For retired expats What do you do for excitement

[klauskunkel]

I go to the market. It can get exciting, but that's not guaranteed. Then I go home.

[Speedhump]

3 hours ago, KhunLA said:

Enjoy being O&A exploring, all of TH

Enjoy being at home & exploring locally

Enjoy my hobbies and home cookin', from scratch

Enjoy nature, live near surf, <4kms away, hills 10kms away

Taking in all in, everyday, with best friend & wife

Not a night owl or bar person, and can't remember last time I was in one, 15 yrs maybe.

Would rather sit at a coffee shop and enjoy a pastry & beverage with a view

 

O&A being a not so well known abbreviation for out and about? ????

 

Your life sounds fine, no need for excitement after a certain age. Breathing every day and a visit every year from my adult kids is enough for me. ????????

 

The downside of enjoying a longish and lazy life with my wife is that if she doesn't make it through her serious illness I'll not really see much future enjoyment in my mid 60s life. Taking up hobbies as a replacement? Hardly even comes close. ????????

[1FinickyOne]

 

[Mac Mickmanus]

23 minutes ago, simon43 said:

I live on Koh Phangan - temporarily banished from living/working in Myanmar for medical and political reasons.

In the morning I jog a couple of km to the 7/11 and back, then teach English and Thai to about 40 Burmese kids in the local community.  I'm a techie person, so enjoy my ham radio hobby and building antennas to receive weather satellite and ISS pictures etc.  Swim on the sea every afternoon, teach science online, just waiting for my UK state pension to start in about 30 months from now.  Then I will have more freedom to travel, teach, do more hobbies etc.

Due to the current 10 % inflation in the U.K., they have added another 10 % to the age of when you can receive your pension  , so instead of getting the state pension at 66 years old, you now get it at 73 years old, due to the 10 % inflation

[Grumpy one]

At my age, waking up each morning is exciting enough 

[Felt 35]

"What do you do for excitement" = Cycling. I promise you that 2-3 hours morning cycling here get you entertained enough for rest of the day. ????

Felt

[simon43]

2 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Due to the current 10 % inflation in the U.K., they have added another 10 % to the age of when you can receive your pension  , so instead of getting the state pension at 66 years old, you now get it at 73 years old, due to the 10 % inflation

Well, that is a joke comment of course!  My pension will fall due when I'm 66, and for one, I'm happy at the raging inflation in the UK, because the triple lock means that my pension will be about 15% higher than what is paid out today.  Of course, it will be frozen, but 30,000 baht or so a month is plenty enough for me!

[bangon04]

19 hours ago, Spamhead said:

Just reading Asean Now is more than enough entertainment !.

yeah... still ploughing through the "Worst Jokes of 2022 " thread.....

[XJPSX]

Golf Mon / Wed / Fri mornings nearly single figures which is my aim.

Walk my dogs every day.

Try and ride 100km each week.

Get 2 massages and sneak in a beer each night.

After food shopping and organising things around the house I am done!

[Mac Mickmanus]

56 minutes ago, Wuvu2 said:

I like to post snarky answers to stupid questions in expat forums. Thanks it's been fun ????

I am here to tell people that they can by clothes from clothes shops or from markets . 

   "Where can  I buy a T-shirt from*

[brianburi]

keeping one step ahead of my young, high spending wife is all the excitement I need........

[Surasak]

I have a toss up of the two most exciting things to do. Either watching paint dry, not very productive. Or a little  more stimulating is watching the grass grow. This of course leads to  a short boost of exercise, when the grass needs cutting.

[dingdongrb]

Wake up, pack the bong, and get baked all day long!

[robert888d]

I am bored to death here now.

[Photoguy21]

20 hours ago, Northstar1 said:

Hanging out in the air conditioned malls is what I see, really SFA to do here. Balcony jumping?

There is as much to do here and probably more than many other places in the world. It really depends on what your interests are.

[SpaceKadet]

Play DOOM Eternal, sometimes HALO. That's plenty excitement!

[dundas]

Manicuring the weeds out the front of the house. Being a kind of (unpaid) consultant for various people in Thailand and the US. Routines, such as Qi gong, meditation, gym, swim, cycle ... Accompanying a former colleague to medical appointments, as required, and Sunday morning walks. Sex and Related Intimate Activities. Travel, from time to time. 

[smoo1954]

Take care of my ganja plant, tend to veggies, eat, read etc etc

[PeterA]

Play the bagpipes, photography, walk, bike ride. All that and taking care of the yard and house keep me plenty busy. 

[3NUMBAS]

drinking themselves into an early grave when they get diabetes and suffer organ failure

[Gandtee]

For me, looking in the mirror in the mornings  and seeing myself still here is enough excitement for me. I'll be 89 tomorrow. I'll check in the mirror tomorrow.????

[1FinickyOne]

3 hours ago, Lacessit said:

The shortened version of Richard is?

Rick...

 

now you have 146,001

Edited December 7, 2022 by 1FinickyOne

[CFCol]

I go skydiving.

[scorecard]

.... a lot at bars...

 

Maybe true but there's a much biggger number of foreigners who are getting on with work and many spending most/99% of their time devoted to their family and the family activities.

 

Your choice is to use the word excitement. I'd use words like satisfaction, pleasure, achievement....

 

My pleasure, and it occupied a lot of time is being with my grandchildren and contributing to their language development, cooking skills, finding and watching and discusing short videos together which are educational in all sorts of ways. Playing observation games, Talking to them about how we can contribute to life being more balanced, explaining what discrimination is and .........

Edited December 7, 2022 by scorecard

[JeffersLos]

10 hours ago, Will B Good said:

Sometimes....not that often.....I have two cups of coffee on a morning.

And then a great big lovely poop. The type that you're singing as it slides out perfectly.

 

The best part of the day. 

[JeffersLos]

1 minute ago, JeffersLos said:

a great big lovely poop. The type that you're singing as it slides out perfectly.

 

11 minutes ago, scorecard said:

I'd use words like satisfaction, pleasure, achievement....

Me too. ???? 

[Luuk Chaai]

typical day ,,  get out of bed  no later than 5 .  have a Cappuccino or 2 ..   wait for the  sun to rise ..  take the  dogs out for a walk

 hit the gym  for an hour ..   come back home 

get cleaned up go to the temple and bring some offerings then back home  and tend to some landscaping, gardening, pick some veggies/fruit.  get cleaned up then either have a meal at home or take the  wife out for shopping and a meal..  she looks at clothes and cosmetics.  I hit the  wine shop..  plenty of places to eat and not get bored.

Some days skip the shopping and go to the beach..  grab some Som Tom, Gai Yang and beer and chill out for a few hours.. or go to the  driving range and mash a bucket.. back home  take the  dogs for a walk.   sit out on the  porch , sip some wine and watch the  sun burn into the ground, watch some Tube, read email, talk to some peeps back in the  US , and usually call it quits between 12-1am ( yes I'm one of those that only sleeps a max of  4 hours )

[d4dang]

watching girls

[Jingthing]

What's excitement?

 

[Lucky Bones]

15 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Best do some English studying first!

Intended or not intended, I thought it was a great slip of the pen.????????