Why do Phuket locals seem to really dislike Foreigners?

[bob smith]

it seems that Phuket people have a real dislike towards farangs.

I have spent quite a bit of time there in the past and the animosity from the locals was striking!

 

There is a specific facebook gorup based in Phuket that advocates discrimination and even violence against farang.

 

I wont mention the name, but if you are in the know then you know!

 

what is it with Phuket specifically? why do the locals seem to have a deep dislike for farangs?

BKK, Patts, CNX, even Samui doesnt seem to have this level of distaste for the holidaymaker.

 

considering Phuket is an island that is based on tourism and needs the tourist dollar to survive - you would think the locals would be happy about them being there,

especially after the pandemic when many phuket locals were out of work.

 

what's it all about?

 

bob.

[transam]

Because they have to deal with a continuous flow of farangy's year round, every week or two a new lot....... Horrendous thought for the locals that make a living there.. .......

[bob smith]

1 minute ago, transam said:

Because they have to deal with a continuous flow of farangy's year round, every week or two a new lot....... Horrendous thought for the locals that make a living there.. .......

so close the island off to tourism then...

 

they wanted them to come in the first place, no?

 

bob.

[Dolf]

7 minutes ago, bob smith said:

so close the island off to tourism then...

 

they wanted them to come in the first place, no?

 

bob.

Lots of bogans and chavs like those Kiwis

[transam]

2 minutes ago, bob smith said:

so close the island off to tourism then...

 

they wanted them to come in the first place, no?

 

bob.

Read your thread heading again, I have given you my thought on it, because if I were a local, it is probably what I would be thinking.

 

But let's not forget, the holiday resorts are where the money is, folk come from all over LOS and beyond to earn a living there, just a fact of Thai life, that they have to  put up with people like you........😁

[sirineou]

If they do, they are living in the wrong place. 

[JetsetBkk]

15 minutes ago, bob smith said:

I have spent quite a bit of time there in the past and the animosity from the locals was striking!

I have spent 20 years here and have never noticed any animosity from the locals.

 

Maybe it's you.

[bob smith]

3 minutes ago, transam said:

Read your thread heading again, I have given you my thought on it, because if I were a local, it is probably what I would be thinking.

 

But let's not forget, the holiday resorts are where the money is, folk come from all over LOS and beyond to earn a living there, just a fact of Thai life, that they have to  put up with people like you........😁

again, if they hate farang then just close the island off completely.

 

sorted, no farang anymore.

 

how it must feel to be a Phuket local, they hate foreigners but rely solely on their money to feed their kids!

 

bob.

[bob smith]

Just now, JetsetBkk said:

I have spent 20 years here and have never noticed any animosity from the locals.

 

Maybe it's you.

have you been to Patong recently?

 

bob.

[Dolf]

Not many Phuket locals, many of the workers are from elsewhere.

[Dolf]

Just now, bob smith said:

have you been to Patong recently?

 

bob.

Nice place to visit. I had lunch with a poo ying from Songkhla. 

[bob smith]

Just now, Dolf said:

Nice place to visit. I had lunch with a poo ying from Songkhla. 

nice place... you avin a laff?

 

bob.

[Dolf]

Just now, bob smith said:

nice place... you avin a laff?

 

bob.

When did you go there?

[transam]

Just now, bob smith said:

again, if they hate farang then just close the island off completely.

 

sorted, no farang anymore.

 

how it must feel to be a Phuket local, they hate foreigners but rely solely on their money to feed their kids!

 

bob.

Hate, who mentioned hate, moving the goal posts eh, very naughty....🤗

 

Do you think prison officers "totally" enjoy their job, I doubt it, but it is a living, eh.

 

So if you want the Island without tourists or farangy residents, how do the locals and the thousands of other Thai staff earn a living.......?

 

Thai folk do not have to like those they provide a service for, fact, sunbeam....🤗

[Dolf]

I miss Phuket. Havent been in 12 months. The only thing I dont like is transport costs. Otherwise it is pretty good. Nice beaches, nice food, cheap rooms, plenty of women. Easy to avoid the bogans. They hang out at Bangla Rd.

[richard_smith237]

24 minutes ago, bob smith said:

what's it all about?

 

A lot of it is your misunderstanding of Phuket. 

 

Phuket attracts Thai's from all over Thailand who'll work in various facets of industry related to tourism... 

They are there for the money, not because they are part of the community. 

 

It is true (IMO) that in the area's of high tourist footfall the Thai's on Phuket seem to be less polite and perhaps more surly than Thai's elsewhere. 

 

IMO - this is due to them not being in their own community. Also, they are expose to tourists all year round.

Sometimes the tourists are not polite, and when the Thai's are less polite the tourists are also less polite, and vice versa.

A stigma develops. 

 

Thai's themselves will go to Phuket and identify that the Thai's there are not as 'friendly' as Thai's in other area's of Thailand. 

 

 

I think its just the facet of being in an area of such highly concentrated tourist footfall in combination with the issue that familiarity breeds contempt. 

 

 

[bob smith]

3 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

A lot of it is your misunderstanding of Phuket. 

 

Phuket attracts Thai's from all over Thailand who'll work in various facets of industry related to tourism... 

They are there for the money, not because they are part of the community. 

 

It is true (IMO) that in the area's of high tourist footfall the Thai's on Phuket seem to be less polite and perhaps more surly than Thai's elsewhere. 

 

IMO - this is due to them not being in their own community. Also, they are expose to tourists all year round.

Sometimes the tourists are not polite, and when the Thai's are less polite the tourists are also less polite, and vice versa.

A stigma develops. 

 

Thai's themselves will go to Phuket and identify that the Thai's there are not as 'friendly' as Thai's in other area's of Thailand. 

 

 

I think its just the facet of being in an area of such highly concentrated tourist footfall in combination with the issue that familiarity breeds contempt. 

 

 

mrs. smith wouldn't be seen dead in the place!

 

she can't stand Phuket.

 

bob.

[Dolf]

Just now, bob smith said:

mrs. smith wouldn't be seen dead in the place!

 

she can't stand Phuket.

 

bob.

Can you please name 2 cities in Thailand you or her do like?

[bob smith]

3 minutes ago, Dolf said:

Can you please name 2 cities in Thailand you or her do like?

I mean I could, but I'm not gonna..

 

bob.

[Dolf]

Just now, bob smith said:

I could, but I'm not gonna..

 

bob.

I wonder do you post from the UK?

[transam]

Just now, bob smith said:

mrs. smith wouldn't be seen dead in the place!

 

she can't stand Phuket.

 

bob.

Is she a farangy, then.......?   🤭

 

I stayed in a very nice hotel there in 2009, very nice, we were quite impressed but the food, beer & wine prices were ridiculous......

 

Plus, a beach restaurant gave me food poisoning via a lobster........

[save the frogs]

beware of tricksters planting seeds of doubt for nefarious hidden agendas

[bubblegum]

Lived there for a decade and loved it till th traffic got too much. As every local will tell you, Patong is not Phuket and for most Thais Phuket is not even Thailand.

[Fat is a type of crazy]

What are you looking for? Some answer that says people from Phuket are all this way or that way. Phuket has friendly people and fun people and a few scammy people and jaded people. Tourist areas have more of the fun people and more of the scammy and jaded people than a town in the country side.  So go to Phuket and search out the fun people and stop whinging like a bitch. Or stay where you are and keep whinging about some where you don't even want to go to. 

[bob smith]

2 minutes ago, Fat is a type of crazy said:

So go to Phuket and search out the fun people and stop whinging like a bitch.

...bit harsh.

 

bob.

[bob smith]

6 minutes ago, Fat is a type of crazy said:

What are you looking for?

I am looking for the reason why many people that reside in Phuket have a deep resentment towards the hand that feeds them..

 

bob.

[richard_smith237]

21 minutes ago, bob smith said:

mrs. smith wouldn't be seen dead in the place!

 

she can't stand Phuket.

 

bob.

Erm.... no offence intended to your significant other, however,  I don't think Mrs Bob Smith is a reliable measure of the character of a place, it would appear that she tends not to make the best of choices. 

 

 

 

 

 

[transam]

5 minutes ago, bob smith said:

I am looking for the reason why many people that reside in Phuket have a deep resentment towards the hand that feeds them..

 

bob.

Is this all about what Mrs. Bob has told you, or where did you get your info from to open a thread on it, and don't say "Dolf"....😱..............

[bob smith]

3 minutes ago, transam said:

Is this all about what Mrs. Bob has told you, or where did you get your info from to open a thread on it, and don't say "Dolf"....😱..............

i've done my time in Phuket, but i sure as hell didn't commit no crime brethren.

 

bob.

[bob smith]

7 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

Erm.... no offence intended to your significant other, however,  I don't think Mrs Bob Smith is a reliable measure of the character of a place, it would appear that she tends not to make the best of choices. 

 

 

 

 

 

now now, richard.

 

I used to think you were alright!..

 

bob.