realmadrid25

one can be happy with what they have but there is that reminder that others have more and its enough to make you rob a bunch of shareholders (my parents were in on the ground floor of the enron scandal).

well i hate traveling to Western countries for various reasons but i love traveling to singapore, hong kong, korea and japan. when i arrive back in bangkok from these countries, i get depressed and wish i could afford (ie, made 250K USD + a year) to live comfortably in one of these places.

Odd that you should pick a figure of $250K in that this would be an earning ratio of aproximately 5 times the earnings of your average Joe back there in the West. And this figure of '5 times' is aproximately the disparity of earnings between Average Joe West v Average Somchai Thai.

So if you were earning $250K back home, you'd enjoy similar privalages and a similar dispartity of life style above the local populace as I presume you enjoy in Thailand - Though the options for the wealthy back west are wider and more varied.

On this basis, I suspect that if you were indeed earning $250K you might not hate travelling to Western Countries so much.

what in the world are you talking about? if i had a million bucks a year i would not want to live in the USA.

But on this thread you like the outskirts -

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?sh...c=171267&hl=

I think you're a teacher earning 150-175 BHT an hour, heat of the classroom can make an Ajarn delusional, only the select few are salaried on 150K-175K USD in BKK and you arent one.

how does this:

I am undecided. I like all of the following areas:

Soi Sala Daeng

Soi Lang Suan

Phrom Pong

Soi Thong Lo

And then sometimes I think I am entirely better off if I avoid buying a condo central bangkok and instead build a nice house somewhere around the Bangkapi area.

Right now, Soi Lang Suan is leading the pack because its an attractive soi where you dont mind going for a walk, is not noisy, is close to both silom and sukhumwit and siam shopping district. Keep mind I am a driver.

Where do you live and why do you like it over the other areas?

contradict my OP???? And yes, I am a driver, it does mean I don't take the bts from time to time. driving is a nightmare in bangkok.

yep... any suggestions? i have been stuck in that 150-175k usd/year range forever now.

Try moving to the suburbs of Bangkok you might feel a little bit fresher. And there are so many things Same as Korea around here Ladprao rachida and bangkapi. Its reminds me of my house in Seoul and dae jong.. You will not have the complains as you feel in the centre

Don't use an aircon and sweet it out. I never use one and now I feel cold just opening the window.

And I wear long sleeves jeans with boots sometimes a nice suit and I feel just fine.

I did think like you not so long ago. Thinking of trying to relocate back Seoul or even trying something new like Singapore, but then I reminded my self when I worked in Japan for 6 months and lived Seoul more then 7 years. Nice plaice to visit and enjoy with friends but a crappy plaice to stay more then a few months as its gets more Hot then here and winters are brutal.

Then I think if my business picks up I would just stay here so I have money to pass on and tell my mom and dad to stop working and travel the world.

I'm only just 26 but I finally think like that.

Jobs in Korea pay well if you are qualified with normally a free house involved. For a year.

Not just teaching English. I worked for a media company for 2 years. But I have Korean papers

But normally they supply a visa as well.

i have been to these suburbs and the traffic was soo heavy. i go to the mall bangkapi every now and then and the traffic is always ridiculous. i do like that area though because there are more people walking around and less farang and tons of pretty girls.

by life style i mean... eating whatever i want, doing whatever i want, having a very nice apartment in the best location, etc... we are talking a 1,000,000 baht/m2 for a similar nicely located condo in hong kong, tokyo or singapore as opposed to 150,000/m2 here...

i dont really feel that thais know enough farang to bother segmenting them into classes. a nice presentation will do wonders, but i think we are pretty much lumped together at the end of the day, plus i said generally.

it sounds like studying in thailand is a joke and it sounds like you are probably more interested in the girls and partying anyways so why dont you just take a year off or just lie to mom and dad or whatever and do what you really want to do.

well i hate traveling to Western countries for various reasons but i love traveling to singapore, hong kong, korea and japan. when i arrive back in bangkok from these countries, i get depressed and wish i could afford (ie, made 250K USD + a year) to live comfortably in one of these places. Thailand is sabai and everything, but when you are in the taxi and you start driving to the city you get the following feelings: its insanely hot all year long, its insanely dirty, its insanely ugly, well there are alot of hot girls around, why are there so many vagrants, why are there so many disgusting dogs lying about, why are there so many people pushing around those makeshift cars collecting garbage, why are there 18,990,000 motorcycles around, why do all the people look so poor????

after a couple of days you forget about all of that and settle back into your cozy condo and then i guess you remember that there are so many hot girls around and the food is good and cheap so you dont give a dam_n, but boy it'd be nice to be able to live the life style i live here in Seoul or Hong Kong or Tokyo.

Plus, Id love to be able to dress nice without being covered in sweat by the time i make it up the BTS stairs.

i ordered karrage gai from their new menu. they have replaced the thai chilli sauce with ketchup and have changed from white meat to oily, salty dark meat. in other words, they made it to mimmic kfc. sad really as i always loved this as a side dish. please leave a note in their comment box.

this will be my second add. i dont know if there is a limit, i hope not.

i just want to know what do thai people

upper class bangkokians

middle class bangkokians

lower class bangkokians

lower class non-bangkokians

in general, think of farang in Thailand. It has been said by many that educated girls from well to do families want nothing to do with farang, others have claimed that farang have a bad reputation in thailand, etc.

just want your thoughts on this. any Thais out there?

i remember i am supposed to go to that little room on the side, grab a number, pay a fee(?) and they do it right then and there and give it back to me the same day... is that correct? what time do they go to lunch at the US Embassy?

"so the "turn you off" pitch is common, so much so that one sometimes hears foreigners "warning" each other in public."

hhaahhahahahahaha

i had an ebay business in high school (not in thailand). any good idea you have will be stolen (thats how i started).

i bet a quite a few of your wives have made their way into the golden farang's bed, if only for his wife's scraps. how could she not?

when you say "all Thai girls" it sounds like you mean "all thai girls who work as prostitutes for farang twice their age"....

Today I witnessed an amusing incident between a Thai wife and a farang who I will just assume was one of our very own moaners. They were doing their Sunday grocery shopping with her mother and the mother didn't want to leave because they were giving out free samples of toothpaste and she said (I over heard) that the girl giving them out would remember her face so they would have to sit there and wait a little while. She already had 4-5 samples in front of her. This farang, who was wearing a pair of khaki shorts with what looked like some kind of rope as belt began to complain to his wife and show her movie ticket stubs. His wife seemed to believe that he was 'same same' 'not good' and I guess maybe she does not like the previews as much as him. He attempted to calm his nerves by consuming a large strawberry strawberry milk shake from Dairy Queen in less than a minute. His wife's mother kept looking at him with disillusion, which is odd because he was much older than the mother and usually Thais respect those older then them. Finally, he squeezed the arm of his wife which resulted in her yelping and walking away from him into the direction of the bathroom. He stood there for a moment looking in the direction she left for and then walked the other way. Witnessing this type of stuff puts much of what is written on ThaiVisa into better perspective.

i think you have the wrong idea. can your bf carry a golf bag? maybe i can employ both of you for different jobs.

perfect quality vcd lol

i am looking for a personal assistant job. i can pay up to 80K baht a month for the right person. please send resume and picture to my pm mail box at this site. ty

what if her mother was to have an accident?

why do the farang always give up so easily? watch the godfather for advice on how to negotiate matters like this.

now i know how jesus felt.

i value all opinions but i dont see why you must throw insults at me for no reason and not debate topic like an adult. i would like to thank those who have done that.

tonight i asked her

"are babies cute?"

she says yes.

"want to have one sometime?"

of course.