4 hours ago, jayboy said:

Pattaya residents should be congratulated for doing so well in this prestigious poll.Lets give them a big clap.

Oh you nasty man, on the other hand I'm pretty sure Pattayans are fully capable of acquiring a big clap on their own.

Pattaya, healthy ?

Not for Farangs, they fall off balconies in droves there . . .

 

 

Edited January 9, 20197 yr by starfish

Pattaya & the word healthy in the same sentence is just plain ludicrous

This is funny because they just set up a few criteria against which to measure health. And then they published the results without first evaluating the method. When massage shops which mainly offer happy endings are included in the counting of spas you get weird results. An influx of “Mumbai men”, as they are popularly called, means that a lot of vegetarian Indian restaurants pop up. They’re not really vegetarians for the health benefits. 

 

So it seems their method only includes indicators for health and omits all possible unhealthy indicators. 

 

I can understand how this method gets Pattaya a great rating. But like many others here I’m struggling to understand where they found six parks in Pattaya. A place for walking and running in Thailand needs illumination and some limitations on the number of dogs. I know of no such place in Pattaya. 

Chiang mai healthy? I don't think they took into account the burning season. 

1 minute ago, sup3r1or said:

Chiang mai healthy? I don't think they took into account the burning season. 

Chiang Mai may be healthy if you don't swallow...........(the air)

1 hour ago, marcusarelus said:

Chiang Mai may be healthy if you don't swallow...........(the air)

A good friend of mine always gets out of there about March for 2 months he says it can get really bad where he lives

I can´t stop laughing. Chiang Mai, which is a couple of weeks in April/Mai the city in the world with the unhealthiest air (burning season) and Pattaya. But ok, if they only count Pilates and Yoga courses, parks and vegetarian restaurants (where they serve poisoned and not enough cleaned vegetables)...

2 minutes ago, CNXexpat said:

I can´t stop laughing. Chiang Mai, which is a couple of weeks in April/Mai the city in the world with the unhealthiest air (burning season) and Pattaya. But ok, if they only count Pilates and Yoga courses, parks and vegetarian restaurants (where they serve poisoned and not enough cleaned vegetables)...

When I lived there, cough, cough it was not, cough, a couple of weeks, cough it was Feb to May cough,...........

13 minutes ago, marcusarelus said:

When I lived there, cough, cough it was not, cough, a couple of weeks, cough it was Feb to May cough,...........

Yes, maybe, but in 6 weeks it´s the most unhealthy air in the world. That´s what I wrote. Note, there are 2 seasons in CM: rain season and burning season.

2 hours ago, CNXexpat said:

Yes, maybe, but in 6 weeks it´s the most unhealthy air in the world. That´s what I wrote. Note, there are 2 seasons in CM: rain season and burning season.

You wrote, " Chiang Mai, which is a couple of weeks in April/Mai the city in the world with the unhealthiest air"  It should read from Feb thru May that's 12 weeks not a couple of weeks.  There are 4 seasons, hot, cool, rainy and burning.    

21 minutes ago, marcusarelus said:

You wrote, " Chiang Mai, which is a couple of weeks in April/Mai the city in the world with the unhealthiest air"  It should read from Feb thru May that's 12 weeks not a couple of weeks.  There are 4 seasons, hot, cool, rainy and burning.    

Not all the time Chiang Mai has the unhealthiest air in the world, in some weeks of the burning season some cities in China and India are worse. But a couple of weeks CM is number one. 

 

Yes, I know there are 4 seasons. Irony is sometimes not easy to understand.

On 1/9/2019 at 11:18 AM, webfact said:

“Thailand is known for its incredible spas and skilled spa therapists,

Freaking hell...................do they have a speciality centre for sidesplitting to as im gonna  need  it real  soon

Paris nominated as the healthiest city in the world? 

Except for its citizens, who are subject to anarchy protesters every day, blown up and shot up up by Islamists every 3 months or so .

The travel supermarket forum must be a French organisation, with leanings to Thailand.

I will visit Laos soon via Chiang Mai. I will make up my own mind. I trust that Chiang Mai is not as lawless as Paris

I love Thailand. I have visited Pattaya  times but no longer would dare swim there. Too many open sewers to the sea

And the plastic filled ditches. And the broken down infrastructure, the swaggering police, the over crowded main street. The awful smell.

This poll is a phony. It is no wonder that Trump can say it is all fake news because this truly is fake news.

Get out of the cities in Thailand and find the truly beautiful country that it is. 

If you look at some of the expats walking around pattaya , not so sure they are embracing the healthy part of the city ????

That's the most stupid study I have ever read! 

Someone push a button and Google tells them there are more spas in Pattaya than Oslo ,  so it must be a more healthy city ?  Some sort of joke, right ? 

 

Oslo with the beautiful scenery , fresh air, surrounded by forests and parks, clean coastline and mountains did not even make it to the list? 

 

A study sponsored by TAT for sure. 

 

 

 

 

 

New Zealand is the healthiest place, if they could get rid of the cold weather ????

As I read this, I am literally in the process of buying an air mask, air filter, and waiting for the pm2.5 monitor to come from lazada.



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9 hours ago, balo said:

That's the most stupid study I have ever read! 

Someone push a button and Google tells them there are more spas in Pattaya than Oslo ,  so it must be a more healthy city ?  Some sort of joke, right ? 

 

Oslo with the beautiful scenery , fresh air, surrounded by forests and parks, clean coastline and mountains did not even make it to the list? 

 

A study sponsored by TAT for sure. 

 

 

 

 

 

Out of hibernation, balo, or just paying a call? But I do agree re the likely TAT spawning of this garbage.

Chiang Mai and Pattaya have been named among the healthiest cities in the world, according to a new study.

 

That's the final straw. I will never trust another "study" again.

The pollution alone.

Okay so if I want to be recon\gnised I need to open 300 rub and tug.

 

I do not have to worry about aids or any std's they don't count.

 

It is obvious that the people that wrote this have not been along the great beaches and seen the fact that they re under construction to try to repair.  They did not account for the bar every 5 feet or the congestion or suicide rates.

 

Yeah, right the last place n this green earth I would want to retire or think of if I wanted to live longer would be Pattaya.

 

But one gets a lot of exercise in Pattaya; bedminton comes to mind.

There are some very funny clever posts on this thread and ... I can hardly believe this .. no bickering and flaming. Nah I better read it again thats not possible. 

 

Pattaya is gotta be more healthy for me personally anyway, than home. Dont know about rest of world though so possibly off topic. Englands 8 month grey dreary cold winters and summers that are not much better would depress me. With no work to occupy me thats is.

 

If I wanted a social life it would have to be bingo or something.  Or be the old "billy no mates" sat alone in corner of the pub. Im never alone long in a bar here ???? and also plenty of other coffin dodger expats about to socialise with. My retirement years would seem much much longer in England I guess.  There is that going for it.

 

Only female company would be near my own age. Yuk !!  Im staying here especially now its officially very healthy. 

Edited January 11, 20197 yr by PAWNEESE

On 1/9/2019 at 11:18 AM, webfact said:

Chiang Mai and Pattaya have been named among the healthiest cities in the world, according to a new study.

I'm guessing they were excluding respiratory conditions and STD's from this study. 

8 hours ago, PAWNEESE said:

There are some very funny clever posts on this thread and ... I can hardly believe this .. no bickering and flaming. Nah I better read it again thats not possible. 

 

Pattaya is gotta be more healthy for me personally anyway, than home. Dont know about rest of world though so possibly off topic. Englands 8 month grey dreary cold winters and summers that are not much better would depress me. With no work to occupy me thats is.

 

If I wanted a social life it would have to be bingo or something.  Or be the old "billy no mates" sat alone in corner of the pub. Im never alone long in a bar here ???? and also plenty of other coffin dodger expats about to socialise with. My retirement years would seem much much longer in England I guess.  There is that going for it.

 

Only female company would be near my own age. Yuk !!  Im staying here especially now its officially very healthy. 

I moved from CM to Pattaya because of the air and exercise opportunities.  I watch that TV show with the old midget dancing lady and Brit guys going on about how they don't like garlic as being too spicy - and everything smells bad - dream hotel.  Oh gawd are those what old folks my own age are like - makes one nauseous.   Watch that show once and you realize how lucky you are.

On 1/9/2019 at 11:18 AM, webfact said:

Chiang Mai and Pattaya ranked among the healthiest cities in the world: study

I believe this but ONLY if the "study" included ejaculating as one of the variables contributing to health. Thailand must be near the top of countries with the most ejaculations. And that might be quite healthy. 

Edited January 12, 20197 yr by Fex Bluse