10 years ago which is 50 percent of what it was in the eightieseighties.

supply has exceeded demand and the price is acting accordingly

No. Its unique.

Port Charlotte is a poor comparison to Chiang mai.

they have nothing in common

There are plenty of people smoking weed daily in Thailand and at the outdoor bars and cafes, there is multitudes of people partaking

None of them seemed overly concerned with it being a serious offense, and none of them were idiots

Alcohol on the other hand, produces plenty of idiots, which is why I favor abortion

The weed in Thailand doesn't produce a high anyway

The weed is only illegal at the request of the major opiate manufacturer with the USA and Briton long known to control the supply, much to the dismay of the Taliban who could have continued to rape and pillage Afghanistan, until they squeezed the growth of poppi too intolerably low levels

Ask the Chinese about the Opium wars

And the CIA about the golden triangle, but let's not confuse government propaganda and the word of the for profit prison systems for the truth about the medicinal and pain suppression qualities of marijuana

Its also well known to help the nausea caused by Americans leading excuse for cancer treatment other wise known as left over mustard gas

Pushed choice vs real decision are the 5 best descriptive words used to discuss living that I've seen on any topic, anywhere

But then I have to put the other side of the story

1, I can buy a three bedroom house on 1 hectare of land for GBP20000

2. My children have free health care and schooling

3. Tax. ?What tax?

4. I can buy 2 meals a day for 1.20GBP

3. I can rent a 3 bedroom house for 120GBP a month

4. Electric and water are about the same (with aircon!)as the UK

5. I can open any shop I want, in the street or in the shophouse. No permit required. No Health and Safety!

6. I have mobile phones and broadband: about the same as the UK a month

7. I have an airport. 30GBP one way 800 kilometers to the capital, one hour.

8. Can summon a workman to mend anything within 1 hour. Maybe 5.00GBP a day

9.Petrol 60p a litre

10. Can buy anything 24/7

Now think about the UK! If it were not for the schools Never mind the people I dont think we would leave.!!

Seems your reasons are almost entirely economically driven.

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1. Maybe, but won't be much of one, and you can't own it.

2. The schooling is not free. The head teacher will come around every year and collect. Besides, you get what you pay for.

3. What tax? It's called VAT, and for anything imported, it's called oppressive.

4. And such a variety at those prices!

3 (are we counting down here?). If one owns a home, they don't need to rent, so scratch that off the list.

4 (going up again). Okay, but if the bills were higher in the west, that would be because the power doesn't regularly go out for hours at a time, stopping the meter.

5. No you can't, and good luck with a business in LOS, unless you are an international corporation with clout. The vast majority of small ones fail, often because the locals get pissed. But yes, no health and safety hey, wait! Let's look again at those cheap meals you just mentioned!

6. Shame the signals suck.

7. Gotta admit, I always like that myself, and made frequent use of it.

8. Yes, very cheap labor. Shame so few of them have any real expertise ... or pride or integrity.

9. Gas is far cheaper than 60p per liter in the US. Cheaper, not cheap. It's a scam everywhere.

10. I'm not sure that's a great thing, but enjoyable in many countries, east and west.

Without having read much of this thread:

When a poster takes such a negative view on virtually all aspects of life in Thailand, it seems to me there is another agenda at work so there's not much point trying to debate which view is correct.

My suggestion is that if you can read back through what you have written and state objectively and honestly, hand on heart, that you believe it all, I can only imagine that you must have been exceptionally unlucky in all aspects of your stay in Thailand, every day you were here. Were it me I might consider never leaving home and not going out, ever again.

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Chiang Mai is no more representative of all of Thailand, than Washington, D.C. is America.

So until you have spent four years living in Rhek Thum, you really should not judge motives you know nothing about.

But go ahead and do so if it pleases you. You might consider, if it were you, never leaving home, but I thoroughly enjoyed every day of my life in Thailand, even in Rhek Thum, happy to live there because I love my wife and stayed by her side during difficult times for her.

So Rhek Thum is a real place?

I thought it was a gag, on a place called rectum.

Sorry if I was slow on this, in either direction

The treatment that Thai women receive from most westerners and especially americans far out weighs the down side,

Even if they are over weight, out of shape and drink too much,

They still (we, I) are the better choice

Why cant this guy work out and respect himself as a man

Why ask why?

People do what they have to do, or they complain to anyone who's willing to listen to their sob story

The treatment that Thai women receive from most westerners and especially americans far out weighs the down side,

Even if they are over weight, out of shape and drink too much,

They still (we, I) are the better choice

Chaing Mai is great but to live there?

Anyone who visits or lives there must patronize Juicy4u, it is a juice bar, breakfast lunch place owned and operated by an extraordinary young woman who is also the cook. Its organic and clean.

I would say tell her the good looking American w the girl from Chiang Rai says hello, but, I'm not so sure she'd remember me from all those other good looking Americans

I agree, they should all immediately set sail for south Florida as the product here gas suffered for years since Sammy the Bull went down

I dont agree with the people who believe that taking a picture of the taxi license would bring upon an attack with a baseball bat.

While I would expect all taxi drivers to be armed with bats knives and guns, it isn't my experience that asking for the meter to be used and for the direction to be followed would bring on this feared response

Many of these guys are supporting. Families and aren't about to assault someone so quick

Rob them, yes.

Not pay them according to the meter, maybe

But by getting in and snapping a photo of theor license?

I have never seen any type person have any attitude about a taxi driver that didn't want to go in their direction they just get the next car and understand the guy doesn't want to go there

8 years is a normal sentence for a drug offense of this type in the USA

Death, is not.

The other guy should be set free as well and both banned from Thailand

Gold buys 30% more Euro than a year ago,

Could be better in Dollars, but who said the race was over?

But for those Euro's you buy 50% less than a year ago.You sound like a winner http://static.thaivisa.com/forum//public/style_emotic

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T'was an answer to stupidity

Why wasn't he called a fa-lan?

Special designation for Israelis even though he clearly looks Ukrainian, thus European, and surely a Fa-Lan

Nonsense,

You get in taxi without speaking thru the window

You sit down, close the door

You tell driver where to go

If he refuses to turn on meter and drive,

You take photo of his license with cell phone camera, and then say,

Luhrr????

100% success rate

Gold buys 30% more Euro than a year ago,

Could be better in Dollars, but who said the race was over?

I'm waiting for beach property to offer me a free room and breakfast, so I can contribute to his well being, more directly

After all, I've single handedly riled him the most, and the best......

Haven't I beachy?

I live in a very nice area, total cost for rent and utilities is $2400

The exact same cost of the 2 bedroom furnished condo I was renting in Huai Kwang,

The girl I'm with currently, is 5'7 125, and is blonde w green eyes, a native blonde Floridian

If everyone would just accept that we all choose to live according to our personal tastes, this thread could fade away and we can debate the next personal choice topic

As gentlemen

I have green/hazel eyes. Is that now desirable? She may be native blonde but is she originally from Florida?

Born in fort Lauderdale,

She is a Florida girl w the surfer girl look,

Have not had something like this, since the 70's

I live in a very nice area, total cost for rent and utilities is $2400

The exact same cost of the 2 bedroom furnished condo I was renting in Huai Kwang,

The girl I'm with currently, is 5'7 125, and is blonde w green eyes, a native blonde Floridian

If everyone would just accept that we all choose to live according to our personal tastes, this thread could fade away and we can debate the next personal choice topic

As gentlemen

Is there any aspect of your life story you haven't told us yet?

I can add this:

The last two girls I was with couldn't believe that although they had orgasmed several times that I was still pedaling

One of them, in need of a rest taught me something I had never seen before whilst taking off my condom, she blew it up like a balloon, and when she saw no evidence,

Exhaled a deep sigh, And slipped on a fresh one.....

Ahh, no wonder they object,

To them fa-lawn is an upgrade

because it is used in the Thai media to devalue the life of westerners, so when a Thai truck driver runs over and kills two British people riding bicycles around the world,

He is only fined $300 baht, because it was only a falang

I live in a very nice area, total cost for rent and utilities is $2400

The exact same cost of the 2 bedroom furnished condo I was renting in Huai Kwang,

The girl I'm with currently, is 5'7 125, and is blonde w green eyes, a native blonde Floridian

If everyone would just accept that we all choose to live according to our personal tastes, this thread could fade away and we can debate the next personal choice topic

As gentlemen

Interesting things people say about Americans, but when they need our help their hands come right out.

Americans are amongst the most benevolent yo those less fortunate, and there isn't widespread sending of their daughters away to work I'm brothels so the mother's and brothers to drink and gamble

Let me know how many Carnegie and Ford foundations are in Thailand and let's not argue that Carnegie was a Scot.

He could have gone to Thailand to create his fortunes, but he didnt, did he