3 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

 

4 hour immigration queues are not the norm at all - I challenge anyone to honestly comment that they have been stuck in an Airport Immigration Queue in Thailand for 4 hours...   

 

 

 

 

 

Ive done  USA, UK and Aus this year.

 

None more than an hour depart and arrive at swampy.

Edited June 29, 20242 yr by Ralf001

4 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

4 hour immigration queues are not the norm at all - I challenge anyone to honestly comment that they have been stuck in an Airport Immigration Queue in Thailand for 4 hours...   

 

I was once in the line for 3 hours.

 

That's bad enough!

 

bob.

1 minute ago, bob smith said:

I was once in the line for 3 hours.

 

 

 

What year was that ?

13 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

 

What year was that ?

2009.

 

bob.

4 minutes ago, connda said:

If you set down roots and have a house and land (in my wife's name but goes to me for life under a Usufruct if she should expire before me, plus the land deed in that case will be held by my Thai son with whom I get along well):

 

• Very low property taxes.
• No inspectors and regulators or special permits to build on your own land.
• The government for the most part stays out of your personal affairs as long as you don't break laws.
• Fewer laws to break compared to your average Western country.
• If you break a law - money talks.
• Hot women!  (oh you already noted that) <laughs>  (I'm old, and married, but I'm not dead yet)

Oh, and food prices as compared to the West.

For local fruits, produce and even meats like pork and chicken, if you shop at a local open-air markets food is still very affordable.  Like, really affordable. If you cook for yourself and know how to shop. 
 
And if you live in a small village like I do, the prices at local one-item restaurants are still the same - 20 to 25 THB for a plate of whatever they are serving.  The further you get away from the village level, the more expensive.  Amphur 40 to 45 THB.  City center of the province 50 to 55 THB.  A city like BKK and even Chiang Mai - it's just getting stupid, so best to live out in the rice fields of rural Thailand.  But still - compared to the West?  A plate of mix vegetables with chicken over rice in Chiang Mai: 60 THB.  The same dish in America?  $10 / ฿360 THB or 6 times the price.  Same dish out here in the rural boondocks?  25 THB.  So that dish in America?  14 times the price.  I really wonder sometimes why foreigners want to crash the gate at the US southern border to live in Expensiveville USA.  <headshake>
 

1 hour ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

You're a pathetic troll bob... 

Oh really Richard ...that's ... preposterous... absolutely preposterous my dear fellow 

11 minutes ago, bob smith said:

2009.

 

bob.

 

Have you been to Thailand since then ?

1 hour ago, bob smith said:

literally all my farang/thai friends drive drunk.

 

bob.

Great company you keep.

10 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

 

Have you been to Thailand since then ?

i'm in Thailand you clown.

 

bob.

5 minutes ago, ravip said:

Great company you keep.

yes. thank you.

 

bob.

20 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

Oh really Richard ...that's ... preposterous... absolutely preposterous my dear fellow 

 

As you are one of the grade A1 trolls on this thread...     your comment renders completely insignificant, even when attempting to pull pull of a Noel Coward impression 'dear fellow' - which just doesn't work for halfwitted bogans... 

2 hours ago, transam said:

8. Farangy fruitcakes to deal with.......😕

 

Do you think that someone who repeatedly refers to foreigners as 'farangy' appears well adjusted?

It's probably best for you to not throw stones here, lest the spotlight fall on you.

2 minutes ago, NowNow said:

 

Do you think that someone who repeatedly refers to foreigners as 'farangy' appears well adjusted?

It's probably best for you to not throw stones here, lest the spotlight fall on you.

NowNow, let's not be childish over my word for people like you....😬

Plus, I don't need your farangy advice, either, as the spotlight is always on me...........

4 minutes ago, transam said:

NowNow, let's not be childish over my word for people like you....😬

Plus, I don't need your farangy advice, either, as the spotlight is always on me...........

 

Thank you for demonstrating what I meant 😊

Just now, NowNow said:

 

Thank you for demonstrating what I meant 😊

My pleasure.........

cheaper booze  

cheaper accommodation

cheaper food

 

 

 

 

Edited June 29, 20242 yr by steven100

Best thing about Thailand 

 

Meeting all those negative miserable people, who once came to paradise, complaining about anything and everything, make my life feel great.

 

Annoying when they start whining about how bad Thailand is, and how stupid Thais are, and my wife  sit next to me. Sometimes their wife or gf sit there to, and they start their rant.

 

Why is it so many negative people here? Should be your next thread Bob

 

 

 

Edited June 29, 20242 yr by Hummin

1 hour ago, bob smith said:

i'm in Thailand you clown.

 

bob.

and yet you post like a troll from abroad.

25 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Best thing about Thailand 

 

Meeting all those negative miserable people, who once came to paradise, complaining about anything and everything, make my life feel great.

 

 

 

 

 

Bob is here now !

8 hours ago, bob smith said:

Thailand is boring too.

 

bob.

Anywhere can be if you let it I guess, but I find the west especially plain. No magic. 

19 hours ago, bob smith said:

literally all my farang/thai friends drive drunk.

 

bob.

Yep, this is very common practice, the silly farang in here are digging there head in the sand trying to say this isn’t a thing 

18 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

 

 

Agreed - but I'd argue to a lesser degree than our home countries. 

 

The risk of being involved in a violent confrontation here (i.e. getting mugged or into a fight) is less than that in many of our home countries.

 

Additionally, the foreigners who do get into conflict here, usually bring it upon themselves. 

 

Not sure I agree with this, Thai people don’t seem to like farang.. just the money and who can blame them really with the poor attitudes most farangs have 

 

I have seen plenty of aggression towards farangs almost daily 

I like the availability anything and everything delivered to your front door! 

10 hours ago, daveAustin said:

Anywhere can be if you let it I guess, but I find the west especially plain. No magic. 

...where is the magic in Thailand?

 

is it in a bowl of soup??

 

bob.

20 hours ago, bob smith said:

6. Drunk driving is tolerated/easy to do.

 

You should have been here a couple of decades ago, the cops would go home at midnight, not a cop to be seen until the sun came up. 

 

Years ago, I remember we were out drinking on the dark side, doing the naughty bar crawl around the lake, it was late afternoon, we stopped at an intersection, my mate dropped off his Mio, p*ssed, a cop on his bike stopped and helped my friend back on his bike. 

 

We decided to go home, too drunk to ride. 

 

Edited June 30, 20242 yr by SAFETY FIRST

9 minutes ago, bob smith said:

...where is the magic in Thailand?

 

is it in a bowl of soup??

 

bob.

Watch it bob, the Eco-Police will come and arrest you! 

 

3 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

You should have been here a couple of decades ago, the cops would go home at midnight, not a cop to be seen until the sun came up. 

 

Years ago, I remember we were out drinking on the dark side, doing the naughty bar crawl around the lake, it was late afternoon, we stopped at an intersection, my mate dropped off his Mio, p*ssed, a cop on his bike stopped and helped my friend back on his bike. 

 

We decided to go home, too drunk to ride. 

 

ahhh the good old days..

 

I once got pulled over on my bike hammered.

 

i had a half empty bottle of beer in the front compartment,

 

the copper then saw my football shirt, which he was a fan of.

he let me through and told me to enjoy the match tonight!

 

you couldn't make it up!

 

bob.

20 hours ago, bob smith said:

1. Good food.

2. Relatively affordable.

3. Good weather for 6 months of the year.

4. Beautiful beaches.

5. Hot girls.

6. Drunk driving is tolerated/easy to do.

7. Fast internet

8. Friendly, Beautiful, sweet smelling young, petite ladies happy to talk and socialise with you for just a few bucks, cheeeap. 

I'm in heaven. 👍

 

 

2 minutes ago, bob smith said:

ahhh the good old days..

 

I once got pulled over on my bike hammered.

 

i had a half empty bottle of beer in the front compartment,

 

the copper then saw my football shirt, which he was a fan of.

he let me through and told me to enjoy the match tonight!

 

you couldn't make it up!

 

bob.

Yes, the Thai's are football crazy. 

 

19 minutes ago, bob smith said:

...where is the magic in Thailand?

 

is it in a bowl of soup??

 

bob.

The magic, Bob is kicking back and watching them evolve!