JamesPhuket10

Well from what I have seen, the ugly old farangs with the young Thai beauties would not have a chance of getting such a woman if she did not have a lot of baggage to carry with her. It is their stupid fault, but they do make me laugh when it all goes wrong. 🤣 I suppose instead of paying the ex-bar girl on a daily basis they do it monthly instead via the parents etc.

But @watthong is trying to make sure the door does not slam into his face. 😃

And of course, we are only hearing one side of the story.

I don't see what the problem is. I have my UK banks on my iPhone as apps, the money is available anywhere in the world. My property is in the UK hence untouchable here, I only send what I need to live on to my Thai Bank account which is also an app. I have three thousand pounds in cash in case I need a quick exit. The 800k baht in my Thai bank account used to extend my annual visa can be sent to the UK at the click of a button. I have been living in Thailand for two years full time but have been visiting for thirty years, I know it is not permanent seeing as I am only allowed a year-by-year extension, and as the rest of us are temporary farangs, I have to report to the cops every 90 days. Anyone who thinks they are living here permanently is living in cloud cuckoo land.

I would not want to take a TukTuk anywhere, I drive my car, so why would I want to go in a death trap? Patong, on no not again, 1% of the total area of Phuket defines the other 99% of Phuket. I would stay away from Phuket if I were you and take the ten baht bus where you live as 2 quid for a taxi ride might be out of your league.

It is like Chiang Mai, you get free fags (cigarettes) for five months of the year, but good news to smokers, the number of months have been increased this year. I know a lot of people who move out of CM for a large part of the year.

I am going to have to complain as I am missing out on events supposedly happening in Phuket. I have been visiting here for 30 years, some of the trips were for six months and for the last two years I have been living here full-time. Yet I have never been ripped off once, I am missing out it seems. 🤣 Where can I find out where the Rippoff venues are?

That is because you are spending your money on the new girlfriend and not on them, the Golden Goose has been kidnapped. 😄

No, keep places like that secret we don't want to be overrun by miseries. 😁

Great, stay away from Phuket, negative boring people are not welcome. Do as you are doing and moan about a place you do not live in from afar.

Will I get the hat as well? 😄

True, many Thais visit Pattaya for weekend trips, you will not see them in Walking Street, etc as they are in the restaurants in the 99% of Pattaya which is not girly-bar-land which a lot of the farangs on holiday never see and hence paint a poor picture of Pattaya amongst farangs.

Someone said in this blog, "Another friend is considering going back to Canada because he is fed up/bored with Patong and has been financially shafted by one Thai girlfriend, thereby losing his business, and his latest Thai girlfriend has decided to dump him! Not a happy chappy, so I expect him to leave very shortly." Anyone would become tired of Patong after a while, that is why most of us in Phuket do not live there, it is not the real world, it is like a real-life Disneyland. What I can't understand is the comments from people thinking Phuket is all about Patong, it is about six miles from where I live and I go there a few times a year as an outing, it is like going to another country for a few hours. Phuket is 543 square km in size. Patong makes up just a few sq km of the island. And if anyone is stupid enough to open a business in Patong and associate with the bar girls there who are 99% from other provinces, especially the North East then they deserve what they get, I do laugh when I hear of the stupid antics some of the farangs get up to and end up being ripped off. Luckily that type of person does not live in this area. I just looked out the window of the house and I saw no Russians or Chinese, I keep looking every few hours as we were supposed to have been overrun by them, but no sign of them yet so far. But the few Russians I have come across seem like nice decent people to me, not one of them had a bar girl in tow, the Russian males are with Russian women.

I choose to live in this area in Phuket as it is like living in a small village away from the rest of the world, the roads are all private, most of the residents are Thai, and there is a small private park for the kids of the residents to play in, plus as the roads are private there is almost no traffic so the kids can play in the streets as well. There are two manned barriers with CCTV so when I go away for a month or two the house is nice and secure. But outside there are banks, shops, pharmacists, etc close to hand. A massive Makro is a seven-minute drive away as is a massive Lotus and an even bigger Central Shopping precinct is a ten-minute drive away, best of both worlds. When friends are over on holiday I go out with them now and then to places like Patong, as I feel like I am going on day trip holidays as it is like being in another country, it is good fun in short periods. Then I drive over the mountain and life is back to normal, it is like those areas only exist in holiday land.

It is just another phase of the phases we have to go through. My two sons went to school and university in England, one is now married to a New Zealander, they have a child and he has set up a successful business in NZ, the wife is an architect. The other son is a biomedical scientist at a hospital in England. I have been living in the house in Phuket for the last two years full time, it was bought/built about twelve years ago, and it is in a quiet area with no girly bars, etc, they are miles away over the mountain. 98% of the people living in this housing complex are Thai and the roads are closed to the public. I do not have as many friends as I used to have as they move on or die. I will go back to the UK this week though, for a month or more, business class with a bed (EVA Air) is what I use now that I am older, health is worth more than money. It is just another stage we go through, but look at it positively, if you are not going through such stages it means you are already dead. 😄