I'm pleasantly surprised with the Owlseesall thread about a farang in Isaan.

So the question is, do you prefer the city or the country?

Personally my favourite part of Bangkok is the departure lounge. Give me the village anytime.

 

3 minutes ago, sipi said:

And if I knew how to do a poll I probably would.

 

If you really want to, edit your initial post and click the tab:

 

Rural Thailand for me, hate it when I have to visit the Bangkok or similar and cant wait to get out of there.

The rural quiet is pure escapism far from the pressures and hectic pace of the big cities. Its like "stop the world I'm getting off" when I arrive back in the small village to my home surrounded by nothing but open fields and a Mountain range on the horizon.....aaahhhhh..bliss. A lifestyle I could never ever have achieved in the home country, thank you Thailand.

2 minutes ago, Salerno said:

If you really want to, edit your initial post and click the tab:

 

Thanks Salerno.

You CAN teach an old dog new tricks.

3 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

Rural Thailand for me, hate it when I have to visit the Bangkok or similar and cant wait to get out of there.

The rural quiet is pure escapism far from the pressures and hectic pace of the big cities. Its like "stop the world I'm getting off" when I arrive back in the small village to my home surrounded by nothing but open fields and a Mountain range on the horizon.....aaahhhhh..bliss. A lifestyle I could never ever have achieved in the home country, thank you Thailand.

I'm hearing you Charlie.

Don't get me wrong, I love Bangkok for a day or two. The noise, the smells, the sights.

Then get me out of there.

Rural Thailand is so laid back it's insane. Almost everything I aim to do I end up thinking, nah, I'll think about that tomorrow and have a large Chang for now.

 

50 weeks of the year in an Isaan village and 2 weeks a year in Bangkok would be perfect for me.

1 minute ago, sipi said:

Thanks Salerno.

 

No worries.

 

Being as quite a stark choice had to go urban; always been a city boy and enjoy clubbing ... but, as I "grow up" must say, enjoyed hanging out up Maha Sarakam way, chilling on ye olde wooden platform without walls etc. with the chickens (scrawny as they are) wandering around. Starting to think I could end up going bush.

2 minutes ago, sipi said:

Don't get me wrong, I love Bangkok for a day or two. The noise, the smells, the sights.

Then get me out of there.

Just the opposite for me.

i have experienced both rural seems a total bore of a life made me feel crazy after a week.

You can lose your mind living near a jungle. Once the excitement of building the house and multiple pick ups wears off , and oh it will ! its back to thai soaps and 24/7 facebook for her and upstairs 24/7 PC room on TV for him ..excitement 5555

I prefer semi rural to be honest. 15 to 20 minute trek into the city area is just perfect. Far enough away from traffic and noise but close enough where you have some creature comforts nearby and access to things you might need.

 

Now if this is straight up. Big City versus Country, then Country it is. Easy to visit the big city for the things needed but nice to leave the noise, traffic and the chaos when done.

 

 

In the bush an hour from the city perhaps?

I could do that.

1 minute ago, madmen said:

You can lose your mind living near a jungle. Once the excitement of building the house and multiple pick ups wears off , and oh it will ! its back to thai soaps and 24/7 facebook for her and upstairs 24/7 PC room on TV for him ..excitement 5555

2 problems there, 1st neither of us have facebook, and more importantly we dont have an upstairs ????  and no jungle either ????

I'm not really a city person except as a tourist for a few days. For regular life, give me a quieter setting where you're not just another grain of sand on the beach. I've managed to avoid Bangkok for all but one day since 1983. ????

I'm stunned already.

I would have thought watching pole dancing girls in bikinis would trump watching paw paw trees grow.

Well done chaps.

4 minutes ago, sipi said:

I'm stunned already.

I would have thought watching pole dancing girls in bikinis would trump watching paw paw trees grow.

Well done chaps.

who the hell wants secondhand burgers when you have a steak at home...55555

2 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

who the hell wants second hand burgers when you have a steak at home...55555

I'm hearing you again....

13 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

who the hell wants secondhand burgers when you have a steak at home...55555

Meh I like steaks and burgers equally tbh.

Sitting here at 4.36pm been enjoying my day, now looking straight out both windows at the far end of our 48 square metre bedroom to green, green, green, look to the left, green, green, green.

 

No one too close to us on either side of our home, no one behind us or on the opposite side of the road, wife just came home with the 4 kids from school, there goes my peace and quiet.......the bridge is only 250 metres up the road, I hope the muddy river water is deep enough ????

 

58 minutes ago, sipi said:

o the question is, do you prefer the city or the country?

I prefer both.  

Im very ambivalent. I spent years in Alaska so it was Mountains and scenery. I had no urban throb.

 

Now in Bangkok, I have urban throb. Like major throbbing throbbbbbbb.

 

Next year I may try to do a balance by splitting my time in 3 places to get a bit of everything.

 

But I might spend all summer in Wyoming/Idaho/Montana so may need throb again next winter.

 

I wish I could have a car here. 

I live about 1Km from a major road, in between Korat & Buriram. House on a small plot of land with mango/guava/longan/pappaya/coconut/lemon/lime/banana trees but big enough for my dogs to run about in. Wouldn't want to live in a city...had enough of that in the UK

I simply love wherever I am.   As long as I'm there.  Well,  the lovely and smart and exquisitely attired Mrs Rumak as well, of course.   Just to be me is the most wonderful feeling anyone can

have.  Of course I encourage all of you "others" to try to attain the same state as I have.

My great inheritance only served to multiply the great adventure that I call life Life with Rumak.

I will be starting a thread soon and invite all and sundry  and even a limited number of sad and lonely types that are so common here, to participate.   CharlieH will of course make sure that all stay ON TOPIC:   no bickering, just one lovefest celebrating the magnificence of being us.  But Sipi,   sorry......   I used to like the city,  now I just love the smell of fresh manure first thing in the morning.  That is when i choose to sleep with the cows, of course.

Peace and love.   

Semi-rural in all circumstances-including my home country.

Three weeks in the village then one week in Bangkok/Pattaya/Phuket wherever.

1 hour ago, Nyezhov said:

I wish I could have a car here.

 

I like your post but you are in Bangkok and want a car?

That could possibly be the biggest mistake ever no way in BKK.

1 minute ago, Odysseus123 said:

Semi-rural in all circumstances-including my home country.

If you were to pick my house up in Australia and dump it in Thailand it would be exactly as my house in Thailand. Exactly.

I would move rural I guess if there was a lot of sex available and many many golf courses.

For now I choose Pattaya.

I don't know but will find out in a few years. I have lived in Bangkok for nearly 38 years, but will retire in 3 more years and move up country to my wife's home town. We won't sell the house in BKK until we are sure that I can make a life upcountry. Having said that, before I moved to Thailand, I spent my childhood and teen years in a village in Yorkshire, so it shouldn't be too bad. In any case, it is not the countryside that is the worry, as I love greenery and wildlife. Rather it is a matter of boredom. Will I have enough to keep me occupied? You can only do so much cycling, rowing and fishing.    

Urban Thailand can be something of a nightmare with the noise and pollution, but Bangkok has some great beers and food so the occasional visit is enjoyed.

I had eight years in Bangkok, left in 96 it was just getting too busy, left for the quiet and peace of Pattaya! that lasted 15 years, thoroughly enjoyed myself there, played golf most days, but, again just got too congested. Been in Isaan for the past 7 years, enjoying a lifestyle that I never dreamed I could when I was younger, plenty of faults up here but spend most of my time at the house which I had built, life's good! ????