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Head job 

Who remembers the Australian 1980's band called ...The Radiators? 

They had a song number 1.... 1981 called Give me head 

"Oh you got me screaming at 100 degrees....

3 hours ago, JimTripper said:

That complex actually looks pretty nice on google maps. If you're into having a yarn or enjoy ghetto tourism you need to check out places like pattaya pad, flybird, etc. It gets much more depressing then 2b or nirun type buildings.

 

That's where you get some down and out's with dirty tank tops, smelly, etc. Just being in a bar at all is not that bad. Down the stream you get guys that need to buy at 7-11 and drink outside the building or at the condo enterance type of scene. Occasionally they can be seen in the big c food court but usually eat at cheap hole in the wall thai places right near the condo and don't seem to stray far from their rooms for the most part. I checked out pattaya pad at one point and just left after a walk around. That's were you get real broke poor foreigners, probably on the way to cambodia depending on the visa situation.

 

You stop complaining about "geezers by the pool" when you see places with no hope of a pool at all. 🤣

Yes I went to Flybird last month when I was there , I think it was building C ,the first building on the left , no lights in the stairways, 4 floors of no or dimly lit lights , depressing 

I have no idea where Pattaya Pad is,you say it's much worse than Flybird ?

51 minutes ago, RickG16 said:

Do you prefer expensive Leo?

I will be honest , I actually approached the owners of the Mini mart opposite the Arcadia Continental Condos to tell them the tragedy and anti social behaviour they were causing by  selling the poison to the farangs 

This is the mini mart opposite the Arcadia resort near the laundry if anyone wishes to pass by and see these poor farangs drinking their lives away outside the mini mart 

18 minutes ago, JimTripper said:

I had some mentally ill lady in 2b who would try to open my door almost every night, turning the knob for several minutes. I heard the neighbors through the door talking to her one time, "is that your room, etc". I did not want to open the door and was afraid she had an issue with the owner (maybe why he rented the place on airbnb on an onging basis 🤷🏻‍♂️).

 

Each room had a wall holder next to the door and I left some srtificial flowers in the tray one day. She seemed to stop trying the door after that, or st least not as much as before.

Definitely a lot of weirdos out there believe me !

Especially in that view talay 2B 

1 minute ago, persimmon said:

Life in Issarn can be interesting . There are lots of places to visit and sights to see , but ...you really need a Thai GF / wife with a car because many of the most interesting spots are off the beaten track and not well publicised . Without this you are stuck in the major towns and reliant on buses which really limits things .

One thing I like about Issarn towns - they feel like real places , not like Patts which feels like a stage set populated by hoards of tourists . 

Yes 👍 

I doubt I could retire to a "country" area 

I went out 6 hours from Sydney once in a car yo see dead kangaroos lying in the side of the road and scary trees swaying in the dark with no lights ,never again and same with Isaan

I'm a city boy and for now on will stick with Cities ,Bangkok Manila etc 

It's too scary ,I'm not trying to be weird (even though a work colleague woman called me this behind my back) but I actually saw "monsters"in the night  hiding behind the dark swaying trees in the Country area and 🦘 kangaroos jumping 

19 minutes ago, Hummin said:

When younger I lived in the same building as "service workers", freelancers, and also other proffesions, as well all kind of genders and sexualities. That was a good experience to meet them with their guard down and the human behind the proffessional mask, and we had a good meeting point at the first floor which was an internet bar/shop, just to bad there is no places left like this anymore. 

 

 

 

 

So really you want something like CHEERS bar ,....where everyone knows your name !! 

Get into a ROUTINE 

One reason I got bored in my 6 week imprisonment in Pattaya was because I had no routine !

Going to bed late waking up.late no planning for the day or even week!

Make plans for the week ahead 

Time management!!

Sleep,gym ,work , days off 

And do MULTI TASKING 

When your at work , do other personal things instead of working 

I bring my washing in to wash my clothes in the the hospital laundry etc and wash them at night during work time 

Also go on ASEAN during work time as well ,

I also "exercise" at work to get in my cardio ....walk upstairs,walking ,squats and balance on one leg as your mopping the stairwells and I don't care who sees me !

If your doing too much then you need to say NO 

Try working shift work that's time management, shift workers have the Highest sick leave record , not me though 

One week 11pm to 7am

One week 2pm to 10pm 

One week 6am to 2pm

Manage your time !!!!

21 hours ago, JimTripper said:

A lot of it for me may be not owning a place or the land, not necessarily problems with the city location.

 

I could buy a condo in Thailand but don't want to retire forever in a condo. That's one of my primary reasons I'm considering a home country relocation eventually. There are other countries where expats can buy, but it seems complicated at best unless I had a second passport.

 

My neighbor recently purchased a condo near me. He seemed excited about it, but I was like "ho, hum". Not someplace I would really want to be tied to or wake up in 10 years later.

Geez ..no don't buy a condo and be stuck in ONE place !

I could never imagine buying at that View Talay 2B where I was imprisoned for 6 weeks,let out by white shirted uniform security guards to the swimming pool with a expensive cafe and mini mart  every morning and then locked up in the afternoon to hear doors slamming ,shouting by thais and security guards ,motorbikes roaring ....please I escaped!!!

Retirement is NOT meant to be like that 

As I sat near the pool to watch OLD Fools less than my age on ZIMMER frames toddling along "doin the dance"🕺 unfortunately I had to 😋kick in the glass door at the end of the hallway to the swimming pool because it was locked 

2 hours ago, rickudon said:

Not disability. Sick benefit was due to the injuries i kept getting doing the part-time job - injured both shoulders, required physiotherapy and also back, required chiropractor. last injury kept me off work for 3 months. My body just was not up to the heavy lifting. So i stopped work at 57.5 and took early retirement at age 58 from my company pension, from the job i was made redundant from, so then could not get any benefits. At 65 got state pension.

Obviously your not in Australia luckily , because you can't get your own retirement savings (superannuation) until 60...then to make it more DIFFICULT you have to wait until 67 to get the govt old age pension,and to make that more difficult you have to be in the Country 2 years before applying !!!

3 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

Seems to be guys who still want to be heterosexual but like LBs, doesn't make sense to me, more for bi guys i guess. As for location, not sure it matters, wouldn't make sense to all be in Boyz town

Well evidence suggests not 

Profit must be in straight areas ?

Increased Testereone eg TRT injections can cause this 

Overuse of testereone 

2 hours ago, Prubangboy said:

How large? When she sits around the house, does she sit around the house?

Apparently she was sitting on your face as you were babbling on about some bloke called Trump over in America , we could still hear your dulcite American tones babbling on as she sat her Scottish bum cheeks on either side of your face 

I wonder if having a farang bar in say Isaan areas are easier ?

I recall a few ...must be like 100 years ago ....I think it was called FArang Connection somewhere that WAS very successful I think the old owner passed away and it stopped?

53 minutes ago, rickudon said:

Made redundant at 55. Was working in IT. Hard to get another job, did part-time manual work/sick benefit for 2 more years, then took my pension. It would have been nice to have worked another 2 years because my pension at 58 was borderline for retiring to Thailand. But do i regret it retiring early? No way! those first 6 years here were great!

So you worked to 58, the. Got the disability pension until 65?

I think about 2016 the Australian Government done a audit on Aussies living in Asia all on Disability pension for various reasons,back problem,mental problem etc 

They then changed the rules saying you are only allowed 3 months overseas which brought home many disability recipients all forced back to work in Australia 

43 minutes ago, Hummin said:

yes, but they have a good team, have social skills, knows how to handle people, know the business, and willing to work hard to make it work. 

 

So many just pour money in, and do not walk to extra mile to succeed, because they trust the wrong people to do the work and think they know how to run a business. 

 

Those with lack of social skills, kill the bar driving the employes and the customers away, 

Yes I think as a farang bar owner YOU have to be there in your own business everyday!

I recall an Irish bar many moons ago in Pattaya that failed as the farang owner didn't attend 

1 hour ago, Hummin said:

as well stay out of other mens business when they are in love with your the girls.

Ahhh very important point.

Imagine being a bar owner and ole Trevor on his 2 weeks trip comes to your bar every night and falls in love with Pom the vicious bitch bar girl who had 5 boyfriends....but...you can't say nuthin to Trevor !!

20 minutes ago, Irish star said:

I retired at 45 , never looked back 

To retire at 45 you either need a pension (disability) from your home country ,enough to survive

Rental income 

Or a big savings account to withdraw from when you need 

Or a business income generating money 

16 minutes ago, Hummin said:

 

I know one educated intelligent bar/restaurant hotel owner, but he is not dealing with cheap girlie beer bars. 

 

And he survived covid keeping most of his staff.

And what topics is he talking about in the bar he has ?

Any topics on The Manila subway or about books on Statistical data?

Just now, MalcolmB said:

Cheap beer and staff training would be the reason I am contemplating it.

 

It would be exciting the first few weeks.....😂

2 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

It seemed like a good idea at the time ......

 

regards Worgeordie

This is the one of the reasons.

May I ask if a Geordie is Scottish, I have in all my wisdom in life heard that description but in my life of wisdom never bothered to research that 

As wandered aimlessly around the streets of Pattaya last month in my 6 week sentence of boredom ....

I looked to see some beer bars in those complexes Rompho etc busy whilst others night after night had no one 

I used to like a "Aussie";bar in the Rompho complex market in Jomtien sadly the owner was apparently shafted by his girlfriend and lost the bar .

But please don't get me off topic ,I want to know this question and please be direct .

Why does a farang start or buy a beer bar knowing it's higher % to fail ,higher percentage to working hard for the money eg having to be nice to people and talking with often drunk patrons 

Whats the reason and please I'm not trying to be judgemental , 

If I was to buy or start say a beer bar in the Rompho complex Georgie's bar , I know it's in higher statistical analyses it's going to fail or break even perhaps 

So what's the reasons someone would do it ?

Could it perhaps be a hobby ?

14 hours ago, Robert Paulson said:

I don’t even believe you did this. I could be wrong. Seems what any sane airline would do is realize a seat is going to be unoccupied during pre takeoff routines and if it’s a booked flight, they’d fill the seat with a paying customer… because… that’s what airlines are in the business of doing 

You buy the two seats BEFORE you fly.

Eg , you ring Qantas , you say I would like to purchase two seats in economy.

They say it's a "comfort" seat you say yes 

They issue two boarding passes one in your name and one saying extra in your name 

Not everyone wants to RETIRE full time to South East Asia , and I say ASIA, because there are guys on here who are in Philippines and Cambodia and Vietnam etc ,don't be so selfish to talk about Thailand only!

But please don't get me off topic ,I forget what I was saying now ,but some guys who are say 65yo  may be better to work 6 months of the year in their OWN country and 6 months  relaxing in ASIA rather than live a full boring 12 months say in Pattaya getting bored in the View talay condos doing nothing !!!!!!

Personally I'm glad to be back in Australia after that 6 weeks imprisonment in the View talay condos 

Rewind 2 weeks ago and I was forced on a Sunday to sit by that pool listening and watching old farts on Zimmer frames before being locked up in my cell in those noisy rooms 

There are plenty of part time jobs for mature aged guys