1 women

2 cost

3 lifestyle

4 to discuss Trump all day

5 culture

6 work

7 food

8 other

None of your business?

This question might be too embarrassing to answer, for some.

Work brought me to SE Asia

30 years ago, Thailand was indeed a paradise in every sense of the word, from cost of living, food, ease of doing business

cheap girls and booz were at laughable cost and Somtam was 15-20 baht and the foreigners you meet in the bars

and on the street were easy going and friendly.

since then, everything gone to the dogs, any worse then that, and Thailand is really not a place worth staying. 

4 minutes ago, ezzra said:

30 years ago, Thailand was indeed a paradise in every sense of the word, from cost of living, food, ease of doing business

cheap girls and booz were at laughable cost and Somtam was 15-20 baht and the foreigners you meet in the bars

and on the street were easy going and friendly.

since then, everything gone to the dogs, any worse then that, and Thailand is really not a place worth staying. 

Not going to disagree with you, but isn't "it was better in the old days" a mantra for most old folks round the world?  Is it just "different" now rather than worse?

Just now, Watawattana said:

Not going to disagree with you, but isn't "it was better in the old days" a mantra for most old folks round the world?  Is it just "different" now rather than worse?

30 years ago people said it was better 30 years ago

Experience something different after 45 yrs in the USA.  With 'been there, done that, bought the hat', (not a t-shirt guy) mood, along with getting a bit too PC for my liking.   Couldn't think of a reason to stay, and continue with the 'same old'.   Needed to expand my horizons 

 

Tired of renting the houses I owned free & clear, from the govt via RE TAXES.   Paid for them once, do I really need to pay 1000s of $$$ a year, just for the privilege of being in the USA.   Most of it school tax, and I never had kids.   So much for 'free education'.

Just now, KhunLA said:

Experience something different after 45 yrs in the USA.  With 'been there, done that, bought the hat', (not a t-shirt guy) mood, along with getting a bit too PC for my liking.   Couldn't think of a reason to stay, and continue with the 'same old'.   Needed to expand my horizons 

 

Tired of renting the houses I owned free & clear, from the govt via RE TAXES.   Paid for them once, do I really need to pay 1000s of $$$ a year, just for the privilege of being in the USA.   Most of it school tax, and I never had kids.   So much for 'free education'.

Has Thailand changed much for you in 20 years?

3 minutes ago, Watawattana said:

Not going to disagree with you, but isn't "it was better in the old days" a mantra for most old folks round the world?  Is it just "different" now rather than worse?

In something in live, the old days saying in indeed correct to use, in other instances, technology and medicine and fast connections for an example,

The now era are better of course. for nostalgy sake, and simpler lives, those days were simpler, I still don't agree that the better we move forward with the new advances in every field imaginable is a good thing, to some maybe, not for the majority though. 

I came here to join an expat forum and be assailed about American politics by cult members  inventing childish insults

12 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

Has Thailand changed much for you in 20 years?

... 25+ yrs ... 

 

Nope, just a few more vehicles on the road, and metros, that I usually avoid, are a bit more congested, but that's worldwide.

 

Actually the roads & infrastructure has improved immensely since 2000.  Everything is better, shopping, vendors, food options, affordable Solar & BEV has lowered some areas' cost of living for us.  Off setting any inflation in other areas of monthly expenses.

 

Our monthly cost of living (for us) hasn't changed much, and my income (COLA) have increased 63+% since 2000.

 

Life just gets better every year here 

5 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

Has Thailand changed much for you in 20 years?

Oh boy, you better believe it it has and this page is way too short to outline here all the changes for the worse that Thailand

has gone through for the last 20 years.

It was the sun and temples ,I came for , same as everyone else ...right.

 

regards worgeordie

3 years ago I was living in Vegas I started counting the % of morbidly obese people I saw at the grocery stores. It was easily 50%-75% and quite often 90% for adults as I wouldn't count young children or elderly people. 

 

Now I see the exact same thing happening here. Now looking to move to another country. 

Originally for the subject of this song, but finding Pattaya and Patpong a mugs game stayed for the music. Saw Lamyai last 10 days ago, she was in Australia this month. Waiting to see Ton Khao the latest contest winning star and half Thai half UK morlam singer little nong Sophia. Strangely Thais refer to her as falang or foreigner- she was born in Roi et, same as Lamyai

 

 

20 minutes ago, ezzra said:

Oh boy, you better believe it it has and this page is way too short to outline here all the changes for the worse that Thailand

has gone through for the last 20 years.

Why? It seems better in some cities

I was increasingly getting rejected by women in the UK.

Being overweight and in my 50s all that I could get was overweight women in their 50s.

I was finding in hard to maintain an erection with them as it was not doing it for me. 

 

In Thailand I can get hot slim women in their 20s so really it was a no brainer for me.

And then I got onto the little blue pills and I can now go all night.

 

It really has been fantastic. 

 

 

1 hour ago, Harrisfan said:

1 women

2 cost

3 lifestyle

4 to discuss Trump all day

5 culture

6 work

7 food

8 other

I was escaping the Brit police.

8 - other (medical reasons, crap lungs..)

 

7 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I was escaping the Brit police.

I'm always wondered what terrible  crime you commited?  Nowadays, hurty words would be enough to get the UK police demanding your deportation, but all those years ago??  I guess you murdered a fair few people in the UK lol!

Always thought Thai women were the prettiest and wanted to visit. Visiting, I found the wrong one to marry but created a beautiful, smart daughter so will move back to the US so she and I can have a life that more suits us. Thailand has proven to be how I heard and researched it was. If it wasn't for the women, most wouldn't be here, although it is cheaper to live than the west. Beautiful country in some ways and dirty and very behind in others. Not a good place for local women but easy for men that just want a younger woman than they could find in the west. All of this everyone here knows by now. It's good for some but bad for others, all depending on how you want to live.

I bought a ticket for an aeroplane and it happened to land in Thailand, liked it and never went back. 

13 minutes ago, MalcolmB said:

I was increasingly getting rejected by women in the UK.

Being overweight and in my 50s all that I could get was overweight women in their 50s.

I was finding in hard to maintain an erection with them as it was not doing it for me. 

 

In Thailand I can get hot slim women in their 20s so really it was a no brainer for me.

And then I got onto the little blue pills and I can now go all night.

 

It really has been fantastic. 

 

 

 

Sex tourist then 

1 hour ago, Harrisfan said:

1 women

2 cost

3 lifestyle

4 to discuss Trump all day

5 culture

6 work

7 food

8 other

The Temples

7 minutes ago, simon43 said:

I'm always wondered what terrible  crime you commited?  Nowadays, hurty words would be enough to get the UK police demanding your deportation, but all those years ago??  I guess you murdered a fair few people in the UK lol!

Bonkers wife.

If I'd murdered her, I'd be out now with my assets intact!

5 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

The Temples

Me too!

1 minute ago, Harrisfan said:

Me too!

If I count Angkor, Im at over 75, including shrines and I have a few more to hit,

1 minute ago, Yagoda said:

If I count Angkor, Im at over 75, including shrines and I have a few more to hit,

200 for me. 

I came for kite surfing, climbing, kayaking, freediving and scuba diving and also did some few trekking trips the first years. Slept on untouched beaches except from the fishermen who came to see shelter when bad weather. 

 

Thailand was better before or was it I was younger and life was easier and more exciting, and got a hunger to explore and experience as much as possible in a limited time because you had no patience to wait.