I've been with my thai girl now for 11 years. We live in thailand and Australia 50/50 now. Just wondering all the negative thoughts about Thailand and thai people what's really changed since you first came. Have I really missed the good times.

Some things you older guys complain about are the things I love

My holidays to Cambodia and Vietnam.

Have a few Cambodian mates back in oz only crossed to Cambodia once trying to extend my visa to Thailand didn't work but was a fun trip anyway

The ability to have a penthouse condo in Bangkok at 1/4th the cost of the likes of San Francisco, or N.Y. City, with views that are relaxing.

Just now, ThailandRyan said:

The ability to have a penthouse condo in Bangkok at 1/4th the cost of the likes of San Francisco, or N.Y. City, with views that are relaxing.

 

Wow..... here is an award for the most ridiculous comparison.

Thai people, rich and poor seem to have a much greater capacity for joy than the people I know in the West... 

I agree i only stay in oz for the ability to make great coin but it's  so boring in comparison

24 minutes ago, caribbean82 said:

What you love about thailand

Being an alien.

 

17 minutes ago, Pravda said:

 

Wow..... here is an award for the most ridiculous comparison.

So explain how its a ridiculous comparison....Oh I get it, It does not matter because you can afford to live in all those places and have a G6 at your disposal, foolish me....or is it just jealousy on your part.  It is one of the things I like most about Thailand, my money goes further, and I can still own all my rental properties without loosing any coin....the title of the OP is "What you like about Thailand", whats good for someone may not be another man's bread and butter....good on you to live my life for me and tell me what I should or shouldn't like.....But then maybe you are a connoisseur of all fine things, and a purveyor of all.

Good response even if costs were the same I'd be in Bangkok for sure

Good weather, good food from all over the world, nice public parks and gyms near where i live, convenient public transport (bts & mrt) near me, great family none of whom depend on me for money, very friendly & polite people. Came here as a young man in 1990, speak and read Thai fluently and working for the same company uninterrupted for 30yrs. 

 

So you see, how or why some expat loves or hates Thailand largely depends on his personal circumstances. If i was a hand to mouth pensioner with a bad partner and living in some village, without understanding the language and culture, i would also have been bitter after the first few honeymoon years.

Nice you seem to have lived a charmed life, I wish i could live and work in thailand but my occupation won't allow it. 

Just curious what do you do 

It is easier for me if I just post a link.

 

 

52 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

The ability to have a penthouse condo in Bangkok at 1/4th the cost of the likes of San Francisco, or N.Y. City, with views that are relaxing.

How is the view of the air pollution?

4 minutes ago, bwpage3 said:

56 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

The ability to have a penthouse condo in Bangkok at 1/4th the cost of the likes of San Francisco, or N.Y. City, with views that are relaxing.

How is the view of the air pollution?

If he is happy with his view, that is all that matters.????

4 minutes ago, bwpage3 said:

How is the view of the air pollution?

So bwpage3 what do you love about Thailand?

3 minutes ago, caribbean82 said:

So bwpage3 what do you love about Thailand?

This is ThaiVisa. What did you expect !?!

2 minutes ago, Curt1591 said:

This is ThaiVisa. What did you expect !?!

I guess the question wasn't what you hate?

26 minutes ago, caribbean82 said:

Nice you seem to have lived a charmed life, I wish i could live and work in thailand but my occupation won't allow it. 

Just curious what do you do 

If your post is addreesing me, i am an engineer by profession. Working for an international company at their Thailand head office. The time when i joined here, there were very few qualified Thais to take that job, we were almost 40 expats. But today, there are plenty of Thais with excellent skills to tske over. But the billionaire owner of the business is a thorough gentleman and will only replace us with locals as and when we retire, and i will be among the last few.

I love telling the Government where I am, everywhere I go. 

 

 

 

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6 minutes ago, saakura said:

If your post is addreesing me, i am an engineer by profession. Working for an international company at their Thailand head office. The time when i joined here, there were very few qualified Thais to take that job, we were almost 40 expats. But today, there are plenty of Thais with excellent skills to tske over. But the billionaire owner of the business is a thorough gentleman and will only replace us with locals as and when we retire, and i will be among the last few.

Excellent i guess that's one thing I have missed out on I'm a boilermaker/coded welder my skills are not required even if they were i doubt I'd earn what i do in oz

24 minutes ago, bwpage3 said:

How is the view of the air pollution?

Clean Air tonight my PM 2.5 meter has been no higher than 15 inside, and showed 35 today.  Of course being on the 45th floor makes a difference I believe.  Always have a breeze in the evening and open up the windows for a few hours after dark.  Tonight I can see the lights all the way out for a good distance.

I love the friendly happy immigration police.

Also the non xenophobic Thai population who make me feel so wanted.

3 minutes ago, fishtank said:

I love the friendly happy immigration police.

Also the non xenophobic Thai population who make me feel so wanted.

You're just a lost soul livin in a fishtank 

The view from my deck. 300 days of sunshine a year. Cold beer and spicy food. The people where  i live are lovely and have been friendly towards me for 20 years.

4 minutes ago, Tropicalevo said:

The view from my deck. 300 days of sunshine a year. Cold beer and spicy food. The people where  i live are lovely and have been friendly towards me for 20 years.

I don't believe you that's a postcard!

2 minutes ago, caribbean82 said:

I don't believe you that's a postcard!

If you live like that where the he'll do you go for a holiday 

11 minutes ago, Tropicalevo said:

The view from my deck. 300 days of sunshine a year. Cold beer and spicy food. The people where  i live are lovely and have been friendly towards me for 20 years.

Thats my ideal view

Wanna Swap ??

 

2 hours ago, caribbean82 said:

Just wondering all the negative thoughts about Thailand and thai people what's really changed since you first came. Have I really missed the good times.

Some things you older guys complain about are the things I love

Being from Australia I think we can relate and agree that Thailand is different in a lot of ways.

 

I tend not to allow negative thoughts enter my mind for too long as I have to counter them and remind myself that I am in a different place where things are very different, or relaxed for a better word, too relaxed, but like I said, different place, and what I cannot control, is something I got used to really quick, I mean in Australia if someone lite up, you dialed a number, and it was sorted, here well, you know what I mean.

 

It don't believe it has changed a lot since I first came here in 2005, but when you do live here, almost 5 years now, I would say you notice things more, like the "democratically" previously caretaker military government taking over the country, which in my opinion should never have happened.

 

The above said I live in a rural area in a big comfortable house (my world), I have all the comforts I want and neighbors not to close to me, yet close enough, so that they don't bother me with noise etc etc.

 

I suppose the biggest negative is the burning of rice and sugarcane fields, literally no police force out on the roads, I could go on and on and on, but to be perfectly honest, we all have choices to go back if we don't like it, so it's either live with it or go back, now going back would impact on my lifestyle, as Thailand Ryan literally said, he paid 1/4 for his penthouse in BKK, well I paid what it would cost to build a double width brick lock up garage back in Oz for my 320 square metre 6 bed 3 bath house, $60k, about a $900k build in Oz, then you would need the land to build it on, add another $900k so you would be working like the rest of them back home to pay it off as opposed to sitting in it and enjoying it, that said I would rather not work 5 or 6/7th of my life to pay for the roof over my head, I would rather do what I have been doing for the last 5 years, i.e. living in a debt free modern house, while investing my money from the sale proceeds of my house back in Sydney, which provides me with tax free dollars regularly to survive on here for a long long long time.

 

The above said, If I ever won the lottery, Australia would be my preferred, but at the current cost of living standards, I wonder how people do it, seriously, it's got to give, sooner or later.