Thailand - Not for me

[theguyfromanotherforum]

1 minute ago, OneMoreFarang said:

 I find especially all those tourists interesting who saw something on the internet or saw a video somewhere back home and who think they are now the Thailand experts. 

 

You mean, like long term expats who live in 30sqm on nutz condos and never crossed into Bangkok's nether regions outside a BTS line?

 

Not to mention the only Thai words they managed to learn are farang ting tong and writing 555 on internet forums?

 

 

 

 

[1FinickyOne]

16 hours ago, Dazinoz said:

Actually a Thai red bus driver at a dinner he drove us to said only loser farang come to Thailand because they are losers in their own country.

 

Sure, and a songthaew driver... he considers himself a winner? Maybe he is but anyone who talks in absolutes is going to be incorrect at least to some %% - - and really, not worth quoting... stick with Lao Tzu... or Ben Franklin

[meechai]

10 hours ago, Nyezhov said:

So lets see..Sunday? OK, grab a 100B  ($3) breakfast and my camera. Walk to Skytrain. For $1, go to....hmmm......ok lets just schmooze...Chatuchak! Take pics of stuff. Have a lunch for say 200B ($6)...or a snack! Jump back on train for another $1 head over to.....hmmm I know, its time to wierdo watch! Beer at  Hillary!  Ill drop $5 here! Then a dinner...maybe walk (yes...walk) somewhere and eat dinner for maybe $5! Take pics of food. Jump on BTS, go home, read newspapers about blizzards, snooze, repeat. Hey I just filled my day....for about $20. I could burn that in gas in the USA....

 

^^^^ That

I lived in Thailand for years & now back in a nice place in the west but I miss that ^^^

It is interesting & inexpensive so we do go back 3 months a year

[OneMoreFarang]

2 hours ago, bwpage3 said:

Seriously, like the traffic in in Bangkok and the the monsoon rains/floods don't suck?

If you use motorcycles and not cars in Bangkok most of the time it's not so bad.

And warm rain, even if it comes in buckets, is a lot better than cold rain.

[Wake Up]

21 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

Tourist visa: The tourist visa you get when you come into Panama gives you 180 days in the country. This visa is for Americans, Canadians and citizens of the European Community and some other counties. After 180 days, you must leave Panama and and return to your own country for a period of not more than 30 days.

True or you can buy property in Panama (hundreds of thousands of dollars) and get more permanent visa. But who wants to buy property in a foreign homeland?  I hear complaints by long time expats in Thailand that they cannot buy land in Thailand.  But what if Thailand (like Panama and other countries) required you to buy property or investments to live here year round. Most of us would not be here and most of us prefer the 90 day reports and retirement yearly extension and reentry permit system. Thailand IMO is much easier to live year round with their visa system as an over 50 expat than any other country worth living in. 

[JLCrab]

Just a note to my fellow Floridian: The main reason I am in Thailand is not financial but because by living in Thailand I do not have to put up with judgmental people on a near daily basis as I would if I lived in Florida as you amply demonstrate.

[OneMoreFarang]

20 minutes ago, theguyfromanotherforum said:

28 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

 I find especially all those tourists interesting who saw something on the internet or saw a video somewhere back home and who think they are now the Thailand experts. 

 

You mean, like long term expats who live in 30sqm on nutz condos and never crossed into Bangkok's nether regions outside a BTS line?

 

Not to mention the only Thai words they managed to learn are farang ting tong and writing 555 on internet forums?

You seem to have a preference for small apartments. And the way you write it seems you know a lot of people who are very limited in many ways. If those are the people you knew in Thailand it is not really surprising that you moved away - to another small apartment.

Personally I prefer people who enjoy living here - and not only near the BTS. But that is obviously my choice. It's up to you with whom you want to share your time...

[marko kok prong]

Sometimes i wish i had the option to leave,but i don't,could not imagine returning to the Uk after 22 years away, going back to Aussie would be financial suicide as my ex would be all over me for money plus the prices mate of mine just came back A$ 48 for a pack of smokes. Tried the Philippines was okay but much less safe,i too have health issue's but reckon i am sort of stuck here.

[LomSak27]

17 hours ago, Dazinoz said:

Actually a Thai red bus driver at a dinner he drove us to said only loser farang come to Thailand because they are losers in their own country.

That is of course what the Thai media with 'approval' pumps into the populace. I have to believe the media spewing this out nationwide is not good for Tourism from farang countries. It could be a factor in the drop in tourism form the west.

However TAT never seems to investigates this, Go Figure    

[Dazinoz]

38 minutes ago, kenk24 said:

 

Sure, and a songthaew driver... he considers himself a winner? Maybe he is but anyone who talks in absolutes is going to be incorrect at least to some %% - - and really, not worth quoting... stick with Lao Tzu... or Ben Franklin

Of course not.

 

 

Edited August 26, 2018 by Dazinoz

[Kwasaki]

32 minutes ago, Wake Up said:

I hear complaints by long time expats in Thailand that they cannot buy land in Thailand.

I don't see why they would want to buy land personally whether they have a Thai wife/partner or no-one,  you can get a 30 year least on land if you want. 

[Kadilo]

11 pages in less than 24 hours? 

Another recent one similar scenario got a lot more.

Same format, one minute they are bragging, then they are slagging.

These threads are popular because they give the likes of bw an opportunity to come in with his cut and paste post looking down his hooter at everyone and telling us how much he earns and how everyone is a desperate loser hence why they ended up in Thailand.

Same old same old. Probably another 5 pages or so of him demanding everyone prove otherwise, and the OP telling us how wonderful life is in freezing Canada as a single bloke then it will fizzle out like the rest.

In the meantime .......




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[Gecko123]

2 hours ago, bwpage3 said:

The OP is free. Let us rejoice he has found his happiness.

Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty I'm free at last (in Florida).

 

 

 

 

Edited August 26, 2018 by Gecko123

[giddyup]

3 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

In the meantime .......
 

Life goes on...

[neeray]

2 hours ago, bwpage3 said:

Well someone has to say it.

 

No one on this forum grew up dreaming of spending their dying days in Thailand.

 

Everyone one of you that are in Thailand are there because something went wrong in your life, yes it did and we will get to that, so don't deny it.

 

1. Like the OP said. In educated countries not one hot woman of 18 to 40 would give any of you the time of day. Why? Because they know more than "issue me" and "handsum man" and you would be a pervert in most countries.

2.  Thai women are considered attractive to all the losers that couldn't get an attractive woman in their own country. Me included at my age. Can their really match up with all the young, beautiful fit women in the USA? Absolutely not. Don't see many Thai woman gracing the pages of the world's best fashion mags or starring in world class movies? Plus they are stupid as shit.

 

3. Most Thai woman are dumb as shit. Ask them where Australia is on a map and they point to the North Pole. And the farangs are dumb as shit as well thinking most of these girls are looking at their old, ugly, fat ass instead of their wallets.

 

4. I moved to Thailand for the weather? Really? Which weather is that? the change your shirt 5 times a day humidity weather or the Monsoon Rains/Floods 6 months out of EVERY Year. Is that the wonderful weather you moved to Thailand for?

 

5. View of Pattaya beach? Really? Get your eyes checked man. That is not the Riviera that's for sure!

 

6. Property prices increases? How many of you have made a fortune in the Thai real estate market or how many actually a own a real house and land that is your own name?

 

7. How many of you are retirement age and couldn't afford to live on what you saved your ENTIRE life without having to leave your own country and live in the third world in Thailand?

 

8. How many people are working in Thailand with no retirement plan earning less than minimum wage and thinking they have life by the balls?

 

9. How many moved all the way to Thailand only to get divorced and outsmarted by an uneducated Thai woman?

 

10. How many old fools think their life revolves around sex and prostitutes?

 

11. How many are financially trapped and have no way to get home or no home to go back to?

 

So to be fair to anyone that moves back home, me included, I never grew up dreaming I would die in Thailand that is 100% fokking for sure!

 

I stayed there 10 years and that was probably about 7 years too many.

 

So what is the difference in all the nasty attitudes about people moving home?

 

Are you so jealous because you cannot? Because in case you cannot seen the signs everywhere, you are in Thailand where you have no rights. Your money is welcome, just not you.

 

Most never saved for retirement or most never had a job that paid anything.

 

Every time I hear someone say how "staggering costs are in the USA, I have to laugh my head off"

 

Sure if you are school teacher in Thailand or if you worked at McDonald's.

 

Not everyone in the world that ever lived in Thailand is a dumb ass shmuck.

 

If 99% of the people in Thailand could earn a couple hundred thousand dollars a year in their own country, they wouldn't even be in Thailand. Thailand is the financial failure fall-back.

 

The sad thing is most expats living in Thailand don't even know how <deleted> they really are. One major medical, one political climate change, blah, blah, blah and your happy existence is fokked. Keep thinking it will never happen just like the tsunami!

 

Do you like being seen with a hot 20 year old with the intelligence of a US kindergarten kid? Must have been sexually deprived your entire life to put up with that just for sex.

 

You think all the adults are looking at you thinking wow "You handsum man"? Or are they saying. "What a dumbshit to throw all his money away on that dumb girl"

 

You are fokking nuts to even start to believe you belong there or that the gov't gives a rats ass about you or your happiness. I think what you used to be called is a "Carpet Bagger"? Takes it to a new meaning when you move 10,000 miles away from your home to live.

 

The worse thing of all, as we can see in this post, people cannot distinguish fact from fiction. Many have talked themselves into the Utopia as they climb out of sea covered in plastic or they walk down their Soi covered with stray dog shit.

 

Yes, this is the Utopia you left your birth land for?

 

Because it is really better to get married to someone with less intelligence than a banana, they stay in the snow and jerk off. Good trade off.

 

Oh, Mister, why are you even on this forum Mister?

 

Excuse me? You only want the back slapping expat's on here that want to believe they found Utopia among all the trash on the streets and the burning fields of Chiang Mai?

 

Or you don't want to be reminded of the truth?

 

Before you bash anyone for doing whatever is they want to do with their own life, you should realize the truths of your own life.

 

If you can provide some evidence that it was your dream, when you were a small boy to move to Thailand and teach English and live like a pauper, then I will gladly apologize. But short of any evidence, no way!

 

The majority of you are there because something in your left went wrong, and instead owning up to it and telling the truth, you want to make up stories how much better life is in Thailand than in your motherland.

 

I bet 99% of you nut-grabbers if offered US $1,000,000 in cash would move in a heartbeat; so don't kid yourself to much that Thailand is a Utopia.

 

Thailand is YOUR Utopia, because that is all you can afford and their is nothing wrong with that as long as you tell it the way it is.

 

The OP is free. Let us rejoice he has found his happiness.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That was quite the rant. You must be a geneous like Trump to have figured all this out (you do sound American even though you make reference to Australia).

"Most Thai woman are dumb as shit".  "Plus they are stupid as shit" .These are two of the most ignorant comments that I have ever seen on this forum. Who the fxxk are you to generalize about a human race like this? The brush that you paint with is a mighty broad one. While I've encountered "a few", can't say as I've met many that fit your description and they certainly weren't Hiso or highly educated ladies.

I hope you do not reside in Thailand or even visit. It's jerks like you that give us decent ones a bad reputation.

[giddyup]

2 minutes ago, neeray said:

That was quite the rant. You must be a geneous like Trump to have figured all this out (you do sound American even though you make reference to Australia).

"Most Thai woman are dumb as shit".  "Plus they are stupid as shit" .These are two of the most ignorant comments that I have ever seen on this forum. Who the fxxk are you to generalize about a human race like this? The brush that you paint with is a mighty broad one. While I've encountered "a few", can't say as I've met many that fit your description and they certainly weren't Hiso or highly educated ladies.

I hope you do not reside in Thailand or even visit. It's jerks like you that give us decent ones a bad reputation.

Appreciate your comments, but did you have to attach his whole rant, it takes up half a page.

[Odysseus123]

6 minutes ago, giddyup said:

Life goes on...

As long as one has an internet connection..

 

"It's life,Jim-but not how we used to know it!"?

[Kwasaki]

8 minutes ago, Gecko123 said:

Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty I'm free at last

Thought OP was in Canada didn't think it was the same as US.

[neeray]

5 minutes ago, giddyup said:

Appreciate your comments, but did you have to attach his whole rant, it takes up half a page.

Your comment is noted. I contemplated how to do this as I really didn't want to attach that BS. Sometimes I read a comment and if the "whole rant" isn't there, it's hard to relate to. Further suggestion welcome.

[giddyup]

1 minute ago, neeray said:

Your comment is noted. I contemplated how to do this as I really didn't want to attach that BS. Sometimes I read a comment and if the "whole rant" isn't there, it's hard to relate to. Further suggestion welcome.

You just run your cursor over the text you don't want and hit delete or the space bar.

[Gecko123]

6 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

Thought OP was in Canada didn't think it was the same as US.

Poster I was responding to lives in Florida.

 

[Gecko123]

Unofficial Thai Visa Forum poll:

 

Who is losing their marbles faster?

 

Donald Trump or bwpage3?

[marcusarelus]

2 hours ago, bwpage3 said:

The pluses of living in Thailand?

 

If you can earn a high salary and can live anywhere, what plus exactly would Thailand have?

 

Read my other post.

My big plus is the emotional satisfaction I get from reading deadbeat Florida crackers come back on a Thai forum 4 years after being tossed out of Thailand to tell me how bad I have it.  555.  Do they not know we who live in Thailand have their envy figured out.  I left Canada years ago and I simply don't care.  I don't care anything about the country or the people.  I wouldn't waste my time posting about it.  Same with Vietnam after I left there.  Canada was the pits.  Too cold, all the people with an ounce of sense migrated to the USA to make some money years ago.  Florida is for old folks who need jobs carrying out groceries for old people who have a bit more cash.  I got tired of seeing wrinkly women everywhere and overweight Germans on the beach with black speedos and black socks and sandals.  Yuuuk.  

 

Thailand keeps me young and has ever since I moved here.  I have a great dog and a great view and a good life.  

 

So someone tell me please.  Why all the reprobates come back after leaving and try and make us happy people feel bad and insult Thai people in general?   

[Naam]

2 hours ago, bwpage3 said:

$12,500 dollars Florida property tax if you own a house that is worth over US $1,000,000.

 

$450,000 house the property tax is around $4,000 in gated community. 

 

PS My home insurance is $1800 so once again $8,800 dollars you must be in a million + home

yawn...   we sold our home 14 years ago for $635k (Volusia County, water front) and i estimate its present value around $1mil.

[duanebigsby]

23 hours ago, Hummin said:

Respect your choice!

 

Im not sure I will stick around here in Thailand in 10 years, not even 5, but I try, as I see the adventages it gives me as so long. I have other options and really do not feel stuck yet. But, yes, clean air, cold air, snow, mountains, skiing, clean water, fresh cold water seafood, cheap wine, bread, and so much more as good clean public toilets with quality paper inside and soap. 

 

Enjoy ?

Public toilets? Try walking around in any Canadian city while needing a washroom.

There are very few public toilets. Non existent. coffee shops and restaurants want you to buy something first. Here any temple or coffee shop has toilets to use. Petrol stations in Canada you have to beg someone for a key, here they're open. I haven't used toilet paper since discovering the bum gun.

[Naam]

1 hour ago, JLCrab said:

Just a note to my fellow Floridian: The main reason I am in Thailand is not financial but because by living in Thailand I do not have to put up with judgmental people on a near daily basis as I would if I lived in Florida as you amply demonstrate.

that's not a fair assessment JLC. we lived in Florida nearly 15 years and, although being foreigners, never had a problem with any locals. extremely friendly and helpful neighbours and polite people whereever we went. we might be still living in Florida if sept 11 had not happened and were not told a couple of years later by immigration officers "owning a home in the Yewnighted States and paying federal income tax is not a valid reason to enter the country." my wife still craves for Florida (or anywhere in the U.S.).

[Nyezhov]

4 hours ago, bwpage3 said:

Seriously, like the traffic in in Bangkok and the the monsoon rains/floods don't suck?

Mass transport in BKK is IMHO world class, That should get the crowd going neh? No no Moscow is better, no Singapoer, No Tokyo blah blah balh

 

But it works fine for me

 

and Id rather be wet and warm, slimy and disgusting as it may be, than in -40, or slogging sluggishly through slush slosh and slop. I dont want to wear long underwear any more hence 6 on and 6 off.

[billd766]

2 hours ago, theguyfromanotherforum said:

 

You mean, like long term expats who live in 30sqm on nutz condos and never crossed into Bangkok's nether regions outside a BTS line?

 

Not to mention the only Thai words they managed to learn are farang ting tong and writing 555 on internet forums?

 

 

 

 

 

Well I am a long term expat who lives an a very small piece of land in rural Khampaeng Phet. It belongs to my wife as does the tiny house we live in with our son.

 

Last time I looked the land was 15 rai and the house was about 170 sq/mt. 

 

True I cannot speak that much Thai due to partial deafness and tone deafness and AFAIR I try not to post 555 posts on internet forums. I leave that to other people such as yourself for instance.

[55Jay]

Well, I say good onya.  You were smart to hold on to your flat, let somebody else pay the mortgage for a while, and not delude yourself about what you really thought/felt about your life in SabaiLand. 

 

Having options is liberating and allows you to think clearly and make decisions. Some guys are all in, so they make the best of it, because they have to.  The ones who don't, or can't, are candidates for depression, some drown it in beer/whiskey and get so far down the rabbit hole, they feel like there's no way out, and opt for DIY flight lessons.

 

First few years we lived in LoS full time, I called our extended annual holidays in the US "Sanity Checks".   The absence helped me re-appreciate some of the little things I liked about living here.   Those things, one by one, have fallen away to the point that, when we got back to Swampy the last time (March this year), and drove away on the highway, I looked out the window at the grime, big trucks/lorries all around us belching black diesel exhaust, trash, tracts of overgrown, unkempt land.....  it's a bloody eye sore.  ?

 

But up we go and the further N/E past Saraburi we get, the better I feel.    Thailand's not so bad, certainly been in worse places, but I suspect we'll bust a move out of here in the next 3 to 5 years.   My wife's good to go, well traveled and isn't a die-hard Thai.  I often joke that when it comes time to put Thailand in the rear-view mirror, she'll likely beat me to the airport.

[marcusarelus]

I have been blessed all of my life with beautiful women.  Dancers and beauty queens and academic legends in their own minds.  I occasionally see them on TV or in the newspaper but thank goodness.