What sort of neighbors do you have?

[Chris Daley]

I still think mine are stealing my water.  The other day the girlfriend went out with the car, and he thought I wasn't in he started shouting (talking normally for him) naa ja mai mi krai yuu!  Looks like no one is there.  Yesterday he ran in the house and shouted pit nam pit nam!  Turn off the water.

 

What sort of neighbors do you have?

 

-  the shirtless and loud type

-  totally silent and you never see them

-  abandoned house but they still pay rent for it

-  the village karen that walks around the village checking every house

-  the alien

-  just a parking lot for pickups

-  the motorcycle rever

-  the loud music and beers every night family

-  the fake army guy with the flags and statues

-  the one with trained attack dogs barking 24/7

-  other?

 

[Ralf001]

Mine are very quiet homebody types.. never hear a peep.

[KhunLA]

To the title ... none yet, direct anyway.  Closest house being built now, is 100m away.

 

Did notice a new meter on our utility pole, so obviously someone will be building next door ... hmm 🤞

 

Please, just not a farang 🙏 

[connda]

I know what kind of neighbor that your neighbors have.  The type that is in everyone else's business and thinks that they are somehow above their poor, course, commoner neighbors.

Mine are normal folk with all their own personal failing and strengths, just like me.

[JBChiangRai]

  On 10/22/2023 at 3:20 AM, KhunLA said:

To the title ... none yet, direct anyway.  Closest house being built now, is 100m away.

 

Did notice a new meter on our utility pole, so obviously someone will be building next door ... hmm 🤞

 

Please, just not a farang 🙏 

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With a bit of luck you might get Transman with his Celery!

[KhunLA]

  On 10/22/2023 at 3:43 AM, JBChiangRai said:

With a bit of luck you might get Transman with his Celery!

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We can race down the soi, and I might even let him win 1. 

Might have to give him about a half way lead to the finish line, to make it interesting.

 

He could race these and kick butt:

https://automdb.com/max_acceleration

[Prubangboy]

A couple of young NGO types, a fellow oldie who it turns out shagged the laundry lady. My maid told me.

 

My building is Air BNB on every other floor, so they come and go.

[brianthainess]

Other. 

[Longwood50]

Well let me put it this way we have criminal proceedings ongoing against 5 of them. 

[giddyup]

  On 10/22/2023 at 3:17 AM, Ralf001 said:

Mine are very quiet homebody types.. never hear a peep.

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Same here, had the same neighbours Thai/Farang for 14 years, couldn't ask for better.

[Liverpool Lou]

  On 10/22/2023 at 4:07 AM, giddyup said:

Same here, had the same neighbours Thai/Farang for 14 years, couldn't ask for better.

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Clearly, no AN members, then!

[1FinickyOne]

Noisy frogs, lovely birds... lots of fish... 

 

The people things are far away. 

[brianthainess]

Mainly hardworking Thais, one cuts my grass, will help out with almost anything, One takes all my crap for free, Only pain, one Italian guy who has the land next to me, by changing the slope of his land so it flooded my land, cuts his grass for days on end and he doesn't even live on the land. 

[daveAustin]

In Thailand, pretty decent in general. Lived in a respectable neighbourhood in CM for years and the only times I had issue was withy loud, Pattaya-esque farangs (sorry guys) and couple of Koreans. Had the local dwarf Karen walking around bigging it up, but that is about it. I would have Thai neighbours any day to the utter ahole boomers I had to endure in the UK! F a doodle do! 

[ChaiyaTH]

I had a house left to me being a office and right to me too. It was heaven for nearly a decade but now the offices closed and my neighbors are construction guys.

 

Have to move once again…. They plan on renovating for up to 8 months at multiple houses here.

 

I think i moved over 10 times in 12 years, purely due to housing / noise problems…

 

There is nothing better than living next to office people who are quiet all day and leave during weekends.

[proton]

Driving instructor. Navy couple, lecturer one side, peasants opposite, bloke never wears a shirt showing his tats off, then the bastards in adjoining house. Got roosters last week, endless racket from them while they are out at work all day, inconsiderate buggers. They are out today I imagine at a cock fight, hope it dies. Probably a showdown coming in the next few days.

[ChaiyaTH]

  On 10/22/2023 at 3:20 AM, KhunLA said:

To the title ... none yet, direct anyway.  Closest house being built now, is 100m away.

 

Did notice a new meter on our utility pole, so obviously someone will be building next door ... hmm 🤞

 

Please, just not a farang 🙏 

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Dont worry too fast, thais and planning. They would buy sails before having a boat too.

[ChaiyaTH]

  On 10/22/2023 at 4:21 AM, proton said:

Driving instructor. Navy couple, lecturer one side, peasants opposite, bloke never wears a shirt showing his tats off, then the bastards in adjoining house. Got roosters last week, endless racket from them while they are out at work all day, inconsiderate buggers. They are out today I imagine at a cock fight, hope it dies. Probably a showdown coming in the next few days.

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Not sure how you define the word peasants, sounds all of them are.

[brianthainess]

  On 10/22/2023 at 3:16 AM, Chris Daley said:

I still think mine are stealing my water. 

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Quite simple to check, take a meter reading and go out making sure he hears you leaving. or turn off the water and remove the cock handle. you could just be paranoid. How could he gain access to your water? next time just go see if your meter is spinning. It ain't rocket science.

[The Fugitive]

Quiet Soi apart from neighbours living directly opposite. Parents enjoy more than one drink, sons (and maybe their daughter) take substances. Father called the police on at least one of his sons because he was stealing to obtain money to buy drugs. Father is light-fingered himself, saw him taking beer out of one of the cool boxes in our garden. However, he has helped us out by lending us extension cables on one occasion. The family doesn't like to overuse their toilets (they have three) and relieve themselves outside.      

[puck2]

I cannot complain about our nighbours with a Myanmar origin.

 

The man was the leader of a group of good and reliable  handycrafts who had built our house and the cement ways to a bridge. I have told him many times, if he would have grown up in Germany, now he would be an engineer. We supported him building his own house connected to the cement tway. At that time his daughter was a young girl, and now an intelligent teacher in our village. The apple doesn't fall dawn far away of the tree.

 

Before the son of my wife came here for ever, he and his wife took care of our home and animals, when we left for a holiday or for seeing doctors in Chiang Mai.

 

In general, life in our village is very peaceful and relaxing.

[TroubleandGrumpy]

  On 10/22/2023 at 3:16 AM, Chris Daley said:

the one with trained attack dogs barking 24/7

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Not trained and not an attack dog - but it barks a lot.  Tried many times to get it addressed - wife says we will have to move - nobody ever complained before me. Owner of this house has come and asked him to do something - he has threatened to call police on me.  House other side of his is vacant. House across the road is vacant. House at the back of his is vacant. Thais dont complain - they just move. We will be moving next year - after this high season - too much trouble (and prices up) for next 3-4 months. I have a feeling his gate will be locked up one night by a padlock after I leave and he wont be able to get out at 6am and go to work - just saying.

I have started catching and 'relocating' cats - that stopped him barking all night - but it still barks at everything moving in the street all day.

My advice - never ever never ever never never never - buy a property in Thailand. It might be great for a while, but then one day a new neighbour will be like one of those in the OP list, and unlike back home in a civilised country, there is not a thing you can do about it here in Thailand.

[roo860]

German neighbour, he reckons Hitler wasn't all that bad. 🤭

[bob smith]

  On 10/22/2023 at 3:16 AM, Chris Daley said:

What sort of neighbors do you have

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I wouldn’t know.

 

I’ve never spoken to them.

[KhunLA]

  On 10/22/2023 at 4:38 AM, roo860 said:

German neighbour, he reckons Hitler wasn't all that bad. 🤭

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Just hope they don't use our builder.  Though doing a decent job, took her 18 months to finish a 4 month build  Maybe she shouldn't have taken on those other 8 contracts.

[Grumpy one]

Until recently I had an alcoholic Norwegian / Thai couple.

Now that the guy has passed I have an alcoholic Thai woman 

On reflection the noise is 3 fold more than when it was the 2 fighting.

Now the lunatic screams at everyone and every thing  😱

[John Drake]

Across the street from me is what I call the Chinese compound. An extended Thai-Chinese family lives there. The patriarch of the clan died about five years ago. He was always friendly towards me. He grew up in the village in which I live and made a fortune in gold shops. Since he's died, I haven't had much interaction. The daughter once offered me some mangoes off their mango tree. Catty cornered to my left is dog lady, who never talks to me. OTOH, catty cornered to the right is a very friendly and talkative family of ex teachers. Most of the rest of village seems composed of retirees from the Ministry of Education (I think they bought in as a group deal about 20 years ago). So things are quiet, neat and tidy. It's pretty much the best place  I've ever lived in.

[Will B Good]

Drug dealer....works for the local police as their frontman......moron is obsessed with karaoke and like most people who like karaoke....can't even sing any right notes even in the wrong order. 

[grain]

What sort of neighbors do you have? Well it cost me 60,000 Bt to have this 2.2m high wall built between them and us a couple of months ago. So that's the answer to your question. 😂

[roo860]

  On 10/22/2023 at 4:58 AM, KhunLA said:

Just hope they don't use our builder.  Though doing a decent job, took her 18 months to finish a 4 month build  Maybe she shouldn't have taken on those other 8 contracts.

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He's building some kind of bunker in the back garden, alot of pipework going in, this is the construction company logo.