Quite the opposite for me. 10 years in LOS and bored out of my tits. Although I can live here comfortably, imo its now expensive and overrated so am returning to the UK next year. Get my kids a decent education and not have them rolling around in the dirt like toothless simpletons struggling with their 2 times table at the age of 12. Get a decent 2nd hand car for 10k , and not some beat up old gypo truck. Get a decent house in my name that will still be standing in 50yrs because the walls are thicker than 3".

Dont do the whores, bored of that a long time ago. Dont sit in bars all day, talking to SAS flip flop wearing veterans. After that there really isnt much left, unless you play golf, (but lets face it, eventually you'll fall out with your new playing partners, who'll wind up being bullsh1tters or katoey bangers ). Suppose you could spend your time looking at the same boring temples, perhaps even getting down on your knees with your Singha vest, 'Waiing at Buddha', get a grip son. Or you could trounce around the same markets selling the same old <deleted>, bartering with your calculator buying Silk Scarves and chickens feet on a stick.

There are, Nice people (but lets face it, in general, a bit stupid) , nice food ( But after 10yrs the same old p1ss), nice weather ( Sometimes too hot to go out and do anything. I suppose I could go out for a drive and watch a p1ssed up bus driver flip over his double decker doing 100mph up the hard shoulder ) . So thats it for me. Romance over.

Looking forward to going home. Friends and family missed. Everything I need on my doorstep in London. A thousand things but cant be @rsed listing them.n

Maybe I'll get bored of UK after a while and come back. But only for a holiday. I would try another country after that. Nothing left to offer me in Lieland.

Judging by your post ,i do not think you could make it anywhere ,not trying to be rude, but my lad has and is having a good education here ,i live a family life and am never bored ,the one day a week i go to a bar there are interesting people there ,in 24 years i have never ever met one of these "ex sas " types i keep hearing about on Thai Visa ,i think they only exist in fantasy land , i don't go to boring temples ,but then i never went to churches in the west , and markets around my old home town in the UK sold the same boring shit week after week ,so no change between there and here .

sorry but you just make yourself sound a bit of a loser,

Fair enough mate, I was giving my opinion to the OP's post from a personal view. I cant be bothered with the way of life and politics here anymore, So therefore, you assume I cant make it anywhere, and I'm a loser ? Brilliant analogy. You know nothing about me my friend, but still make an opinion of me because of a few paragraphs. Like I said, I cant be bothered listing all the things I miss, and to you, clearly a guardian of all expat sh!te and the way of the farang, that would obviously fall on deaf ears. I could also make assumptions about you as a person, but also, cant be @rsed mate. Have a lovely day, and may you continue to enjoy your weekly pub visit.

I was never bored outside Thailand.

But I never forget the 2nd time I came here.

Sitting in the taxi from Don Mueang, looking out the car windows, I felt this amazing excitement and happiness which I never ever had felt before.

Kind of same rush as being in love I guess.

I was never bored outside Thailand.

But I never forget the 2nd time I came here.

Sitting in the taxi from Don Mueang, looking out the car windows, I felt this amazing excitement and happiness which I never ever had felt before.

Kind of same rush as being in love I guess.

I remember that. And I think that's very much like what it is indeed.

I've long been convinced that most if not all of the guys who remain here but constantly look at everything here in the worst possible light are guys whose hearts were broken by one or more Thais but also by Thailand itself - when they discovered that it wasn't as impossibly idyllic as they (consciously or not) believed.

But just as that super passionate and exciting romantic honeymoon stage love with a person cannot last forever but CAN (in some cases) transform into something more realistic and sustainable offering enough positives over negatives to be content and satisfied, one's "relationship" with Thailand can (in some cases) similarly transform.

Edited May 5, 201313 yr by SteeleJoe

I was never bored outside Thailand.

But I never forget the 2nd time I came here.

Sitting in the taxi from Don Mueang, looking out the car windows, I felt this amazing excitement and happiness which I never ever had felt before.

Yeah I had that feeling too. Almost impossible to get it back, though, isn't it?

I was never bored outside Thailand.

But I never forget the 2nd time I came here.

Sitting in the taxi from Don Mueang, looking out the car windows, I felt this amazing excitement and happiness which I never ever had felt before.

Yeah I had that feeling too. Almost impossible to get it back, though, isn't it?

That is true, can never get that feeling back.

Agree with SteeleJoe in post # 33

I love it here with all the annoying and lovable stuff which goes on at the same time.

Never get excited flying back into Thailand. Opposite to my emotions when descending in to Manchester Airport, catching glimpses of the moors through the clouds, Joy Division & Happy Mondays playing in my headphones.

Never get excited flying back into Thailand. Opposite to my emotions when descending in to Manchester Airport, catching glimpses of the moors through the clouds, Joy Division & Happy Mondays playing in my headphones.

Guess what? Not only is there a whole world of good music in addition to the brilliant stuff that came out of Manchester but both Joy Division and Happy Mondays (or Inspiral Carpets, Stone Roses et al) all play fine on my headphones right here in Thailand.

They can do wondrous things with technology these days.

Never get excited flying back into Thailand. Opposite to my emotions when descending in to Manchester Airport, catching glimpses of the moors through the clouds, Joy Division & Happy Mondays playing in my headphones.

Guess what? Not only is there a whole world of good music in addition to the brilliant stuff that came out of Manchester but both Joy Division and Happy Mondays (or Inspiral Carpets, Stone Roses et al) all play fine on my headphones right here in Thailand.

They can do wondrous things with technology these days.

Never sound as good as on that descent into MAN. It isn't just the music, but the views of northern England & that "coming home" feeling. The descent into CNX through a toxic brown cloud in April doesn't excite.

Never sound as good as on that descent into MAN. It isn't just the music, but the views of northern England & that "coming home" feeling.

Fair enough.

Just seemed kind of provincial and insular to me. I think of landing in LA, I don't specifically need to be listening to The Doors (or any of a dozen LA bands) or in NYC...

But nothing wrong with loving where you're from or things that are evocative of it.

"Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England - now!"

Robert Browning

OK this April was bad!

I always get a good feeling coming in to land over UK, with its green and yellow's. It's still home in my heart.

As much as I love Thailand, I feel nothing landing in Bangkok.

Edited May 5, 201313 yr by uptheos

you have been a tourist in thailand, you have no idea what living her really entails.

spend a year here, then think about it

I think being bored is a natural state, after a while when its same shit different day

I have a feeling many of our fellow members from UK are missing their good old home made national dish, Curry.

I have a feeling many of our fellow members from UK are missing their good old home made national dish, Curry.

Not in my family, good old roast dinner prevails.

I have a feeling many of our fellow members from UK are missing their good old home made national dish, Curry.

Not in my family, good old roast dinner prevails.

Just teasing.

An English roast is delicious.

Food is the last thing we forget about from our home countries.

We never forget the food we grew up with.

been 4 years in thailand... gosh... Never bored really. and the heat kill me in summer.

can always go out, go restaurant, go 7 11, Tesco... always meet thai people or a farang to talk to. go internet shop, take a scooter, ride to the beach... maybe work on line to make some money, talk to girlfriend, go eat with girlfriend... visit a friend somewhere, take the bus, go cheap hotel, visa run,... lot of fun.

here in europe, stay under blanket, stay home, watch tv, cold, dark, rain, short summer, no one in the streets really unless you live downtown, all expensive, no joy to take a car, no beach,even my parents bore me... and their tv channel suck big time... oh... ladies are ugly.

the only thing I really appreciate in western countries is not to have constant diarrhea... in thailand I always got a free drain and food change of my internal components.