Jump to content

What do you miss about your home country?


Lacessit

Recommended Posts

30 minutes ago, Natai Beach said:

 

I don’t miss the females. I go back yearly and find them more offensive every year. More tattooed, more self entitled, fatter, more aggressive and louder. An average Soi 6 girl has better matters IMO and is very feminine versus the butch aggro feminist shielas back home.

And now all of my regular roots are past their use by date now but still expect me to service them, so best completely avoided unless I have had a heap of Carlton Draught pots.
 

I miss cheap rear wheel drive V8s. 

 

 

Agree on the women. Self-entitled, I'm wondering if there's a competition between the US, UK and Australia who can have the biggest bums.

I used to have great fun with the V8's on a wet roundabout or up Arthur's Seat. The Magna gripped the road like superglue, and these guys in their Monaro's and Ford GT's would be trying to catch me. I could hear their suspensions twanging. Grip vs. Grunt. Of course, they would kill me if they got a straight road to work with.

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

The OP and posters have made me think about back home in OZ, not something I normally do, so there are more things to miss than I realised. But to keep it short:

fresh daily baked bread (you city folk might have it but not up here)

the surf

fishing in the ocean and eating the catch.

  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

25 minutes ago, Old Croc said:

To the OP,

if you miss the wind so much you should move to somewhere like Phuket. At times when gales blow through I've watched roofing tin on large buildings being peeled back, wondered if large trees around the house would snap off, and despaired at the news of incompetent crews, on badly designed boats, killing tourists by the score by venturing out in violent squalls on the ocean.

 

What I miss in Australia are my good friends meeting for protracted lunches on Fridays, good cheap wine, the hundreds of varieties and labels of beer easily available at every liquor outlet, good beef, lamb and seafood at supermarkets everywhere, more variety and cheaper vehicles available for sale,  long excursions into remote parts of the country for camping, fishing or prospecting trips where it's possible to go for hours, even days, without seeing another vehicle or human.

And, as someone else pointed out, being able to have a reasonably intelligent conversation with the majority of people whose paths I cross. 

 

The list of what I don't miss in my home country is much longer.

I did forget my hunting trips into western NSW, Nymagee/Cobar area. Get out there where there's no clouds, no man-made light, still air, and I could see galaxies beyond the Milky Way.

I was out there during 9/11, only had poor radio reception at 6 pm. When I got back to civilization at Finley, the world had gone mad.

I can have reasonably intelligent conversations with some people on Thai Visa.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Xmas dinner has already been organised here but pork and crackling instead of turkey .  So Xmas dinner in England after coming back from the pub would be great with my eldest daughter her gr8 husband an 3 grandchildren ,but then I guess my Thai wife would not be there soooooo.

English pubs with a fine pint of draught. Open fire and sitting at the bar talking nonsense.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I miss the fresher air during the burning season.

 

I miss the free Medicare and possibly better hospitals, doctors and specialist, however to be fair I haven't had the real need here to test the hospitals, doctors and specialist, excluding one government hospital that I wouldn't go back to and one doctor I wouldn't go back to, although the private hospital I have gone to were first class, both the Dr and Specialist.

 

I miss the cheaper cost of prescription drugs.

 

I miss the clean streets, the clean beaches and roads without pot holes.

 

I miss hearing the gentle sound of car horns when someone does something stupid on the road and them mostly apologizing with a hand in the air as if to say sorry, or a middle finger, something better than nothing ????

 

I miss drivers actually thinking and giving way, not just thinking of themselves, as if its their right to que over an intersection or park you in at a school.

 

I miss drivers driving normally and cautiously.

 

Changing the tone now:

 

I don't miss paying 42c in the $ tax vs nil tax here on income earned from within my old country.

 

I don't miss paying higher electricity and gas bills, higher water and council rates and capital gains tax. 

 

I don't miss the traffic.

 

I don't miss paying to park my car at basically any kerbside (parking metre) or being fined for overstaying by 5 minutes.

 

I don't miss the heavy fines for speeding and the demerit points that follow which take 3 years to come back to your license.

 

I don't miss always looking at my speedometer in fear of being pulled over by the cops who are just about everywhere in marked and unmarked cars, fixed speed cameras in and out of tunnels, mobile speed cameras, red light cameras.

 

I don't miss the high registration and green slip costs, along with first class insurance.

 

I don't miss the ever so expensive labour costs to get a sparky, chippy, tiler or lacky for the day, if not the hour, used to start at around 6,000 baht a day for a lacky and up you went from there.

 

I don't miss the real estate prices, e.g. 45,000,000 baht for me to be in the same place on the same size block of land I am on here, vs 2 million baht   

 

I don't miss the expensive prices of Thai fruit, e.g. 440 baht vs 50 baht

 

The above said, as much as I pi$$ and moan and groan, I believe if we take the good with the bad, we are better off being here.

 

 

  • Like 1
  • Thanks 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

1 hour ago, Old Croc said:

The key word in that part of my post was "majority".

Possibly you are more tolerant than I am.

It's a funny thing, there must be dozens of people on Thai Visa who were highly competent during their working lives. After retirement, they are treated with derision and dismissal by people who they would not have deemed suitable to scrub out their toilets previously. Perhaps that's why we can be irritable on occasion.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

1 minute ago, jaideedave said:

I miss the ice and snow in the 5 month long winters in most of Canada every winter.NOT IN YOUR LIFE! I'm not going back...no way...555

Been there in summer, Calgary. Four freaking degrees C. IMO it's winter year round there.

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

3 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Possibly you are more tolerant than I am.

It's a funny thing, there must be dozens of people on Thai Visa who were highly competent during their working lives. After retirement, they are treated with derision and dismissal by people who they would not have deemed suitable to scrub out their toilets previously. Perhaps that's why we can be irritable on occasion.

I wasn't talking about Thaivisa members, but people in my home country.

Your comment about my tolerance is probably causing snorts of derision all over the forum now.

 

  • Haha 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

- Good cheese; real Dutch cheese like Beemster as sold on Dutch markets.

- Good quality bread; Farmhouse sucks imo, more variety would be great, as would be some good croissants.

- A bit more pastry choices. In my area seems every shop sells cakes from the same factories; something like a "Gevulde Koek" would be nice. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.




×
×
  • Create New...