BritScot

So many experts on here and bizarre posts. The tourist did the right thing full stop!!! Some people on here have just shown how thick they really are.

Pathetic!

What a crazy thing to say. Have you even seen the accommodation on the Dutch barge? It's very luxurious (4-5 star hotel), doctor and medical staff, dentist. The kind of care the locals would love. Now compare that to this gentleman's fate!!!!!

I would disagree as some are just born evil/bad and its the same with animals.

I feel sorry for you if you think there is any justification in the thai practice of mass attacking elderly men and women, kicking and stomping on their heads with impunity as long as they are foreigners. It really sickens me at the "they must have done something wrong attitude". Sick and sad people. Again a slap is a reaction not aggression (something happened right before that slap, something you never saw and my guess is "spat on").

I would have sung their praise in 2004 as I found it very efficient, cheap and very good but then jump to 2012 after very bad private health care several times each time being referred to government hospital which I found far better and the doctors more knowledgeable, the service I/we got was also very good and price very reasonable (private room). 100% support government hospitals because that's where the top doctors are ie the cream who have passed in the top % on merit and not on family and money.

Aren't psychopaths or sociopath born that way or their brains develop that way?

Nonsense, utter Nonsense! Your assumption that retirement visa holders or married visa holders fit into your pigeon logic. First the minimum requirement is to give thai banks £10,000 - £20,000 of their money until they leave or die, they will spend millions in setting up their home (house 2 million up and vehicle 1 million up) so their initial investment into the Thai economy is about a minimum of £100,000 of foreign currency into thailand with minimum of £10,000 - £20,000 a year of more foreign currency every year. If you think this is peanuts and Thailand doesn't need it wow!!! Very twisted attitude. Think it's called being racist!

What an attitude! I now feel physically sick. Disgusting. Unbelievable attitude!!!

I don't understand why especially Thai people don't buy land and have a house built on it, buy every nail, screw and material needed so you know what is being used and above all "project manage the build". Savings are massive and you know its done right. I did it and built a small 110 square metre bungalow built on the foundation for a 3 storey house teak doors quality tiles etc for 750,000baht in 2010. I put a high roof with vents either side so air flow and guess what my house doesn't get too hot. 13 years and no problems. 3 bedroom detached bungalow..... Nice wee house. 2 million and you could build a nice big house and maybe a small swiming pool.

And this is why we left in 2019 "changes/rumours". How can anyone live with this hanging over their heads in later life when you want stability and security? Best move we ever made.

If I wanted a tattoo that high on my leg I would kind of expect my balls etc might get touched etc but if your more accurate comparison if I stupid and decided to get "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" on my tager and my balls got a feel well no being that stupid I would not think anything of it.

Wouldn't it be nice if someone had thought about stock piling rice to sell now! Oh wait they did!!! What ever happened to the money when the generals sold it all off at great loss? Rhetorical question.

I've just realised I'm also a victim! I remember when I was getting my tattoos on my arms several times other parts of my arm were touched pinched or moved as he tattooed the area.... what utter crap.... I'm sorry but a woman getting her tits out for a tattoo then crying because her tits were touched.... omfg!!!

You should do a little research because these clowns on YouTube are making £100000's for their content if I goes viral. Nearly all the content on YouTube are doing it for the money and the more outrageous or crazy they are the more they make with every click, like or thumbs down and then more for the comments left. Why do you think so many celebrities have jumped on this money train.

Opinions are like A****. everyone has one. In all the years I lived in Thailand since 2002 to 2019 this consisted of several breaks back to the uk to live. I lived the dream of island life as a diving instructor, Bangkok and village life and I noticed people go through different stages of loving Thailand and as the rose coloured glasses slip to hating thailand, then they leave. The ones who invested far to much become trapped they become very twisted attacking anyone who dares to shine a light on their rose coloured life. We still have a house in Thailand, obviously family and friends but our life in the uk is far, far better on many levels. Our children have far more opportunities, my wife has good friends, job she loves and holidays in the uk she enjoys and me I have my garden, social and friends. Yes best move ever. Thailand is for the obligation holiday to see our house and family/friends. Note, I'm no ponce and never been called one to my face only by KBW.

I agree. I don't like the area however its the signage that attracts and thae other 99% love.....

Lost its charm in 2004 for me. Roads became concrete and the atmosphere evaporated.

Is that cigarette ends/buts on the ground in the photo? Oh I feel safe already.

It's why my family and I left Thailand in 2019. Howcan anyone in their later years live on a nice edge of ever changing rules. Never ever invest any more than you can easily walk away from in Thailand.

So a holiday island minus the tourist just leaves an empty broke, poverty stricken rural landscape. Sometimes I just shake my head at their stupidity. How about investing in the one industry making in safer and enjoyable for both Thai and foreigners so they tell their friend and come back? However, the mentality of screwing every satang and ripping off, assaulting and scamming as much as you can with the mentality of so what there is more until you find out your reputation has stopped millions from coming.

Well I have to praise Thailand for using the correct scientific conclusions with changing weather patterns instead of cult hysteria. Well done Thailand.

Less of the derogatory remarks about the UK please! The uk is a very beautiful country and I have lived in 3rd world Thailand and there is no comparison unless your chassing young girls or boys in your old age. We moved back to the uk in 2019 and never regretted it once infact the thought of moving back to thailand for more than a holiday sends shivers of fear through my children who have great lives here in the uk. The dark cloud that hangs over me is that family commitments drag us back to thailand.

Sometimes just reduced.

Any dog is a time bomb if kept locked up and never exercised. Correction get a goldfish!