JamesPhuket10

I can guess from your comment you have not been to Phuket for at least a decade. Apart from that main walking street and the OTop, there are no other main areas with bar girls etc, even now in Patong the vast majority of tourists are couples and 90% of previous girly bars have been converted to hotels/shops/restaurants. I think all of the sex tourists migrated to Pattaya many years ago. I was there for the first time in a year just for one night this week showing a visitor the restaurants etc in Patong. On other days I took them to the various viewpoints, temples, mountain areas/elephant camps around the island which make up 99% of Phuket attractions and scenery, Patong constitutes 1%. I suppose if they had spent all of their holiday in Patong walking street as you might have done maybe they would have had your experience of Phuket and have missed out on what else there is to offer here.

What sort of Russians do you expect to find in Pattaya, the Russians with money are here in Phuket, they are nice people as far as I have personally observed over the last two years. I am sure the decent Russians want to stay away from the low-life Russians of Pattaya.

I stayed in London for a year from 2021 to 2022. I was driving past an area which was outside of my area and I spotted a Tesco supermarket so I bought some groceries but I could not find where the kitchen knife section was so I asked a member of staff and was told they do not sell knives in this branch. As I drove I found out why as I saw the type of people walking around in that area. I managed to buy one in the Tesco branch where I was staying in London.

I am not claiming to be superior, I am just not inferior like the shirtless tattooed covered chavs.

Those people have a different name, they are called civil servants or council workers in the West. 😃

I visited Pattaya in 2019 as I was having a house built in Rayong just for a day trip. Not my cup of tea, a lot of chavs were out and about, but never again.

I am happy Phuket is now a lot more expensive to visit and live in than Chav-city (Pattaya), all the shirtless tattoo-covered rif-raf can not afford to come here so go to Pattaya instead. It seems like they have been replaced by neatly dressed respectable wealthy Russian couples as I suppose they also want to stay away from such people.

Does anyone have any medical checkup recommendations for Phuket?

Out of interest, what is the name of the top university you mentioned, Harvard, Oxford, LSE, MIT etc ?

But you are also replying so by your measure you are also pathetic. 😄 My excuse is I am on my computer for many hours of the day writing software so I take a break now and then to this simple blog as a change is as good as rest and the comments make me laugh. What is your excuse?

That proves my earlier point right away, no more to be said as it looks like I am taking to a brick wall.

I wonder where these millions of Russians who have taken over Phuket live, I have been here two years full time now and have visited for long holidays for the last 30 years and I have yet to see the swarms of Russians. Of the three hundred houses on this secure gated estate I think there is one Russian family, you have to go out of your way to spot them. Of course that is the opposite to what the media write about and for the simple minded readers to believe. 99% of the houses in my estate are owned and occupied by Thais.

Very true, a friend of mine bought four houses as a miniresort around a swimming pool in Phuket twenty five years ago and owns the properties/lamd through a business with the correct proportion of Than and farang shares and as they are rented out it is legitimate.

I wish I could pay rent on a house and give all my money away to a Thai, it must take a lot of skill to be able to do that. 😃

Yes, they might be next as it seems they are after the small fish, the average assets of what has been seized is only £13,396 per cpompany, I suppose the large fish have got away with it. As far as the dodgy Farang homeowners go it must be so easy to prove if they bought the house using a company with a 49% share and they live there then they will lose the lot.