My biggest mistake in Thailand was to get roped into a business deal on my second trip........it cost me a lot of time, but not a lot of money, however time is money.

What was your biggest mistake?

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Edited August 23, 201213 yr by theblether

Opening this thread.

Could be Arthur.....let's see what happens. I'll go put on my flame retardent clothing in the meantime.

Anyway.....plenty of people like to boast about how switched on and perfect they are.......how about the disasters? We've all had them.

Not learning enough about the place. Easy to look back but if I knew 10 years ago (about Thailand) what I know now then I would have retired at least 2 years earlier.

I did uncountable mistakes, but i'll tell you a funny one..

..One morning, at a beach restaurant, i noticed a young foreign girl having troubles to get hot water from the kettle.. Promply i smiled at her and offer to help.. Gosh, i was too quick to push the top of the kettle, and she got the boiling water on her hand

Oh, the evil look she gave me.. I could not stop laughing for the rest of the day

The bar......huge mistake.

Not realizing that coming to Thailand can apparently make you bisexual.

Not realizing that coming to Thailand can apparently make you bisexual.

You feel you've been missing out then?

I don't....but then I am a bit prudish when it comes to that stuff....

Not realizing that coming to Thailand can apparently make you bisexual.

You feel you've been missing out then?

I don't....but then I am a bit prudish when it comes to that stuff....

Don't worry it's normal.

No it's not.

Yes it is.

Repeat until bored.

If only I had known how much brown envelopes cost.

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I guess mine was coming to a land of freedom with millions of beautfull women with jaw dropping smiles and being to shy to talk with them lol

I guess mine was coming to a land of freedom with millions of beautfull women with jaw dropping smiles and being to shy to talk with them lol

My biggest mistake was actually believing half the stuff I read on the Internet about the place.

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Edited August 23, 201213 yr by KeyserSoze01

The bar......huge mistake.

What happened? I love failed bar stories.

The bar......huge mistake.

What happened? I love failed bar stories.

It failed. Mind you I learnt that farang expats are to be trusted far less than the indigenous population so that makes the loss of a few quid somewhat worthwhile in the long run.

I love to hear success stories myself....it seldom happens on here though.

The bar......huge mistake.

What happened? I love failed bar stories.

It failed. Mind you I learnt that farang expats are to be trusted far less than the indigenous population so that makes the loss of a few quid somewhat worthwhile in the long run.

I love to hear success stories myself....it seldom happens on here though.

Roger that

We all get turned over at some stage and we hope we learn by it. People who complain about getting 'scammed' out of 30 Baht on a BKK tuktuk should be happy the lesson was so cheap. Others lose their entire life savings and have to return home, come out of retirement and start again and I've seen that a few times.

The bar......huge mistake.

What happened? I love failed bar stories.

It failed. Mind you I learnt that farang expats are to be trusted far less than the indigenous population so that makes the loss of a few quid somewhat worthwhile in the long run.

I love to hear success stories myself....it seldom happens on here though.

it was unsuccessful at serving failures. big surprise there. next time make some food or something useful, rather then drowning us in cheap piss water.

The bar......huge mistake.

What happened? I love failed bar stories.

It failed. Mind you I learnt that farang expats are to be trusted far less than the indigenous population so that makes the loss of a few quid somewhat worthwhile in the long run.

I love to hear success stories myself....it seldom happens on here though.

it was unsuccessful at serving failures. big surprise there. next time make some food or something useful, rather then drowning us in cheap piss water.

Thanks for the constructive advice!

Listening to the advice of a Thai Lawyer who stated catergoricaly that I could buy a house in my own name!

I'm one of the few lucky ones though, who much later came out of it OK ,and only lost 50,000 bahts,so i'm not too upset. So be careful Newbies to Thailand,you make your biggest mistakes in the first 6 months in Thailand.

I don't think Thai Visa was in existance at that particular time.

Edited August 23, 201213 yr by MAJIC

One mistake I made was to leave the house with my fly undone... a bigger mistake was not wearing any boxers that day.

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Listening to the advice of a Thai Lawyer who stated catergoricaly that I could buy a house in my own name!

I thought you could buy the house but not the land.

I thought it would be nice to make a short (one line) speech at my wedding... I intended to say sawadee crap, carp cun crap (hello, thankyou) but I fluffed it and it came out as a meaningless mumble... luckily only 500 people were there.

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my bigest mistake,

not finding thailand sooner,,, i love the place

jake

Listening to the advice of a Thai Lawyer who stated catergoricaly that I could buy a house in my own name!

I thought you could buy the house but not the land.

Yes! on a 30 year lease,which is not the same as ownership,Or in your Company name,which is still not the same as your ownership.And you are correct you can't buy the land.

Edited August 23, 201213 yr by MAJIC

Booked flights from Bangkok to Ubon instead of Ubon to Bangkok, twice.

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Going back a few years, I left my Blackberry under the bed in the Amari Chaweng. Unfortunately I didn't realise until I reached Bangkok.

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Jogging up and down Patong beach for an hour in the afternoon without sun cream.

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Getting lost wandering around Phuket in the rain.

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Believing that EVERYTHING is cheaper. I was surprised after I did all my own homework how misguided and misinformed most are. I guess it must be all that CHEAP crap beer that they drink.

On Edit: You can buy an excellent quality beer in the states for nearly 25% cheaper then you can buy a bottle of Leo

Edited August 23, 201213 yr by JAFO

A couple of times I nearly suffered a painful death-by-chillies (I suffered the pain but didn't actually die) all because I was too embarrassed to say the food was too spicy for me.

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