Drunk Isaan. People Every Day In Our Village

[Sandman77]

Hello!

I live now a have year in the Isaan build a house together with my gf now wife, but the sourounding of people scary me!

3 days ago a 34 old man drink to much after he was hospitaleized many time, now the stomage broken and the man die,

After 3 days tempel celebration, including the deep bass nonstop in the night my ear not want hear it!

our nabours stop talking with us, because the Falang not give money for buy whiskey and beer!

Every Molam dancing party I visit, turned , into a fighting scene in the night

When police catch some the put it in a container light box, so that the public can look eye to eye with the bad man!

Farmer woman also drunk on day time or talk loud in the night !

Most of them not want Pay the bill in the shop for the beer!

When I tell my wife I want go another location she not want, there are many other story's I could tell, but I wait now the aswer!, maybe I not alone with this problems..

I go home in one month over the summer time, but when I come back in December then everything will be same!

How long time living expats handle this problem?

[saakura]

I beleive this is the normal life in rural isaan which you are describing. If you dont like it, find a well educated woman from a well educated family and living in the city.

[Lite Beer]

Not a problem to me.

If you do not want to mix with a few drunks, dont.

Mix and drink with the majority of Isaan people that are not drunks.

[hansnl]

This "party" exhibition you describe is indeed getting more and more normal in Isan.

And thanks to the growing poverty in the rural areas with thanks to the T-Government, things will get worse.

There is les and less work, the 300 baht per day wage rule is not adhered to, the prices go up, and more and more people loose their jobs.

It will get worse, trust me!

[cooked]

Either you can take it or you can't. Many of my neighbours don't talk to me, no problem. I have some friends here and a good honest family around me. Funerals, stuff like that - you have to live with it or at least get your house sound proofed.

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[Huayrat]

Totally different in my wifes village... Have 1 drunk man who you see say everymonth bur everybody ignores him.. Everybody in the village are nice and they are all asleep by 9pm.. sounds to me that your in a bad village.. Goodluck with that but id leave for sure..

Edited June 6, 2013 by metisdead
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[mancub]

Sorry, but surely the OP would have been aware of how things are in their village before deciding to build a house and live there ?

Anyway , so the options are :

a/ Stay and become like them ,as you can't change the way they are .

b/ Walk away from the investment ...and the woman

c/ Walk away from the investment and take the woman with you......

Actually " c " isn't really an option !

[AnotherOneAmerican]

This sadly exactly describes my experiences of Thai village life.

After the sun goes down, nearly all the men drink and fight until they fall over.

Much more civilised in CM.

Only the foreigners drink and fight until they fall down here.

Edited June 6, 2013 by AnotherOneAmerican

[benalibina]

He should worry about his house when he is back home. Financed ??

Upon return he will probably be shocked.

[TexasRanger]

Op sounds like he has had a few himself.

There are villages all over the world with scrotes and layabouts in them, try another village, yours sounds bad. Hardly representative of issan as a whole though.

[tullynagardy]

And thanks to the growing poverty in the rural areas with thanks to the T-Government

Growing poverty!???

My wives village is under a wave of reconstruction from new found wealth. 1 by 1 the shacks are being replaced with tidy little homes, made in a Western way. Only 1 or 2 shacks remain. People have new employment in the huge rubber factory opened recently down the road or from workers that commute weekly back and forth to Bangkok - life has never been so good.

The GDP per capita in Issan has doubled in ten years.

Growing poverty?!

Edited June 6, 2013 by tullynagardy

[alexander69]

Where do you live in isaan.You should have done some home work mate

[transam]

OP, it is normal Isaan way of life. Some places obviously different to others, BUT booze is their way of life. Thankfully my mrs doesn't drink. Having a beer is my way of life BUT l do not lose the plot, local folk do, veeeeeeeery easily.

[asdecas]

Smacks of trollery to me....

[kiniyow]

Bliss is Getting Married to a farmers Daughter and building a House on her land around her family...Sounds Perfect to me?

[transam]

Bliss is Getting Married to a farmers Daughter and building a House on her land around her family...Sounds Perfect to me?

Heaven forbid eh.

[poooket]

This sadly exactly describes my experiences of Thai village life.
After the sun goes down, nearly all the men drink and fight until they fall over.

Same as my experience of Isaan. How could someone built a house there and not be aware of this? Have the OP even seen where his money for the house went?

[tullynagardy]

With 800+ posts rest assured this is not a troll.

I feel bad for the OP, it sounds like hes in a terrible situation. The same situation that leads to another popular thread http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/641618-miserableunsmilingand-forlorn-lookings-farangs/

[IsaanAussie]

Isaan is not about being drunk. It is about enjoying life. The rice bowl is full, then time for me to do the same. Simple people with no expectations, taught under a rote educational system, with nothing to risk, what else do you expect? Live here a few more years and you will sleep soundly when you want, regardless of volume. Your dogs will tell you when to wake up.

[SantiSuk]

My part of Isaan is not like that, thankfully. OK the village blacksmith gets a bit pi$$ed at breakfast sometimes, but he then puts a solid 10 hours work in. Only one or two feckless unfortunates who do not work.

Sorry if that doesn't gel with the stereotype.

[Gweiloman]

OP, whereabouts in Isaan are you?

[sscsamui]

Move.... Move ..... Move....

[Kudel]

This "party" exhibition you describe is indeed getting more and more normal in Isan.

And thanks to the growing poverty in the rural areas with thanks to the T-Government, things will get worse.

There is les and less work, the 300 baht per day wage rule is not adhered to, the prices go up, and more and more people loose their jobs.

It will get worse, trust me!

In what world are you living in?more and more companys are investing in this country and are looking for staff all the time specially the automotive sector in the industrial center of Thailand.

[TexasRanger]

This "party" exhibition you describe is indeed getting more and more normal in Isan.

And thanks to the growing poverty in the rural areas with thanks to the T-Government, things will get worse.

There is les and less work, the 300 baht per day wage rule is not adhered to, the prices go up, and more and more people loose their jobs.

It will get worse, trust me!

Not everywhere. Over half my village have a rubber tree plantation, thise who used to be land rich with no money are starting to earn pretty nicely, houses are being extended and people are very well off compared to 10 years ago. The going rate for labourers is 400 per day and those that don't have rubber are making good money in Singapore, Taiwan and India.

Sure there are still some on the bones of their ass but these are certainly a minority where I live. As for the drinking, I would say it is less prevalent now as most people have to be up at 2-3 am to go tapping.

[sirchai]

I used to live in my wife's village for one year. Yes, people get drunk and fight. But I didn't built a house there.

But people did and still do respect me for who I am. Nobody is angry with me when I don't buy them a drink, or join their Lao Khao sessions.

You wouldn't have such problems, if your wife would back you up, roughly speaking.

You should even take a look at a hotel room, where you're planning to stay one night. But you'd decided to built a house at a place, where you don't want to live.

Called Som Nam Naa. And the "drunk Isaan people in 'your' village used to live there before you. Most of them were even born there.

You obviously didn't do your homework.-

Edited June 7, 2013 by sirchai

[DILLIGAD]

Think I've seen him in a Batman movie????/

[sirchai]

I see so many really ugly foreigners married to village girls. They could never find a good looking girl in thier own country so they come to Thailand to find a pretty girl and marry them. They don't seem to realise that the girl only marries them for thier money.

It would never happen in their own country.

julia-roberts17.jpg

Kyle is very hansum man, just think of the sort of girl he could have if only he were to come here.

Guess he'd have good chances to date this one.-

[joeaverage]

With 800+ posts rest assured this is not a troll.

I feel bad for the OP, it sounds like hes in a terrible situation. The same situation that leads to another popular thread http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/641618-miserableunsmilingand-forlorn-lookings-farangs/

i can never understand what post count has to do with trolling. in my estimation the best trolls are only accomplish with a few thousand posts under your belt.

[joeaverage]

I see so many really ugly foreigners married to village girls. They could never find a good looking girl in thier own country so they come to Thailand to find a pretty girl and marry them. They don't seem to realise that the girl only marries them for thier money.

It would never happen in their own country.

julia-roberts17.jpg

Kyle is very hansum man, just think of the sort of girl he could have if only he were to come here.

who the xxxx is kyle?

Edited June 9, 2013 by metisdead

[sirchai]

I see so many really ugly foreigners married to village girls. They could never find a good looking girl in thier own country so they come to Thailand to find a pretty girl and marry them. They don't seem to realise that the girl only marries them for thier money.

It would never happen in their own country.

julia-roberts17.jpg

Kyle is very hansum man, just think of the sort of girl he could have if only he were to come here.

who the xxxx is kyle?

Please ask his boyfriend(s).....