2 hours ago, Scouse123 said:

I won't let the door slap me on the ass on my way out.

ok, but I hope you don't get stuck in the portal... I wish you a happy journey to another place... 

11 minutes ago, pgrahmm said:

Where hasn't it......

 

Much less of a baseline cost here......

 

In the states it cost me almost $100 per month just to keep the pilot lights lit - years ago....$200+ a month for cable/internet (Comcast)....

We spend pennies to dollars here - and are lucky to do so.....

We had been spending months in the US RVing before Covid every year = and every year it was a new case of sticker shock.....

 

We're going back once the flights/C19/travel difficulties stabilize.....I have a feeling the sticker shock is going to be horrific.....

We live in privilege here - and - we are privileged to live here....

Don't let the noise/static/petty annoyances get to you.....

We are spoiled for good life choices here.....

 

That greener grass on the other side of the fence = isn't.....

Maybe you forgot the original comment? Wasn't mine

 

I started giving my Thai partner 20K baht a month 13 years ago to pay for food, water and electric. I still give her 20K baht a month and if anything we eat better now than then. I have offered many times to increase the amount, but she always refuses and tells me if she runs short she'll let me know. So if the cost of living has increased, it's negligible.

 

He claims 13 years later his is eating better and cost increase negotiable. Electric has sure as heck increased dramatically past 13 years.

 

He wasn't talking about your RVing or how much your costs are in the USA

 

I never think Thailand is a privilege, sorry. I don't consider third world anything a privilege.

 

I also never worry about sticker shock.

 

If you made it to old age and have to worry about how much things cost, you didn't do a very good job.

 

 

if you've been here thirty year and have to ask why then you're doing it wrong. maybe go to temple for a week or two to work out your issues.

3 minutes ago, Lemsta69 said:

if you've been here thirty year and have to ask why then you're doing it wrong. maybe go to temple for a week or two to work out your issues.

Depending if he have left the country the few last year's or not, I can relate to the feeling of this is not for me permanent, but at once you are back in reality, you find both places makes it complete. At least my experience. Being stuck one place changes the whole game

Do not worry !

 

Any single genius (simon43 and friends...) who just like you, posted this kind of ridiculous message along the years, is still living here and feeling stupid to have posted it.

 

You know what is waiting for you ????

 

 

 

3 hours ago, Reposed said:

I've been on 6 continents and around (lost count) 120 countries. I've lived in 8 countries for an extended period....meaning 2 years or more. South America, Central America, Mexico, Japan, Italy, Spain, and, uhm, here....

 

Suffice to say, Thailand is unique in their world view, and my days here are numbered. I'm with you, bud. Ignore the people on here who are Thaier than Thais.

 

Best on your new journey...

you also owned ferrari and lamborghini but are now happy with a toyota, right ? 

We know this kind of story very well here...

 

 

9 minutes ago, ThaiSanookGuy said:

you also owned ferrari and lamborghini but are now happy with a toyota, right ? 

We know this kind of story very well here...

 

 

Nope. An Isuzu pickup.

 

Sorry if you're stuck in one place and live on sour grapes...

1 hour ago, Hummin said:

Being stuck one place changes the whole game

IF stuck, but reality, nobody is actually stuck here, or anywhere.  Just choose not to leave, for what ever reason.

 

If splitting one's time, in 2 places or travel a lot, and just use any one place as a base, is fine, if that's what one chooses.  

 

If you can't think of more reason to stay than leave, then the decision is easy.

4 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

 

 

If you can't think of more reason to stay than leave, then the decision is easy.

I believe those who wake up complaining about something, go to bed complaining, the same people would be complaining any place in the world where they would be going. It takes some view of light and, and you can be happy anywhere, as long they have something to wake up to that's makes them happy.

 

Every evening I'm thinking of the new  fresh grained coffee I'm going to enjoy with a smile on my face.

 

Off course there is other things in my life that makes me smile and can't wait to wake up early in the morning, but that coffee is for sure one of the first things I'm going to be served.

2 minutes ago, Sticky Rice Balls said:

Hence your username  Its Good to be the King!   sorry a few of us didnt live up to your expectations....please forgive us your Highness....(grovels)

But the queen said off with your head you silly fool....

5 minutes ago, Sticky Rice Balls said:

Hence your username  Its Good to be the King!   sorry a few of us didnt live up to your expectations....please forgive us your Highness....(grovels)

The higher they fly, the harder they land.

 

 

11 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

But the queen said off with your head you silly fool....

Shows you just how little power she really has!

8 minutes ago, Hummin said:

The higher they fly, the harder they land.

 

 

In your dreams maybe?

17 minutes ago, Hummin said:

I believe those who wake up complaining about something, go to bed complaining, the same people would be complaining any place in the world where they would be going. It takes some view of light and, and you can be happy anywhere, as long they have something to wake up to that's makes them happy.

 

Every evening I'm thinking of the new  fresh grained coffee I'm going to enjoy with a smile on my face.

 

Off course there is other things in my life that makes me smile and can't wait to wake up early in the morning, but that coffee is for sure one of the first things I'm going to be served.

Great that your life's pleasure has been reduced to coffee.

 

As far as your beliefs? You are entitled to those but no one else cares what you believe.

 

 

18 minutes ago, Sticky Rice Balls said:

Hence your username  Its Good to be the King!   sorry a few of us didnt live up to your expectations....please forgive us your Highness....(grovels)

Being the King of Isaan isn't easy, but someone has to do it.

 

 

2 hours ago, Lemsta69 said:

if you've been here thirty year and have to ask why then you're doing it wrong. maybe go to temple for a week or two to work out your issues.

Maybe the temple in Nakhon Nayok, where the monk swirls his hand in a giant bowl and then gives out the lottery numbers!

34 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

IF stuck, but reality, nobody is actually stuck here, or anywhere.  Just choose not to leave, for what ever reason.

 

If splitting one's time, in 2 places or travel a lot, and just use any one place as a base, is fine, if that's what one chooses.  

 

If you can't think of more reason to stay than leave, then the decision is easy.

How are you NOT stuck if you have NO money and no place to move to?

4 hours ago, Grecian said:

Why is it all the  time we are subjected to attempts at price gouging, additional airport fees dual pricing,  and ridiculous  nationalistic and jingoistic government behavior.

 

i would rather be gouged on consumption (import taxes in thailand) than home ownership (council tax in the uk)

airport fees! Much much lower than flying out of the uk.

nationalism.....I can't understand Thai so I don't hear it. and if I did its probably better than the woke, leftie feminised uk

 

if you find a better third option do let us know.

If you owned a home in the UK, you would have some assets worth something.

24 minutes ago, Hummin said:

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Every evening I'm thinking of the new  fresh grained coffee I'm going to enjoy with a smile on my face.

 

Off course there is other things in my life that makes me smile and can't wait to wake up early in the morning, but that coffee is for sure one of the first things I'm going to be served.

Me too.

 

I don't drink coffee to wake up....

 

I wake up to drink coffee!

4 hours ago, giddyup said:

I do know that the 20K still covers all the same things it did 13 years ago. Fact. Try to see how far 20K (about A$200 a week) goes in Australia for two people.

Who cares about Australia?

 

Are you denying costs haven't risen in Thailand the past 13 years?

 

You don't know anything.

 

Look it up.

3 hours ago, Sparktrader said:

Rents in west are crazy high. 10000 baht a month vs 100,000 baht same thing.

 

 

If you are retired or nearing that age and have to rent versus buy, we can understand the cheap charlie issues.

3 hours ago, Hummin said:

What you guys seems to forget or ignore, is the crazy livingcost back where you coming from, new taxes like environment tax on everything and anything, gas en electric more than doubled in many countries. 
 

good luck to find another place to complain about. 
 

But have to say, been back home for 3 months, I say yes to both places will do for me. 

The cost isn't crazy if you can afford it, is it?

3 minutes ago, Sticky Rice Balls said:

I do have money--i choose wisely on how i want to spend it

My car has tv--ac-bed-toilet-books--laptop--etc

I shower at the gym nearby-and eat wherever i choose at cafe-market-etc

I always find it funny how ppl will pay money to go camping in a flimsy tent

I put a bed in a secure solid car and people freak out......and pay zero and safer and comfy

People walk to toilet and showers and campground and pay about $30 a night...

as ive stated i choose to live in my car--a rental is out of my budget when i have

all the same needs met for less....the little income i have goes to savings to travel

back to thailand, where i dont work and the more i have saved the longer i can stay

Hey baby, want to see my car-house?

17 minutes ago, KIngsofisaan said:

Great that your life's pleasure has been reduced to coffee.

 

As far as your beliefs? You are entitled to those but no one else cares what you believe.

 

 

You have no idea, do you? 

 

How did you become so bitter when you obviously feel so high? Lesson to learn, is to appreciate  the smaller things we take for granted also. But I do not expect you to understand simple things like that. 
 

 

4 minutes ago, Sticky Rice Balls said:

 

 

Just cant stand to see those beneath them enjoying their lives and being happy when they have tried to fill their empty lives with materials things and money and are miserable..

 

 

If he feel above me, I really do not care, but he do not know bullpie when it comes to my life, what I have and do not have, or neither my experiences. He just take it for granted that he is some kind of superior to others he never have met face to face. 
 

But he can assume anything and everything he wants for me, but he should behave and be polite and do not trashtalk other he really do not know anything about . 
 

He really made a sympathetic impression in the other tread we had the day before with his statements about low life and not living. 
 

when you lower yourself to write what he did, then you kind of start feeling sorry for them. 
 

 

 

Good luck in Japan or Singapore.

20 minutes ago, Sticky Rice Balls said:

I do have money--i choose wisely on how i want to spend it

My car has tv--ac-bed-toilet-books--laptop--etc

I shower at the gym nearby-and eat wherever i choose at cafe-market-etc

I always find it funny how ppl will pay money to go camping in a flimsy tent

I put a bed in a secure solid car and people freak out......and pay zero and safer and comfy

People walk to toilet and showers and campground and pay about $30 a night...

as ive stated i choose to live in my car--a rental is out of my budget when i have

all the same needs met for less....the little income i have goes to savings to travel

back to thailand, where i dont work and the more i have saved the longer i can stay

Thats brilliant Sticky, pity more don't do the same.

Everything is to be gained with a sustainable lifestyle.

Everything I have is second hand, and the car cost

£60 about 20 years ago, and still daily transport.

I believe the missus was also second hand, but

does have a certain charming patina.

Yes, thats not a typo.

31 minutes ago, Sticky Rice Balls said:

I can afford it, the thing is it doesnt make me happy and it feels wasteful, to me..im content in my car and sleep well knowing it costs me nothing..im not drunk sleeping on a bench...

I am sure taking a dump in your car is really worth it!

15 minutes ago, Hummin said:

If he feel above me, I really do not care, but he do not know bullpie when it comes to my life, what I have and do not have, or neither my experiences. He just take it for granted that he is some kind of superior to others he never have met face to face. 
 

But he can assume anything and everything he wants for me, but he should behave and be polite and do not trashtalk other he really do not know anything about . 
 

He really made a sympathetic impression in the other tread we had the day before with his statements about low life and not living. 
 

when you lower yourself to write what he did, then you kind of start feeling sorry for them. 
 

 

 

No need to feel sorry for anyone except yourself.

 

Even more so if you don't know the person.

 

We are all grown men living our lives the way we want, opinionated the way we want.

 

A forum is to voice opinions, not to agree with every single thing that is posted.

 

It is like a TV set, change the channel if you don't like it

33 minutes ago, Hummin said:

You have no idea, do you? 

 

How did you become so bitter when you obviously feel so high? Lesson to learn, is to appreciate  the smaller things we take for granted also. But I do not expect you to understand simple things like that. 
 

 

I feel high because that is the way I am.

 

Sorry if I didn't plan my life to grow up living out of a car.

 

Don't expect me to learn your lessons, I am not you.

 

Don't expect me to understand anything, you don't know me and have no idea what I understand.

 

If you think growing up to live out of a parked car is normal and you appreciate it (smaller things), good for you.

 

I wasn't brought up to believe that is such a good idea.

 

Pretty sure I would have a hard time fitting my entire clan into a car to live? Maybe that is why we have so much land and a real house, and one abroad.

 

Compared to Elon Musk, he would think I have a simple life.

 

Everyone has their own opinions, doesn't make them right or wrong.