GStewart70

Phuket expected 100,000 mugs got 25,000 only.

Watched a video of a motorbike ride around Phuket last week.

Zombie apocalypse.

Rows and rows of shuttered shops and bars.

No tourists are coming to Thailand under their stupid named little schemes.

5 minutes ago, Fat is a type of crazy said:

I don't think long term in many aspects of life and retirement is the same. I think I'll just rent somewhere in Thailand, keep the home in Australia, enjoy the lifestyle, if it gets too hot or tiresome go back home. Covid hasn't changed a thing. 

Makes perfect sense.

Many cannot afford to do this unfortunately.

Hence we're on our fourth page of discussions and the usual 'love of a good woman' posts have appeared.

2 minutes ago, possum1931 said:

I do agree that Thailand is right not to allow foreigners to buy up land and properties, but just to buy one family house and the little land attached should be allowed, and not even allowing that is racist and wrong.

There are many foreigners here who have taken Thai families out of poverty, and the Thai governments both democratively elected and military coups should understand that.

.....and many Thai's that have taken foreigners into poverty.

41 minutes ago, 473geo said:

I retired to Thailand just 5 months ago after 15 years of planning, 30 years of visiting, now keeping occupied with a family, a home, a few cattle and rice. Usual requirements set up and paid for. 

Have visited immigration on 3 occasions so far, very helpful, expect no issues with my extension for a year when I apply end of this month.

I do not dwell on Thailand of the past, enjoyed it to the full as I enjoy a more sedate lifestyle now.

The future may well throw up a few challenges, but I think I am made of stronger stuff than those baulking at a few hours of effort and time spent at immigration, or the 'monied up' who refuse to build a very affordable home because it will not be an 'asset'.

 

Once again a thread to make me smile 

Thanks guys 

Have a Lovely day 

 

 

 

 

I've meet a few guy's like you in Thailand.

Your telling the first part of the story.

The second part is where they lose the house, car and motorbike etc.

That won't happen to you, so you'll be ok. Don't worry, yours is different.

Makes me smile.

Have a nice day.

1 hour ago, Jingthing said:

That might work for some people, but it's incredibly unrealistic for many others. Retiring abroad is retiring abroad. That's a description of something else entirely. 

Your opinion.

I'll keep my assets in the UK and travel/retire abroad on the income or capital appreciation.

Retiring abroad means your totally at the mercy of immigration rules and currency fluctuations.

Your a guest in Thailand on a 1 year rolling contract.

Property ownership is another ball game altogether.

Anyone with half a brain wouldn't sell a property in the UK with a market componding at 10% plus a year at the minute.

If that 'doesn't work for some people' then their idiots.

2 hours ago, MarkyM3 said:

First came in 2005 with friends backpacking around Asia and loved it. Ended up staying 3 months and reducing other parts of my itinerary. 

 

I've spent 2-3 months a year there since then, while working the rest of the time in the UK, plus I had a 6 month break there in 2013 and had been planning to do another 6 months until the pandemic struck.

 

The idea of retiring to Thailand became a real aspiration fairly quickly, particularly after getting into a long-term relationship.

 

However, I feel the free and easy atmosphere is going. OK, after spending a lot of time in any country, it's inevitably not going to be fresh as it is when you first experience it. But it doesn't have the same vibe anymore, to me at least. The mass over-development to cater for package tours from China, Russia etc. has not helped either. Samui, whilst still nice, isn't what it was even 15 years ago. When I first pitched up there, Lamai and Chaweng were very much separate areas. Now they are one urban sprawl. 

 

Also, it isn't a particularly cheap place if you are living in places like Bangkok unless you are living like locals do. I spend more in supermarkets, for example, than I do in the UK and my UK wages are a lot higher, obviously. Life away from the capital and tourist areas looks more attractive. 

 

I'm 50 now and have the finances in place to retire there if I want to. But I see things  more like 4 or 5 months a year as a snowbird now, rather than the dream of living out there full-time.

 

I wouldn't buy property there either due to the legal wild west, though that's always been the case. 

Pretty much bang on the money.

Split the year, don't burn your bridges at home.

Especially if insurance becomes unaffordable after 75.

Best of both worlds and absence makes the heart grow fonder for both.

1 minute ago, AnotherFarang8 said:

I will let you guys take my share. Some people don’t find that much value in a physical life, and like to live dangerously ???? Mathematically, farangs have a shorter lifespan in Thailand than in their home countries, i haven’t seen that this fact stops anyone. It’s all about how advertised is the product. In this case fear is the product for consumption.

I don't care what you do, i couldn't care less, but the unvaccinated are jamming up the NHS because of the intensity and length of care, Covid patients require.

I don't give a damn about your stupidity but if your wife, mother, father, sister, brother, daughter or son could have seen that GP quicker to diagnose or receive urgent treatment maybe it would have saved their life.

Luckily, I won't be meeting you on my travels, because you won't be allowed on a plane.

Personally, i wouldn't want you anywhere near me, Covid or not.

19 minutes ago, Khabib said:

Good sense, that.

It's complete madness not to get a vaccine, not good sense.

13 minutes ago, AnotherFarang8 said:

Re: my bar not going to have a high season. I can skip another high season of bars and wait out for how these vaccinations play out. One day Thailand will open to unvaccinated tourists, i will get busy with other activities waiting for this madness to settle down. I’m sure i just had covid a month ago and i consider it silly to submit myself to the vaccination if i already have the natural immunity.

You are self diagnosising whether you had the virus. You don't know.

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-57866661

I hear these stories every day from acquaintances as well.

You could get very sick if you don't get a vaccine. Very sick indeed.

You will meet Mr Covid someday, it's just a case of having the odds in your favour.

Someone asked me to make a prediction earlier, here's one, you won't be able to enter Thailand unless you have certifiable proof of vaccination for decades to come.

Go and get a vaccine and don't take up a bed that could be used for someone else.

2 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

So what's your "gloom & doom" prediction for Thailand?

I don't make predictions, i look at the facts and figures.

Presented in black and white by reputable, independent scientists.

Hoping and wishing for the best, is of no interest to a nasty respiratory virus.

It's got nothing to do with doom and gloom but everything to do with reality.

Sorry.

29 minutes ago, AnotherFarang8 said:

It was funny reading doom and gloom predictions here. Was it intentional scaremongering or lack of experience in how the world operates not knowing that trees don’t grow to the skies, i don’t know. This wave of infections will end like any endemic infections end, after a significant share of population catches the virus. In Thailand half the population very likely already went through it and recovered. September will finish this process and this wave will subside to comfort levels to open the country just as promised.

Clueless.

Another TVF expert who discards the global facts.

Google what happened in Israel and to save you the effort, here's the uptodate data for the UK.

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

Showing increasing hospitalisations and deaths, in a highly vaccinated population.

Your bar ain't going to be having another high season. Full stop.

Vaccines wane after 6 months in case you missed that titbit of news as well.

7 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

You see the same posters with the constant negativity. Small group, mostly Thai residing farangs. Rest of Thailand is looking up with the declining covid trend. See you here soon. 

You mean the ones who take the time to source and print all the official Thai data from government and medical sources?

Unfortunately, they don't seem to agree with your narrative and that makes them negative?

Pointing out the total shambles of Thai government procurement and early distribution is not being negative, it's being factual.

Have a friend in Roi Et, no one has been offered vaccines in her village and surround. Still.

Many expats have left Thailand and the numbers would be even higher if the remainder hadn't burned their bridges in their native countries.

You obviously believe it's 2 jabs and, hey presto, the borders open. Your deluded.

It will be years, if at all, before any volume of tourists return, due to the restrictions that will be put upon them to gain entry.