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No male Thai friends after years of living here? Help for the lonely farangs left out.
Many of the foreigners I did meet here were nothing but trouble, one or two serious trouble. -
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Decluttering
Your thread is very timely for my spouse and myself. We have been talking about clutter, and just having too much stuff, as this week we are moving from one house to another one. We finally finished the move today, just in time for the closing on the house we are selling tomorrow. We did some looking back on our earlier years here, when we first arrived in Pattaya in 2010, poor as church mice. For a number of years, we managed to live in a series of 48 sqm studio condos at various View Talay projects, ending at VT7. Those years, we had exactly one armoire that we both shared, as well as a desk cabinet that had some storage drawers. Somehow we managed to get everything we had into those two pieces of furniture, plus a couple of antique Korean chests we brought from the US. Fast-forward to today, where we have been living in a large 4-bedroom, 5-bath house, with the master bedroom alone having 4 armoires, each about the size of the one armoire we had at the View Talays. Plus a separate armoire for a home office. Somehow, we have managed to fill them, and also partially fill two other armoires in the guest bedrooms. We have been moving, on average, at least once a year as we sold a condo, or a house, and moved to another one. In theory, this should have kept us light and nimble, possession-wise. One lean mean moving machine. If only that were true. Instead, we seem to have more stuff with every move. It's been said the nature abhors a vacuum. That seems to also apply to us--our clutter has expanded to fill the vacuum of our available storage. If we build it, we will fill it. What I hate most is we keep dragging around from move to move all sorts of what I consider totally useless stuff, including some construction stuff which I'm not even sure what the usage is. Me: "Can't we throw this out? " Spouse: "No, we might need it." Never mind that we have moved "X" item four or five times, waiting, in vain, for that 'need' to finally show up. I do like your idea of removing ten items a day. We always say we will sort through all our stuff once we get moved, and, of course, never get around to it. This time, however, we are temporarily moving to a smaller house so that might force us to actually do some decluttering. We'll see. -
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No male Thai friends after years of living here? Help for the lonely farangs left out.
The cultural difference is a chasm. That's not even allowing for differences in class and education etc. How many Thai men do you meet who have the same level.of education as you, and can speak English and how many people here speak excellent Thai? And are highly educated? I am the latter but can't do the former. -
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No male Thai friends after years of living here? Help for the lonely farangs left out.
Generally, a lot of these social ills can be laid squarely at the feet of toxic social media, as it promotes isolation and social engineering/manipulation and the idea that it's easier just to not connect meaningfully with others as you don't have to now... however, older people that remember the analogue world fare much better than the kids that have never known anything else. The effects of such things like social media manifest themselves in many ways, like the increase of not just isolation, but the lack of social skills/soft skills like communication, teamwork, or interpersonal skills etc... young people are scared of answering the phone or consider a question at work as a micro-aggression, you know, that sort of nonsense. You don't actually now have to interact with others to live your life and many people that surround you now have nothing in common with each other... long gone are the days of community where people were forced to come together as they had common problems that affected all. Sometimes I think that this isolation only serves those who wish to control, as it makes it easier for the puppeteers to control the marionettes of society. People are also far too self-centered with a delusional sense of grandeur and self-righteousness these days, instantly taking offence to the slightest percieved slight... not conducive to community and relationship building. One of the few things the UK PM recently said that was actually true, but then he limped out and apologised, was that the UK is in danger of becoming a "A land of strangers"... nailed it there. -
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Accident Student Struck by Bus Driving Against Traffic on Bangkok Crossing
Oops my mistake. I didnt read it just watched the video. Incredible she survived. Thanks for pointing that out. -
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Tourism Pattaya's New Tourist Tide: Indian Visitors Stir Up Debate
It's not so much "choosing", as taking whatever it can get,😁 regardless !
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