RichardColeman Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 As I am currently stuck in the UK, I miss my wife and child. Not much else. If they were here in the UK, I'd be ok with not returning 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anchadian Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 I would miss the non-congested roads, the parks and greenery, the very few road fatalities, the so called beautiful girls and above all, the friendly and helpful government. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rott Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 Many things, I am just very comfortable with this country. In reality I would miss bum guns, can't imagine not having one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3NUMBAS Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 street food is always a loss..never had bad guts either after a movie in centre world accross to the food market for a slap up meal with booze and just a small fee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrTuner Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 (edited) Not sure I'd miss anything. Family I'd take with me, with the exception of MIL who'd stay. I'd probably miss her from time to time. Anything else, available elsewhere. I've been on my way out since a few years already. Edited September 1, 2020 by DrTuner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThailandRyan Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 I left once, went to the Philippines, Cebu, and after 4 months moved back. To me the Philippines just did not have the food, yet you could buy everything you could in the USA through S&R. Just was not my cup of tea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trucking Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 The wife. Nothing else I can think of , assuming I could take most of my stuff with me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Antonymous Posted September 1, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 1, 2020 I've had a long and happy life working and then retiring in Thailand and at this stage I am at the happiest I have ever been. Everything I've ever wanted in life, I have it right now. There is certainly no place else I'd rather be. If I really had to leave I'd be leaving behind all that is dear to me including dearest friends, a solid support network (good Thai connections), a dream lifestyle (too many things to list) and a 30 year accumulation of artifacts that could not be purchased outside Thailand. The least of my worries would be financial. I have all my investments in Thailand, but I've been very careful to establish solid safeguards and ways to get my money out, even after I've left, if the SHTF. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holy cow cm Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 My family - wife and kids, dogs, house, and just living here. Been here so long I almost don't know anything else with a better easier feeling. This is home base and travel is out and then coming home. Still a lot of fun. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
againstthewind Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 I'd miss: - the luxury of not having to think about wearing a jacket - the daily dose of friendly people - the energy / water prices - the every now and then sight of a stunning beauty ... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remobb Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 Not having to notify my address every 90 days which I have done for 20 years already. Double pricing. XXL shirts that fit skinny people. Apart from that, nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saraburi121 Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 -The old lady down the road that sells fried bananas, best around. Always puts a bit extra in the bag for regulars with a smile. -Cheaper electric bills than any other place I have lived. Japan and Singapore over 700 USD per month, Hawaii 500 per month. Here 2500 baht -elders in the village. Always want to lend a hand and bringing a laugh over the evening beer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazykopite Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 The hot climate in the South where I live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThailandRyan Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 55 minutes ago, remobb said: XXL shirts that fit skinny people. Yes that is a bitch. The GF looked at my clothes in the closet, saw the shirts were 2XL, went out and bought me 5 nice polo shirts. Came back and surprised me. Waited as I tried the first one on at which time she proudly proclaimed "Your pompuey", I laughed and went to my closet and held up one of my shirts and one she had bought, and she started to cry. Told her not to worry we could give them to my Son when he visits on Holiday. Then Covid hit. Going to collect dust sitting in the closet, or if the doctor gets his wish and I drop to 80kg from 98 then maybe they might fit, but not in the shoulders I am afraid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChipButty Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 Sitting around the pool at 5pm having a couple of beers Id miss that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Aylesham Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 6 hours ago, userabcd said: Everything about Thailand. Yes, and the smiles for a start. Then the unbelievably good service in shops and repairers. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Aylesham Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 6 hours ago, bert bloggs said: my wife ,my son ,my family ,my house ,my car ,the sun ,the food the list is to long to print. and clean loos! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoshowJones Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 My wife, and then my motorbike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natway09 Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 The warm weather for these old bones for a start. Living in a non nanny state. Company I keep does not take life too seriously. & yes, the smiles, almost non existant in the so called first world. Cost of living to live modestly is half. My darling, (as she will not come with me) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davemos Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 Tm 30 ,90 day report ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dickp Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 Retired and moved here 29 + years ago, seen it change so much over those years that I could leave the next day and not have any regrets. Oh forgot health care is good and cheap here, and with my insurance I go to only the Best hospitals, I would miss that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thingamabob Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 I would miss many things, but most of all my pussies. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caldera Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 I would miss the abundance of morally uninhibited people to have fun with. ???? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmerslife Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 Apart from the obvious, family, friends, food, weather, the abbot and monks at our local temple, I'd miss the space. A 36 rai farm here, then there's the generous petrol station forecourts with their plethora of places to eat and public toilets that can accommodate a bus load of visitors at a time and, a pet favourite of mine, frontage roads - what a great idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meat Pie 47 Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 Nothing at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard_smith237 Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 11 hours ago, Orton Rd said: The music, glad to see the back of the rest, I certainly would not miss the women. We really need a ‘satire’ or ‘sarcasm’ emoticon...... No one seems to have understood the ‘stone faced dryness’ of this response.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard_smith237 Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 Positives and negatives everywhere. The list of things which are better in Thailand is huge, the list of things which are better in the UK is also huge. I’m perfectly happy living in either place but have lately started to develop a preference towards living in the UK - perhaps because I think its better for my son. Where ever I am (beautiful quiet UK Countryside or Bangkok hustle) there is something to be missed on the other side of the fence - its not really comparing apples to apples. I have lived in London and didn’t like it, yet I like it in Bangkok. I have never lived in the depths of the Thai countryside as I know I’d hate it, but I love living in the countryside in the UK. A wealth of good friends in both locations also bridges the geographical dichotomy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vermin on arrival Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 Well, I already planned to leave and know what I would miss. The easy smiles you get from people when you smile at them, the general kindness and gentleness of daily life, the fact that I never felt that I would be mugged anywhere I have been in LOS (cheated yes, maybe surreptitiously robbed or conned, but never felt the fear of casual violence that there is in the west). Not having to listen to people yelling in daily life, lots of the food, the way food is always offered when you visit someone, the way Thai people like to joke. It's a shame that the negatives have pushed me out. But yes, many things I would miss. I'm sure I left out things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard_smith237 Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 8 hours ago, RichardColeman said: As I am currently stuck in the UK, I miss my wife and child. Not much else. If they were here in the UK, I'd be ok with not returning Ouch.... heartbreaking... I was in the same situation (managed to get back to BKK a month ago). While in the UK I realised I didn’t really miss Thailand, I missed my Wife & Son - if they were with me in the UK, then I’d perhaps start missing other facets of Thailand but those facets are ‘decoration’... ....swap beaches for mountains, swap Japanese restaurant for outdoor BBQ’s, swap swimming in the mooban pool for bicycle rides along countryside paths, swap street food for quality organic veg, swap weekend visits to HH for a weekend camping, swap chaotic traffic for crappy potholed country roads!, swap Lazada for Amazon, swap bi-weekly football for making a Westfield in my garage), swap getting too hot riding a motorcycle for getting too cold, swap speeding for 500 baht for ouch, £100 and 3 points, swap getting home safely without issues for chancing your luck with a drunk taxi driver and other drunks on the road, swap dangerous driver for selfrighteous drivers with road rage.... and on and on and on... Its not really better in Thailand - anywhere is what you make of it and ultimately, what you make of it depends on your frame of mind - my mind is better when I’m not prevented contact from those I care about. I sincerely hope you manage to get back to your family as soon as possible (RC). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orton Rd Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 46 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said: We really need a ‘satire’ or ‘sarcasm’ emoticon...... No one seems to have understood the ‘stone faced dryness’ of this response.... which one is the honest or truthful one? ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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