How Did It Feel?

[shaggy1969]

This is a question aimed towards the people that are lucky enough to be living in Thailand full time.

How did it feel when you boarded your airplane or landed at Bangkok knowing that you were making the move?

It breaks my heart every time I leave Thailand and would love to move there one day .......'So how did it feel'?

[pattayadingo]

Good.

[yourauntbob]

hot

[Phronesis]

I felt confident that I would be having sex in 8 hours. My flight was 7 hours.

[Mosha]

Leaving W Yorkshire? It felt bloody great.

[vreemd13]

I felt confident that I would be having sex in 8 hours. My flight was 7 hours.

Any red light district (available near your home city) would have saved you a 7hours bursting flight and would be cheaper as the intercontinental ticket price.

Good luck

[Riverman63]

I will do it but still sometime off yet sadly.

[rookball]

i was being bond to a contract and had a company assignment here so thoughts might differ

the first time i stepped in here, i was pretty much stooked. it was my first time in thailand anyway and my soon to be direct superior was there to pick me up. basically butterfly stomach

i disliked here in the beginning but slowly some attachment developed, especially the environment around my place. im a lucky guy i guess, blessed with very nice neighbors and neighborhoods. at the same time, i miss my family badly, so was very excited and looked forward for every biannual trip back home. indeed, i miss my family but thoughts on my old place is more towards nostalgic than missing it and then i realized i miss "home", the tiny little apartment, the smiley neighbors, the always sleepy security guards, the push cart vendors who always laugh at my thai, the young dude who is fixing his bike that breaks everyday etc etc

eventually i bought over the apartment that i rent for the past 3 years

i do look forward for my trips back home, but when i came back, its no longer the same excitment or anthing. its a stable, secured feelings. I guess i just felt back home

[Jingthing]

Be careful what you wish for, there WILL be unintended consequences.

[NoshowJones]

Leaving W Yorkshire? It felt bloody great.

I can understand that.

[villagefarang]

I can't remember back that far.

[LburtonL]

Since I already travel the world, it felt like the beginning of a new chapter in my life

[David48]

I felt confident that I would be having sex in 8 hours. My flight was 7 hours.

Alone, in the Airport toilet, doesn't count ... ... that's classed as something else.

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[David48]

Hi there shaggy1969 ... my feelings.

Arriving it is a little like I've opened the front door to my home.

It's the familiar smells (some not pleasant), the buzz, the family hugs, the 'special' hug from the gf and always, always ... the sense of fun. Sanook, if used in the correct context.

Departing, it's when I leave Thailand that a sense of sadness, the cloud dims the sunlight.

Every time, when in Swampy, leaving this place ... it's always a feeling 'I wish I could have stayed longer' ... so much fun left undone ...

[shaggy1969]

Be careful what you wish for, there WILL be unintended consequences.

Everything in life has it's pros and cons....I supposed at the end of the day it's about how you deal with them that makes the difference.

[shaggy1969]

I felt confident that I would be having sex in 8 hours. My flight was 7 hours.

Alone, in the Airport toilet, doesn't count ... ... that's classed as something else.

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Cheers David....almost spat my coffee out

[robblok]

It felt good for me, not exactly sure if things would work out how i wanted it. It was a nice challenge.

Thing is its a big step and not everyone is cut out for it. Things change when you really live here. You might think im not right and you know it all already, just wait till you make the step things will change as it is your home and you will have an eye for the bad things too.

Dont forget by leaving you take a break of Thailand and everytime its new and fresh and your excitement of being here makes it easier to accepts its faults and shortcomings.

[Spoonman]

I boarded the airplane in Brisbane without a clue of Thailand for a 3month work stint and got off the plane at Swampy thinking "<deleted> have I done". nearly 7 years later iam still here and have no desire to "go home" anytime soon.

[chiangmaikelly]

I felt confident that I would be having sex in 8 hours. My flight was 7 hours.

Any red light district (available near your home city) would have saved you a 7hours bursting flight and would be cheaper as the intercontinental ticket price.

Good luck

Some of us don't go to red light districts. I, for one, go to grocery stores. Also I can assure you that food and department stores in Thailand have very friendly and attractive clerks where as this is not the case in my home country.

[Hedghog]

While waiting for my flight out of Heathrow.

My ex gf,rang to tell me go forth and multiply.

She knew I had,had the snip.

So I just went forth.

And never went back.

Great feeling freedom.

[jonnyscot]

Great,,,, stepped into Glasgow airport on a cold and rainy morning feeling like a wee kid arriving in a candy store,,, arrived into BKK next day seeing the wife and kids waiting for me with nearly as big smiles as I had,, fantastic feeling.

Before that I was relying on booking flights at short notice trying to fit things in with my work and the wife's work to travel over to visit them or them traveling to visiting me, which wasn't ideal.

I Still get the big buzz every time I arrive into BKK from my work offshore and see my wife and family there waiting for me.

[prestburypark]

Relief at getting away from the claustrophobia of big brother Britain.

Happy that years of planning and hard work by myself and my Thai wife had come to fruition and we had everything paid for and sorted out.

( Smugness too that it worked out..I think a little of that is ok if you have earned it. )

Gave a big thank you to the gods, fate, or whatever they are that allowed it to be.

[fletchsmile]

Uncertainty... plus at the time I didn't realise that I was making the move...

[HardenedSoul]

After my first 6 months here, I went back to London for Christmas and New Year.

I tell you, getting off that plane at Heathrow on a cold, drizzly morning, it felt as though someone had loaded a sack of gloom & doom on my shoulders. From paying £6 for a pack of fags to having to pay £10 a day to drive in my native Notting Hill, it just felt as if everything I did or wanted to do was being manipulated by rules and regulations.

Within 3 days, I was dying to come back here. The final approach to Swampy was among the most exciting moments of the last 10 years. The cab ride back to my condo at 11pm was wonderful.

Not sure that I'll have that feeling about Thailand again but I'm hoping a 2 week holiday back to London later this year will revive the magic.

[canuckamuck]

I was quite tired

[rct99q]

It was kind of like Christmas Eve for me. There was a bit of a calmness before the arrival but I knew that the next day was going to be hectic and chaotic but fun.

It was the best present I ever gave myself. And in turn Thailand has blessed me with three of the best presents someone has ever given me. My wife, my son and my daughter.