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Why did you come to Thailand in the first place?


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8 minutes ago, Liverpoolfan said:

Even more than it is now? ???? 

only joking, but you know what I mean..

I do.  It was late 60s and Thailand for young male visitors was basically Bangkok and it was a dump of a place then, full of Yanks on R & R from Vietnam.  Nobody had heard of Pattaya then, bar the Yanks stationed at the various Thai Air Bases,  who kept it as their private playground, but I believe that Sattahip was more of a small bar town than Pattaya was at that time. We went off to Ubon on exercise and that was a very ethnic town then and quite exotic to a impressionable Yorkshire kid.  

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2 minutes ago, Tarteso said:

Honestly...To see Temples ????

I certainly didn't come for the Temples but definitely got my fair share of Templedom on my first trip.

One of the Thai girls I was travelling with at the time was a devout buddhist and would insist rather frequently that we stop at various temples when passing.

Needless to say that relationship never worked out in the end..

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3 minutes ago, Liverpoolfan said:

I agree that Thailand is definitely no longer a third world country.

However, there still needs to be major improvements in infrastructure and governance.

 

Not my place to change that though.

That's for my wife and my kid to sort out ???? 

around me in the EEC the infrastructure is fantastic and being improved each year.  Internet is fast and cheap and I don't seem to lose electricity much at all. I can buy all the western  foods I need at a good Big C.  Much better quality of life that the UK. 

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2 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Thailand was probably the wrong country to try and escape women.

err, just a bit mate.

You could have tried Canal Street in manchester,,,

Heard there are hardly any women there ???? 

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2 minutes ago, xylophone said:

I developed a precancerous condition in my throat through stress and reflux, and my doctor said it was time to think about this: – stay working as you are and under the stress you are currently under and you will probably be dead within a year, or get out of the corporate rat race and do something else!

Sounds like a good guy your Doctor.

Sound advice that mate!

 

Nice to hear your story ???? 

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