Why do you live in Thailand?

[madmen]

4 minutes ago, Meat Pie 47 said:

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

Agreed. With a pension card and rent assistance it's doable if you don't smoke $50 per 100 gram of tobacco and don't drink beer $50 for a case of 24 bottles. 

I'm on the gold coast right near the beach and Cavill Ave paying $800 /month rent minus $280 rent assistance but I have to share with 2 others! I'm looking forward to heading back though to my condo and for me Thailand is a better lifestyle and never boring in Bangkok 

[Kanada]

30 minutes ago, grego49 said:

Same here from Australia

I think a lot of people came here for the same reason but forgot to adapt!

easier to accept Thailand and Thais for what and who they are and live in peace!

when I lived in Canada we would often marvel at how people from the Middle East as an example moved here to have some peace but brought all their customs etc with them with no desire to change and adapt to Canadian life (not all but some of course)

I see people doing the very same here????

[wprime]

2 hours ago, Kanada said:

.I like the happiness around me!

 

This is one of the reasons I'm here but lately I've found it's less than before, even before COVID-19. Maybe it's just me but people just don't seem as happy as they did 10 years ago.

[jaideedave]

11 minutes ago, Boomer6969 said:

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

My dad told me to quit that...or I'd go blind....I asked if I could just do it just until I needed glasses...

[kingofthemountain]

2 hours ago, Kanada said:

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????

 

 

It am happy for you

but it looks like the classics rose tinted glasses are still on

a younger and prettier wife\gf is usually the explanation

just out of curiosity do you also like to suffocate in CM area

one of the most polluted city in the world half of the year ?

 

 

[Pilotman]

Because I married a Thai 23 years ago, that's the one and only reason I am here. otherwise I would be elsewhere. . 

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[The Cipher]

1 hour ago, Ralf001 said:

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.

 

Pretty much exactly this. The incredible value as well.

[Kanada]

15 minutes ago, wprime said:

 

This is one of the reasons I'm here but lately I've found it's less than before, even before COVID-19. Maybe it's just me but people just don't seem as happy as they did 10 years ago.

With respect...it might be you!

Covid and all it brought with it has been difficult on a lot of people and certain personalities !

It might be both Thailand and you

as I too noticed a big difference in late 2019 when a lot of tourists decided other countries made them more welcome and easier visas...the economy was in a down turn before Covid struck!

[ICELANDMAN]

""fell in love with a Thai woman...I like Thailand....I like Thai people....I like the weather....I like the happiness around me! """

 

Ok I suppose the first condition helps a lot to see life in pink

[Kanada]

19 minutes ago, kingofthemountain said:

It am happy for you

but it looks like the classics rose tinted glasses are still on

a younger and prettier wife\gf is usually the explanation

just out of curiosity do you also like to suffocate in CM area

one of the most polluted city in the world half of the year ?

 

 

I don’t live in ChiangMai...I live in the mountains close to Samoeng...clean and clear!

Yes using your terminology I like to look at life thru “rose colored glasses”....I have a happy life and a happy wife that just told me last night I make her feel safe (she’s 43 by the way)

She came to me with a successful business... a nice home on four rai (paid for) that I just upgraded...a three year old car (paid for) that needs a new battery....aaaargh and a great daughter that just finished University!

I do all improvements and maintenance on land and home happily and we live here looking at life they our rose colored glasses????

Sorry I’m just not unhappy with my life but maybe someday....

[kingofthemountain]

11 minutes ago, ICELANDMAN said:

""fell in love with a Thai woman...I like Thailand....I like Thai people....I like the weather....I like the happiness around me! """

 

Ok I suppose the first condition helps a lot to see life in pink

Endorphins – the happiness hormones – that are associated with feeling enchantment. Dopamine, which is produced when we feel satisfied, resulting in feeling happy, excited and stimulated. Oxytocin, which is linked to relationships and helps us to build bonds with other human beings. 

[kingofthemountain]

3 minutes ago, Kanada said:

...I have a happy life and a happy wife that just told me last night I make her feel safe (she’s 43 by the way)

She came to me with a successful business... a nice home on four rai (paid for)

I am happy for you

In what way you make her feel safe when it seems she was already financialy safe before you ?

[covidiot]

2 minutes ago, kingofthemountain said:

I am happy for you

no actually you;re not.

seems more like you're miserable in thailand and you're trying to convince him to be miserable because youre envious that anyone else should be content in thailand. 

 

[Kanada]

I think we all resist change....it’s easier to point the finger than think that maybe you need to adjust your life to fit in again.

Thailand has changed and it will keep changing as does any country...you can adjust your thinking and accept the fact that Thailand is t going to change to <deleted> you....not ever!
If you want to be happy in any country you have to make changes to fit in....or the other option that’s the easiest “you can just continue to complain and do nothing”????

[ICELANDMAN]

5 minutes ago, kingofthemountain said:

Endorphins – the happiness hormones – that are associated with feeling enchantment. Dopamine, which is produced when we feel satisfied, resulting in feeling happy, excited and stimulated. Oxytocin, which is linked to relationships and helps us to build bonds with other human beings. 

 

We say very clearly that sex is the greatest impetus for the action of the Endorphins so we are happy slaves of our own impulses who cloud our brain which loses the ability to be cognitive.

 

[Kanada]

6 minutes ago, kingofthemountain said:

I am happy for you

In what way you make her feel safe when it seems she was already financialy safe before you ?

What makes you think her feeling safe has anything to do with money??

Money isn’t even on the list when it comes to the “10 most important things in life”

 

[Rampant Rabbit]

Circumstance, not for the love of anything Thai.

Wife does  not want to  live elsewhere.

[kingofthemountain]

6 minutes ago, covidiot said:

no actually you;re not.

seems more like you're miserable in thailand and you're trying to convince him to be miserable because youre envious that anyone else should be content in thailand. 

 

Your username fits perfectly

 

 

 

 

[kingofthemountain]

4 minutes ago, Kanada said:

What makes you think her feeling safe has anything to do with money??

Money isn’t even on the list when it comes to the “10 most important things in life”

 

Answering a question with another question

ok....

[Rampant Rabbit]

17 minutes ago, kingofthemountain said:

Oxytocin, which is linked to relationships and helps us to build bonds with other human beings. 

I don't  seem to  have any of that, but it doesn't  bother me, quite  the opposite, the farther away from people the better, they are simply annoying.

[The Cipher]

The number of people who stay here for their wives but otherwise hate everything else about the place is both heartwarming and concerning.

 

Like, I have a wonderful girlfriend. But there's a functionally infinite number of other women out there in the world, and if I were otherwise miserable and unfulfilled except for her, I don't think I would've made the same choice as many of you seem to have.

[Kanada]

2 minutes ago, kingofthemountain said:

Your username fits perfectly

 

 

 

 

No I don’t think so....I think he’s got you pegged pretty well....you don’t seem like a very happy guy!

That’s ok and that’s your business...you can live anyway you want!

*** maybe don’t try so hard to spread it around ????

[ICELANDMAN]

4 minutes ago, Rampant Rabbit said:

Circumstance, not for the love of anything Thai.

Wife does  not want to  live elsewhere.

 

Yes this is a big problem for many for the wife and under the influence of the mother, you have to work alongside and try to detach this influence and go to live away from the mother at least 1000 km

 

[BritManToo]

48 minutes ago, Sticky Rice Balls said:

Curious at to your 3 backup options and why, as Im a free agent....

Those countries are a lot of fun for retired guys.

As a drunk, $2 for a bottle of San Miguel gin in the Philippines is an attractive option.

As an avid sight-seer Vietnam is unmatched by any country I've ever visited.

As a smoker of cannabis (laws permitting) the easy availability at $10/bag in Cambodia and Vietnam is an attractive prospect.

 

Plenty of young and attractive women in all three countries looking to share an old western guys pension.

No difficulty for VISAs either, no need to lock up 800,000bht in a bank account, no problematic trips to surly immigration officers required.

Edited May 16, 2021 by BritManToo

[Rampant Rabbit]

2 hours ago, statman78 said:

It is much better here than back in the US.  

Edited 2 hours ago by statman78

But the U.S  is  such a HUGE  place  with  most  likely some very nice  places to  live how can you just discuss it as one area. Hawaii  for example.

Edited May 16, 2021 by Rampant Rabbit

[BritManToo]

4 minutes ago, Kanada said:

What makes you think her feeling safe has anything to do with money??

Money isn’t even on the list when it comes to the “10 most important things in life”

 

I disagree,

I would put money as number 1 on the important things in life list.

If you have money, everything else on the list is easy to procure.

 

Maybe you're confusing money with greed, you certainly don't need excessive amounts of money to have a happy and fulfilled life.

Edited May 16, 2021 by BritManToo

[Rampant Rabbit]

2 minutes ago, ICELANDMAN said:

 

Yes this is a big problem for many for the wife and under the influence of the mother, you have to work alongside and try to detach this influence and go to live away from the mother at least 1000 km

 

Mine's (her's) long dead.

[The Cipher]

28 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I would put money as number 1 on the important things in life list.

If you have money, everything else on the list is easy to procure.

 

1) Time/Health

2) Fulfillment

3) Money/Freedom

 

Edited to add 'Freedom' and 'Health'.

Edited May 16, 2021 by The Cipher

[kingofthemountain]

1 minute ago, Kanada said:

No I don’t think so....I think he’s got you pegged pretty well....you don’t seem like a very happy guy!

That’s ok and that’s your business...you can live anyway you want!

*** maybe don’t try so hard to spread it around ????

That's funny

you know absolutely nothing about my life

and you come with a judgement, maybe my question was

a little bit annonying for you (And you still haven't answered)

no problem, not my business at all anyway

have a nice day