What do you miss about your home country?

[OneMoreFarang]

 

[Bruce Aussie Chiang Mai]

Miss the Barossa Valley wines at low prices.

Used live Barossa.

But we have to make sacrifices to be with our lovely wives in Amazing Thailand.

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[Jingthing]

Affordable wine

Live theater in English (but that has been coranaded)

Ethiopian food

Mexicans

[Sujo]

Meat pies.

beetroot on a burger.

cool breeze.

[polpott]

3 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Affordable wine

Live theater in English (but that has been coranaded)

Ethiopian food

Mexicans

Ethiopian food? Is that UN rice?

[Lacessit]

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.

[Moonlover]

Public footpaths and the 4 seasons in which to enjoy them. The British countryside is magnificent.

 

[GreasyFingers]

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.

[WineOh]

13 minutes ago, polpott said:

Dry dream. No gravy.

pea wet mate ????

[polpott]

2 minutes ago, Liverpoolfan said:

pea wet mate ????

No peas on that plate, but could do with mushy peas and gravy....and maybe a portion of curry sauce for the serious drinker.

[Lacessit]

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.

[Old Croc]

1 minute ago, Lacessit said:

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

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

[toofarnorth]

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.

[Jingthing]

1 hour ago, polpott said:

Ethiopian food? Is that UN rice?

No.

[4MyEgo]

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.

 

 

[Surelynot]

Women in short, tight skirts, displaying rolls of mottled fat, tottering about drunk, wearing scuffed white high-heels.....who wouldn't?

[gamb00ler]

2 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

In and Out burger.

I miss the In and Out burger bumper stickers with the b and r removed.

[Lacessit]

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.

[ThailandRyan]

3 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

In and Out burger.

Make that a Double Double with Animal fries, I do miss that.

[Lacessit]

2 hours ago, tonray said:

But here in Thailand you can get Moo Ping with a Bubble Tea, followed by SomTam with pickled blue paddy crab and water crickets...all for less than $2

Where did you get your taste buds from? Are you British?

[jaideedave]

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

[PatOngo]

Intelligence!

[ThailandRyan]

15 minutes ago, Surelynot said:

Women in short, tight skirts, displaying rolls of mottled fat, tottering about drunk, wearing scuffed white high-heels.....who wouldn't?

Oh you mean those WalMart hunny's

[tonray]

1 minute ago, PatOngo said:

Intelligence!

Apparently the Thais are intelligent enough to get you to line up in queues and pay 1900 baht every year....ha ha ha

[Lacessit]

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.

[Lacessit]

1 minute ago, ThailandRyan said:

Oh you mean those WalMart hunny's

Please, I was looking forward to lunch until you posted that.

[Old Croc]

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.

 

[Kwasaki]

Clay shooting & Rough shooting. 

[Surelynot]

10 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Oh you mean those WalMart hunny's

Looks just like my missus...before she put on a few pounds.

[wolf81]

- 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.