TheTightArseTraveller

ooooohhhhh.... you've driven FOUR time across the area????? Woooooooow

Clearly NONE of us know as much as you, but as far as my tiny local knowledge goes, I haven't seen any fences keeping you here, or an army dragging you here. If you dont like it, thats up to you.

Yup, food prices are as cheap as you will find. Beer is $2 a can. Im happy with that when it goes with the rest of my post... And as far as Dan Murphys goes, its the $800 rego, $400 speeding ticket, $350 gas bill, $180 electric bill, $100 wifi that goes with Dan Murphys that makes that a null and void comment

Because its so backwards... I love that there is pretty much zero crime, we dont lock our doors, its super chilled out in every way. I lived the 'Western' way busting my balls all day for shiiiiiit I didnt actually need for three decades. Now I have cows, buffalo, chickens, dogs, a sh!t cat, and and endless view of the rice paddies and a golden sunset over them. Super cheap here for food, beer is cheap as it gets.... I run a company in Australia from a laptop on a crappy bamboo table looking over said rice paddies. I hoon around on my motorbike in thongs and a tshirt and hardly see any traffic unless I head into Krasang. Oh, and I love walking the buffalo out and in every day, plus watching all the neighbours walk theirs past our door... I think that covers most things.

Im in rural thailand, it happens here all the time. One of the reasons I love it so much. Kids out playing EVERYWHERE...ZERO supervision to the point of me having to fight my in-built worry for every kids safety....

Haha... yeah, probably bitching about me with three of his other mates as we type lol

I would avoid nearly everyone on this page... Grumpy ferang complaining like Thailand owes them something. You know the type.... Build the biggest, most obnoxious house in the village, then catches up with three like minded grumpy ferang every Thursday night to talk about how stupid people are here and how they do it all 'wrong'. Don't assimilate with the people or the culture, but expect foreigners in their own countries to not only do that, but speak fluent local language immediately. Of course, they themselves can't speak a word of Thai.... Usually European... Absolute wannnnkers. Luckily, in my village there are only two ferang, and the other fella is a great bloke.

Dude, this is your third comment that is totally incorrect. From the Thai Embassy Website: "Option to Include Family: Yes"

All the time where I live

Yeah, I agree with that. Their lack of questioning comes from teachers no wanting to lose face by not knowing an answer. You need to know that exists and teach ways around that. But overall, respect IS taught. When I walk in a room here, all the kids greet me. When I walk in a room in the west, no kids look up from their phones and no parents give a <deleted>. Each to their own....Like I said in an above post, there is two very different outlooks on life displayed on this thread.

I live here fairly well on $500AUD a week. I do have a house already though. I couldnt get out of bed in Australia for that now.

The comments here are a direct representation of what I see of ferangs here in Thailand. *The people that move here, build the biggest, tasteless house in the village, then spend all their days complaining about Thai people doing things wrong with their old ferang mates. *The people that move here for a total change and absorb themselves into the local culture and its people (something the above ferangs complain foreigners dont do in their home countries).

Hahahahaha.... yeah.... Ok "Some people are so poor, all they have is money"

Shouldnt this be in the advertisement section?

Yeah, Lesbian Gender Equality degrees are top quality in the west and only leave you with a debt of $50,000.... Yes, most Thais wouldn't know what the moon is if you asked them, that is true. But Thai schools teach the basics exceptionally well and they also teach life skills like cleaning, cooking and most of all they teach RESPECT. Something that is no longer in the west. It is up to the parents to educate your kids on more worldly things if you want a well rounded education out of Thai schools, but I would rather top up my kids education wise in Thailand then listen to the bull<deleted> kids are indoctrinated with in the west. IN MY HUMBLE OPINION of course

You are spot on. People in the west think they have it best because they own 'stuff' and have 'freedom'. Hahaha.... I live with my family in a poor area of rural north east Thailand and my kids love it here. Animals all over, kids playing in the streets.... The west is a well run slavery system where people are in debt up to their eyeballs and think they are rich :)

What a tiny small minded outlook you have. My folks moved from the UK in 1975 with us three boys under 10, to the other side of the world and it was the best thing they ever did. Kids in thailand (well, where I live) still play in the streets, run around smiling and living a super stimulating, interesting life. Compared to kids in the west that spend all day inside on their phones. The opportunities in Tahiland are vast for people with a little drive and get up and go. Glad the world is full of people like my parents and the guy in this article and not Debbie Downers like you.

Sympathy for the victims level zero Sympathy for the family 10/10

Yeah, because 'trusting the science' last time around was soooooo good....not

oh please....

Can we please stop with the bullsh!t.... We (except the most gullible) are totally over it and you do your publication no good by spreading this cr@p

oh please....

This is an absolute disaster for Thailand and it's people. As a person married to a Thai in Australia, I have seen firsthand how much the addiction to gambling is in their systems. Zero clue on when to stop. Evil big business ripping money from the locals...

Oh please.... Is anyone stupid enough to fall for this crap again??? This is the biggest load of crap.... but lucky they have massive money making v@ccines to jab us with. Not me.

I had a similar experience (coincidentally with SA) on a flight MEL-SIN in 2000 on our approach to Singapore. We dropped 1000 vertical metres in what felt like 2 seconds. Food carts went everywhere, crew and unbuckled passengers slammed into the overhead lockers. No serious injuries that I knew of luckily. The tropical areas can have pockets of air that cause this- hence the "keep your seat belt on" line.