Like A Complete Unknown?

To Be Without A Home?

Thailand is the place where I have come across more Farang planning to move to a new land and never return home than any other place I have been in my life. Many books are written about retiring overseas or abroad to Indonesia, or someplace.

But I just thought in this fine farang pub there might be those willing to share their thoughts having already recently made the move to some place in Thailand. Thailand is such a great place, I feel right at home. There is very little I do not like. I come from another Asian country, but I am not Asian. My move here was smooth as silk aboard Thai Air. No culture shock at all, but of course. The country I come from, everyone seems to think it IS Thailand, or at least the overseas operators do.

So can you guys (or gals, this is a free country) that have already moved here possibly let your hair down and tell use the things you like and fear most about your move to Thailand for the rest of your natural lives.

I have already heard a few tales of men giving away their cats and dogs, stuffing two bags, and then hopping a plane bound for BKK.

But what are the daunting challenges and the rewards you hope to reap which you see ahead of you?

I don't care for no catharsis here. I just would like to read the long or short serious and considered comments from those that have already landed, and are taking up roots among the coconuts or the mountains in the North or East.

There is a lot of frustration you feel, I can understand, though I do not feel it myself.

But can you rise above it to wax philosophical about things of a higher plane?

What is it about your move, your future, that you think is important?

Well I know I don't get no respect in this pub, nor do I deserve it, this must be earned.

But do it for yourselves, tell it like it really is, to move to Thailand for good, never to return to your home country, not burning bridges, but kissing your past goodbye!

I will be reading these comments, so keep it clean please, and no insulting anyone here on this very worthy topic, and on this even more worthy TV Forum.

Thank you all, and thank you for your cooperation.

Posted by JLCrab on 2013-01-26 -- Isaan forum -- After 10 Years Issan Still Amazes Me

I won't describe my personal situation here in Isaan (though not in a village) or how my finances work out. All I will say is that, as I hit age 50 in the USA, I was looking straight down the barrel at the prospect of being a very lonely old man. Now my prospects are anything but. How do you put a price on that?

If you got money and can fill your days its fantastic but as too often happens, many hit the bottle and run out of funds.

I'll never live here full time so sorry, can't help you with this one.

Posted by JLCrab on 2013-01-26 -- Isaan forum -- After 10 Years Issan Still Amazes Me

I won't describe my personal situation here in Isaan (though not in a village) or how my finances work out. All I will say is that, as I hit age 50 in the USA, I was looking straight down the barrel at the prospect of being a very lonely old man. Now my prospects are anything but. How do you put a price on that?

Yep, that same prospect for all of us in the West and completely different for us all here.

Having been here in Thailand for ten years and elsewhere in the region for a further ten I am now in the process of making a move back to the UK. Why, because I now find a greater need for security and traddition, I miss the change in seasons and I miss the sense of history - the old arguments that made an almost overwhelmingly favorable case for me living here are no longer that important and some are no longer valid. That is not to say that I will never come back to Thailand or Asia, I will be a frequent visitor I'm certain, it's just that I no longer want to live here on a full time basis, I've done that, been there and now I'm ready for new experiences, even at the ripe old age of 63.

Well obviously to each his own but, when one says that they have the best of both or multiple worlds, to me that just means that they don't have something in any one world from which they are unwilling to be absent for an extended period of time.

Some people live in small worlds, the worlds of other are very large, there is no rule that says a person must live in only one place, people who do so tend not to be adventurous.

After racking up over a half million air miles over a 20+ year period I am very content to spend 90+% of my time in my small world yet connect all over the world these days on the internet. When I first started working in PRChina everything had to be dome by Telex -- I have today so far sent emails and posted on blogs in USA and Switzerland and I'm just getting started.

Like I said, if you want to travel all over and live in multiple places, that must mean you have something you are willing to leave behind.

Never say never.

You're only as good as your last extension.

Never say never.

You're only as good as your last extension.

My extensions haven't been that good lately.

Never say never.

You're only as good as your last extension.

... or who in Thailand is willing to plead the case for you should things go otherwise.

Never say never.

You're only as good as your last extension.

Spoken like a true cowboy builder

You'll pardon my lapse into the vernacular, I hope, but I can't tell it any other way

"Ah'm really lookin' forward tae gaun' hame fir Christmas, bytheway boss", says the lad, when he was younger and worked for me.

"I know just what you mean. The weather, the hint of snow in the air, or more likely sleet, and a gale blowing down Buchanan Street. And the girls! The girls! Big girls, with big thighs and thick woolen tights and too much lipstick and pasty white faces and a wee hat perched on the back o' their heid..."

"Stop it! Stop it! Ye cannae make me go..."

Never say never.

You're only as good as your last extension.

My extensions haven't been that good lately.

Have you tried those little blue pills that you can buy at the pharmacy?

They work for me.

I'll never live here full time so sorry, can't help you with this one.

The word i 'interloper'

I'll never live here full time so sorry, can't help you with this one.

The word i 'interloper'

I thought "visitor" or "guest" were quite appropriate, but perhaps you are less hospitable than I am.

I'll never live here full time so sorry, can't help you with this one.

The word i 'interloper'

I thought "visitor" or "guest" were quite appropriate, but perhaps you are less hospitable than I am.

Only because they seem to always claim that they are more than a visitor or guest.

Have you ever considered actually answering a topic JLCrab?