Do You Live In A Farang Ghetto?......

[Mudcrab]

Plenty of farang in my apartment block and the surrounding area but still predominately Thai's who live here. Suits me fine.

You couldn't pay me to live in some remote Esarn town,

Sounds like you would be happy in Sydney, London, New York then...surrounded by Asians with the added bonus you could speak the language. Me...I'm happy in the wilderness. And all that goes with it.

Edited October 25, 2013 by Mudcrab

[Morakot]

Yes, not offering drinks is quite rude!

Yes I think not offering your neighbour(about 10 houses) a drink is rude considering I gave him all the help I could for his wedding in the village. He invites you round, grabs himself a beer, sits his fat bum down, and that's that! Of course I bring my own, and cause I'm falang I'm rich and I own boon rawd brewery(not) but that's not the point. Even if my guests bring their own I offer them first, and if they say that's ok we have our own, I get them glasses, ice, food whatever, it's only courtesy isn't it? Meh, no big deal, up to him.

Shocking! I think this could make a fully fledged topic in its own right, such a lack of hospitality among fellow farangs.

Edited October 25, 2013 by Morakot

[theblether]

Personally I have found that people who is, so to say, braging about being alone with thai, and looking down on the company of fellow falangs, they are in many cases socially

handicaped people. And they were also socially handicaped in their own homecountry.

For me a nice mixture with falangs that I like to socialize with, is the absolutely best.....

Glegolo

Mixture is good......it's always nice to have a blether with a fellow foreigner. The topic is farang ghetto, when the mixture goes too far the wrong direction.

[smccolley]

You chose where you want to live. I came from a decent place in the US and I live in a decent place in Thailand. You live where you can afford...

If you treat your accommodations well and make the best of what you can afford - is that a slum? I think not. Slums are where dead end people with dead end attitudes go to die. This is a choice. You can live in a mansion or a small apartment and make it anything you want it to be. I have known too many mansion owners who are just waiting to die and apartment owners who view their life as great.

I have always thought that treating where you live with respect and cleanliness as more important than what you paid for it...

[burlap]

I spent 18 months in a small village near Rayong. It was fun for a while, but toward the end I started to think it might be possible to ACTUALLY die of boredom. (One positive side effect: my Thai improved a lot!)

Now I live in a Chinese neighborhood of Bangkok near the river. There are some farang living nearby - but it ain't Sukhumwit. I like it here.

[StreetCowboy]

My condo is probably 10%-20% Westerners, a comparable number of other foreigners, I think. The only one with whom I have any real social interaction beyond a bit of chat in the lift is a fellow British Islander.

I socialise more with the farangs at work than with the HK Chinese, and more with them than with the locals, but that's partly job stratification.

SC

[TheSpade]

I'd actually like there to be more English speaking expats in Bangkok. Make BKK more like HK and it would be awesome!

Not enough English speaking expats? There's tons!

I try and avoid most of them. Most that I meet especially the ones over 40 tend to be the sort of people I would prefer not to mingle with - deluded, mental problems, alcoholics, full of their own shit, sexpats etc.

[Mr Average]

I'd actually like there to be more English speaking expats in Bangkok. Make BKK more like HK and it would be awesome!

Not enough English speaking expats? There's tons!

I try and avoid most of them. Most that I meet especially the ones over 40 tend to be the sort of people I would prefer not to mingle with - deluded, mental problems, alcoholics, full of their own shit, sexpats etc.

1. How old are you?

2. What's your job?

3. Why did you come to Thailand?

4. What are you hoping to achieve here -- what are your long term goals?

[maccaroni man]

Yes koh Samui is not considered Thailand by most Thais and I like it that way.

[delh]

Yes, I do live in a farang ghetto, and thank god!

At least there is bread, milk and cheese available.

I just need to get them to stock Marmite and I will be in heaven on earth.

Aah, Bisto too?

Couple of places in Samui that stock Marmite

[zydeco]

I'm the only Westerner in my village. There used to be another one, but he moved out after the 2011 flood. A tremendous string of restaurants is right down the street, along Uttayan Road, but there are never any Westerners there, either. Not a bad life.

[daoyai]

I know the hotel where the op blether stays, used to stay there myself, I liked the area as you could walk north and be in the "F.ghetto, or turn S.E. and be in T-land. but very little of the natural beauty of the mountain areas. Now I stay near the heart of the Chiang mai "ghetto" for convenience. Get out early morning and realize it is still Thailand .....then later .... Little China, !! We are still a tiny minority here so you can practice speaking (blethering) Thai all day long.

[henry15]

I'll live in Parimonton in an 99.99 % Thai urban surrounding, with all possible shopping, sport and all kind of restaurants availlable and only. a very few western expats. I pay for an 85m² meter 2 bedroom appartment with a fully equipted European kitchen and bathroom, inclusive all costs except electric, in a well mantained hig rise only 13 495 THB per month. There are no expat hangouts at all, and I like to keep it that way. That' s why I like my little paradise for myself.555555

[henry15]

I've lived near Nakhon Sawan for more than 10 years. When I first came there were only a handful of farang. Now there are many, but not too many. The city is the second largest in the north. The province is booming, with massive housing, infrastructure, and new business coming in the last 3 years. Don't know why, but Its now a great place to live and I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. Its still very rural but you can now get just about anything without having to go to BKK or elsewhere. There is great entertainment if you want that, and the food according to our visitors over the years, is the best in the country. Its also very cheap to live here by comparison to BKK.

I know NKSW almost 40 years and basicly is not so much changed in that period,and its stil my most favourite in Thailand, in fact I call it my Thai Home town and visit it regularly and stay a few weeks.

[moe666]

We should start a I saw you thread here I saw you at the Lost Hut a few nights ago really close to Loy Khok. But at least we will have one less Farang in the ghetto next year

[simon43]

I live in Phuket and rarely see a 'farang'. You think that's unbelievable? I live 1 km from the international airport, on a cul-de-sac road in the rubber trees. I don't know of any other foreigners who live in this area - almost never seen any. But if I travel 5 minutes to the nearest beach or to the airport, then of course I'm falling over foreign tourists.

My favorite beach is nearby at Mai Khao. 6 years ago, I took a photo in mid-afternoon whilst standing on the beach. In both directions, as far as the eye could see, there was not a single person, thai or foreigner to be seen. It was close to paradise.

I repeated this photo a few weeks ago from the same location. Amazingly, in both directions, as far as the eye could see, there was not a single person, thai or foreigner to be seen! It's still close to paradise in Phuket, if you know where to go

Simon

[David48]

I live 1 km from the international airport,

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[laolover88]

Well. It is a question of :"What do you want?" We lived in CM for many years having moved from BKK. We have now moved away, partly due to traffic, useless and expensive schools, , too many tourists of all sorts and too many farangs, Promenada and Central Festival etc which are things we don't need. If you want avoid the delights of CM but want the pleasures of 'rural' Thailand I would look at smaller provincial cities. Many have a Central/BigC or Robinson if that is something that you want. I like the ones that have airports, then you have: 1 hour on Nok or Air Asia to BKK if you want to make a trip

[simon43]

@David48, where I usually stay (hotel #2) is about 1km from the Phuket Airport. But hotel #3 is only 200 metres off the side of the runway. It actually is not too noisy and is a planespotter's dream. I have a 12 metre high tower on this land and always intended to mount a webcam on the top of it to provide a great view of the runway etc. I never got round to doing this as yet...

Simon

[EvilDrSomkid]

I am the only foreigner in our soi in Khannayao, Bangkok.

[ChrisB87]

Sounds like a good move. I am at my happiest when surrounded by countryside, which is why i plan to move out to Isaan next year. That and the-ball n-chain is dragging me there

I stay in Bangkok, however, not Chiang Mai and where i am now isn't too bad. I did stay in Phra Khanong 4 years ago and back then there was barely a condominium and i saw a couple of foreigners per week. Around two years ago though, the condos got finished and it was like living the UK again.

Im out in Bang Kapi now. Some foreigners, but not to many and mostly students, since its a uni area. Its fine.

[Tchooptip]

When I'm there, there's only 3 of us. Me, Henry from Holland and Giere the Norwegian pig. I'm not a Giere fan, he invites you round and never offers a drink. I hate that, it's very rude. I don't go round there much anymore. Norwegian people are lovely, but Giere isn't. Henrys a great neighbour, great guy to know.The locals call the village the falang village, so maybe they would say yes it is a falang ghetto, but I think since there's just 3 of us, must mean theres not many westerners around and not a falang ghetto.

Three is two too many.

I'd say finding a place in Thailand where your the only non Thai would be rare. Would you agree?

A friend of mine is in a little village 20 kms from Phatthalung he is absolutely the only farang in the village

[ozyjon]

I'm the only one here in my village,, i see 2 others that come to shop here but i have never spoken to them,, i got a shock once when i went to visit a friend who lived in Nana Hotel,, i didn't know of this Hotel or this place in Bangkok, i got a taxi to Nana and quickly got a taxi out and have never been back,,

[zyphodb]

When I'm there, there's only 3 of us. Me, Henry from Holland and Giere the Norwegian pig. I'm not a Giere fan, he invites you round and never offers a drink. I hate that, it's very rude. I don't go round there much anymore. Norwegian people are lovely, but Giere isn't. Henrys a great neighbour, great guy to know.The locals call the village the falang village, so maybe they would say yes it is a falang ghetto, but I think since there's just 3 of us, must mean theres not many westerners around and not a falang ghetto.

Three is two too many.

I'd say finding a place in Thailand where your the only non Thai would be rare. Would you agree?

I'm the only falang in the village & I don't think it's that rare, not in Chaiyaphum province Isaan anyway...

However there are other falang within 3 or 4 km so not really that isolated, As I ride around the meny dirt tracks locally on my trials bike I still get that 'have you just landed from Mars? look quite a lot lol

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[Krataiboy]

When I'm there, there's only 3 of us. Me, Henry from Holland and Giere the Norwegian pig. I'm not a Giere fan, he invites you round and never offers a drink. I hate that, it's very rude. I don't go round there much anymore. Norwegian people are lovely, but Giere isn't. Henrys a great neighbour, great guy to know.The locals call the village the falang village, so maybe they would say yes it is a falang ghetto, but I think since there's just 3 of us, must mean theres not many westerners around and not a falang ghetto.

Three is two too many.

I'd say finding a place in Thailand where your the only non Thai would be rare. Would you agree?

Unless you're dead, why bury yourself?

[StreetCowboy]

When I'm there, there's only 3 of us. Me, Henry from Holland and Giere the Norwegian pig. I'm not a Giere fan, he invites you round and never offers a drink. I hate that, it's very rude. I don't go round there much anymore. Norwegian people are lovely, but Giere isn't. Henrys a great neighbour, great guy to know.The locals call the village the falang village, so maybe they would say yes it is a falang ghetto, but I think since there's just 3 of us, must mean theres not many westerners around and not a falang ghetto.

Three is two too many.

I'd say finding a place in Thailand where your the only non Thai would be rare. Would you agree?

Unless you're dead, why bury yourself?

That's a really poor form of suicide. Like crucifixion - you can never hammer in the last nail.

Anyway, I believe in some places the mud is believed to provide health benefits.

But to get back on topic - for those that do live in farang ghettoes, have you noticed any cultural equivalent of the Detroit Motown sound?

SC

[sgtsabai]

I live with my Thai wife in a subdivision on the outer ring road, Udonthani. When we bought years back it used to be about 50% farang/Thai couples, now mostly Thai with the addition of 3 more parts to the subdivision. I lived here several years before meeting any of the farangs and still only know a few that I really associate with, several English and another American Vet (married to the Thai woman he met here over 40 years ago-still happy). Too many dogs (way too many), too many bad looking strangers casing the houses (I'm an ex law enforcement officer), too many weirdos - ran a window peeper off the other night, too much traffic, too many speeding motorbikes and cars/trucks, too many cement etc. trucks, too much crime. Wasn't that way at first. I doubt seriously I would live out in the ville, a few years ago yes, things have changed in my life.

I lived in the mountains of northern New Mexico for years, and it was remote country, loved it then. Things change, life changes.

[Mangosteen1]

Yes, I do live in a farang ghetto, and thank god!

At least there is bread, milk and cheese available.

I just need to get them to stock Marmite and I will be in heaven on earth.

you can get canned spaghetti?

You can make it yourself buy noodles, meatballs and tomato sauce mix it up. There you go

[Naam]

Yes, I do live in a farang ghetto, and thank god!

At least there is bread, milk and cheese available.

I just need to get them to stock Marmite and I will be in heaven on earth.

you can get canned spaghetti?

You can make it yourself buy noodles, meatballs and tomato sauce mix it up. There you go

where do you buy the cans?

[Naam]

I've never sought out faring ghettos, and don't live in one now, so no. All I care about is whether the house is nice, whether the area seem reasonably secure, and not too long distance to shopping facilities.

i was told faring ghettos are very rare.