Is it time for you to face reality and LEAVE ?

[Social Media]

This vdeo is a few years old but it raises some valid points and questions and is worth a re-visit from time to time, not just  for Pattaya but its relevent to all expats everywhere in the Kingdom.

 

 

 

[Lee65]

Just go (or stay) where it is best for you.  ("Going home" could be much worse for those who've little money.)

 

But do remember to reassess regularly.

[BananaStrong]

older, lazier, set in my ways.   considered leaving in 2019.  then covid.   now there's nice weather in Thailand, again.  Ask me in March.   Nah, how about April.   Well, June is OK.  ask me in June.

 

I do think Thailand is not a place for anyone under 40 for more than a few months, unless you are from the Ukraine or some place dealing with big problems.   I've worked enough, no money issues now, it's been 8 years.....

 

there is no reality.   

 

I'm sure there are tons of other countries I would really, really enjoy.... way too lazy to pack up and go try them all out.  

 

That video:  5 signs to leave Pattaya.  

 

NO...   1 sign.   Are you in Pattaya?  Yes?  Leave.  

[proton]

Pure bliss, living the dream? for sex addicts, drunks and weirdos maybe. Most of the rest of Thailand is better than that place ????

[homeseeker]

Really nothing new in the video:

 

If you want to live in Thailand including Pattaya a person should have two essentials namely i) reasonable  good health and ii) enought money to live comfortably.

[Kwasaki]

Going back UK now ???????? all that would achieve would be my death.

 

Another draft plonker with his own opinion making a video back then and now. 

Everyone different so obvous.

 

My first time to Thailand was Pattaya 2 nights was enough and went to Phuket for the remainder of holiday apart from 2 nights in Bkk that was enough. 

 

Following years just toured from central Thailand which was a good starting point to everywhere and ended in the end for me to settle here. 

 

All surrounding counties i didn't find rocked my boat.

Next. 

[OneMoreFarang]

35 minutes ago, Lee65 said:

"Going home" could be much worse for those who've little money.

I just watched the video and that is what I thought. If someone can't afford a nice place in Pattaya will he be able to afford one back home?

And back home he certainly won't sit in front of the convenient store and drink beer. It's just way too cold in most of those home countries.

 

Luckily, I can still afford a nice living standard. But if I wouldn't be able to afford it, then I don't think I would go "home". To do what? Dream about Thailand? 

[ozimoron]

It would cost me at least 3 times as much in rent to stay anywhere in Australia in simple accommodation and much more in food and transport. The visa and flight costs are the only impediment to staying in Thailand. If I needed frequent health care that might tip the scales but so far not. I have some health conditions, HBP and cholesterol which essentially preclude health insurance.

 

I live in Pattaya because it's cheap and varied with much to do and see. Everything is walking distance so I don't bother to rent a bike. Jomtien would be cheaper to rent but the transport costs would make up the difference as well as I just don't like the place. Currently I pay 15K rent and if I was on a pension or much older I'd probably pick somewhere else. No idea where. I'm single and so Pattaya suits me but I don't often go to bars and rarely drink.

 

I have lived in the Philippines for over 20 years and over it big time. I didn't like Cambodia. I have been to Vietnam once and quite liked it but was only there a couple of weeks. Too hard to live there for an Aussie (visas). Speaking Thai helps.

 

I think the time will come when I need to move out of Pattaya to save some rent. Staying in Nirun or Arcadia doesn't appeal.

[1FinickyOne]

going home? This is my home - 

 

If they cannot afford to live here, isn't it going to be more expensive back home? 

[Kwasaki]

2 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

It would cost me at least 3 times as much in rent to stay anywhere in Australia in simple accommodation and much more in food and transport. The visa and flight costs are the only impediment to staying in Thailand. If I needed frequent health care that might tip the scales but so far not. I have some health conditions, HBP and cholesterol which essentially preclude health insurance.

 

I live in Pattaya because it's cheap and varied with much to do and see. Everything is walking distance so I don't bother to rent a bike. Jomtien would be cheaper to rent but the transport costs would make up the difference as well as I just don't like the place. Currently I pay 15K rent and if I was on a pension or much older I'd probably pick somewhere else. No idea where. I'm single and so Pattaya suits me but I don't often go to bars and rarely drink.

With respect go and do some touring all over Thailand if you have not already done so. 

[Photoguy21]

Not in my list of things to do is to leave Thailand. For those who are contemplating it then why not as the country obviously does not really suit you and that is fine. There is no place on earth that suits everyone.

[ozimoron]

4 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

With respect go and do some touring all over Thailand if you have not already done so. 

Right now I'm a digital nomad working 5 nights a week so travel is difficult. I have been to CM 40 years ago and a couple of years ago. Not been to Phuket since about 1983 and not to Samui since 1979. Went to Udon a couple of years ago. I went to Kanchanburi as well i the 80's. That was nice. If I had real money I'd stay in BKK but that's out of my price range.

[ozimoron]

5 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

With respect go and do some touring all over Thailand if you have not already done so. 

Suggestions as to where a single man in late 60's would enjoy? I'm not fixated on girls and don't want to have a girlfriend but complete celibacy would be a problem. I'm very much a homebody and not much of a drinker. I'd like to rent a car for a month and travel all over.

[Mac Mickmanus]

1 minute ago, ozimoron said:

Suggestions as to where a single man in late 60's would enjoy? I'm not fixated on girls and don't want to have a girlfriend but complete celibacy would be a problem. I'm very much a homebody and not much of a drinker.

You can find prostitution in most Countries and having sex isn't  problem in most Countries

[ozimoron]

7 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

You can find prostitution in most Countries and having sex isn't  problem in most Countries

I'm not driven by prostitution. Other factors take a much higher precedence. I was referring more to social interaction. No woman is free. I like Thai culture as you've probably noticed how I push back against Thai bashers.

 

Again you are showing a predilection for telling everybody what I think.

[GinBoy2]

Thing is Thailand is in general a great place in your 40's and 50's.

 

However as you enter your 60's and later it dives.

 

Funds are running out, and as immortal as we once were stuff breaks and that health insurance we once laughed about is now unaffordable or just not available.

 

Now given the choice of some hovel in a Thai village or moving home to at least be with family and some healthcare, I think I know the answer

[Kwasaki]

4 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

You can find prostitution in most Countries and having sex isn't  problem in most Countries

Why don't you pop over to Indonesia. ????????

[ozimoron]

1 minute ago, GinBoy2 said:

Thing is Thailand is in general a great place in your 40's and 50's.

 

However as you enter your 60's and later it dives.

 

Funds are running out, and as immortal as we once were stuff breaks and that health insurance we once laughed about is now unaffordable or just not available.

 

Now given the choice of some hovel in a Thai village or moving home to at least be with family and some healthcare, I think I know the answer

I've modified my diet a lot in recent years and recently joined a gym and shelling out a king's ransom for a personal trainer to try to prevent health issues becoming the driving factor. I walk a lot and won't buy a bike so as not to get lazy.

[ozimoron]

1 minute ago, Kwasaki said:

Why don't you pop over to Indonesia. ????????

One of my mates is married to an Indonesian girl and has a home in Lombok but it's not for me. Food's good, that's about it.

[Mac Mickmanus]

4 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

I'm not driven by prostitution. Other factors take a much higher precedence. I was referring more to social interaction. No woman is free. I like Thai culture as you've probably notice how I push back against Thai bashers.

 

Again you are showing a predilection for telling everybody what I think.

Didnt you previously state you have had sex with over 5000 different woman, that's about 2 per week ?

[billd766]

I haven't been to Pattaya since 2010 and have no desire to go again.

 

I live with my wife and my Thai son in a comfortable 4 bed house in rural Kamphaeng Phet and I don't drink any more.

 

Which is not exactly 100% correct, as I have one Stroh rum and coke every New Nears eve. I figure that I have another 10 years to finish that bottle nd by then I will be 88

 

I would like to say that I would go back to the UK but Thailand IS my home and has been since 2001.

[ozimoron]

2 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Didnt you previously state you have had sex with over 5000 different woman, that's about 2 per week ?

I was younger then and had a yen for women. I was pretty green and she was brown.

 

It was more than that but now I'm older and don't care anymore.

[Kwasaki]

3 minutes ago, GinBoy2 said:

Thing is Thailand is in general a great place in your 40's and 50's.

 

However as you enter your 60's and later it dives.

 

Funds are running out, and as immortal as we once were stuff breaks and that health insurance we once laughed about is now unaffordable or just not available.

 

Now given the choice of some hovel in a Thai village or moving home to at least be with family and some healthcare, I think I know the answer

That maybe that's how you see it for many others it's not the only answer.

 

Mine is as you get older keep yourself healthy and get regular check ups that's what i do. 

 

If you unlucky tough.

[Kwasaki]

7 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

One of my mates is married to an Indonesian girl and has a home in Lombok but it's not for me. Food's good, that's about it.

The present law changes are not for single guys.

[GinBoy2]

1 minute ago, Kwasaki said:

That maybe that's how you see it for many others it's not the only answer.

 

Mine is as you get older keep yourself healthy and get regular check ups that's what i do. 

 

If you unlucky tough.

Delusion is a wonderful thing, but if it keeps you happy, go for it

[Kwasaki]

4 minutes ago, GinBoy2 said:

Delusion is a wonderful thing, but if it keeps you happy, go for it

I certainly will you are probably a younger know it all sort, Goodluck to you. 

[Hummin]

50 minutes ago, proton said:

Pure bliss, living the dream? for sex addicts, drunks and weirdos maybe. Most of the rest of Thailand is better than that place ????

Is most people sex addicts? 

 

48 minutes ago, homeseeker said:

Really nothing new in the video:

 

If you want to live in Thailand including Pattaya a person should have two essentials namely i) reasonable  good health and ii) enought money to live comfortably.

What most lacking, is dicipline and a brain to help them to make good and healthy choices for themselves. ✔️

[The Fugitive]

9 minutes ago, billd766 said:

I haven't been to Pattaya since 2010 and have no desire to go again.

 

I live with my wife and my Thai son in a comfortable 4 bed house in rural Kamphaeng Phet and I don't drink any more.

 

Which is not exactly 100% correct, as I have one Stroh rum and coke every New Nears eve. I figure that I have another 10 years to finish that bottle nd by then I will be 88

 

I would like to say that I would go back to the UK but Thailand IS my home and has been since 2001.

I agree with the drinking (or lack of it). I no longer enjoy alcohol myself and would rather have a cup of tea. House is not really as comfortable as UK because I often get too hot then there's the ants, mosquitos, jing jok's and tokays doing their business in the drawers on crockery and cutlery. Never had rats chew through cables in my house in UK. Find dead cats everywhere that neighbours have poisoned. I find the soi dogs intimidating and my soi could be described as 'dog <deleted> alley'. Free bus every 20 minutes in UK with my 'codger pass'. Prefer English food. I suppose it comes down to if you can tolerate the cold and rain, ice and snow, everything's expensive and everyone's on strike. Perhaps not!    

[Thailand]

1 hour ago, ozimoron said:

Right now I'm a digital nomad working 5 nights a week so travel is difficult. I have been to CM 40 years ago and a couple of years ago. Not been to Phuket since about 1983 and not to Samui since 1979. Went to Udon a couple of years ago. I went to Kanchanburi as well i the 80's. That was nice. If I had real money I'd stay in BKK but that's out of my price range.

A little confused, how is travel difficult if you are a digital nomad, can't you work almost anywhere?

[john1000]

These videos of some bozo telling people obvious stuff, is duplicated and repeated on endless Youtube and forum platforms.

All say the same but its a populat topic so the get loads of hits.

Anyone with half a brain, knows the answers.