I’m here because I quite unexpectedly fell in love with a Thai woman...I like Thailand....I like Thai people....I like the weather....I like the happiness around me!

I’m not an expert on running a country so I’m not political...when I retired I retired from work, politics and finances!

I’ve never been religious but I like and appreciate the philosophies of Buddhism.

I like Thailand and all that comes with it...even the spiders????

 

 

Kanada,

 

I agree with you.  Life here in Thailand is much more relaxing.  It is much better here than back in the US.  

29 minutes ago, statman78 said:

Kanada,

 

I agree with you.  Life here in Thailand is much more relaxing.  It is much better here than back in the US.  

I really enjoy it too...like anything else it’s what you make of it????????

Last in a long list of mistakes in life, I don't like the government, the corruption, the heat, the insects, the food or the driving. If not for the mrs I would be off home. UK has nice seasons, better shops, free healthcare, driving not insane and the food does not stink the house out ????

its warm here, but i must none the less go back and get myself into an elderly home

1 minute ago, clivebaxter said:

Last in a long list of mistakes in life, I don't like the government, the corruption, the heat, the insects, the food or the driving. If not for the mrs I would be off home. UK has nice seasons, better shops, free healthcare, driving not insane and the food does not stink the house out ????

Oh that’s too bad...sorry to hear that

Peer pressure!

My work is here.   There's only a tiny market for TEFL work back home.

1 minute ago, scammed said:

its warm here, but i must none the less go back and get myself into an elderly home

Yes not a very good choice of elderly homes here...not the Thai way at least in the past!

I haven’t checked but I haven’t noticed any “seniors only” living here

and only a few “old folks homes” as we call them back home

not sure how it works....

Canada is different by province to province  but many are subsidized etc. but waiting lines are long and a strange thing....almost no places for couples!?

1 hour ago, Kanada said:

Why do you live in Thailand?

If I retired in England I would be poor.

Here in Thailand I have comfortable life.

If you like Thailand now, you would have gone Gaga over being here 20-30 years ago when this country was the dream place to be in any way possible and especially for the single young man that i was, but as times and things turns, so did the viability of living here, this is not to say that it has become unpleasant but one can say it has become less fun and more mundane living...

18 minutes ago, clivebaxter said:

Last in a long list of mistakes in life, I don't like the government, the corruption, the heat, the insects, the food or the driving. If not for the mrs I would be off home. UK has nice seasons, better shops, free healthcare, driving not insane and the food does not stink the house out ????

Please do that. I'm one year in one of the best places on the earth without Covid and it's as boring as <deleted> and the only time a young lady looks at me it's to offer her bus seat ????

cost of living compared to U.S.A.

Lifestyle.

Climate.

Beaches.

Nightlife (returns soon hopefully).

Beautiful people.

Being able to drive my car/ride my bike like an absolute lunatic with little to no repercussions.

 

5 minutes ago, ezzra said:

If you like Thailand now, you would have gone Gaga over being here 20-30 years ago when this country was the dream place to be in any way possible and especially for the single young man that i was, but as times and things turns, so did the viability of living here, this is not to say that it has become unpleasant but one can say it has become less fun and more mundane living...

 

Seems like we always think things were better "in the past".      The past is history so we need to make the best with what we have.

 

1 hour ago, Kanada said:

I like Thailand....I like Thai people....I like the weather....I like the happiness around me!

You sound just like me 20 years ago...

Just now, KannikaP said:

That is one of the most stupid statements I have read on TV for a long time.

 

Nobody is forcing you to read my post.

Rather than criticise, put me on ignore.

2 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

That is one of the most stupid statements I have read on TV for a long time.

But true.....

7 minutes ago, ezzra said:

If you like Thailand now, you would have gone Gaga over being here 20-30 years ago when this country was the dream place to be in any way possible and especially for the single young man that i was, but as times and things turns, so did the viability of living here, this is not to say that it has become unpleasant but one can say it has become less fun and more mundane living...

I think maybe we outgrow certain things and we change!

You change...what’s important to you changes...Thailand changes!

Canada was a wonderful place to grow up and Alberta Canada was a great place to work and raise a family but....

I changed....and Canada changed...average price of a home in Alberta is $500,000 and in Vancouver where my kids are the average home price is over $1,000,000 !

I don’t need a big home anymore and have paying taxes for all the things I no longer use just weighed on me mentally.

So Canada changed and I changed????

My 22 year old son trained here and in Japan (20 years ago)and loved it here so I came to see for myself 6 years ago when ChiangMai was a quiet little city

now it’s changed but so have I and we still like each other fine...I live in the mountains West of the city...very quiet????

22 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

If I retired in England I would be poor.

Here in Thailand I have comfortable life.

Same here from Australia

10 minutes ago, Andy from Kent said:

 

Seems like we always think things were better "in the past".      The past is history so we need to make the best with what we have.

 

Yes Not just Thailand EVERYWHERE was better 20 years ago 

The bum guns do it for me.  My sphincter has never had it so good.

6 minutes ago, WineOh said:

You sound just like me 20 years ago...

Just adjust....you’ll fall in love with it again????

Just now, Denim said:

The bum guns do it for me.  My sphincter has never had it so good.

I give them a 10 too!

(I was going to say a big “thumbs up” but didn’t want to give the boys a place to start)????

 

3 minutes ago, grego49 said:

Same here from Australia

Nonsense, I retired in Australia have great life, free health care collect my pension every 2 weeks and still have plenty leftover at the end of the months

22 minutes ago, ezzra said:

If you like Thailand now, you would have gone Gaga over being here 20-30 years ago when this country was the dream place to be in any way possible and especially for the single young man that i was, but as times and things turns, so did the viability of living here, this is not to say that it has become unpleasant but one can say it has become less fun and more mundane living...

Yeah, but it's only less fun because you're an old man now.

If you were in your 30s, it would be as great as it ever was.

 

As for me, I'm still here because I still have a 9 year old son Thai citizen to look after.

Without the kid, I'd probably be in Vietnam/Cambodia/The Philippines (COVID allowing).

37 minutes ago, Kanada said:

I haven’t checked but I haven’t noticed any “seniors only” living here

and only a few “old folks homes” as we call them back home

not sure how it works....

Plenty of care homes around, and they're pretty good and a bargain price.

https://www.facebook.com/baannlalisa

At the age of 30, I was sent by my company to work in their small office in Bangkok which then had only a few expats and locals. 25 years down the road, it is a huge swanky office in downtown Bangkok with over 200 staff, almost all are locals. As they are all well educated, talented and very capable, recruitment of foreigners was stopped many years ago. 

No brainer for me as I was getting RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury)  in my right wrist and worried about getting blind.

I moved here at 22, I don't know how to function as an adult back home, this is all I know.