Will B Good

It is outside her village, but equidistant from three smaller villages........so we get from all sides.

I am struggling..........the worst of it is that the wife has been an absolute diamond......leaving her would be an act of staggering selfishness.

Go over the road to the Stumble Inn...the girls in there will help you.

I know what it is....but I've been banned too many times to say anything.

Funnily enough.....no!!! The do have their karaoke, but it is once or twice a week for a couple of hours, then nothing for two or three months.....and it is strangely (to me) only on a morning....9 till 11. It pales into insignificance with funerals (the worst, and there is one a week, minimum), prayers for the village????, the local market, special temple events......and an outdoor badminton club that must have a sound system playing full blast before they can play.

For me it was a 'forced' move.....I was happy living a condo life in BKK.....but she bought the land, commissioned the house.....all her money......then told me about it when it was built!!!

I did leave once for a week.....gave in and came back.....then had a trip to the UK, which took the pressure off for a while....but back in the thick of it now. Moving to Isaan is, for me, the biggest mistake of my life.......and I've made a lot of big mistakes.

Yes.....they jack up the bass to ridiculous levels. We went to a temple market one night and they started up.......I just stood and looked at everyone thinking....for f s.......what are you thinking...that this is normal...that this is okay....that this is entertaining......the Emperor's new clothes....

Yes...it is slowly wearing me down......but moving does mean leaving the wife.

Not the sharpest sickle on the farm

Agree..........what the enclosed quotation marks were intended to convey.....555

ha!....yes badly phrased...looks like a joke at my wife's expense..... It is the neighbours, the villagers, the temples, people using the park, markets.......every single one of them has a huge PA systems that they put on full volume at the least excuse.........it is just ridiculous

All sounds a bit fishy to me.

Shame, so far, it has only ever lasted 5 mins....555

Shouldn't the speaker be an independent thinker, a well respect citizen, free from the taint of corruption and nepotism.......oh!............wait......

Phew......why not?

Said it on here a few times..........wife's uncle, drunk, shot his Thai neighbour, point blank in the chest.........died in front of his wife and daughter....got five years.....had it been a farang???

Oh dear.....I'm pretty sure I'm not a psycho and don't do drugs......but still have the urge at times. Last week even the locals complained (only to each other).......the local temple hired one of those buses (90% of it is loudspeakers) and drove it around the village at full volume from 2am to 3am.......loud was not the word.

Dream ticket......555

Yes, if they're over-subscribed they can pick and choose......very true......and then when they recruit more teachers they will be keen to accept.........a balancing act. An airline pilot once told me their medical examination requirements fluctuated with the supply and demand .....bit scary!

Purely based on my experience and conversations with private school teachers in the UK and EU.......bums on seats is the game..... a private school is money making organisation.

Yes indeed......... wives of farangs...........I guess they know what retribution might be wrought for a farang stupid enough to "have a go". Plus it can leave them in an awkward position if a dispute arises.

Hope she doesn't find economy too uncomfortable.

Nearly went to teach there a few years ago.......they are the exception to the rule if there is waiting list......more kids than teachers? They will be urgently scouring the world for teachers.

You can only visit and inspect the school and its culture if you are applying.