Goat Roper

A Cajun was stopped by a game warden in Southern Louisiana recently with two ice chests of fish, leaving a bayou well known for its fishing.

The game warden asked the man, "Do you have a license to catch those fish?"

"Nah, ma fren', I ain't got none of dem, no. Dese here, dey my pet fish."

"Pet fish?"

"Ya. Avery night I take dese here fish down to de bayou and let dem swim 'roun' for a while. Den I whistle and dey jump rat back inta dis here ice chest and I take dem home."

"That's a bunch of hooey! Fish can't do that!"

The Cajun looked at the game warden for a moment and then said, "It's de truth ma' fren'. I ain't lyin'. I'll show you. It really works."

"Okay, I've GOT to see this!"

The Cajun poured the fish into the bayou and stood and waited.

After several minutes, the game warden turned to him and said, "Well?"

"Well, what?" said the Cajun.

"When are you going to call them back?"

"Call who back?"

"The FISH, stupid!"

"What fish you talkin' 'bout?"

I think your are correct and I agree, I also have more interest in a fitted out home albeit a new home is nice but me thinks building/buying a new home is too much effort and aggrivation here in the LOS to build/buy and rig out. I was told by a friend of mine that the house he has been renting for the past six years has been on the market for sale since before he rented the house. He was told by his landlord there has been no interested partys at all, foreign or local; he said the house is first class and in a great location(Chiang Mai), owner is asking 3.3 MB fully furnished, 85 Talang Wah. I looked at it but it was just not for me, too big and not enough land, nice house though.

We are considering moving to Chiang Mai soon and possibly buying/building a home there (Renting first) and would like to hear opinions on which direction from Chiang Mai is most desirable; north toward Mae Rim, Mae Cho, Doi Saket and East to Samkhampeng? I have been told that generally these areas are much more desirable than to the south in the direction of Hang dong; 15-20 klicks out of the city is ok but not interested in any area the Thais call "Preo"or "Na Klua" or just lonely and plain old scary.

I was recently told by a Thai Banker aquaintance of mine that the reason Thailand has so many new housing starts is because the Thai people(in general) do not like to live in a previously owned house/condo etc., so this makes the "used" housing market a very difficult one and the new dwellings a much better performer; Anyone here heard of this? I asked a long time Thai (Thai Chinese) aquaintance about this and he indeed confirmed this to be the case. Maybe this is one reason there are so many rentals here in the LOS to be had and in many cases at a very affordable price.