FarAway

Yup, really hate these places. No humanity, no integrity. But not just in Thailand, I basically hate every urban area in any country I went to. The further you go away from the urban and touristic places, the more real the people you meet.

Awesome post. It seems you are way longer than me in this country, but just by my short time here and general common sense I can underline any word you said. It was a pleasure to read your post in this forum which always disappoints me and makes me realize the bad reputation of Thailand and its foreigners have a reason. I really think it is a thing of location as well, as you mentioned. You seem to be like me, like rural and real places instead of superficial and hectic concrete jungles. And obviously if you are like that, you will find more people like you as well. I furthermore think it is basically impossible to find any decent people nowadays in any urban area worldwide anyway, not just in Thailand. All nice people that I know just go there if cannot be avoided. I assume most people here are living in Chiang Mai City, Bangkok, Phuket, Samui and Pattaya. And then you wonder why you cannot find real friends, especially in the latter. Was there once and cannot even comprehend by one cell of my brain how anyone wanna live there. It is a <deleted>hole of a "city", full of human scum, and you obviously will just find something like that there.

While I support this guy for many things he says regarding LGBTQ propaganda, resistance against the criminal governments, how he defies toxic feminism and supports men in their natural behavior and so on, I need to laugh about that one. My Thai wife is way more beautiful than his gf by any means. Furthermore he always (rightly) talks about how the system wants to divide the family and still he is there, in his mid-30s without a family and a medium-looking golddigger gf, while I am here in my mid-20s with my lovely looking Thai wife and our first daughter. Most likely he just always went to Pattaya, Phuket and Samui to talk like that and never met any real Thai girl.

Funny how things can be different for different people. I like the people in Isaan more than in Bangkok. To me the Bangkokians are enslaved by the ugly and chaotic concrete jungle they live in, totally brainwashed by the media and superficial. When they see me in my cheap clothing I can see how they immediately judge me, while I have a higher bank account than 99% of them. Whenever I see some Thais being masked where no one else is, you can be sure they are Bangkokians ???? Most of them are just focused on money over everything as well, makes sense I guess, otherwise you would never like to live in Bangkok if you have any choice. While the Isaan people are down-to-earth and humble people that value family over anything and are respectable craftsmen. They know how to take care of themselves and are not dependent on their mobile phone or some multi-national companies to pay them a salary to survive in this world. And to pick up the topic with masks once more, they are way more relaxed regarding that as well. Like in Laos, which makes sense as Isaan people are just Thai on the paper, but ethnically Laotians.

Nice catch. And nice to see that in the Muslim parts of the country the people stopped this mask nonsense already. Can say what you want about the Muslims, but they are not that easily buying into state propaganda as other Thais.

How is my comment off-topic? The sharp rises in depression and suicides being caused by the "0-Covid-Policy" (which is just a mechanism to get the Chinese used to obey to total control) is 100% on-topic. You do not even need to look at the thousands of social media videos of people there literally going crazy, it is just natural. I actually wonder how most of them can still be so calm, but after all they are communist working bees with no idea of individualism. My comments regarding forced tests and vaccinations, as part of this inhumane policy, are on-topic as well. And lastly the control mechanisms that are being installed in the slipstream of the COVID thing are very on-topic as well.

Well, while I certainly agree with the topic and content of this post, I think it is something that they can genuinely be proud of. We as Europeans and Americans are used to be the colonizers and just cannot understand what is the issue nowadays, after all is sorted and a thing of the past. While I am certainly not one of these left-wing-guys that hate themselves for things that their great-great-grandparents did, I can understand the Thai point of view and why they are proud of it. I can even understand why they often try to part us from our money, I need to admit I would probably do the same in their position. I see it as some kind of street smartness, as I experienced in many poorer countries and even in my wealthy home country. You just see the relative richness of other people and want some of it as well, cannot blame. I am in my mid-20s and got several times approached by Thai guys who genuinely wanted to hang out with me. They invited me to play soccer, go to the gym together and so on. I just always refused because I am in their country without speaking their language good enough and their English was not good enough. I think this is a big part of the whole story as well. I know dozens of foreigners in Thailand who live here for many years and still do not speak the language a tiny bit. Just put yourself into their point of view. There are tons of people who come to your country while not integrating into your culture, not even speaking the language and so on. They just wanna benefit from the good things (sabai sabai, lax law enforcement, territorial taxation system etc). I would not really like their presence as well, just like the benefit of the money they bring and try to profit from it. I can as well understand and even support the Thai law of no foreign land ownership, which so many people complain about. EVERY country should have that. If you really like a country and a culture, you can integrate within the years and become a naturalized citizen and then you will get more accepted as well, while tbh in Thailand I imagine you will still experience the feeling of not being one of them as a naturalized Citizen. But again, who can blame them for their xenophobia? If it would have been the other way around and Asians almost invaded whole Europe but not our home country, I bet we would be xenophobic against them nowadays and proud of us being resistant enough. All that being said, I even struggled to find good and honest relationships in my wealthy European home country. Most people I met were superficial, suddenly treat you different when you have a lot of money, talk behind your back while smiling in your face, preferred stupid parties and drinking instead of real deep talks and relationships. While on the other hand my Thai wife is the best wife I ever met. Honest, direct, lovely, caring, I can trust her with all of my money and she defends me in front of anyone and never ever talked behind my back. I had way worse experiences with woman in Europe, even as a fairly good looking, intelligent and eloquent young man. So overall I think it is just logical by all the factors mentioned above that you will have more problems finding Thai male friends. But nonetheless, I think if you speak Thai and integrate into the culture and look at the right places, you will find some decent friends. Just do not expect them to be like your friends back in Europe, because they simple aren't.

Amazing creatures.

I am pretty certain China has the highest depression and suicidal rate at the moment, forced tests under any conditions, forced vaccinations and a color-coded health-code-system that strip any basic human rights that were still left. Not even talking about the total big brother control, soon CBDC-cashless-society and the social credit system.

Search for a woman that you trust and/or control and put it in her name. I would not waste my precious life time being with a woman that I could not trust, how can you even look into a mirror like that? I bought our house here from a French guy. Was in the name of his wife. No issues. He got the money, they left together to France. Now it is in the name of my wife and I wanted to sell it. No issues, it is up for sale and as soon as it is sold we will move out of country together.

While I agree with the fact that many problematic characters in Thailand got guns, it is worth looking deeper into WHO are these problematic characters. And if you look deep enough you realize: Most of them are some kind of government-figures. Soldiers, police, whatsoever. Literally almost every time I read about a mass shooting, a deadly bar brawl shooting or whatever in Thailand one of these government-related-guys is the culprit. Normal law-abiding citizens almost never use their guns within deadly force. At most in relationship issues, but even that is rare and would not be stopped with a ban on guns, as you can use knives or whatever to stab your cheating wife/husband/gf as well. But the general situation with government-figures being the culprits of serious gun crime in Thailand even further supports my general point of view that good citizens need the right to own guns to protect themselves from an encroaching government. If any government and the people in power know that citizens own guns and are ready to use them if they feel threatened or their rights stripped, the government will be more careful in stealing the freedom of the people. Just look at China and what they are doing to their citizens since almost 3 years now. This would have never happened if the gun control in China wouldn't be so tight and citizens wouldn't be standing with empty hands against their inhumane government. I am totally in favor of stripping problematic characters, especially in the police and army, of their guns. But I am totally against of stripping casual people of their right to gun ownership.

<deleted>.. So first many people here wrote it would be the mans fault who put his d*ck into the woman's p*ssy if she got pregnant. Are you serious? The woman decides who enters her! If it was not a rape, which in 99% of the abortion cases did not happened. So the woman is equally "responsible" for the cute little being growing inside her womb. First that. Secondly, there were a bunch of cases in the past where a woman did an abortion against the will of the father. The father wanted the child and the mother just got an abortion. When you consider that rationally and biologically the child is 50% the father, this is absolutely favoring the woman and suppressing the man. She is basically killing his child against his will and the father can do nothing. But well, this is in accordance with the "evolving" you mentioned as how I can see since many years. Women are getting more and more rights and are constantly being favored, while men continually get their right cropped and restricted.

Yeah I wanted to write the same, but after seeing the reactions to your post I pooped my pants because I care so much what others, especially strangers on an internet forum, think about me... No, but for real now, I fully agree with you. The only situation where abortion should be allowed is when a woman got raped. Otherwise society is tackling the problem from the wrong way, as always. People <deleted> around senselessly, without love or long-term planning because this is what media is telling young people to do to be "cool" and women get pregnant. So what do we do? Exactly, allow these women to abort/kill their child. I guess changing our society for better and educating kids that you should wait until you find a right partner and if you found them, do not exchange them at the first-best opportunity, is too reasonable for this mad and crazy world.

Okay thank you. We do not give a damn about marriage being registered in Thailand, I see no benefit from it. It really is just about the name, so a simple name change it will be. About changing the things like bank cards, passport and chanote title I know. But it is a once-in-a-lifetime thing, so it is okay. Thanks for the confirmation!

Okay, but this was very obviously not the point as my surname even more obviously is not like that. So it is possible for her to change to any name, in this case my surname, with just ID Card and Tabien Baan, yes?

That is wrong. It impacts everyone. We humans not just love but need to see the faces of others. It makes us happy and gives us more social abilities, it makes us comfortable with our surroundings. Seeing these masked faces all the time caused severe depression with me and my wife. She was always the only Thai without a mask anywhere. She got a strong character and did not give a damn about the stupid looks from the other people, me neither, but we could feel the bad energy from these people. But the most important thing for me are kids. The sister of my wife is working in a kindergarten. She had a 3-years-old boy that was not able to speak one word when he came and was socially awkward. Not one word. After some time she warmed him up and now it is clear why he was so behind: His utterly ****** parents wore a mask all the time. Even at home in the house, as the TV and government told them and they obeyed. This 3 year-old-boy literally never really saw an unmasked face in his whole life until he met the sister of my wife. He now loves her and cries when his parents pick him up, lol.. When we go outside with our 1-and-a-half-year-old daughter I always make sure that she does not see the face of any of these masked ******. Often she cries when she sees masked faces. ... And I mean if it would be just seeing these masked people for the kids, bad enough, but we all know it is even worse in LandOfMasks: Whenever I see a masked toddler or child in Thailand my blood starts to boil and my blood pressure and pulse gets damn high. It honestly breaks my heart everytime and I get a dull pain in my chest just seeing this. It literally made me physically sick. Whenever I was around masked people my heart rate went up from 80-90 to 110-120 and stayed there until I got out of there. The mask mania and the underlying reason of soullessness and complete blind obedience is the main reason why we are selling our house right now and will leave Thailand as soon as it is sold. We cannot wait for it to happen. Selling very cheap, even lower than we bought, just because we want to leave as soon as possible. That is how much this whole mask-mania affected us mentally, even if we ourselves never wore one. Never in my life I will let my kids grow up in such a society and we do not want to live in one like that as well. I think the only country worse in the world must be China.

So my Thai wife and I we married outside of Thailand. Now we wanted to register the marriage within Thailand but it is a hustle with a lot of stupid documents, travelling to Embassies and stuff like that. The only reason we want to register the marriage inside Thailand is that she can have my surname, no need for marriage visa as we have a daughter. Now I stumbled upon some articles, they claimed that in Thailand as a Thai you can simply change your surname to any name you want at any given time at your Amphoe, with just your Tabien Baan and ID Card. Is this information up to date and correct? So am I right that she can just go to the Amphoe and change her last name to mine like that?

I am no expert in Thai law, but in any law books from other countries that I know there is the right of self-defense. If someone attacks you, you naturally have the right to defend yourself. Wouldn't make sense in any other way really, so I bet it is the same in Thailand. So it definitely matters who started the fight. If the Thai guy started the fight and the frenchmen just defended theirself after being provoked and attacked, they are basically completely innocent and all of you guys calling for them to rot in jail and being deported and blacklisted while having family in this country are not just wrong by law, but inhumane as well. Most likely just jealous of the Porsche and that you couldn't defend yourself in any situation.

I know my opinion will not be popular, the case being closed for most keybord warriors apparently already lol, but maybe the Thai man did some crazy stupid driving and even further provoked the attack? I mean, I think it is borderline stupid to buy an expensive car like that in Thailand, because 1st you cannot really drive it out anyway, especially on Samui, and 2nd because it is well known that many people here have no license or a license and no driving skills and will certainly make driving an even bigger hell that it is already with a non-expensive car. I would buy a fast car in Germany and in no other country, because it does not make any real sense because you cannot really use it, it is just to impress other idiots that give <deleted> about expensive stuff. Stupid. But anyway I doubt that the official story is true and there are always two sides. As mentioned above, I think it went down more or less exactly like that: These guys just were pumped up because being <deleted> rich (for whatever reason, really none of anyone's business) and being on Samui with a new Porsche. I can understand. Then the Thai guy with typical "driving skills" almost crashed into them or made them crash into him. I can heavily imagine. Then maybe he even provoked the guys in the Porsche even further and they just snapped. I think you are over-exaggerating with your calls for life-long jail or death penalty. From where I come from it is normal to clear things within your own circle as a man. This was just one of these cases where there was a really unlucky punch. If the punch would've been at a slightly different angle or whatever, the Thai guy might just have a small headache. But these things happens if you engage in a street fight and I just honestly doubt that the French guys snapped for no reason and "unprovoked", as this article states. Most likely this is just the story the Thai woman made up to get the highest amount of money out of this apparently rich French guys and no matter what, she is being believed because she is Thai and the others are Farang. I am 100% sure the French guys have their own part of the story, but no one even gives them the chance to describe it. Not saying that there was a huge provocation, but if there was, I can understand them. If someone provokes me to fight, I will fight. If he gets hit with an unlucky punch, well, should not have provoked. Again, not saying it definitely was like that. But you should not principally rule it out as well.

We are selling our house on Koh Mak. It is located on 2 Rai on Chanote Land, which is mostly flat at the hill top but then declines kinda steeply down to the own private beach and ocean access. The house itself got 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1 kitchen, 1 living room, 1 big terrace with a small pool. In the garden we are growing a bunch of different fruits like Mango, Banana, Papaya, Mangosteen, Lychee, Starfruit, Rambutan, Pineapple and more. As seen on the pictures we own a brand-new electrical golfcart and a 2nd hand gasoline buggy, which can be included in the sale based on negotiation. Koh Mak is a beautiful traditional island with a nice mix of local Thai population and a growing Expat community. Clear water, healthy corals, no trash on the island. For us it is the most beautiful island on Thailand, tranquil but modern enough to get everything you need and avoid everything you do not need in life ???? What is not available on the island can be ordered online and will be delivered Monday-Sunday with the speedboats. As we want to sell the house fast, we recently slashed the price from 14.400.000 THB to 10.900.000 THB. This is basically the price of just the land without any construction, neighboring forest land in the same style is selling for 5.500.000 THB per rai. So even if you do not want to live here by yourself or use it as a rental property, it would be a good investment to just buy it and sell it for a higher price with more patience than we have. The property is in Thai Ownership (my wife) right now, but can obviously easily being bought via a company from a foreigner as well. For pictures and more information, check our offer on dotproperty https://www.dotproperty.co.th/en/3-bedroom-villa-for-sale-in-ko-mak-trat_8885818 Contact: +66998733577 (LINE/WhatsApp or simply call)

My Thai GF has some Organic Outdoor Thai Squirrel to sell. Would be nice for the people who would like to get a good and clear high without paying loads of THB. Is it allowed to offer it here in the forum to sell? Or PrikPot have like a monopoly? If allowed, I would tell her to make pictures tomorrow and open a thread in this part of the board.