Thailand is not that great

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17 hours ago, Harrisfan said:

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.

 

 

      I doubt you 'know what most expats do'--super presumptuous and idiotic even to lump us all together as being all the same in the first place.   And, to presume to know how much traveling expats have done around Thailand--equally ludicrous.   Also incorrect, we aren't all sitting in bars.   Although, of course, some do.  Most expats here are doing all sorts of things--just like people anywhere else in the World.  

      You seemed miffed that you are traveling around Thailand as a tourist and you are not running into enough expats who live here who are also touring Thailand.   I have two sisters who live in Florida year-round.  If I visited Florida as a tourist, I would not be miffed that I didn't run into either one of them at Disney World.   And, by the way, not running into either of them at Disney World would also not have me saying they are doing 'diddly squat'--nothing. 

     I think you are confusing doing nothing--diddly squat--with doing one's normal routine.  Two completely different things.   I imagine when you are not here as a tourist but back in your home country you will be doing your normal routine--which likely isn't diddly squat, either.

     You are correct that Bangkok, Pattaya, and Chiang Mai attract large numbers of expats who choose those places to live, either part-time or year-round.  If you read my previous post, it should be readily apparent why many expats would be choosing those places, as each of them will fulfill many of the things expats would have on their list of what is wanted and needed in the place where they choose to live.   I enjoyed visiting Koh Lipe.  Would I want to live there full-time and would it have everything I needed in a place to live in Thailand?  No.