Popular Post EVENKEEL Posted May 17, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 17, 2021 I retired to living full time in Thailand just before covid hit. My plans of visiting the USA were broadsided. I miss the roar of my car with 5.7L engine, I miss cruising the countryside, I miss the reclining chairs in the movie theater, I miss the beach vibe in San Diego, I haven't driven coast to coast since I was a teenager and really wanted to do that again. 6 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OneMoreFarang Posted May 17, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 17, 2021 No 8 2 4 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post pgrahmm Posted May 17, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 17, 2021 Yeah - we usually RV the US 3-6 months a year... It's a brilliant, comfortable, private, fun way to explore.... Covid stopped us last year & probably this year..... My wife loves being in the snow, so m a y b e - towards the end of the year.... Touring like this = yes / sitting static in one place = no.... 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Denim Posted May 17, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 17, 2021 I miss long walks in the English countryside , great public librarys, bigger selection of food and restaurants, decent roads. One or two other things. 14 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MRToMRT Posted May 17, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 17, 2021 I miss being on the priority list for vaccination amongst many other things. 4 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post robblok Posted May 17, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 17, 2021 No otherwise i would go home. But your from the US, its huge far more to do then in my country. The US has some spectaculair nature. I guess for you its a choice between girls and nature ???? For me its just getting away from the grey cold small country that is called the Netherlands. If it had not been Thailand it would have been an other tropical place. 4 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timendres Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 I do not miss the US, but I sometimes miss my home there. It is a wonderful location on Lake Superior. But I never miss it enough to get on a plane. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sirineou Posted May 17, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 17, 2021 No yet, I just got here, after being stuck in the US for over two years with the pandemic. So give it some time. You know what they say. "absence makes the heart grow fonder" and there are a lot of things to miss in the US and my home state of Florida, but while I was there I was missing Thailand, so go figure. I think by nature , we forget all the bad, and romanticise all the good we remember. until reality hits. 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post thasoss Posted May 17, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 17, 2021 Prefer the lifestyle here in thailand so no I don't miss home,but I do miss my children. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post AlfHuy Posted May 17, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 17, 2021 Yes Proper French fries. Proper beer. Good chocolate. Good waffles. Good bread/bakeries. 9 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlfHuy Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 22 minutes ago, robblok said: No otherwise i would go home. But your from the US, its huge far more to do then in my country. The US has some spectaculair nature. I guess for you its a choice between girls and nature ???? For me its just getting away from the grey cold small country that is called the Netherlands. If it had not been Thailand it would have been an other tropical place. Vaals sounds lovely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post worgeordie Posted May 17, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 17, 2021 Never returned to the home country for 30 odd years and no plans to change that.I am happy here,the weather is a lot better. regards Worgeordie 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Saltire Posted May 17, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 17, 2021 I had a trip back to Scotland booked for last May, cancelled of course. Brother had already purchased 2 concert tickets for big acts and I had a list of things to do. Miss my twin brother Miss real beer Miss Indian food Miss rock/blues live music Miss getting vaccinated (brother Pfizered ages ago). Fortunately the list of things I don't miss is much longer, and the plus points of being here longer still. Can't see me ever getting use out of my unredeemable, non refundable British Airways voucher. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mfd101 Posted May 17, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 17, 2021 I love Oz and will always be an Oz (following my first 21 years in NZ). I read the Oz news every day. But I don't need or want to live there again, having spent most of my adult life in the bourgeois paradise that is Canberra. OK for short visits to see friends. I love living here in the sticks with my b/f, and his family at an almost safe distance 40km away. I spend plenty of time each day complaining & feeling irritable, but I don't want to be anywhere else now in my old age. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toofarnorth Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 45 minutes ago, robblok said: No otherwise i would go home. But your from the US, its huge far more to do then in my country. The US has some spectaculair nature. I guess for you its a choice between girls and nature ???? For me its just getting away from the grey cold small country that is called the Netherlands. If it had not been Thailand it would have been an other tropical place. I miss Groningen robblok but that was a long time ago and I miss proper beer and going to a pub on a cold night but then I could smoke in the pub and didn't have to wear a mask. How things have changed. Oh to be in England if only for proper beer and to see my children and grand children. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomazbodner Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 No. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robblok Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 7 minutes ago, toofarnorth said: I miss Groningen robblok but that was a long time ago and I miss proper beer and going to a pub on a cold night but then I could smoke in the pub and didn't have to wear a mask. How things have changed. Oh to be in England if only for proper beer and to see my children and grand children. Children and Grandchildren i get, never got the obsession with beer. But to each his or her own. Also smoking in bars has been outlawed for a while (with good reason). I really really don't like the cold weather I absolutely hate it. I hate the grey dark skies. Yes i miss my parents but they visit me in Thailand every year (not last year because of covid) Not much for me to miss in the Netherlands. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Disparate Dan Posted May 17, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 17, 2021 (edited) UK? No. I'd rather die than go back. But there's plenty of other places I have lived where I would rather be (stuck here cos of the Pan[dem]ic). Edited May 17, 2021 by Disparate Dan 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shackleton Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 Miss family and friends in the UK. will no doubt visit in a couple of years after all the Corivirus cases are reduced to a reasonable level and Quarantine restrictions are lifted 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Kwasaki Posted May 17, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 17, 2021 (edited) I'm from UK so I miss nowt. Edited May 17, 2021 by Kwasaki 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post thequietman Posted May 17, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 17, 2021 At this time of the year when the temperature is unbearable in Thailand, I miss home. I miss the ice cold Guinness, I miss the temperate Irish weather and I miss having a laugh with friends. Today particularly, I'm a little down in the dumps as one day seems to run into the next. I am 17 years out from retirement, but I don't know how you guys do it. I am definitely not looking forward to those times. Any way, a cup of coffee, some writing under my belt and hopefully, I will feel a little better. 'May your home always be too small to hold all your friends.' I love you Ireland. ???? 7 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ballpoint Posted May 17, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 17, 2021 There's a few things I miss, just as there's a few things I miss about some other countries I've spent time in. BUT if I lived in any one of them, there'd be far more things that I'd miss about Thailand. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChipButty Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 I miss going to watch Manchester United play, thats it 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ICELANDMAN Posted May 17, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 17, 2021 I miss my only daughter and I don't miss my ex who lives in my house. 3 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post J Town Posted May 17, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 17, 2021 Nope - too many Murikkkans back there. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BritManToo Posted May 17, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 17, 2021 1 hour ago, OneMoreFarang said: No I agree ....... never. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2 is 1 Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 1 hour ago, robblok said: For me its just getting away from the grey cold small country that is called the Netherlands. I miss "coffee shops" in Amsterdam even im Finnish LOL 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Johnny Mac Posted May 17, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 17, 2021 Of course. There is absolutely nothing to do here, one of the most boring countries on the planet. if it wasn't for the 'girls' why the heck would a single one of us even be here? For what exactly?? I literally can't think of a single reason. 6 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post clivebaxter Posted May 17, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 17, 2021 I miss the pubs, even weatherspoons, Sainsbury's, chip shops, snow in winter and free health care. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post cmarshall Posted May 17, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 17, 2021 I shudder at the thought of returning to the US. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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