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Why would anyone choose to holiday/live in Thailand in 2025?

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4 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

 

It's usually those that deny it the most, that secretly indulge the most!

I once met an irish fella on Koh Samet wayyyyyyy back in the day.

 

He was a complete and utter homophobe, shockingly so.

 

This was about 11am down at the beach.

 

I then spotted the same guy, in the same clothes, walking down the street with a LB holding hands at about midnight...

 

American Beauty ending anyone??

 

Eric.

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2 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

You must have a sore bum

I do the topping round here sonny jim!

 

Eric.

1 minute ago, Stressed Eric said:

I do the topping round here sonny jim!

 

Eric.

So you know male bottoms and poo yuck

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Just now, Harrisfan said:

So you know male bottoms and poo yuck

some girls like it up trap two as well!

 

never tried it??

 

Eric.

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6 minutes ago, simon43 said:

Nice controversial topic there Bob....  Bound to generate lots of posts eh? (wink)

its not my fault my threads are popular.

 

Eric.

What I can't get is people who come to holiday here year in, year out, sometimes several times a year. While there are dozens of interesting countries to visit.

 

If someone has family or "some particular interest" here it can be be understood, but otherwise it is just giving away cheaply precious annual leave and hard earned cash.

 

 

I choose to live in Thailand because it's an incredibly high quality of life for many of us that are on limited incomes. I like the people quite a lot, I love their attitudes, their lightheartedness, their playful spirits, and their kindness. I'm in the US right now and it's very difficult to even get a smile out of a stranger. It's a very cold, very sterile, ridiculously over priced and joyless place to spend your life, and Thailand is an extraordinarily wonderful alternative to that. 

 

It's all about perspective if you don't have it life can be miserable, if you have it life can be a real Joy. 

27 minutes ago, Stressed Eric said:

I once met an irish fella on Koh Samet wayyyyyyy back in the day.

 

He was a complete and utter homophobe, shockingly so.

 

This was about 11am down at the beach.

 

I then spotted the same guy, in the same clothes, walking down the street with a LB holding hands at about midnight...

 

American Beauty ending anyone??

 

Eric.

Not to digress too far from the topic, but a lot of homophobes are secretly gay or desperately desire to have a gay experience and live highly repressed lives. 

 

It often masks itself as fake puritanism. 

20 minutes ago, Stressed Eric said:

ts not my fault my threads are popular.

 

Eric.

Is that so?? Many of your previous incarnations end up in the red, just as this one has.  Notorious might be a better word. Widely and unfavorably know. Screenshot2025-11-09133132.png.b379536e00f657434d01e446f3ec5b1f.png

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2 minutes ago, marin said:

Is that so?? Many of your previous incarnations end up in the red, just as this one has.  Notorious might be a better word. Widely and unfavorably know. Screenshot2025-11-09133132.png.b379536e00f657434d01e446f3ec5b1f.png

look how desperate you are.........

 

truth hurts, eh.

 

Eric.

1 hour ago, Stressed Eric said:

I'm in the countryside at the moment and the locals are as miserable as sin.

 

Eric.

Could it be they're waiting for you to go back to where you came from?

1 hour ago, Stressed Eric said:

I'm in the countryside at the moment and the locals are as miserable as sin.

 

Eric.

They will all feel much better if you go somewhere else,they will smile when you leave!

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2 minutes ago, Hawaiian said:

Could it be they're waiting for you to go back to where you came from?

yawn.

Back home, I need to:

Pay the gas bill every month

Pay the electric bill

Pay the water bill

Pay the mortgage/property tax monthly payment

Pay house insurance with huge deductible every month

Pay car loan

Pay car insurance

Pay car inspection

Pay inflated prices for medical care and medications

Go bankrupt if I need to go to the emergency room

 

In Thailand, I need to:

Pay my house rent

Pay my electricity bill

Pay my water bill

 

My life is far less stressful and more enjoyable in Thailand. It's comfortable here. And I remember Covid. Those of us in Thailand at the time had it far better off than the draconian covid enforcement in the US and the rest of the West.

 

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1 minute ago, jvs said:

They will all feel much better if you go somewhere else,they will smile when you leave!

yawn.

1 hour ago, sidjameson said:

Where is better then?

He has already been asked that but doesn’t have the courage to answer -exactly as expected. 

13 minutes ago, Stressed Eric said:

look how desperate you are.........

 

truth hurts, eh.

 

Eric.

minus 100! 

You are shxt!

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1 minute ago, jvs said:

minus 100! 

You are shxt!

nobody, and especially me, cares what you think!

 

Eric.

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2 minutes ago, Nemises said:

He has already been asked that but doesn’t have the courage to answer -exactly as expected. 

I did answer!

 

Put yer glasses on!!

 

Eric.

2 hours ago, Stressed Eric said:

With the constant changing of the laws, the ever more regressive policies being announced/implemented, the dual pricing, the pollution, the constant ripping off, the fake smiles & the passive aggressive behavior of the locals (or even overt aggressive behavior, see Miss Universe), one really does have to wonder - why on earth would anyone want to holiday/live here these days?

 

Thailand is not what it once was, it is a shadow of it's former self and anyone who can't see that is living in denial imo.

 

Eric.

cause it beats swedes and sweden many times over

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Just now, mordothailand said:

cause it beats swedes and sweden many times over

Swedish women are great in bed.

 

Eric.

4 minutes ago, Stressed Eric said:

Swedish women are great in bed.

 

Eric.

not compared to chinese woman

2 hours ago, Stressed Eric said:

With the constant changing of the laws, the ever more regressive policies being announced/implemented, the dual pricing, the pollution, the constant ripping off, the fake smiles & the passive aggressive behavior of the locals (or even overt aggressive behavior, see Miss Universe), one really does have to wonder - why on earth would anyone want to holiday/live here these days?

 

Thailand is not what it once was, it is a shadow of it's former self and anyone who can't see that is living in denial imo.

 

Eric.

Oh, you can't puff on a joint now in public.........:guitar:

2 hours ago, Stressed Eric said:

With the constant changing of the laws, the ever more regressive policies being announced/implemented, the dual pricing, the pollution, the constant ripping off, the fake smiles & the passive aggressive behavior of the locals (or even overt aggressive behavior, see Miss Universe), one really does have to wonder - why on earth would anyone want to holiday/live here these days?

 

Thailand is not what it once was, it is a shadow of it's former self and anyone who can't see that is living in denial imo.

 

Eric.

You're compering your point of view and knowledge as a long time strayer to a 10 days- 2 weeks blows in and blow out people

they don't scrutinizing Thailand as you're as they're in a different set of minds when they come here, they're looking to experience the good sides of Thailand while you rubbishing the place you live in, 

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4 minutes ago, mordothailand said:

not compared to chinese woman

agreed.

 

chinese women number 1.

 

Eric.

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11 minutes ago, ezzra said:

You're compering your point of view and knowledge as a long time strayer to a 10 days- 2 weeks blows in and blow out people

they don't scrutinizing Thailand as you're as they're in a different set of minds when they come here, they're looking to experience the good sides of Thailand while you rubbishing the place you live in, 

its not my fault that most tourists are blind and clueless to the truth!

 

Eric.

2 hours ago, Fact said:

We understand that you dislike Thailand. Please feel free to leave.

 

 

I wonder what stress gains by posting on AN as an idiot.

 

 

 

2 minutes ago, Stressed Eric said:

its not my fault that most tourists are blind and clueless to the truth!

 

Eric.

Well, it seems that would include you, or are you posting from Scunthorpe, chap...:stoner:

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1 minute ago, In Full Agreement said:

 

 

I wonder what stress gains by posting on AN as an idiot.

 

 

 

does the truth hurt you as well??

 

Eric.

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