Things you like about Thailand

[Harrisfan]

Cheap rooms

You can chat to younger women

Good people watching

Fun to walk the streets

Less <deleted> than back home

 

[quake]

Pussy.

Leo & Chang beer.

Mango & sticky rice.

Shorts, flip flops,  polo shirt , ray-Ban sun glasses,  helmet and a smile. on a bike.

Cost of car insurance.

Most Thai People.

Ma & Pa shops for booze on those special days .

 

 

 

 

 

 

[save the frogs]

Fresh-squeezed juice everywhere

 

 

[Harrisfan]

6 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

Fresh-squeezed juice everywhere

 

 

Good point. I like avocado shakes.

[FlorC]

Still low tax , 7 % vat or nothing at the markets.

Low energy prices , electric & diesel.

Low costs to drive .

[proton]

Luktung, lukrung, morlam, kantrum, lare, phua chewit, ramwong, likay. The rest is boring, ordinary or slightly dangerous.

[EVENKEEL]

Drinking and driving is common. 

[connda]

Bar girls.  Doesn't everyone? 

[Nick Carter icp]

3 minutes ago, connda said:

Bar girls.  Doesn't everyone? 

 

   Not everyone likes prostitutes .

People often use prostitutes because they have no other choice 

[spidermike007]

Where do I even start to address such an open-ended premise? 

I love the light-heartedness of the average Thai person.

I love their sense of humor and how easy it is to make them laugh.

I love the food, and the tropical weather.

 

I love the relatively low cost of living.

I love the friendliness of the women, and the ability to flirt with young and beautiful strangers.

I love the relative lack of stress.

 

I could literally go on for days about the number of things I love about this place. I just came back from over a month in America and I can attest the sour, humorless, bitterness, and disenfranchisement of the average American. The people have become in stressed out to the max, very unfulfilled, and living for nothing but money. It's a very, very low quality of life back there. Yikes. 

[Nick Carter icp]

1 hour ago, Harrisfan said:

 

You can chat to younger women

 

 

   Why cant you do that back in your own Country ?

[Harrisfan]

3 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Why cant you do that back in your own Country ?

They don't like it

[proton]

21 minutes ago, connda said:

Bar girls.  Doesn't everyone? 

 

NO

[Watawattana]

17 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

I just came back from over a month in America and I can attest the sour, humorless, bitterness, and disenfranchisement of the average American. The people have become in stressed out to the max, very unfulfilled, and living for nothing but money. It's a very, very low quality of life back there. Yikes.

Can say the same about the UK.

[BillStrangeOgre]

The people here are generally speaking better behaved than they are back home (UK) 😉

[baansgr]

1 hour ago, Harrisfan said:

Cheap rooms

You can chat to younger women

Good people watching

Fun to walk the streets

Less <deleted> than back home

 

What's not to love mate..Thailand still a fantastic place to live, in fact after over 20 years am still happy here..food, ease of everything, no inflation...come on, it's still paradise..if you understand Thailand everything is great but get the entitled farangs trying to change it to their way are about the only problem I encounter.

[Hummin]

My Thai wife 

 

 

[1FinickyOne]

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things

[FlorC]

Except for the South , moslims are invisible.

(maybe in some tourist areas too)

 

No religious threats here.

[Photoguy21]

Food, weather, people and culture

[Lemsta69]

2 hours ago, baansgr said:

What's not to love mate..Thailand still a fantastic place to live, in fact after over 20 years am still happy here..food, ease of everything, no inflation...come on, it's still paradise..if you understand Thailand everything is great but get the entitled farangs trying to change it to their way are about the only problem I encounter.

 

What's not to love, are you serious? Taxi mafia, dual pricing, filthy streets that smell like a sewer, soi dogs, poor service, ignorance, corruption, ridiculous beer and wine prices, tiered pricing at hospitals. You're insane if your consider those things to be "great".

[dingdongrb]

3 hours ago, FlorC said:

Low costs to drive .

 I don't consider my life to be a low cost.

[proton]

1 hour ago, FlorC said:

Except for the South , moslims are invisible.

(maybe in some tourist areas too)

 

No religious threats here.

 

Over six thousand have been killed here by Islamists in the past 25 years

[sidjameson]

1 hour ago, Lemsta69 said:

 

What's not to love, are you serious? Taxi mafia, dual pricing, filthy streets that smell like a sewer, soi dogs, poor service, ignorance, corruption, ridiculous beer and wine prices, tiered pricing at hospitals. You're insane if your consider those things to be "great".

If that's the best you can come up with Thailand is pretty great.

Taxi mafia!!!! Only in 1% of the country.

Dual pricing. Only on 1% of the average persons spend.

Beer price ridiculous? Not compared to most western countries.

Smell? Learn to love durian and the streets smell like an orchard 🤣

Hospitals still cheaper than the west by far.

 

Soi dogs. You have a point

 

But I'd happily put up with all that in exchange for not paying council/property tax.

[newbee2022]

5 hours ago, Harrisfan said:

Good point. I like avocado shakes.

I like juicy melons 🥰

[Yellowtail]

I like the people here, but I generally like and get along well with people most everywhere I go. 

 

 

[newbee2022]

4 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Not everyone likes prostitutes .

People often use prostitutes because they have no other choice 

Very true unfortunately 

[newbee2022]

2 hours ago, FlorC said:

Except for the South , moslims are invisible.

You're missing them?😳

[FlorC]

1 hour ago, dingdongrb said:

 I don't consider my life to be a low cost.

Compared to all the costs in the west.

 

1 hour ago, proton said:

 

Over six thousand have been killed here by Islamists in the past 25 years

6000 what ? In the South , not elsewhere .

 

3 minutes ago, newbee2022 said:

You're missing them?😳

Absolutely not !

I thought my post implied that.

[bkk6060]

If they like you many Thai girls will have sex on the first date.   Mostly unheard of in the west.