Schmackos Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 THAILAND The drink The woman The exotic pleasures The sense of a new beginning The feeling of being on a permanent holiday Does it all come crashing down one day? Not today, not tomorrow ... but one day in the future Once the honeymoon is over ... what is your feeling about this place? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post daoyai Posted October 31, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted October 31, 2013 All things and states of being are impermanent. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transam Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 OP, whats your feeling about the place ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlieH Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 (edited) Life us what you choose to make it, wherever that may be, live within your means and capabilities and you are free to make your own choices. Edited October 31, 2013 by CharlieH 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Travel2003 Posted October 31, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted October 31, 2013 No it does not come crashing down. One realizes it bit by bit, as all other situations in life. it is called experience. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A1Str8 Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 How quickly? Depends on the individual. Is it going to happen at all? That's also up to the person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
true blue Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 easy take a second honeymoon,if you plan accordingly, life in los can always be a pleasure trip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jbrain Posted October 31, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted October 31, 2013 Thailand is paradise................for those that don't live here permanently. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurnell Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 What's with the melodrama? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kikoman Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 (edited) Have to disagree with you, I does not come crashing down! After 6 months of Drink, Women and exotic pleasures it got old very fast, my Pattaya party was over and I moved out of Pattaya, 12 1/2 years later I am still loving life in Thailand, my party will never be over. Cheers: Edited October 31, 2013 by kikoman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donniereadit Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 (edited) Catching VD will do that to you. Once the honeymoon is over, it's time for a new bride! Move to a new location, nothing wrong with that. Edited October 31, 2013 by donniereadit 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sustento Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 What's with the melodrama? The OP has just found out his girlfriend used to be called Somchai 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travel2003 Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 What's with the melodrama? The OP has just found out his girlfriend used to be called Somchai Or, she is actually married to Somchai. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impulse Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 Look up "boiling a frog" and you'll get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neeranam Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 When good things become commonplace, they don't feel quite so good. I think I was on the Thai 'pink cloud' for 10 years. Now, after 20 years, I can get irritated easier and less tolerant but that is probably because I'll be 50 in a couple of years. A trip every year or 2 to the West puts things into perspective and am I much happier being here than if I were there, hence I stay here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i claudius Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 Once i was a regular tourist here did ,saw it and got the t shirt ,i married a Thai and we lived in the west ,when my wife ,son and myself came back here to live ,i knew what it was like ,i just expected a normal life ,just like at home in the UK ,but in a much bigger house ,in the warm and with time to do what i wanted ,if you come here to live with the tourist mentality ,it will soon turn sour, of course that is unless you want to spend the rest of your life drunk,rogering different women all the time and nothing else , then you have achieved your aims as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neeranam Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 I'd say it happens when you stop saying ridiculous things like 'same same', 'I'm not a farang, I'm a pineapple', and 'sabai dee mai' to everyone you meet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h90 Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 I'd say it happens when you stop saying ridiculous things like 'same same', 'I'm not a farang, I'm a pineapple', and 'sabai dee mai' to everyone you meet. There is also this: to wai everyone including the Soi dog, because you it shows you understand the culture and integrate well. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anto Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 If you become more Thai like you can adopt to the Country and its situations .You dont even have to know the Thai language ( i dont ) but that would help also . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p_brownstone Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 I've only been here 42 years - maybe you could ask me again tomorrow? Patrick 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jip99 Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 THAILAND The drink The woman The exotic pleasures The sense of a new beginning The feeling of being on a permanent holiday Does it all come crashing down one day? Not today, not tomorrow ... but one day in the future Once the honeymoon is over ... what is your feeling about this place? If your priorities are in the above order I would suggest that it would not take too long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jip99 Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 If you become more Thai like you can adopt to the Country and its situations . Isn't that just submitting to defeat and waving a white flag. Do you think that is what the Thais want Farangs to do ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sustento Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 If you become more Thai like you can adopt to the Country and its situations . Isn't that just submitting to defeat and waving a white flag. Do you think that is what the Thais want Farangs to do ? I suspect that the Thais don't give a shit. I do wonder about the mentality of people who choose to move to a new country and who then want to change it to resemble the place they've just left. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post NeverSure Posted October 31, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted October 31, 2013 If you become more Thai like you can adopt to the Country and its situations . Isn't that just submitting to defeat and waving a white flag. Do you think that is what the Thais want Farangs to do ? I suspect that the Thais don't give a shit. I do wonder about the mentality of people who choose to move to a new country and who then want to change it to resemble the place they've just left. I didn't read the part about the white flag that way. I don't want to change the Thais and know I couldn't. I just won't let them change me. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David48 Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 If you become more Thai like you can adopt to the Country and its situations . Isn't that just submitting to defeat and waving a white flag. Do you think that is what the Thais want Farangs to do ? I suspect that the Thais don't give a shit. I do wonder about the mentality of people who choose to move to a new country and who then want to change it to resemble the place they've just left. I have to agree with sustento's comment ... Thais, for the most, apart from those in your sphere of influence, most likely DGAS. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmackos Posted November 12, 2013 Author Share Posted November 12, 2013 I don't want to change the Thais and know I couldn't. I just won't let them change me. Good comment. I think there is a lot of truth in what you write. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloy cogger Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 (edited) thailand has something for everyone thats its appeal if you seek as in the first post you will find it, if you seek other stuff you will find it too. if you leave you will find how narrow other societies are. after you leave many times you dont leave any more except for visa runs. but then and again vietnam is too broad for me, i am stuck in the comfort zone now and lost the will to explore maybes. Edited November 12, 2013 by cloy cogger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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