How Long Have You All Been In Thailand For Now?

[kitty]

Ok this has been done before i recall but i'm interested again...

So..how long have you all been living your dreams for?

[Wolfie]

Long enough to not want to go back...

... short enough not to have experienced anything.

Just coming upto 3 years now.

[thaiflyer1]

Just over 6 years.....

[Ajarn]

18 years and still lovin' Paradise!

[Thetyim]

Ten years .

Never been back to Blighty.

[Insight]

Mentioned on a previous post today; 3 years.

Still loving it - met some seriously great Thai people, but prehaps looking for a change of scenery.

[Axel]

Why don't you make a poll?

Anyway, 13 years in December.

[igotworms]

Been here nearly 3 years. Been back to Canada once for a month. I may go back next year to for another year of school...after which I would return here.

[MaiSonJai]

So..how long have you all been living your dreams for?

I actually never dreamed to come to Thailand.

More like a nightmare.

Too much traffic, too much pollution, too much of everything...

After 7 years in Thailand, it is still not a dream.

But going back to Europe would be a nightmare.

The traffic in Bangkok is so much better....

[inthehouse]

over seven years you?

[jayenram]

Started coming here on business 10 years ago whilst w*rking in Malaysia.

Retired here just a fraction over 5 years ago.

Never looked back. A two week forced visit to Blighty recently reinforced my reasons for staying here.

[Captain Chaos]

Posted here for work just over 2.5 years ago.

At least another 2 to go .......... not that I'm planning on leaving just yet anyway ....... this is the first (and only) job I've ever had that I actually like!

[kayo]

I arrived as a backpacker on the infamous 9/11, or 11/9 rather.

Got bored of that and settled down straight away. Loved it here.

Unfortunately just left due to extraneous circumstances. Now in Central America... Would do just about anything to get back home. (kanchanaburi) .

So it was three years, but it will be forever if home really is where the heart is.

[elsie]

Nearly 31 years. Errr... does it count?

[Darknight]

So..how long have you all been living your dreams for?

I actually never dreamed to come to Thailand.

More like a nightmare.

Too much traffic, too much pollution, too much of everything...

After 7 years in Thailand, it is still not a dream.

But going back to Europe would be a nightmare.

The traffic in Bangkok is so much better....

Maybe you would be suprised , maisonjai

Living in LOS for a whle can give you a new appreciation for the old world also .

[Gazza]

15 years or a third of my life. Seems just like a week ago when I stepped off the plane. Thai time sure does fly quickly.

What about you Kitty????

[astral]

20 years next April!!

[davethailand]

3 years and loving it.

[bmw]

Seben.

[IamMaiC]

Lucky People

[Tornado]

7 years on the 18th of this month.

[Totster]

Now I'm at ... -10 days

totster

[Boon Mee]

25 years with stretches in Farangland in between...

[penzman]

8 months.

Married a wonderful woman.

New house.

Great new life in Thailand.

[igotworms]

Far too long.

[billd766]

Far too long.

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Been coming here for over 11 years and lived here for about 7 of them including the last 3.

Had to elsewhere in between for work but I am sort of retired unless somebody offers me a job.

Married for the last 4 1/2 to the girl I met in a bar on my first visit 11 years ago, loved her then and still love her now, especially with the new ankle biter almost ready to crawl around.

I live right out in the sticks where the weekly traffic jam is 2 minutes long on market day and the traffic lights have been set on warning mode for about 8 months I think.

I love Thailand and though I have been back to the UK this year I would never consider living anywhere else.

[udon]

5 years and I call it home even though I may never get PR.

Am currently in Sydney's western suburbs and I hate it.

Can't wait to get back "home" in Jan, I hope.

[dr_Pat_Pong]

5  years and I call it home even though I may never get PR.

Am currently in Sydney's western suburbs and I hate it.

Can't wait to get back "home" in Jan, I hope.

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You'll get a ' proper ' Christmas this year Udon. Pud' and all.

[udon]

PP I'd rather be in Klong Toey market than sharing a Doner Kebab here with the locals.

I'll be speaking Arabic and Vietnamese if I stay too long.

All the shop signs are in either Chinese or Vietnamese Grrrr!

[p_brownstone]

Nearly 31 years. Errr... does it count?

Newbie!

33 years on 17 November this year.

Where does the time go!?