Are there any 'normal' farangs living in Thailand?

[rumak]

6 minutes ago, tubby johnson said:

Probably the first.

 

I've learned to avoid eye contact with farangs, as I invariably regret responding to them. So many whingers, drug addicts, scammers, braggarts, conspiracy theorists, bitter people, chips on their shoulder, insanely bored pensioners, more scammers, talkative bores ..... oh, lots of talkative bores. A bunch of losers and not good to associate with such people.

oh jesus..... i thought for a second i was filling out a questionaire ..... and checked:  all of the above

[Myran]

There are plenty of us, but we generally don't hang around in bars or walking streets.

[fredwiggy]

Not an alcoholic, casual drinker of wine, beer and tequila mostly. Not a womanizer, met a narcissist here(didn't realize it at the time), came back, got married, had a child, then she went haywire. Got divorced, living in house I paid for, have daughter almost half the time, Not a liar, into drugs (weed occasionally when I go back to the US), empath, opposite of a narcissist, no depression . Have a nice girlfriend, but will move back to the US with my daughter as soon as I can figure out how to resettle there, likely in a few years because I hunt and fish, and there isn't any hunting here and the fishing, at least in Isaan, isn't very good unless you have a private water to fish, and it's not the type of fish I enjoy. It's not a good place for girls to live, roads are dangerous, corruption far more than the US, weather too one sided for my tastes, beaches too far away, and I see prejudice a lot here. Besides that, I know a handful of farangs that live here that seem normal to me. Good wives, not heavy drinkers, nice guys. No one knows what goes on in anyone else's house unless you live with them full time, but on the outside they seem okay. I have seen some weirdos here, and heard of others.

[ozimoron]

4 minutes ago, Myran said:

There are plenty of us, but we generally don't hang around in bars or walking streets.

I'm normal and I do when I have free time. I work and I don't drink much. I have few rules or restrictive habits. I defy classification or labels. I'm not judgmental. My secret is to find reasons to avoid individual people, not the other way round.

[Mac Mickmanus]

1 hour ago, LaosLover said:

Golden era-ThaiVisa advice was to watch out for the 7/11 cuties. They were the willful home-wreckers.

 

Some peoples experience of Thailand and they think that there are only three types of Females in Thailand 

   Girls that work in bars

   Girls that work in rice fields 

  And girls that work in 7/11

They spent too much money on bar girls , don't fancy going to live in a village and the only other option is to harass 7/11 girls

[sqwakvfr]

Very few are “Normal”.  If I was “normal” I would probably would not have ever moved to LOS. My first year I met a guy who said he had two passports(I presumed he was a dual citizen?).  Anyway his favorite topic was a well known visa agency that can do “everything” for the right price and I should contact them immediately and mention his name.  He failed to register the fact I was on an OA and was good for almost two years. He had never heard of an OA visa and kept on talking about this magical visa agency.  I avoid this guy as much as I can.  HIs other pitch was for an optometrist who did LASIK.  He again said I should get my eyes done even though I had excellent vision.  Also, I had to mention his name if I contact the optometrist.  I never contacted the Visa Agency or the optometrist. 

 

Anyway, I prefer to have conversations that do not require the “hard sell”.  

 

 

[bang saen guy]

2 hours ago, Skallywag said:

Same same, all foreigners are farangs are they not?  

No

[Hummin]

37 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Did you say, "Normal Farangs in Thailand?"

 

Definitely not.

That's impossible.

Farangs in Thailand, for the most part, have been considered very STRANGE in their home countries. and have consequently been banished, mostly.

This is why I never: Hang with Farang!

 

Yes, in reply to the OP, Farang in Thailand are most certainly strange, and stranger than most Thai understand.

 

Only the Doors knew how strange the Farang can be, when cornered in Thailand:

 

 

 

You are one of the more exentric posters here Gamma, way above all of us

[Hummin]

14 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Some peoples experience of Thailand and they think that there are only three types of Females in Thailand 

   Girls that work in bars

   Girls that work in rice fields 

  And girls that work in 7/11

They spent too much money on bar girls , don't fancy going to live in a village and the only other option is to harass 7/11 girls

which one are you ?

[Mac Mickmanus]

2 minutes ago, Hummin said:

which one are you ?

One who is happy and content being single and who doesn't need  a female to hold my hand and to live with me, so I don't get lonely 

[Hummin]

1 minute ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

One who is happy and content being single and who doesn't need  a female to hold my hand and to live with me, so I don't get lonely 

Thats a great illusion as well. Learned the hard way? 

[ubonr1971]

2 hours ago, LaosLover said:

I moved here with my white wife. A few dozen bringing a ham sandwich to the picnic jokes later, we have become normalcy status symbols.

 

Our mere presence provides a warm bath of normalcy for many a monger or pothead. Older Thai women seem very approving.

 

A guy who's being supported by his parents pimped us out as normalcy-provers when his family visited. I got a free pizza out of it.

Why would anyone move here with a Thai wife??

 

You can get stunning thai girl half your age with

no 'entitled' westerner attitude. 

[ChaiyaTH]

1) You choose and attract the people you meet and deal with unless you live in like the ghetto.
2) You are the average of the people you hang out with / the friends you have.
3) If you go to places to socialize, in a travelled country like this, of course you also always will see and hear these crazy people and stories. Doesn't mean that's the majority.

 

 

I could also believe most expats in Thailand are russians, israeli's and germans as of being on a island right now, but of course I know better. Most of them are not even here for 2 years yet.

[Mac Mickmanus]

4 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Thats a great illusion as well. Learned the hard way? 

Why is it an "illusion " ?

[ozimoron]

2 minutes ago, ChaiyaTH said:

1) You choose and attract the people you meet and deal with unless you live in like the ghetto.
2) You are the average of the people you hang out with / the friends you have.

Avoiding people you don't know is to miss out on a lot of positive experiences and knowledge. On the other hand you lose nothing if they turn out to be idiots.

[xylophone]

6 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

One who is happy and content being single and who doesn't need  a female to hold my hand and to live with me, so I don't get lonely 

Well, I think that's about the first post of yours that I've ever liked!

 

However that also describes me and although I do have a couple of female "friends", the idea of anything even like permanent or more than an hour or two, is an anathema to me.

 

Single and content to be so.

[ChaiyaTH]

4 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

Avoiding people you don't know is to miss out on a lot of positive experiences and knowledge. On the other hand you lose nothing if they turn out to be idiots.

Where did I write that you have to avoid them upfront? Nowhere. I also do not need to become friends with idiots who have cool stories or experiences, they often talk loud enough to hear them sitting on my own table in the bar or restaurant. But sure, I did not say doing a few beers on a drunk evening is bad either.

Anyway, not so sure of that as well, plenty of experiences and more proper knowledge for people who are normal and better. The OP is kind of the living proof of that, he posts this wondering what is obvious not the reality. 

[metisdead]

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[Hummin]

6 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Why is it an "illusion " ?

We all create our little world around us self, telling our self truths to comfort and make us survive our own reality. 

[ozimoron]

1 minute ago, ChaiyaTH said:

Where did I write that you have to avoid them upfront? Nowhere. I also do not need to become friends with idiots who have cool stories or experiences, they often talk loud enough to hear them sitting on my own table in the bar or restaurant. But sure, I did not say doing a few beers on a drunk evening is bad either.

Anyway, not so sure of that as well, plenty of experiences and more proper knowledge for people who are normal and better. The OP is kind of the living proof of that, he posts this wondering what is obvious not the reality. 

I was generalizing. The tone of this thread is that only deviates and crazies hang out in Thailand / Pattaya.

[ChaiyaTH]

2 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

I was generalizing. The tone of this thread is that only deviates and crazies hang out in Thailand / Pattaya.

I know plenty of the more interesting people around, I enjoy having beers with them, but I do not have their contact or make it more than that.

 

I guess that is also the 'choose' part right, what is crazy is subjective anyway, and I might enjoy 1 'crazy' person in my life even as friends, while for others that would not be nice or good.

[BritManToo]

2 hours ago, gearbox said:

Nothing is black and white... however how many doctors, engineers or scientists have you seen in your home country with their hands or neck tattooed? Mostly uneducated low class settles here. Russians are maybe an exception but they have their own issues.

I've a degree and postgrad in education, was an engineer/scientist/schoolteacher before I came here.

How about you?

[BritManToo]

22 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

One who is happy and content being single and who doesn't need  a female to hold my hand and to live with me, so I don't get lonely 

It's not my hand I want them to hold!

[BritManToo]

2 hours ago, Skallywag said:

Same same, all foreigners are farangs are they not?  

Farangs are white western people with Christian backgrounds.

Foreigners come in many skin colours, and from many different cultures/religions.

[ChaiyaTH]

3 hours ago, gearbox said:

Nothing is black and white... however how many doctors, engineers or scientists have you seen in your home country with their hands or neck tattooed? Mostly uneducated low class settles here. 

I rarely seen any people with hands or necks tattoo in Thailand in the first place, the few I did were tattoo artists and business owners overseas. Aside of that, I have seen plenty of engineers, lawyers, scientists and more with tattoos. Even at Thai universities now most students will have at least 1 small tattoo. 

You must be very narrow minded and uncultured yourself, if you judge the book by it's cover. 

[ozimoron]

2 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Farangs are white western people with Christian backgrounds.

Foreigners come in many skin colours, and from many different cultures/religions.

Rubbish. Farangs are Caucasions. I'm a farang without a scintilla of Christian background.

[Mac Mickmanus]

12 minutes ago, Hummin said:

We all create our little world around us self, telling our self truths to comfort and make us survive our own reality. 

I can assure you that I am quite happy and content being single and its really not an illusion  . 

[thaibeachlovers]

3 hours ago, bogs smith said:

so whats going on? are there any normal farangs living in Thailand or are they just few and far between??

You seem to attract the weirdos. The only one I ever met claimed to be the Dali Llama, but he was interesting to talk to.

 

Define normal? IMO there is no such thing, but if there was, a normal guy would go to school, get a job, get married, raise kids and die shortly after retiring. No way a "normal" guy would emigrate to Thailand to live, IMO.

 

BTW womanising is a genetic imperative for men, so it's completely normal. What is abnormal is the idea that men should have one woman in their life, which has only been the dictat for a fraction of the 50,000 or so years that humans have been wandering around on the planet.

[Mac Mickmanus]

9 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

It's not my hand I want them to hold!

Quite a lot of guys are led by their  knob and their knob makes all the decisions and thats why they end up in their predicament  

[gearbox]

15 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I've a degree and postgrad in education, was an engineer/scientist/schoolteacher before I came here.

How about you?

Masters in electronic engineering