15 hours ago, MaeJoMTB said:

All it changed was the nationality of your wife. 

And living in a much safer country with much better infrastructure.

23 hours ago, bazza73 said:

No, I'm not Thai poster of any year. Not sure I would want to be.

I've done good and bad things in my life. Look back fondly on the good things, move on from the bad things.

Part of the human condition.

Forget ever making Thai poster of the year.

But, all is not lost, going by so many of your posts you are by far the most  deserved for Alfred Adlers  award for the biggest superiority complex  ever seen.

Not a good part of the human condition at all.

On 11/20/2017 at 9:01 AM, Naam said:

when i was 30 i regretted a lot of stupid mistakes committed in my 20s,

when i was 40 i regretted a lot of stupid mistakes committed in my 30s,

when i was 50 i regretted a lot of stupid mistakes committed in my 40s,

when i was 60 i regretted a lot of stupid mistakes committed in my 50s,

when i was 70 i regretted a lot of stupid mistakes committed in my 60s,

and if i make it to 80 i'm sure i will regret a lot of stupid mistake committed in my 70s.

sounds to me like your life has been one big mistake.

4 hours ago, catman20 said:

sounds to me like your life has been one big mistake.

not one but thousands! but regretting is limited to max 10 minutes daily. the other 23 hours and 50 minutes i live a rather happy and content life or sleep.

 

On 11/21/2017 at 8:29 PM, garryjohns said:

Forget ever making Thai poster of the year.

But, all is not lost, going by so many of your posts you are by far the most  deserved for Alfred Adlers  award for the biggest superiority complex  ever seen.

Not a good part of the human condition at all.

I'm quite pleased you are making these posts, as you are showing your true colors.

6 hours ago, bazza73 said:

I'm quite pleased you are making these posts, as you are showing your true colors.

Are you really existing in such a state of denial that you actually believe that it is just me telling it how it is and that it is not, in fact, the general consensus? 

That is laughable if so.

Edited November 23, 20178 yr by garryjohns

On ‎11‎/‎5‎/‎2017 at 7:59 PM, cyberfarang said:

We are born. We plod along trying to keep our heads down and then we die if we`re lucky. The last straw with me happened last year when my mother sent me a bill for the breast milk she fed me after I was born.

I thought you were being serious, and then I read the last sentence, LOL.

 

Regrets I have too many, but losing a sibling too young ( for he and I ) is never a great way to start life, because there is just no way to get around it or mend the damage done.

Still, one must get on with life or kill oneself and that really is a very big thing to contemplate.

 

I did find that naively trusting others to be "good" is never a successful way to live a life without regret. If I could go back in that time machine, I'd be more sceptical, untrusting and devious than I was.

Perhaps the biggest regret of all is arriving at a point in life when I can begin to understand why things happened the way they did, but being too old to take advantage of that knowledge.

Second biggest regret is slowly losing all my friends over the past 30 years of my life after I left the home country for adventure and wanderlust. Without children, the only thing in life that really matters, IMO, is one's friendships ( and that includes one's significant other- too many marriages are devoid of "friendship" in my experience ).

On ‎11‎/‎20‎/‎2017 at 9:01 AM, Naam said:

when i was 30 i regretted a lot of stupid mistakes committed in my 20s,

when i was 40 i regretted a lot of stupid mistakes committed in my 30s,

when i was 50 i regretted a lot of stupid mistakes committed in my 40s,

when i was 60 i regretted a lot of stupid mistakes committed in my 50s,

when i was 70 i regretted a lot of stupid mistakes committed in my 60s,

and if i make it to 80 i'm sure i will regret a lot of stupid mistake committed in my 70s.

I think the only way to never have a regret would be to do the same boring job one's whole working life, never take a chance on love and never travel further than the nearest pub.

Of course, then one might regret doing so .

On 20/11/2017 at 7:51 PM, Naam said:

pool should have been placed turned 90º.

Wouldn't all the water fall out?

1 hour ago, grollies said:

Wouldn't all the water fall out?

a trilithium powered gravity-stabiliser would prevent that.

18 minutes ago, Naam said:

a trilithium powered gravity-stabiliser would prevent that.

Would beat an infinity pool hands down.

3 hours ago, Naam said:

a trilithium powered gravity-stabiliser would prevent that.

Don't you mean deuterium? I would have thought trilithium would have reacted with the water to form Li3(OH)3.

3 hours ago, bazza73 said:

6 hours ago, Naam said:

a trilithium powered gravity-stabiliser would prevent that.

Don't you mean deuterium? I would have thought trilithium would have reacted with the water to form Li3(OH)3.

why do you assume my pool content is water?

 

You mean it's gin? Be careful, you could be making Grignard reagents.

Edited November 24, 20178 yr by bazza73

On 11/23/2017 at 8:20 AM, garryjohns said:

Are you really existing in such a state of denial that you actually believe that it is just me telling it how it is and that it is not, in fact, the general consensus? 

That is laughable if so.

Don't let garryjohns get to you, man... It's common knowledge he's the beta-male of the Chiang Mai forum.

   Oey at  20

To the OP

 

I have a similar regret about by gran. I did see her the week before she died but I was too busy entertaining a japanese GF and shd have been at my gran's bedside.

One bad money decision which took years to fix and cost me not only my credit rating but many years before I got back on my feet. Now I use it as motivation and a lesson learnt.

After a rocky start in thailand everything has worked out ok. A good job helps. No real regrets but I figure Bangkok has changed alot and is not for me; it wears you down slowly and I'm not happy here anymore.

The difficult part is persuading the wife ..

 

 

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For some unknown reason I'm sure I keep seeing more and more comments on this forum and other forums from expats residing in Thailand that seems to indicate that they now regret making  the move here. In some cases that feeling of regret is made even worse by knowing that they have either gone and burnt their return home bridges or have financially over invested in their life in Thailand and now have limited or no money to return back home .

 

That regret of not being happy where you reside but can't do any thing about it must be like a thorn in your side 

I regret nothing.I have had a fantastic ride my life has been so good ,i am one lucky son of a bitch

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20 hours ago, Once Bitten said:

For some unknown reason I'm sure I keep seeing more and more comments on this forum and other forums from expats residing in Thailand that seems to indicate that they now regret making  the move here. In some cases that feeling of regret is made even worse by knowing that they have either gone and burnt their return home bridges or have financially over invested in their life in Thailand and now have limited or no money to return back home .

 

That regret of not being happy where you reside but can't do any thing about it must be like a thorn in your side 

i think you got it about right however these expats only have themselves to blame for the position they find their selves in.

On 12/27/2017 at 12:16 AM, Will E Vormer said:

To the OP

 

I have a similar regret about by gran. I did see her the week before she died but I was too busy entertaining a japanese GF and shd have been at my gran's bedside.

One bad money decision which took years to fix and cost me not only my credit rating but many years before I got back on my feet. Now I use it as motivation and a lesson learnt.

After a rocky start in thailand everything has worked out ok. A good job helps. No real regrets but I figure Bangkok has changed alot and is not for me; it wears you down slowly and I'm not happy here anymore.

The difficult part is persuading the wife ..

 

 

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what is it with all this wife stuff, if your not happy tell her WE are moving ! dont sit and suffer in silence. grow a pair 

I regret not coming here 20 yrs earlier so I could bang and drink more piss