I've had enough of the Tourist Ghettos in Thailand!

[BarBoy]

6 minutes ago, Expat68 said:

Try Loei province. Mountainous, Places you choose to stay you will not see expats but if you want to see, head to Chiang Khan or Loei City (BigC, Lotus, Global, Makro also has its own airport). At the moment at dawn it is 13°C, in the daytime 27°C. Hope that helps 

thank you buddy!

[bubblegum]

1 hour ago, BarBoy said:

...any room for a Colin Neville?

from Dorset?

[FolkGuitar]

3 hours ago, Woke to Sounds of Horking said:

So sick and tired of this New Age bullship.  Blame the victim?  Heck, why not?

 

Defend your limitations, and sure enough, you own them.

 

4 hours ago, BarBoy said:

environment has a lot to do with happiness and contentment, at least for me.

I mean, if one had a choice, one would likely choose to live in a nice big house with a private pool next to a turquoise lagoon, basking in the noon sunshine alongside 5 young thai maidens vs living in a trailer park in Michigan in the middle of winter, with your granny...

No?

 

Certainly... but that doesn't mean it's going to make you happy.

 

[newnative]

     I suggest the Darkside of Pattaya.  Lots of housing projects to choose from.  Spouse and I like the Lake Mabprachan area.  Nice walking/bike trail around the lake, lots of restaurants, markets, banking, golf courses, most of your everyday shopping needs met.  From our home, we can be at Terminal 21, the big box stores, Tesco or Big C, and Bangkok Pattaya Hospital in 15 minutes or less.  All that Pattaya has is there when we need it--about every car brand, services, Immigration, etc.--but we live away from the tourists.  And, Bangkok is less than 2 hours away.  

[BarBoy]

4 minutes ago, newnative said:

I suggest the Darkside of Pattaya. 

...do you mean walking street or soi 6??

[ChrisKC]

Hello Colin,

 

Why don't you team up with Bob? I imagine you know where he has gone!

 

He is very similar to you, doesn't like people, Thai or farang and they don't like him.

 

I think wherever you went you would be compatible and happy together!

[BarBoy]

3 minutes ago, ChrisKC said:

Hello Colin,

 

Why don't you team up with Bob? I imagine you know where he has gone!

 

He is very similar to you, doesn't like people, Thai or farang and they don't like him.

 

I think wherever you went you would be compatible and happy together!

From what I have heard so far about this Bob character I'm not sure I would like him either!

[novacova]

5 hours ago, Lacessit said:

Baan Rak Thai, about 20 km from Mae Hong Son.

Avoid! Total tourist trap. Never again!

[BarBoy]

2 minutes ago, novacova said:

Avoid! Total tourist trap. Never again!

Thai tourists or gopniks and babushkas?

[novacova]

1 minute ago, BarBoy said:

Thai tourists or gopniks and babushkas?

All the above. The wife dragged me there a couple years ago for a night, small lake in a tiny village crammed with tourists. Then we were off to Pai, never liked the place, full of loud tourists and potheads. She booked us a drafty mosquito infested shack in Pai because everything else was booked. 

[Lacessit]

1 hour ago, malathione said:

Ban Rak Thai, no tourists? When were you there, a couple of decades ago? Likewise Phu Chi Fa. That has both tourists and no rooms at all unless you consider a tent a room.

About ten years ago.

 

Thoeng has accommodation if visiting Phu Chi Fa.

[Acharn]

It depends on how well you speak Thai. If there are no tourists, the locals have no reason to learn English. Of course they have lessons in school, but most of them don't learn to speak English. Of course, if you speak Thai well, there are lots of places in Bangkok -- just look around. If you don't like Bangkok, go to any town in Thailand and you'll find at least one brothel.

[DUNROAMIN]

How long will it take before Thailand realizes that they will become the same as Europe and England and overrun with undersirable immigrants and will start to loose their identity and culture, look at London now, almost a Islamic state. Unfortumnately Thailand can only see $ now, later will regret it, when its too late.

[zepplin]

8 hours ago, BarBoy said:

when did I say I want to leave?

 

I am asking for a list of places WITHIN Thailand.

 

Read the OP before commenting please.

Definitely need grease for that bearing…

[BarBoy]

6 minutes ago, DUNROAMIN said:

How long will it take before Thailand realizes that they will become the same as Europe and England and overrun with undersirable immigrants and will start to loose their identity and culture, look at London now, almost a Islamic state. Unfortumnately Thailand can only see $ now, later will regret it, when its too late.

it's all they ever see until their bellies are too full or there is a changing of the pigs at the trough..

[BangkokBernie]

9 hours ago, BarBoy said:

Enough is Enough.

 

Tourist ghettos no more, I am done with them, the tourists (especially you know who) are destroying this beautiful country with their terrible manners, unruly kids and general disregard for others around them and the environment. I need some new scenery or I am going to go mad (if I haven't already reached that point)..

 

I would like to enlist the help of fellow AN members in asking where do you recommend I go with the following stipulations: 

 

1. Hardly any farangs in sight, especially tourists.

2. Remote places, can be mountainous, towns, city, beach, jungle, whatever.

3. Reasonable food

4. Reasonable room rates

5. Real local people, no tourist BS.

 

I welcome any and all input into this topic. Finally the tourist ghettos have worn me down - it took a while but it has finally happened. Now I understand Joe who retires way out in the sticks on a nice plot of land and a couple water buffalo with his young thai bride. There is something real in that kind of life that the ghetto just cannot provide. 

 

Wherever the tourists are going this high season, I'm not. I want a comprehensive list of places that are truly off the beaten track.

 

Thank you in advance!

How do you define tourist ghettos? And, no, I don't know who. Who are you referring to? Russians, Indians, Arabs, Chinese, it can't be the Brits, right?

[BarBoy]

5 minutes ago, BangkokBernie said:

How do you define tourist ghettos?

an area with far too many tourists in it.

[connda]

9 hours ago, BarBoy said:

I would like to enlist the help of fellow AN members in asking where do you recommend I go with the following stipulations: 

 

1. Hardly any farangs in sight, especially tourists.

2. Remote places, can be mountainous, towns, city, beach, jungle, whatever.

3. Reasonable food

4. Reasonable room rates

5. Real local people, no tourist BS.

Pretty much anywhere in rural Northern Thailand.  Step out my front door and - mountains in a rural village setting. Only one other farang that I'm aware of in about a 20 kilometer radius and he's married into my extended family.  If you want a little more action though, try Meuang Nan in Nan province.  Very beautiful up there and it fit's your specs.

 

 

 

 

[connda]

17 minutes ago, DUNROAMIN said:

How long will it take before Thailand realizes that they will become the same as Europe and England and overrun with undersirable immigrants and will start to loose their identity and culture, look at London now, almost a Islamic state. Unfortumnately Thailand can only see $ now, later will regret it, when its too late.

Thais aren't having kids.  Myanmar folks are.  Come to Thailand to work, have kids, and you have your "anchor babies" and can stay the rest of your life.  Give it until 2050 and Myanmar will accomplish what it historically was unable to do in the past - conquer Thailand - but this time peacefully with demographics alone. 

[fondue zoo]

 

 

 

[Jonathan Swift]

9 hours ago, BarBoy said:

Enough is Enough.

 

Tourist ghettos no more, I am done with them, the tourists (especially you know who) are destroying this beautiful country with their terrible manners, unruly kids and general disregard for others around them and the environment. I need some new scenery or I am going to go mad (if I haven't already reached that point)..

 

I would like to enlist the help of fellow AN members in asking where do you recommend I go with the following stipulations: 

 

1. Hardly any farangs in sight, especially tourists.

2. Remote places, can be mountainous, towns, city, beach, jungle, whatever.

3. Reasonable food

4. Reasonable room rates

5. Real local people, no tourist BS.

 

I welcome any and all input into this topic. Finally the tourist ghettos have worn me down - it took a while but it has finally happened. Now I understand Joe who retires way out in the sticks on a nice plot of land and a couple water buffalo with his young thai bride. There is something real in that kind of life that the ghetto just cannot provide. 

 

Wherever the tourists are going this high season, I'm not. I want a comprehensive list of places that are truly off the beaten track.

 

Thank you in advance!

I'm with you brother. I'll take Thai people over obnoxious entitled disrespectful tourists any day of the week

[Jonathan Swift]

4 minutes ago, fondue zoo said:

 

 

 

Hahaha. I used to play that song in piano bars

[BarBoy]

5 minutes ago, Jonathan Swift said:

I'm with you brother. I'll take Thai people over obnoxious entitled disrespectful tourists any day of the week

Tourists who know how to behave are no problem at all.

 

What I see now though is basically a wild mob on the loose in many tourist hotspots on 90 day visa exemption stamps that just do not give a stuff about anything or anyone around them!

[Jonathan Swift]

25 minutes ago, DUNROAMIN said:

How long will it take before Thailand realizes that they will become the same as Europe and England and overrun with undersirable immigrants and will start to loose their identity and culture, look at London now, almost a Islamic state. Unfortumnately Thailand can only see $ now, later will regret it, when its too late.

It won't happen. No white supremacists like yourself here. The battle cry of Neo Nazis: "you will not replace us". Please self deport, your poison is not welcome here. 

[BangkokReady]

9 hours ago, BarBoy said:

Now I understand Joe who retires way out in the sticks on a nice plot of land and a couple water buffalo with his young thai bride.

 

You only now understand the appeal of retiring to the warm Thai countryside in a large house with a pleasant and attractive woman?

[BarBoy]

1 minute ago, BangkokReady said:

 

You only now understand the appeal of retiring to the warm Thai countryside in a large house with a pleasant and attractive woman?

YES!

 

Admittedly it has taken me quite a while! 😄 

[connda]

5 minutes ago, BarBoy said:

Tourists who know how to behave are no problem at all.

 

What I see now though is basically a wild mob on the loose in many tourist hotspots on 90 day visa exemption stamps that just do not give a stuff about anything or anyone around them!

That's why I moved to rural Thailand over a decade ago.  But like I said, if you want The Thai Experience without all the farangs, Nan is the place to go.  Laid-back and beautiful in a mountainous Northern Thailand sorta way without going "Full Rural."