Do you like going back or find it boring? Maybe you enjoy a change.

Been there 3X, in 25 yrs, once for a few months, while my mother passed to the next dimension.  Didn't want to be there, but nice to be able to say 'bye'.  Couldn't wait to leave.

 

Other 2X, necessity, and only a long weekend, for the cheap air fare, and really couldn't wait to leave. 

 

45 yrs was more than enough, though I could think of better places to those 3X, since lived in them (Philly & Memphis areas), and if elsewhere, might have enjoyed myself more.

 

I could actually imagine myself back there for a long 1+ yr nomadic holiday as I've mentioned too many times, but would be extremely expensive, and not value for $$$, even on the cheap, it would be sticker shock.   Just the cost of petrol to drive a loop around the country, something I'm not used to, the past 3 yrs.

 

Hotels are silly priced, so buy a 2nd hand truck or van, and sell when leaving.  Play camping holiday for a year or so, and would actually be fun.

 

More so to show the wife the USA, than for me.  A few national parks would interest me, and the food, but not much else.   Photography & droning would be nice, and keep me quite happy.

 

This could actually turn into an interesting thread, if not for the trolls.

I don't mind a week there once a decade

5 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

What life do you have?

 

   Quiet and uneventful..........................just how I like it .

54 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

Do you like going back or find it boring?

I go back as much as I can. Best thing about it, no annoying trolls like you.

28 minutes ago, Terrance8812 said:

I go back as much as I can. Best thing about it, no annoying trolls like you.

Oh no no. AN gets everywhere, as do the trolls onboard.

I'll bet a large number of members/posters, are not in LOS. 

Let's see how inaccurate a poll can be if we asked Harris's OP question........Do you like going back or find it boring? Maybe you enjoy a change.

1 hour ago, Harrisfan said:

Farangland

Do you like going back or

No need to go back, Pattaya is full of farang. 

It's No longer Thailand 

Why would I want to go back to the feral UKistan? Just goes more down the toilet each month. Good chance I'd be assaulted/murdered on the Tube/Train, robbed at some point, or arrested by the thought police for harbouring non-proscribed attitudes/actions/language from the 20th century, or talking to a woman in the wrong way etc., thus preventing me from returning to Thailand.

Last time I went was 2018 and wasn't too bad, but I saw the differences and the writing on the wall, and they are not for the better... now it must be a complete screw-up, no thanks. I'll go a couple more times in my life but only if I really have to. As is often said about the West "No country for old men".

Can you buy burner phones in Thailand for U.S. passport control?

 

Enjoy going to see my daughters and its always fun. Both live in great places so it makes things easier. I have one in Sausalito Ca, and one in La Jolla Ca.  I am happy the one in Sausalito is coming over here to get married in March on Samui.  Saying that I cant see going back again in the next few years as we were home for the other daughters wedding in May of last year. 

4 minutes ago, marin said:

Enjoy going to see my daughters and its always fun. Both live in great places so it makes things easier. I have on in Sausalito Ca, and one in La Jolla Ca.  I am happy the one in Sausalito is coming over here to get married in March on Samui.  Saying that I cant see going back again in the next few years as we were home for the other daughters wedding in May of last year. 

So it is OK for the kids to struggle/survive in USA, but not for Dad.? 5555

"Our" other daughter's wedding..........where is the Mrs living, here or Ca?

10 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Can you buy burner phones in Thailand for U.S. passport control?

 

 

You mean to have a sanitized device when you pass thru immigration that can be searched with no fear of potentially incriminating evidence?

 

Buy the cheapest smartphone, or a used one and have it reset to factory defaults and memory cleared, and then get a 50 baht SIM at 7-11.

14 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Can you buy burner phones in Thailand for U.S. passport control?

 

Why would you?

7 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

"Our" other daughter's wedding..........where is the Mrs living, here or Ca?

Wife and I live here, the twins in California. 

 

They are not struggling thank goodness. Got good grades at Cal and UCSB, have worked hard and are now happy to enjoy the fruits of working hard. Proud I am. 

3 minutes ago, khunJam said:

Why would you?

Why wouldn't you know?

Just now, marin said:

Wife and I live here, the twins in California. 

 

They are not struggling thank goodness. Got good grades at Cal and UCSB, have worked hard and are now happy to enjoy the fruits of working hard. Proud I am. 

Great to hear that. It's nice when the ''kids are alright''. My two are both musicians in Dubai, big pay but BIG expenses. 

I still have family and friends in the UK, so I visit once, sometimes twice, a year for two or three weeks. It's nice to visit, but I wouldn't/couldn't live there, I've been away too long to feel at home in the UK.

Most of my friends are dead. The few that remain are in Oz, family in NZ. Since we left Canberra in late 2015 to live permanently in Thailand/Surin, we've been back once to Oz to visit friends and on to NZ for family to meet my b/f.

 

No wish ever to return. They can all visit here if they want. Most won't.

I love going back, what's not to like. Too bad for many the cost of traveling international prohibits the joy of visiting the homeland.

I came from a great beach city in Melbourne Australia. I've been back 3 times in the past 25 years accompanied by my Thai wife. Our last visit was 10 years ago. She thinks it's great but the downside for me is everytime I go back there's several more of my mates that have fallen off the perch. Excessive drinking and smoking over many years was the reason for their demise. I've drastically reduced my alcohol intake in recent years and gave away smoking 47 years ago. I'm going ok as I'm 80 yo now.

No real desire to go back, although I do miss a few friends. Yes, it is boring and it's been boring ever since the late 90's Too many people got obese and vastly lower IQ's make it impossible to enjoy. 

 

But yeah, if I could go back to Farangland v. 1985 I'd love it!

I leave Thailand every chance I get. Back in Europe, no air pollution, no toxic pesticides on the vegetables, no unbearable heat. Every return to Thailand reminds me why I’ll be gone again very soon: nothing is ever on time or as promised, drivers who treat roads like death races, scams everywhere, and a constant risk of tropical diseases from dengue to rabies. Floods, earthquakes, two-tier pricing, dangling live power cables, ladyboys, short-fat Thai women, and daily unpredictability make escaping not just tempting, but totally blissful.

6 minutes ago, Alpha84 said:

I leave Thailand every chance I get. Back in Europe, no air pollution, no toxic pesticides on the vegetables, no unbearable heat. Every return to Thailand reminds me why I’ll be gone again very soon: nothing is ever on time or as promised, drivers who treat roads like death races, scams everywhere, and a constant risk of tropical diseases from dengue to rabies. Floods, earthquakes, two-tier pricing, dangling live power cables, ladyboys, short-fat Thai women, and daily unpredictability make escaping not just tempting, but totally blissful.

 

   Why do you even bother returning to Thailand ?

I have 2 nationalities. First one (of birth and growing up), I go back to every year or two, but am planning to cut back as that's too frequent. Have a kid finishing Uni there, so that was the main reason for going there in recent years. Haven't actually lived there since 1993.

 

The second country I lived and worked in for many years was good, but I left it behind nearly 25 years ago. Been back a couple of times. That's it. Aside from some bank accounts/investments, I don't own anything in either country and, as someone else said, the hotel prices are just stupid now. So it's hard to justify a trip financially in any case. I've also noticed the deterioration of quality of life in both places, drugs, violence, etc., so that's another reason to skip them. The West is in decline in many ways.

 

Wife and I prefer to visit countries more nearby to Thailand - with a max distance probably Japan in the north, Australia in the south, Vietnam in the east and central Europe (Austria, Swiss, Czech) might be on the list at some point.

12 hours ago, Alpha84 said:

I leave Thailand every chance I get. Back in Europe, no air pollution, no toxic pesticides on the vegetables, no unbearable heat. Every return to Thailand reminds me why I’ll be gone again very soon: nothing is ever on time or as promised, drivers who treat roads like death races, scams everywhere, and a constant risk of tropical diseases from dengue to rabies. Floods, earthquakes, two-tier pricing, dangling live power cables, ladyboys, short-fat Thai women, and daily unpredictability make escaping not just tempting, but totally blissful.

 

So this is going to turn into a "thailand sucks, farangland better" thread?

Why don't you leave permanently?

You're trapped here? 

 

12 hours ago, ronnie50 said:

Wife and I prefer to visit countries more nearby to Thailand - with a max distance probably Japan in the north, Australia in the south, Vietnam in the east and central Europe (Austria, Swiss, Czech) might be on the list at some point.

 

I would rather travel to countries I have never been than go back home.

 

Home was never that great for me. Just brings back mostly bad memories. 

Strained family relationships pick up where they left off ... 

 

15 minutes ago, Alpha84 said:

 totally blissful.

 

How the people around you feel when you leave..................probably

4 hours ago, Harrisfan said:

Do you like going back or find it boring? Maybe you enjoy a change.

 

I spend nearly 6 months in Thailand and the rest of the time in UK.

 

I like being there because where I live, on the South Coast, has the style and ambiance  of Amity Island in "Jaws", plus loads of very interesting places within 20-50miles.

 

Obviously a very different experience to the sad ***** who return to their UK "Rust Zone" homelands (**** holes for over 75 years and described on motorway signage as "Midlands and The North") or parts of London that were notoriously ****/dangerous/ dreary long before 20th century immigration.

 

I was born and brought up in one of the "nicer" Home Counties on the very edge of Greater London (my family originates from two of the drearier parts of Greater London itself) and spent 17 years working in London, mostly in the West End, and lived in "The North" for 6 years, so I do have some idea of what I am talking about

 

There are a lot of people from the UK in Thailand who don't think they got what they were entitled to from the UK (no matter how great the wealth they accrued) and express their resentment and frustration, mostly because it never really "belonged" to them anyway, by blaming immigrants.

 

Their warped picture of the UK is just what Reform would have you believe it to be.......they are "Reform In Thailand".

 

They are a bitter, twisted bunch that I would defy any non-English person to describe as anything but "losers" if they got talking to them.

 

They came to Thailand to feel like winners......but they are still (despite the economic differential between themselves and Thais that they so delight in) what their backgrounds and life choices condemned them to be.

 

They can never forget themselves.

 

 

 

Well, now that the UK has criminalised the possession of choking porn I can't go there anymore sadly.