Travel Bangkok Ranks 6th Among World's Most Expat-Friendly Cities

[PuiPuiHarry]

Yea, very friengly. Every year deep on your knees, at the total decission of the immigration officer if you allowed to stay one more year or not. No influence about how long you are there already. No way you can ever be citizen of the country, like e.g. the EU, where you can apply for citizenship after 5 years stay and own means of support...

I visit Thailand since 1993, businesswise, and never came out of the conclusion I am only TOLERATED as long as I bring a lot of money in.

[Keeps]

8 hours ago, Harrisfan said:

6 years on the forum almost. Not 1 day won. Nobody likes your boring stories. You like the sound of your own voice and love yourself. Nobody else does.

Truly pathetic. You sound like a 12 year old girl. 

 

What exactly do you 'win'? Do you get a badge saying "Mummy's little soldier"?

 

At first, I thought you was being ironic, turns out you were being moronic.

[Harrisfan]

7 minutes ago, Keeps said:

Truly pathetic. You sound like a 12 year old girl. 

 

What exactly do you 'win'? Do you get a badge saying "Mummy's little soldier"?

 

At first, I thought you was being ironic, turns out you were being moronic.

Says the guy who cant speak Thai after 20 years. Truly pathetic and sad.

[SAFETY FIRST]

On 4/29/2025 at 4:44 PM, snoop1130 said:

The survey highlighted that 67% of expats in Bangkok felt welcomed by locals

I bet they didn't survey an AN members from Bangkok, all the moaners and complainers here that figure would be single figures 

[Aussie999]

21 hours ago, Harrisfan said:

Most Thai restaurants in the west are watered to western tastes. They also don't have northern food.

Just how many have you attended 

[Harrisfan]

Just now, Aussie999 said:

Just how many have you attended 

20

[Aussie999]

Just now, Harrisfan said:

20

BS. Stop the lies., anyway, I suggest there are 10s of thousands, making you comment irrational.

[Harrisfan]

2 minutes ago, Aussie999 said:

BS. Stop the lies., anyway, I suggest there are 10s of thousands, making you comment irrational.

So you went to thousands 

 

You're irrational 

[Aussie999]

3 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

So you went to thousands 

 

You're irrational 

I didn't say that, but I did challenge your comment about Thai food in Western countries.

[Harrisfan]

Just now, Aussie999 said:

I didn't say that, but I did challenge your comment about Thai food in Western countries.

Yeah it's not the same. But who cares. Nobody goes to Thailand just for food.

[Aussie999]

Just now, Harrisfan said:

Yeah it's not the same. But who cares. Nobody goes to Thailand just for food.

Irrelevant 

[Harrisfan]

Just now, Aussie999 said:

Irrelevant 

Is there a point to your bs?

[Aussie999]

1 minute ago, Harrisfan said:

Is there a point to your bs?

Mate, I suspect you are the BSer, believe me, if it was me, their are others, on here, that would tell me.., but you are the one who comes across as intellectually challenged.

[Harrisfan]

3 minutes ago, Aussie999 said:

Mate, I suspect you are the BSer, believe me, if it was me, their are others, on here, that would tell me.., but you are the one who comes across as intellectually challenged.

You sound like a total flog. The average Bangkok restaurant is nothing like a western one.

[Harrisfan]

This is a local Bangkok restaurant for me. 25 baht coffees and 40/50 baht meals. Super nice people

 

Nothing like a western one

[Aussie999]

32 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

You sound like a total flog. The average Bangkok restaurant is nothing like a western one.

Irrelevant...

[Harrisfan]

1 minute ago, Aussie999 said:

Irrelevant...

Weirdo

[fredwiggy]

On 4/30/2025 at 1:54 PM, Harrisfan said:

Most Thai restaurants in the west are watered to western tastes. They also don't have northern food.

Actually most Thai restaurants have people from Thailand that cook the food the same way they prepared it when they lived in Thailand. The only difference is the quality control the US has, where you aren't getting food that sits out all day exposed to bacteria, and they make food from al over Thailand, as they are from all over Thailand. 6 restaurants in San Antonio alone have people from 6 different areas in Thailand. Two from Isaan, one from Korat and another from Nong Khai, one from northern Thailand, one from the Pattaya area and another two from the south. Lan Larb Chaing Mai in NYC makes northern Thai food. If you lived there, then you would understand what the US has.

[fredwiggy]

On 5/1/2025 at 11:59 AM, Harrisfan said:

You sound like a total flog. The average Bangkok restaurant is nothing like a western one.

They're actually very alike, as the western ones have owners and employees that are from Bangkok, along with many other Thai cities.The only thing different is the price of food.

[fredwiggy]

On 4/30/2025 at 9:25 AM, Harrisfan said:

Lots of bad Thai food in Thailand. But there's some really good places with cheap food. Western cities make sweet curries not authentic. But for me Thai culture doesnt exist in the west.

The only way you could make such a comment is if you visited all 50 states, along with a few major cities in each one, and then hit all the Thai restaurants offered. This would be very hard form an American citizen to do in a lifetime, unless he was a traveling food critic. I myself have been to Thai restaurants in a few states, along with the major cities in each, mostly in Texas and New Jersey/ New York area, and have eaten Thai many times in many places, and the food there is as good or better than food here, and that's mainly because most of the Thai chefs in those restaurants were from Thailand. Thailand culture exists in most states, and especially in many major cities. There's over 200,000 Thai's living in the US, with numbers increasing every year, and they, like all Asians, bring their culture with them, along with their cooking skills.

[Harrisfan]

3 hours ago, fredwiggy said:

They're actually very alike, as the western ones have owners and employees that are from Bangkok, along with many other Thai cities.The only thing different is the price of food.

They look nothing alike. The atmosphere is totally different. The menus are different.

[Harrisfan]

3 hours ago, fredwiggy said:

The only way you could make such a comment is if you visited all 50 states, along with a few major cities in each one, and then hit all the Thai restaurants offered. This would be very hard form an American citizen to do in a lifetime, unless he was a traveling food critic. I myself have been to Thai restaurants in a few states, along with the major cities in each, mostly in Texas and New Jersey/ New York area, and have eaten Thai many times in many places, and the food there is as good or better than food here, and that's mainly because most of the Thai chefs in those restaurants were from Thailand. Thailand culture exists in most states, and especially in many major cities. There's over 200,000 Thai's living in the US, with numbers increasing every year, and they, like all Asians, bring their culture with them, along with their cooking skills.

American streets are nothing like Thailand.

[fredwiggy]

25 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

They look nothing alike. The atmosphere is totally different. The menus are different.

Yes, one's in Thai and the other's in English. I've actually been to many Thai restaurants in the US, as well as here .

[fredwiggy]

25 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

American streets are nothing like Thailand.

Actually, they're very similar. Paved with asphalt, some logical and some strange in their setups. The only difference is driving on the other side of the road in  the US. Oh yes, and much better drivers.