French Pensioner Alleges Threats by British Neighbour

15 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

There's a contradiction at the heart of this worth pointing out.

You've chosen to live in a country where you are the foreigner, presumably expecting to be judged as an individual rather than lumped in with every other expat who has ever behaved badly. Yet you're applying the exact opposite logic to others who share your status. You want the grace of individual assessment for yourself while refusing it to an entire group based on nationality.

Selecting neighbours by ethnicity or passport rather than character isn't preference, it's prejudice. The fact that it's aimed at fellow foreigners rather than Thais doesn't make it something else. Reverse snobbery is still snobbery of a kind.

The practical case doesn't hold up either. Neighbourly disputes in Thailand are genuinely common and can escalate seriously, as any regular reader of local news will know.

A Thai neighbour is not automatically a harmonious one, and a foreign neighbour is not automatically a difficult one. Character, compatibility, and circumstance determine that, not nationality.

It's also worth questioning the source of this philosophy. Basing a sweeping social policy on comment sections in forums such as this is about as reliable as diagnosing an entire country from its tabloid headlines.

Comment sections select for the loud, the aggrieved, and the bored. They're not a representative sample of expats, or anyone else - for example, one of the closest friends I have to today is a neighbour along side whom I lived in my earlier years here.

You may well find the quiet life you're after in Buriram, and genuinely hope you do. But the reasoning here reads less like a considered philosophy and more like generalisation that you'd rightly object to if it were applied to you.

Agree, I think any place that says no farangs is a place I stay far away from as noted even me outside of tourist area story like this is rare.

This guy is trying to live in an island but it is his choice there are good and bad people and they come in all colours!

2 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Some old boy who has been living here for 20 years and has nothing to go back to!

Not an attractive result.

Maybe. But again, to bin the bad apples I agree with harsh rules and laws. If you can't accept those rules, and can't behave, don't come.

18 hours ago, Gandtee said:

Some even become Presidents.😆

The clients I acted for were not that bad thank goodness

17 hours ago, Geoff914 said:

On 5/14/2026 at 3:08 PM, BritScot said:

Don't those photos look staged and that looks like the same bottle! I would be so impressed if I saw a drunk throw a bottle and land on a single flat stone in the middle of a garden, bounce over the house and land perfectly on the road outside without a single crack or chip! What a viral video that would make!!!!! Or maybe it's simply a grumpy old man who will be complaining about birds making a noise in the trees and poo ing in his garden just to any him, next week.....

To me I thought the first was actually set into the concrete, not just sitting there. Very strange.

Is it strange ????..... it appears fairly obvious what’s actually happened.

The drunk neighbours have lobbed an empty bottle over the fence. Monsieur has then simply picked it up and positioned it for a photo. It hardly takes a PhD in human psychology to arrive at that conclusion.

On 5/14/2026 at 7:49 AM, Rockyroad said:

The top 4 crime hot spots for farangs are Phuket, Pattaya, Bangkok and KPN.

That is like saying most people who get drunk do it in bars.

Of course those cities will have more farang crime as million of farangs visit those places but stay away from the villages and the areas which farangs do not want to go to.

On 5/15/2026 at 4:08 PM, richard_smith237 said:

Is it strange ????..... it appears fairly obvious what’s actually happened.

The drunk neighbours have lobbed an empty bottle over the fence. Monsieur has then simply picked it up and positioned it for a photo. It hardly takes a PhD in human psychology to arrive at that conclusion.

Was it a rubber bottle?

On 5/14/2026 at 8:02 AM, PJ71 said:

Yes, i agree.

It often makes me laugh why mixed kids automatically go to intl schools as well, just coz they're mixed does not make them intelligent, which many seem to think.

That is true of Thailand, the parents pay and the kids can go to a private international school, in the UK the kids have to pass an exam to be accepted as there is so much competition to get a place.

And in Phuket Thai kids also go to such schools as not everywhere in Thailand is poor.

Such resentment I have seen first hand, someone said to me "Just because you go to Oxford University it does not mean you are clever."

I laughed and said, "You try getting in and let me know how you got on".