georgegeorgia

he worked with me as a wardsman in a hospital in Australia but was originally from Liverpool in the UK Behind his back he was nicknamed the whinging pom ????

I met a retired roofer at the canterbury tales cafe in pattaya a few years ago, he was 60 and just retired from the UK, strange guy looked very fit ,and i asked him if he retired because of the physical work and of a sudden he went into a spiel about how he had "fights" with other tradesmen all day on construction sites..."used to go home with bloodied t shirts" he said.???? "I had to finally give it away " He wasnt too happy when i said ,"so there wasnt much occupational health & safety on site then ????? No idea who he was "fighting" ??? but he was a strange one

I guess going from one career to another is more common nowadays,i remember my parents generation stayed in their jobs 25 years or more back in those days. I think 48 is too young to retire though

I know the majority of residences are houses with gardens etc but anyone live in a condo in Udon thani or a isaan city? im looking at a retirement place preferably in udon thani ,prefer a Condo that i can rent long term is secure and close to everything eg gym,supermarkets etc Im not into gardening or backyards how do you like living in a condo in isaan especially places like khon kaen etc

sounds like most of my work colleagues in the hospital i work at????

Anyone had these penile injections for ED? Im finding viagra cialis etc not effective anymore is there any erectile dysfinction clinincs in bangkok?

Would love that job,luv the smell of fresh green grass,free golf, outdoors all day, that would be a dream job,why would you want to retire?????️‍♂️

To those of us mature aged eg over 60,or expats,what was your past job and how long did you remain there? Most people in our GEN remained in a job 30 plus years unlike nowadays Was you glad to retire and get out OR do you sometimes wish to go back to work? The reason i say this is because earlier this year i had a workmate 67yo retire to the phillipines ,every time i spoke to him he mentioned how he missed work. When he was at work he did nothing but complain. So the questions are What was your past jobs ? are you happy you retired or do you still miss work? Did you lke going to work everyday or was you glad to get out Who had a job they remained in past 30 years ? If you had that decision not to retire when you did would you have kept on working a few more years ? Do you regret retiring then? Bear in mind financial considerations,most countries you cant get the old age pension till 67yo,so you would need to rely on your retirement savings and many nowadays are not saving Do you ever sit in Asia wherever you are and think,i really wish i stayed with my job,or i wished i worked a few more years or i miss the camraderie and friends or routine of my past job,i always remember talking to a ol english guy at a bar in pattaya who told me he missed his job as a bus driver in london because his workmates were like family and now in thailand he was a bit bored and retired too early

And what about Australia system?

Reminds me when i went out for the day with a old friend last year here in Australia. He is 70yo and was very bad in his younger years ,i remember in the late 1970's him stealing cars and burning them out in Western Sydney just for fun and shouting out obscenties to people from the car as we went past ....calling names "hey granny i wanna f....you ,etc Fast forward to last year and we are walking in the street and we see some young people just skylarking he starts telling me "look at these bloody louts ",look at this generation,what hoodlums we have nowadays ????????????

and what about Australia ?

omg ..this sort of stuff used to go on all the time

i looked at that website,i cant understand why someone would pay 102 a month to be a private patient in a public hospital???? They would treat you the same as the public patients .....my apologies to non residents of Australia if we are talking about health funds in Australia,its just some expats still keep health insurance in their own country just in case

I dont think i will bother with medical/health insurance when i retire to Asia . I will take out "accident " type insurance and self fund the rest. If i get something major i will head back to Australia and use the free hospital system,not that the Public Hospital system is any better though . There doesnt seem much they can do for you anyway once you get the big C. Both my pparents died from Cancer and unfortanetely both over 80 so the Public system didnt prioritise them for chemo treatment ,i imagine if you pay privately though they will do it even if there is no hope. But even in your own country once you get elderly they seem hesitant to give you Chemo,whether thats for your quality of life sometimes or they just prioritise to someone younger ,i bet on the latter. Im going to tell you something though ,i have seen cases personally of terminal ill patients getting radiotheraphy and they didnt even turn the machine on n the public system because the patient was too terminal so dont think because you pay expensive insurance that somehow they will CURE your condition I watched a famous pattaya you tuber die last year so have no faith in the treatment in Thailand even though he seemed to be paying before he went back at the last minute to the UK. Some of you are paying ludicrous prices for health insurance ,im not sure if you have a "excess" to pay as well,in the case i mentioned above and i mention no names as per the forum rules he in hindsight should of gone back to the UK ....but ...they probaly couldnt of done much more anyway but he would of saved money Accident insurance yes ,but im hesitant to waste 120,000 baht a year on top cover i may never use,look i know some of you dont have free public hospital system in your own country eg I think the USA ,so i understand,but the rest of us have free health system in our own country even if its not the best, how many of you have had problems with the health insurance companies or hospitals? im even sick of paying health insurance here in Australia and probaly will just rely free on the public system soon,im paying over $200 every month for what ? im thinking the other nigh getting arm pain from this vaccine i call a ambulance they will take me to emergency section at a public hospital anyway as theres no emergency at private hospitals ,so this is the same in Asia ,how many private hospital have a "emergency" section? Bangkok pattaya hospital doesnt as far as i know As this is more a "Asia" forum now than just a thai focused forum i would be interested in you guys living in Laos,phillipines ,indonesia etc and if you have private health insurance and quality of hospital services where you live ,in fact there are farangs in Pattaya who talk highly of the Public Navy hospital all for free Who has used the public system in Thailand/Asia ?

my private health insurance with "extras" cover dental etc is about $230 a month Australian so no difference really to you ,of course same as you i can rely on the public health system for free,obviously if you got anything major you can go back to the UK and get free

The only thing is... and dont take this the wrong way but you probaly have 10 years left or so to enjoy things

I havent been to pattaya now for 2 years,last time I went i noticed less of the Cheeseburger stands/kiosks on the street. I always had a fetish/fantasy of one day buying one and working there myself in the crazy night hours. Are they still operating ,and does one person own the whole lot,i often see the same menu type and im thinking its owned by a company or one person

yes i probaly would get a few dogs ,i wouldnt like being in a remote house and especially somewhere in remote Asia like Laos,not sure how Simon does it

i wouldnt feel safe living in a old house miles from no where and especially by yourself,are the neighbours ok ?

Video it with your phone,i do it all the time when i see it opposite building from me

i never considered a gated community ,yes it probaly would be safe but what about privacy when you walk in your backyard not to mention how close the neighbours house seems to be,but i guess you have fences separating. Do any single people live in gated communities ,i guess theres nothing stopping them although i imagine its families

same with me????here in Sydney i live opposite a big condo building i can see a guy ironing his bed ????

but probaly dogs barking ?

When i retire to Asia whether that be thailand phillipines or cambodia i will be looking at somewhere where there is privacy number 1 and then i guess peacefulness and then number 3 security aspects At the moment i live in a big city here in Australia and im laying here on my bed and i can see the whole apartment building opposite even their TV Shows they are watching and they can see me . I dont like that,along with the guy next door bouncing his ball against the wall Noise from traffic outside doesnt worry me but i dont like neighbours especially in a condo building playing loud music or banging their apartment doors slamming them I looked at a couple of condo and houses in pattaya last visit and i didnt like the privacy aspect ,i like a house with a backyard but not if your neighbours can see you from their back windows Tell me about your home ,is it private ,secure and peaceful? where in Asia are you ? and if you live on a farm do you feel safe at night knowing no one is around ? That maybe strange to say but i had a friend who lives in a rural setting say to me once he had to get dogs as he had people knocking on his doors at night saying they re car broke down and they need a phone ,obviously doesnt go on much nowadays with a mobile phones around but still i wouldnt feel safe being say in a rural area of the phillipines or thailand with no one nearby i probaly feel more safe in a large condo building i guess

well lets work out a quick budget say for a 70yo male living in Pattaya 1 bedroom condo say near jomtien ......about 10,000 a month ? grocery ,3000 baht enertainment 15000 utilities internet,electrcity water 4000 health 1000 still leaves over 10,000 baht