Does being an expat keep you younger in spirit and ambition?

[nausea]

2 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

I truly think if I had stayed in Australia I would have atrophied from sheer boredom. Here, I'm having new adventures every day ( even if it's just climbing onto my scooter ), learning more Thai (slowly), and generally enjoying myself.

Let's face it, how many 75 yo guys in Australia are still having regular sex with their considerably younger GF? I can see the envy in their eyes when I roll out the photos of my travels here.

It won't seem so good when you're 60. Swings and roundabouts. Anyone who thinks screwing around,  beats having your own house and enjoying your grandkids when your 60 is a fool. Times change and so do you. This doesn't apply to me, I'm exceptional, but most people aren't. Ha!

[Odysseus123]

3 minutes ago, Esso49 said:

Half and half ? by that do you mean the other 50% of 75 year old Australians are having regular sex with their boyfriends ?

Errr..can I rephrase that??

 

Meaning that I wouldn't like to be Thai'd down to any place..oops..

[Lacessit]

Just now, nausea said:

It won't seem so good when you're 60. Swings and roundabouts. Anyone who thinks screwing around,  beats having your own house and enjoying your grandkids when your 60 is a fool. Times change and so do you. This doesn't apply to me, I'm exceptional, but most people aren't. Ha!

Well, I'm 75, so your advice is more tedious than exceptional. Perhaps you should consider expanding your horizons.

[Odysseus123]

2 minutes ago, nausea said:

It won't seem so good when you're 60. Swings and roundabouts. Anyone who thinks screwing around,  beats having your own house and enjoying your grandkids when your 60 is a fool. Times change and so do you. This doesn't apply to me, I'm exceptional, but most people aren't. Ha!

I loved the "this doesn't apply to me" bit..

 

So damn true.?

[BritManToo]

16 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Here, I'm having new adventures every day ( even if it's just climbing onto my scooter )

I climbed down the side of a series of waterfalls this morning, then swum across to get to a path on the other side, not bad for someone over 60.

 

[Kadilo]

1 minute ago, BritManToo said:

I climbed down the side of a series of waterfalls this morning, then swum across to get to a path on the other side, not bad for someone over 60.

 

Had you left your beer there ?

[Odysseus123]

16 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Meaning?

Sorry,In my case it just means travelling back and forth on a regular basis which isn't likely to happen in the near future anyway.

 

I have been visiting Asia since 1986 and my day is probably done.

[Lacessit]

Just now, BritManToo said:

I climbed down the side of a series of waterfalls this morning, then swum across to get to a path on the other side, not bad for someone over 60.

 

60? You're just a young fellow. Try the trek up Phu Chi Fa, really worth it.

 

[BritManToo]

13 minutes ago, nausea said:

Anyone who thinks screwing around,  beats having your own house and enjoying your grandkids when your 60 is a fool.

I'm over 60, still screwing around and I've got my own house and a 7-year-old son.

Why can't we have it all?

 

Edited September 23, 2018 by BritManToo

[Esso49]

1 minute ago, BritManToo said:

I climbed down the side of a series of waterfalls this morning, then swum across to get to a path on the other side, not bad for someone over 60.

 

At 60 you should have by now learnt that to climb waterfalls is an extremely dangerous thing to do during the rainy season. I trust you didn't attempt to get down the rest of the mountain quickly using your hang-glider and then running countless kilometers back to your home whilst wearing a funny hat and holding your breath ?

[Lacessit]

1 minute ago, Odysseus123 said:

Sorry,In my case it just means travelling back and forth on a regular basis which isn't likely to happen in the near future anyway.

 

I have been visiting Asia since 1986 and my day is probably done.

Sorry to hear that. I wish I had known more about Asia when I was 20.

[marcusarelus]

49 minutes ago, Odysseus123 said:

True..I forgot about the SAS,the navy SEALS,a few Top Guns and the odd retired astronaut or two.

They usually drank in the other bar.

When I first came to Thailand I worked in support of pilots who flew combat missions out of U-Tapao.  A lot of them came back when they retired and joined one of the VFW clubs in Thailand.  The meetings are only open to Veterans of Foreign Wars as certified by the US Gov. 

 

You might have heard of Tony P.  Marlon Brando played him in the movie "Apocalypse now" He retired here till 1992 when Thailand kicked him out.  Tony P.  Guadalcanal Campaign, Battle of Iwo Jima,  Korean War,  Permesta Rebellion,  Vietnam War, Laotian Civil War. 

 

There were 50,000 Americans stationed in Thailand when I was here.  Total probably close to half a million over the whole war. That's a lot of potential expats.  What do all those soldier expats do?  My friends try to help Thai orphans and poor schools and bury dead comrades and talk about old times and play with the kids and take the wives shopping. 

 

Edited September 23, 2018 by marcusarelus

[pgrahmm]

2 hours ago, Esso49 said:

And when you live in Thailand  the fact that no one reaches adult maturity, as recognised in the West, then of course it keeps you young. Proof of that is there are so many expats on this very forum who keep spitting their dummies out . What more proof do you need ????

Maybe this.....

[Tofer]

Faraday got it in one word - contentment! 

 

If people are content with their lot there is a lot to be said for that.

I have resigned myself to realising I will never be totally content as I am driven to experience different things / places in life, I call it my 3 year itch. Maybe, hopefully, I will be able to settle down in my waning years, particularly having invested heavily in my dream property / lifestyle in Thailand.

 

It is the ones that don't have the confidence to try something different that I feel sorry for. Years ago I visited my old work colleagues and one chap said he envied my globe trotting lifestyle, I told him he could do the same with no children and at the top of his career the world was his oyster, but he stayed put, very sad.

[Odysseus123]

6 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Sorry to hear that. I wish I had known more about Asia when I was 20.

I was 33 when I kicked off on the Asian grand tour and I have certainly enjoyed myself on my travels but,curiously enough,I would rate Japan and India as being more intellectually stimulating (from my point of view) than Thailand.

 

What I miss about Thailand is it's vibrancy, colour and sheer energy.

[marcusarelus]

1 hour ago, TonyClifton said:

She's never called me Grandpa.

So give her English lessons you tightwad.

[TonyClifton]

1 minute ago, marcusarelus said:

So give her English lessons you tightwad.

English is her first language.

[tropo]

6 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Back in the UK, no man I know over 40-years-old is still having regular sex.

If you're married it's usually only a birthday and anniversary event.

That's nothing compared to what's going on in Japan. Apparently, 31% of people aged 18 to 34 say they are virgins. A quarter of Japanese men at the age of 50 are yet to marry.

 

 

 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/japan-sex-problem-demographic-time-bomb-birth-rates-sex-robots-fertility-crisis-virgins-romance-porn-a7831041.html

 

[Esso49]

29 minutes ago, Odysseus123 said:

Errr..can I rephrase that??

 

Meaning that I wouldn't like to be Thai'd down to any place..oops..

Now your'e talking. A bit of bondage spices up your love life

[marcusarelus]

5 minutes ago, TonyClifton said:

English is her first language.

Sorry.  But then why would you come on a Thai Forum and boast about not having a Thai wife?  What's that to be proud of?  I don't have a British wife but I don't feel the urge to brag about it?

[TonyClifton]

Just now, marcusarelus said:

Sorry.  But then why would you come on a Thai Forum and boast about not having a Thai wife?  What's that to be proud of?  I don't have a British wife but I don't feel the urge to brag about it?

Get your facts straight before you opine.  I still have a Thai wife.  I  haven't divorced her yet.  

[AlexRich]

I would say that most elderly expats have a far richer experience living in Thailand than they would in their home towns in the west. They generally look a lot livelier and are more social than their counterparts at home. As long as you have a reasonable income and are sensible it’s a far more interesting life adventure. Not such a great place if you are suffering with alcoholism or struggling to get by ... no safety nets.

[marcusarelus]

6 minutes ago, TonyClifton said:

Get your facts straight before you opine.  I still have a Thai wife.  I  haven't divorced her yet.  

You wrote, " Being a 56-year-old expat with a 24-year-old girlfriend who has never taken money keeps me young. She's not Thai, which ought to explain a lot."

 

Sorry.  But then why would you come on a Thai Forum and boast about not having a Thai GF?  What's that to be proud of?  I don't have a British GF but I don't feel the urge to brag about it?

[Kadilo]

1 minute ago, marcusarelus said:

You wrote, " Being a 56-year-old expat with a 24-year-old girlfriend who has never taken money keeps me young. She's not Thai, which ought to explain a lot."

 

Sorry.  But then why would you come on a Thai Forum and boast about not having a Thai GF?  What's that to be proud of?  I don't have a British GF but I don't feel the urge to brag about it?

There’s people on here who constantly slag off Thailand and have never been outside their bedsit in Scunthorpe so I wouldnt worry too much. 

 

[TonyClifton]

3 minutes ago, marcusarelus said:

Sorry.  But then why would you come on a Thai Forum and boast about not having a Thai GF?  What's that to be proud of?  I don't have a British GF but I don't feel the urge to brag about it?

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I'm not sure where you got confused.  I have a Thai wife, not a girlfriend.  I can't marry the GF until I divorce the wife.  

[Odysseus123]

Just now, TonyClifton said:

I'm not sure where you got confused.  I have a Thai wife, not a girlfriend.  I can't marry the GF until I divorce the wife.  

Well, you had better hurry up with the divorce and get it over and done with before this thread expires..?

[TonyClifton]

Just now, Odysseus123 said:

Well, you had better hurry up with the divorce and get it over and done with before this thread expires..?

She doesn't want to divorce me.  She says she will if I want to remarry but gave me carte blanche to sleep with whomever I want as long as I don't tell her details.  She's been gone since February so far, she still needs money.  The GF has never asked for a dime.

[marcusarelus]

9 minutes ago, TonyClifton said:

I'm not sure where you got confused.  I have a Thai wife, not a girlfriend.  I can't marry the GF until I divorce the wife.  

You wrote, "Being a 56-year-old expat with a 24-year-old girlfriend who has never taken money keeps me young. She's not Thai, which ought to explain a lot."

 

My question was "Why come on a Thai forum and brag about having a girlfriend who is not Thai?" Is that something special that I'm missing? Who cares what nationality your GF is? 

[Odysseus123]

6 minutes ago, TonyClifton said:

She doesn't want to divorce me.  She says she will if I want to remarry but gave me carte blanche to sleep with whomever I want as long as I don't tell her details.  She's been gone since February so far, she still needs money.  The GF has never asked for a dime.

I understand.

 

Perhaps my joke was in poor taste but I was alluding to the "confusion" that was being exhibited on the thread.

 

Best of luck.

[TonyClifton]

1 minute ago, marcusarelus said:

You wrote, "Being a 56-year-old expat with a 24-year-old girlfriend who has never taken money keeps me young. She's not Thai, which ought to explain a lot."

 

My question was "Why come on a Thai forum and brag about having a girlfriend who is not Thai?" Is that something special that I'm missing? Who cares what nationality your GF is? 

I understand your confusion.  Most men pay their GF in one form or another.  This is common in Thailand.  If you went to Vietnam, and you offered to pay a woman who spent time with you, she would be incensed.  I can't say the same for the ladies here in Thailand.  Perhaps you got confused with my wife being a Thai.  She has been gone since February but still has her hand in my pocket.  My non-Thai GF has never wanted a dime.  She stays with a much older man for many reasons but none of them are monetary.  She does say that older men have less drama.  I'm sure she is correct.