Thailand is not that great

[Harrisfan]

1 minute ago, noobexpat said:

 

I usually do. 

Easy to mix in the places i go. No riff raff in singlets and cheap beer.

 

Maybe Apt 101 tonight ...? I do like showing my pics 😁

 

Wow amazing.

[georgegeorgia]

31 minutes ago, noobexpat said:

 

I usually do. 

Easy to mix in the places i go. No riff raff in singlets and cheap beer.

 

Maybe Apt 101 tonight ...? I do like showing my pics 😁

 

Oh get off your high horse !!

 

,your no one important because you think you have money dressing in tight pants and open collar shirt with a gold chain and hairy chest  looking like your back in the 1980's  and gallivanting around high class bars with your own self importance 

 

No one gives a rat arse 

 

 

 

 

 

[noobexpat]

3 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

Oh get off your high horse !!

 

,your no one important because you think you have money dressing in tight pants and open collar shirt with a gold chain and hairy chest  looking like your back in the 1980's  and gallivanting around high class bars with your own self importance 

 

No one gives a rat arse 

 

 

Yet thank you for quoting.

Just back from another productive afternoon in the co-working spaces of wonderful bangkok. 

 

Working weekends! Its a problem when you're in so much demand.

I will get a superiority complex at this rate! 

 

[noobexpat]

4 hours ago, Harrisfan said:

Wow amazing.

 

Yes, its in the style of a 1970's new york loft apartment.

[MeHere]

We just returned (to Australia) from a 2 week holiday in Vietnam.
After living and working in Thailand  for seven some odd years, I can say it's still the best for us in SE Asia, possibly everywhere.
Yes, Thailand has its quirks and annoyances, but it's beautiful and excellent in a wabi sabi / je ne sais quoi kind of way

[SunsetT]

On 2/17/2025 at 9:34 PM, Harrisfan said:

A bit more soul. There's no soul here.

There is no soul in Buddhism...555

[georgegeorgia]

Just now, SunsetT said:

There is no soul in Buddhism...555

What about David Soul ?

 

[Ubonian Canadian]

On 2/17/2025 at 9:11 PM, Harrisfan said:

Thailand is like sponge cake. It is nice but no depth to it like mud cake. I need to find a mud cake country.

 

Below the icing sugar what is there? Just sponge.

Is this more Harris joy? Try California cupcake.

[Harrisfan]

10 minutes ago, Ubonian Canadian said:

Is this more Harris joy? Try California cupcake.

Ok darling

[JamesPhuket10]

On 2/17/2025 at 9:11 PM, Harrisfan said:

Thailand is like sponge cake. It is nice but no depth to it like mud cake. I need to find a mud cake country.

 

Below the icing sugar what is there? Just sponge.

 

So the simple solution is to stay away and go somewhere else.

 

I do not want to live in Russia or Iran etc but I do not bother to write about it.

[JamesPhuket10]

On 2/18/2025 at 9:10 AM, Dan O said:

Not grumpy at all, just answering your question. Not sure what your issue is but check yourself before you deflect your internal issues toward others. You're the complainer about no life going on here so either go out and start your life or move along if you dont like it here. You wont be missed.  You could go hang out with bob smith and complain to each other for something to do. 

 

I have a feeling they are the same person with two accounts on this chat. 

 

But Bob does make me laugh, what makes me laugh more is that people take him seriously, he is just taking the piss. 

[proton]

On 2/18/2025 at 11:21 AM, Harrisfan said:

What were the 5?

 

6 now including yesterday,

Feb 2 Lamyai etc fm 90 Anu Sawaree

Kung Surirat Wat Klong Suuan

Arm Chutima Wat Klong Suuan

Cham Chamram Paradise Park

Wat Borphan various singers from Haithongham record

Takketan Cholada Phenix mall

 

Met legendary luktung singer Suraphon Sombatchern's grandson at the Phenix mall, like his dad Surachai, who was also a famous singer, he went to school in the UK

[still kicking]

On 2/17/2025 at 10:46 PM, georgegeorgia said:

Oh don't be transphobic there's no need for it !

You have already posted you don't like Australian Aboriginal peoples now it's transexuals!!

It's 2am in Australia and your still up ! 

You should go to Specsavers 

[RetiredNavy71]

On 2/17/2025 at 8:23 AM, Harrisfan said:

Food, massages and not much else. Pretty shallow country.

Rather superficial if you ask me.  Try digging a little deeper.  You might be surprised at what you might find

[Yagoda]

On 2/17/2025 at 9:11 PM, Harrisfan said:

Thailand is like sponge cake. It is nice but no depth to it like mud cake. I need to find a mud cake country.

 

Below the icing sugar what is there? Just sponge.

I like Thailand but I moved to Cambodia where there's no icing sugar.

[Harrisfan]

4 hours ago, RetiredNavy71 said:

Rather superficial if you ask me.  Try digging a little deeper.  You might be surprised at what you might find

Like Green curry?

[GinBoy2]

On 2/17/2025 at 7:43 AM, CallumWK said:

Unless you're skint, which I suspect, you can book a flight out any time

Thailand is a mixed bag, like almost anywhere, but if it stops being fun you more on.

 

I suspect for many as they age, the savings dwindling it gets a whole lot less 'fun'

 

Health can decline, and good luck getting health insurance at almost any price 65+, which means you're staring down a Government hospital, which outside of BKK can be pretty dire.

 

So what was fun, in your 40's and 50's can become pretty horrendous if you get down to counting pennies in your 60's, 70's and if it gets to it, tin roof shack in Isaan!

 

Then for some, I'll include myself, you just kinda bore of it.

 

Been There, Done That,Got Tee Shirt kinda moment.

 

Thailand is a little like Disneyland, but with hookers and a whole lot dirtier!

[Harrisfan]

3 minutes ago, GinBoy2 said:

Thailand is a mixed bag, like almost anywhere, but if it stops being fun you more on.

 

I suspect for many as they age, the savings dwindling it gets a whole lot less 'fun'

 

Health can decline, and good luck getting health insurance at almost any price 65+, which means you're staring down a Government hospital, which outside of BKK can be pretty dire.

 

So what was fun, in your 40's and 50's can become pretty horrendous if you get down to counting pennies in your 60's, 70's and if it gets to it, tin roof shack in Isaan!

 

Then for some, I'll include myself, you just kinda bore of it.

 

Been There, Done That,Got Tee Shirt kinda moment.

 

Thailand is a little like Disneyland, but with hookers and a whole lot dirtier!

Callum sits in Pattaya. Don't worry about him.

 

Thailand is a mixed bag. You're right. Thanks for the intelligent post. Rare. 

[CallumWK]

2 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

Callum sits in Pattaya. Don't worry about him.

 

That is in contrast to your mum's basement.

3 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

Thanks for the intelligent post. Rare. 

 

Time you start to make one. With an average of 100 posts a day (since you rejoined), you could at least try one now and then.

[Harrisfan]

Just now, CallumWK said:

 

That is in contrast to your mum's basement.

 

Time you start to make one. With an average of 100 posts a day (since you rejoined), you could at least try one now and then.

My view 

[Harrisfan]

Callum 

[newnative]

    It's probably a better place to live year-round than to just visit for a week or two--although there is plenty to see and do if you get out there.  It's certainly kept my interest for 14 years.

[hotsun]

8 minutes ago, newnative said:

    It's probably a better place to live year-round than to just visit for a week or two--although there is plenty to see and do if you get out there.  It's certainly kept my interest for 14 years.

Anywhere with clean air would make somewhere good to live year round. Doesnt exist anymore in thailand

[Harrisfan]

15 minutes ago, newnative said:

    It's probably a better place to live year-round than to just visit for a week or two--although there is plenty to see and do if you get out there.  It's certainly kept my interest for 14 years.

Rather boring after 6 weeks. Most expats do didley squat. 

[marin]

22 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

Rather boring after 6 weeks. Most expats do didley squat. 

Why dont you move on if you feel that way?

 

Most of  us feel like this.

 

40 minutes ago, newnative said:

It's certainly kept my interest for 14 years.

Could not agree more. Like everywhere there will be down days. 

[newnative]

1 hour ago, Harrisfan said:

Rather boring after 6 weeks. Most expats do didley squat. 

     I doubt you have any idea whatsoever what 'most expats do'.  To start with, most of us likely aren't where you are; we're not tourists here for a week or two doing tourist stuff.  You're earlier comment saying any place with clean air 'would make some place good to live year round' is just as utterly ridiculous.   Iceland has good air quality, according to google, but I certainly would not want to live there year-round.

    Lots of things should be factored in when choosing a place to live, including health care, services, recreation, shopping choices and variety, restaurants, entertainment, year-round weather, cost of living, availability of a variety of housing stock to buy or rent at all price points, airport proximity, local population demographics, crime rates, suitability to your hobbies and interests, and more.   Air quality figures in, of course, but is just one of many other considerations when I am choosing where I want to live.  

[GinBoy2]

3 hours ago, newnative said:

     I doubt you have any idea whatsoever what 'most expats do'.  To start with, most of us likely aren't where you are; we're not tourists here for a week or two doing tourist stuff.  You're earlier comment saying any place with clean air 'would make some place good to live year round' is just as utterly ridiculous.   Iceland has good air quality, according to google, but I certainly would not want to live there year-round.

    Lots of things should be factored in when choosing a place to live, including health care, services, recreation, shopping choices and variety, restaurants, entertainment, year-round weather, cost of living, availability of a variety of housing stock to buy or rent at all price points, airport proximity, local population demographics, crime rates, suitability to your hobbies and interests, and more.   Air quality figures in, of course, but is just one of many other considerations when I am choosing where I want to live.  

Well the thing is most folks do diddly squat most of the time.

 

I lived in San Diego for years, unbelievable beaches, and after I'd lived there a few months, only time I ever went there was when folks came to visit and I'd show them around.

 

Once you've done the touristy stuff, you're done and it's back to the humdrum routine of normal life

 

Not going down the 'nightlife' saga of certain participants, thats an ecosphere all by itself

 

But for most 'regular' folks, you wake up breakfast, maybe you work, maybe go for a walk, watch some TV, agonize what you want for dinner.

 

The same routine could be in almost any country, you just need to figure out what country you want to be in

[Harrisfan]

3 hours ago, newnative said:

     I doubt you have any idea whatsoever what 'most expats do'.  To start with, most of us likely aren't where you are; we're not tourists here for a week or two doing tourist stuff.  You're earlier comment saying any place with clean air 'would make some place good to live year round' is just as utterly ridiculous.   Iceland has good air quality, according to google, but I certainly would not want to live there year-round.

    Lots of things should be factored in when choosing a place to live, including health care, services, recreation, shopping choices and variety, restaurants, entertainment, year-round weather, cost of living, availability of a variety of housing stock to buy or rent at all price points, airport proximity, local population demographics, crime rates, suitability to your hobbies and interests, and more.   Air quality figures in, of course, but is just one of many other considerations when I am choosing where I want to live.  

I know what most expats do. They aren't seeing much of Thailand. I've done 9 cities in 4 weeks. Seen maybe 50 outside the bar areas. I'm not in "tourist areas" but Thai areas. I spent a week in Udon. Most expats sit in the bars. I went to all the best restaurants and saw stuff all farangs. Saw 7 or 8 Khon Kaen expats in a Thai style restaurant with music so credit to them for not being western bar drongos. Other areas stuff all farangs.

 

Most expats are in Bangkok, Chiang Mai or Pattaya are they not? I rarely see them in Thai areas. The best restaurant in Chiang Mai had none.

 

Gin is correct. Most people do didley squat most of the time outside work.