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I often wonder should we be reading more books whilst we are retired filling days with books or bars ? And please do comment if you are on the Australian aged pension on the nearly 40k per month and still go to bars and the reason maybe ? What do you perhaps do there ? I remember the Pattaya bowling club and who doesn't where the western atmosphere if I may quote that description was prevalent but with the low pricing on meals and drinks,that's all gone and what's left ? Bars that only want tourists Oh please Think of this ,think of this If a Australian can live in his aged pension in Australia why can't he not live in Pattaya? Food for thought right ,yes never thought of that did you

I'm very interested and please forgive me for not doing a study or a project on this but I just thought of the project idea today a few days AFTER I came back from my study tour of Thailand I read the Australian aged pension is like 40,000 baht a month or near And some of you UK also around the same , please may I ask how your lifestyle is on this amount I did see a few old farangs in Sizzlers in Pattaya secretly filling up their containers in bags next to them with good BUT may I ask for those of you ,does anyone here in PATTAYA live on that amount quite comfortable Now please if you do ,do you forego the pleasures in life ,cheese ,wine and song or is wine women and song to achieve the budget of your aged pension What about the 99b breakfast living in 40k per month It always fascinated me seeing bars in Soi Bukhao such as those Sports Bars full ,do expats go to those and pay often WESTERN prices or are they tourists in those places I remember going to what looked like a open no air con expats sports bar in Jomtien opp the 711 only to see miserable old people inside

Oh please, no need to discriminate

Got back into Australia Sunday and was at work by 10pm that night I walked around my workplace that night smiling that I was back , waving to people who I didn't even know I saw an African contract security guard his white teeth glistening in the dark with a wide smile as I shouted "it's good to be back " !! Of course I had never seen him before so he didn't have a clue what I was on about but he smiled neverless But my point is , this week back in Australia I will have a "routine " something I didn't have in Thailand the last 5 weeks ,my work hours , sleep, all made into a routine And thus that's where my study tour found......or should we say the "negative" of expats life What was the fault ? NO ROUTINE A Success in a expats life particularly living in PATTAYA of all places is ROUTINE What happens without ROUTINE You end up in a bar at 9am talking to Bob ,Reg ,Charlie drinking your problem away You have all seen the bored expat particularly in Pattaya and dare I say now.... CAMBODIA Alcoholics because they lost their routine Many went from routine in their Western country to nuthin Many regret their decisions to move to Asia ,to Cambodia to Pattaya Their life has no ....and please join me in saying this .....one two three .....their life has NO ROUTINE!!!

Of course all you guys complaining click on all the advertisers This forum is a business ,it's an entertainment business

Why should anyone help ? Not your circus not your monkeys is the saying I was going to hit a Russian girl a few weeks ago lining up at a money exchange She just pushed in front of me We don't know the full circumstances of this She probably caused it

I would mind my own business How do you know it's not some loudmouth Russian girl

How do those bars up near Rompho markets survive ?

i used to wonder if people involved in fatal car accidents knew their time was coming to an end Like was their life any different that morning etc

He obviously didn't know .

Obviously going way too fast ! Roaring it all along ...going berserk Going that fast he couldn't stop ....bang !!!! Bang !!! Into the back of the truck

You have never once helped me , at least you could be as good as EKeel and drive to pick me up I'm an old man ! Have some respect for the old age!!!

Yes well I don't mix with the "peasants"... I will be in business Class with the academics

Oh please, writing that could upset some people, very sad

Not true,one religion in some States is exempt, Sikhs

I certainly am ! I can't afford the grocery prices here compared to Aldi in Australia I will keep on working

Obviously your giving free advertising? Have you thought about paying for it !!!!!

Oh please there is no need to be racist and sexist

I think Copacabana is on that busy road ? No I'm in a condo building near a tops,at the back of Rompho markets

Your not far from me in your Seven Seas condo building if you want to hug me before I go

My last day today What am I going to do ? I'm bored out of my mind

Oh please ,there no need for prejudice

It's all roses in retirement in Pattaya by yourself until you realise this will be your day to day life for the next 15-20 years or so But whilst I'm talking of examples of guys in their 60's ,I must not ignore the YOUNGER ones who gave up good careers I noted in my diary talking to a 38yo UK farang in Canterbury tales bookshop who was going to give his career away as a train driver to "retire" to Pattaya to be with a girl That's even more silly than say a 60yo I managed to talk him out of it I took his WhatsApp number and kept sending him messages and those GIF things I asked him to put it on his video call so I could actually see he was back in the UK driving the train

Oh please there's no need for racism !!

Yes thanks SF I have to call these matters out as these are the things we should as social engineering study I believe the farangs committed suicide may have become disillusioned with retirement Lonely sad depressed cooped up in a room in Pattaya,many sold their houses in their home country, gave away their jobs , Then one day after 5 months or even 14 months and say to themselves What the hell did I do ?