tonray Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 26 minutes ago, Sticky Rice Balls said: was sleeping in my car Should have gone to IKEA....better bed options...ha ha ha ha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwest10 Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 18 hours ago, worgeordie said: Not if the workers in the village return from Bangkok with the virus. its everywhere regards worgeordie Top post but of course they were allowed to travel anywhere at Songkran and yes you get those who flout the law but this happens all over the world. Very sad times for just about everyone, apart from the so-called Elite but even they are not immune to this Covid 19 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparktrader Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 1 hour ago, tonray said: My preference would be to live inside IKEA if I could. Every day you can have a different living arrangement, girl watching as shoppers walk by and the restaurant is cheap enough. Nice meatballs and apple pie. Watch tv naked during the day. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoupeo Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 if you like dirty place with uneducated noisy people, you will adore any small village ! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Sydebolle Posted July 21, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 21, 2021 If you live in the house of your dreams, have hobbies (gardening, cooking), access to internet (outside world) and can rock up for a beer or two in a pub/place within reach - perfect! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post arick Posted July 21, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 21, 2021 There is really no such thing as in the middle of no where in Thailand 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaneko86 Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 I really start to think that it's up to the girl and her family how you feel out in the sticks. I used to have a 4 years relationship with a bkk girl whose grandmom was living in Prachinburi. It was always awful everytime she asked me to go there a few days with her. Even one day was too much and very boring. Her family was also very judging and strict. Smoking or having a beer in the garden was a no go. Now I am dating a girl from Surin - Esan whose mom is my neighbor in Pattaya but the girl is living with her 2 brothers in some small town near Surin as she is doing an internship as a teacher at a local school for her last year of university. It's always fun to be there as her brothers are just great. They like to barbeque with friends in the evenings and play music. It's always nice to make jokes with them and we even go on motorbike trips and camping together on weekends. It may be because she is living there alone with her 2 brothers without parents. But I never felt bored at all. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Mac Posted July 21, 2021 Author Share Posted July 21, 2021 1 hour ago, Sydebolle said: If you live in the house of your dreams, have hobbies (gardening, cooking), access to internet (outside world) and can rock up for a beer or two in a pub/place within reach - perfect! Yep, a simple no thrills life, but I do see the appeal. Add in a loving family and the odd trip then what more do you really need? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Mac Posted July 21, 2021 Author Share Posted July 21, 2021 Just now, kaneko86 said: I really start to think that it's up to the girl and her family how you feel out in the sticks. I used to have a 4 years relationship with a bkk girl whose grandmom was living in Prachinburi. It was always awful everytime she asked me to go there a few days with her. Even one day was too much and very boring. Her family was also very judging and strict. Smoking or having a beer in the garden was a no go. Now I am dating a girl from Surin - Esan whose mom is my neighbor in Pattaya but the girl is living with her 2 brothers in some small town near Surin as she is doing an internship as a teacher at a local school for her last year of university. It's always fun to be there as her brothers are just great. They like to barbeque with friends in the evenings and play music. It's always nice to make jokes with them and we even go on motorbike trips and camping together on weekends. It may be because she is living there alone with her 2 brothers without parents. But I never felt bored at all. Of course individual circumstances play a pivotal part, 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaibeachlovers Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 2 minutes ago, Johnny Mac said: Of course individual circumstances play a pivotal part, Indeed. My MIL hated me so it was not the best atmosphere to be living in. Add a ratbag nephew to the mix and it was quite toxic. In the end the only solution was to leave. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pookondee Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 4 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said: Indeed. My MIL hated me so it was not the best atmosphere to be living in. Add a ratbag nephew to the mix and it was quite toxic. In the end the only solution was to leave. Let me guess.. The MIL usually hates you because you "give to little". The ratbag nephew, continually asks for money which you know will be spent on YaBa, hence your answer .... off. Been there done that myself. If you are in Isaan I doubt the circumstances ever change much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post TigerandDog Posted July 21, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 21, 2021 (edited) 23 hours ago, worgeordie said: Not if the workers in the village return from Bangkok with the virus. its everywhere regards worgeordie can't entirely agree with that comment. In the village where I live the villagers immediately notify the village head if anyone from the village returns from a major city or elsewhere in the country. Those returnees, if they have had a negative covid test are made to quarantine for a minimum of 7 days and it's impossible for them to break the quarantine as the resident villagers ensure that they comply. This may not be the case in all rural villages, but it has been extremely successful here. 0 cases in the village and only 9 for the district. Edited July 21, 2021 by TigerandDog 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignis Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 Is living in a Thai village in the middle of nowhere becoming more appealing now? Mostly all my life have lived somewhere out in the sticks, born on a Farm, did live for 3 years in Berlin. and here on the outskirts of BKK while the house was being built in 2003.. living in a City or town has no appeal at all, being now in my 70's guess that will never change Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaibeachlovers Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 37 minutes ago, pookondee said: Let me guess.. The MIL usually hates you because you "give to little". The ratbag nephew, continually asks for money which you know will be spent on YaBa, hence your answer .... off. Been there done that myself. If you are in Isaan I doubt the circumstances ever change much. Actually I think she just hated farangs, but certainly I didn't give enough money to satisfy her wants, as I didn't give her any. The nephew didn't ask me for money, probably because he knew I wouldn't give him any, but he was just a ratbag anyway. A few years later he did his best to ruin my homelife by inviting himself to stay every weekend and eating our food and taking up the entire lounge all day. Never picked up his rubbish either. I was always having arguments with my wife about him because she refused to tell him he couldn't come. I had to lock my food up, but he just ate hers and she had to pick up after him as I refused to. I'd say he had quite a lot to do with the breakdown of our marriage. Her village wasn't in Issan, it was near the Lao border in the north east. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radar501 Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 23 hours ago, Pravda said: I know a pretty girl in her 30's with a pig farm 23 hours ago, Excel said: Can you post some pictures and her LINE id please You want pictures of the girl or the pig farm? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRG23 Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 No, not at all. Living in Bangkok my and my family can isolate - and have access to all we need at a couple of clicks of a button. Living upcountry, where we have a property, it is a case of everyone - mainly her extended family - coming and going as they please, usually looking for something to eat or talking about something to eat. People popping about all day with no work to do. At a time when there is no safer strategy that keeping yourself to yourself, I know where I would rather be. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Mac Posted July 21, 2021 Author Share Posted July 21, 2021 5 minutes ago, JRG23 said: No, not at all. Living in Bangkok my and my family can isolate - and have access to all we need at a couple of clicks of a button. Living upcountry, where we have a property, it is a case of everyone - mainly her extended family - coming and going as they please, usually looking for something to eat or talking about something to eat. People popping about all day with no work to do. At a time when there is no safer strategy that keeping yourself to yourself, I know where I would rather be. You stay firmly behind them curtains, fella. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Excel Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 11 minutes ago, Radar501 said: You want pictures of the girl or the pig farm? The girl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreasyFingers Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 25 minutes ago, JRG23 said: No, not at all. Living in Bangkok my and my family can isolate - and have access to all we need at a couple of clicks of a button. Living upcountry, where we have a property, it is a case of everyone - mainly her extended family - coming and going as they please, usually looking for something to eat or talking about something to eat. People popping about all day with no work to do. At a time when there is no safer strategy that keeping yourself to yourself, I know where I would rather be. You did not set the rules for your house. It took a little while but all of the extended family know what my rules are. Sometimes it is pleasant for them to come round as it does not happen very often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon43 Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 23 hours ago, Tanomazu said: Sounds like heaven. Throw in some moths and who could resist? I'm an animal-lover, but not a tree-hugger. Mozzies, centipedes and cockroaches get the chop. There are no rats or mice - the feral cats sort that out for me. Snakes in the garden (including cobras), frogs, moths, butterflies etc etc - I have no problem with them ???? I did have problems before in Thailand with certain members of the human species. So I don't encourage human visitors to my house - I'll meet who I want to socialise with in town ???? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanomazu Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 8 minutes ago, simon43 said: I'm an animal-lover, but not a tree-hugger. Mozzies, centipedes and cockroaches get the chop. There are no rats or mice - the feral cats sort that out for me. Snakes in the garden (including cobras), frogs, moths, butterflies etc etc - I have no problem with them ???? I did have problems before in Thailand with certain members of the human species. So I don't encourage human visitors to my house - I'll meet who I want to socialise with in town ???? And what are the women like there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrJ2U Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 It's got its drawbacks and its plusses. I'm enjoying it because I've got a family, fairly nice wife, and resort style house here in Issan. I don't drink so I don't miss the bars. But I miss the night life and myriad of eating options that city life affords. We holiday every other month to some beach so that helps my longing for the oceanside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spoon1967 Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 Each to their own I suppose - but not for me. I will retire to Thailand next year at age 55, was married to a Thai and have a child. Prior to COVID I had 4 holidays a year to Thailand, had 48 trips since 2010 and a few before that. I want to live close (walking distance) to the bars, restaurants, malls, hospitals, pharmacies, massage shops, barbers, etc, somewhere like Soi Bukhoew. For me that is an easy life, everything on your doorstep. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sterling Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 I can't believe nobody has linked to our esteemed @owl sees all136+ page Diary of a Farang In Isaan thread: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisKC Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 I don't have any quarrel with this idea. Each to his own of course but objections raised by some may not mean the same to you or I. In any event, I am open-minded and even if I decided in some kind of life-changing scenario, I would be happy in the knowledge that I would be prepared to make the adjustments necessary and move again in the light of my experiences! For me, I would like to see out my days close to the sea but if I cannot for any reason, I won't be unhappy. Good Luck with whatever decision you make Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BTB1977 Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 I live and a fairly large city and don't feel any of the doom and gloom your describing. Where and what is bringing such negativity? Life is what you make of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post wolf81 Posted July 21, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 21, 2021 I live in a village right now, been living in a village for the past 3 years or so. I hope to buy a condo in Pattaya or other seaside resort over the coming year. I prefer to have a condo with a swimming pool. Of course, my girlfriend prefers her farm. We have to find some way so each of us can get the life we want. Perhaps sell the farm + house in the village and buy one on the outskirts or Pattaya or something. The village is kinda boring. It's not too much a problem for me, since I spent most of my time working from home, behind the computer. However, the stuff to do in the weekends is little and kinda boring around here. Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai are both about a 2.5 - 3 hour drive from here, so we visit the city only a couple of times in a year. For my daughter I believe the city will be better as well, higher quality schools most likely, though more expensive as well. And as she's the only luk-khrueng around here, she might fit in better in a school in the city with more luk-khrueng (though she isn't bothered by this right now and most people find my daughter quite lovely and beautiful). There's more entertainment in the city as well. I know my daughter likes to go to the beach and I like the walks on the beach road during the day. There's the cinemas (but probably closed right now), shopping malls (fun for my daughter and gf), waterparks, zoo's, hospitals, restaurants with western food, etc... Dealing with Jomtien immigration would be annoying again though, one of the nice perks of living in a remote village is that the 90-day reporting in local immigration office is done really quick and without hassle. No long queues. And with regards to food: I find the pork in our village mostly crappy. I believe most of the quality meats of the pigs are sent to the city, while people here eat the leftovers or something. Though the Thai people seem to enjoy the meat as far as I can tell, I find it often quite stringy. Finally I'd like to talk to people from Europe, USA, Australia and the like about stuff that concerns us and that most Thai seem to care or know very little about. Stuff like economics, politics, world affairs, etc... I'd like to talk with people with similar jobs as me on technology issues etcetera. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hammer2021 Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 11 hours ago, scoupeo said: if you like dirty place with uneducated noisy people, you will adore any small village ! Such places and people exist in cities, poor suburbs, ghettos, slums etc and are not confined to villages Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrandPapillon Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 On 7/20/2021 at 6:24 AM, Cake Monster said: I live in a Village, and I love to wake up and see the Sky There are very few pressures, and living close to a City, things I need are only a Short distance away. living like a hobbit does have its advantages ???? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiteman9 Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 I have lived in both the city and in the boonies and have found that the vibe of people in the city are uptight, rude, and less friendly. Same as the kooks that want to defend there rat in a maze lifestyle in the big city. To me the city has it's purpose, to do business and get out. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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