Popular Post maybefitz Posted April 13, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted April 13, 2014 Year 2000 A friend suggested the AA convention in Pattaya - OK, why not? Then someone suggested a trip up to Chiang Mai. Loved it. Flew back to UK and got on a train at Manchester airport to travel back to S.Yorkshire. It was cold, wet, and I looked around at all the miserable faces. I made a comparison with what I'd just left - the climate, the people and affordability. I made an instant decision, 'I'll never spend another winter in Europe!! I was a free agent, retired, divorced, family grown up. By Sept I was back out for a 6 month stay, a 'snowbird'. After I'd gone back to UK for the summer, I asked myself why am I even coming back? So out again in Sept, intent on making a longer stay. I was introduced to my now wife, a nurse. We clicked together and married quickly. I returned to UK with my new wife, just to show her round and meet the family - I then sold up everything, house, caravan, cars and moved lock,stock and barrel to Chiang Mai. I have never regretted it, I have an unbelievable quality of life, "Beyond my wildest dreams". Good 'ere, innitt? 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post dotpoom Posted April 13, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted April 13, 2014 A lot fewer rules, regulations and controls...in other words.......Freedom. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazydrummerpauly Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 An arrest warrant at home....;-) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utley Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 (edited) I believe it was a Boeing 707 out of Saigon. Edited April 13, 2014 by Utley 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefaultName Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Pattaya. Honestly, after being there once, I never considered NOT coming a second time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IvanLaw Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 I came back same as the reason I came first. Look at my avatar. Sex Change ? or Thai girl? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procrastinator Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 The smiling happy people. Unfortunately there seem to be fewer of these about, nowadays... but still a lot more than in the rat race from which i came Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tingtongteesood Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 7 years - this is still my first trip here..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggt Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 (edited) First time was many years ago...girls were less money hungry...beer was Singha...food and lodging were very inexpensive... Came back years later...every conversation with a Thai female leads to money...corruption everywhere...traffic chaos...heat and political unrest... Could not leave quick enough...was spoiled on first trip...scammed thereafter... Edited April 13, 2014 by ggt 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northengr Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 phoned back in reservation after a couple nights in a cold empty bed looking out the slider at a foot of snow. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdanielmcev Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 I came back same as the reason I came first. Look at my avatar. Sex Change ? or Thai girl? All the surgery in the world couldn't get me to look half as good as my gf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donnievino Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Came first in 1967 to visit a friend. Loved it. Took me 46 years to make it back. Introduce to Nun by Thai friend in the US. Nun's good heart, wonderful disposition, and Thai/Lao beauty brought me back. I couldn't be happier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickenslegs Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 I came back same as the reason I came first. Look at my avatar. You lost your glove puppet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sms747 Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 bad luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGhostWithin Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 A psycho ex gf who racked up $2000 ph bill while I was away and took my credit card to every bar she could while I was away, then after I dumped her and told her to move out attacked me and tried to have me arrested (playing the innocent GF card). Too bad her ass ended up being hauled away when the cops saw the inside of my apartment which she smashed up, and saw me getting a ticket back to LOS a few months later. Slightly twisted, but as many here, I returned because of the alternative comparisons back home. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Showbags Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 My little head asked nicely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draggons Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Thai Airways..............................:-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seajae Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 I would imagine most guys would say their d**k but that wasnt why I came here in the first place, just love the place. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
55Jay Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Liked it better than PI. Thought the women were, for the most part, better proportioned. Oh, and the temples. Yeah, right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notmyself Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 I forgot to pick up my dry cleaning. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poweratradio Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Marry the girl I met on dateinasia.com a year before. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarpolo Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Liked it better than PI. Thought the women were, for the most part, better proportioned. Oh, and the temples. Yeah, right. PI? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarpolo Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Marry the girl I met on dateinasia.com a year before. would you be willing to share more of how that was, from beginning to present, without personal details? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agrow Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 friend came here 7 yrs befor ,said u have to come this place,unreal.never believed him. finely came on his 50 th . I went back to oz.wife said u will never go there again.finished her,came back for songkran, met my new wife.she now lives with me in oz ,but r retiring to surin soon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarpolo Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 friend came here 7 yrs befor ,said u have to come this place,unreal.never believed him. finely came on his 50 th . I went back to oz.wife said u will never go there again.finished her,came back for songkran, met my new wife.she now lives with me in oz ,but r retiring to surin soon. no western marriage has a chance when the man goes to thailand, unless the wife is bisexual and there is a strong underlying friendhip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggt Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Liked it better than PI. Thought the women were, for the most part, better proportioned. Oh, and the temples. Yeah, right. PI? PI...is used to denote the Philippine Islands...short hop from BKK (Bangkok) to the PI...more of the same...some people think the girls are more attractive in the PI...plus they generally speak much better English... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarpolo Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Liked it better than PI. Thought the women were, for the most part, better proportioned. Oh, and the temples. Yeah, right. PI? PI...is used to denote the Philippine Islands...short hop from BKK (Bangkok) to the PI...more of the same...some people think the girls are more attractive in the PI...plus they generally speak much better English... I have heard it is another place w nightlife and bar girls, but do they use US dollars and is the exchange rate as good? and, what about their immigration laws for US citizens, is it easier than the hoops jumping of thailand? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarpolo Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Liked it better than PI. Thought the women were, for the most part, better proportioned. Oh, and the temples. Yeah, right. PI? PI...is used to denote the Philippine Islands...short hop from BKK (Bangkok) to the PI...more of the same...some people think the girls are more attractive in the PI...plus they generally speak much better English... I have heard it is another place w nightlife and bar girls, but do they use US dollars and is the exchange rate as good? and, what about their immigration laws for US citizens, is it easier than the hoops jumping of thailand? btw the only reason I know that is a friend from LA met a girl there, and as he described her, I began thinking (bar girl), I saw a picture of her, and then he said she had two daughters..........he then said, and she "WAS" a bar girl, but he is in love, completely smitten and knows he is in for trouble, but he is going for it, full on. I said nothing, after all, what was the point Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
55Jay Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 I have heard it is another place w nightlife and bar girls, but do they use US dollars and is the exchange rate as good?and, what about their immigration laws for US citizens, is it easier than the hoops jumping of thailand? btw the only reason I know that is a friend from LA met a girl there, and as he described her, I began thinking (bar girl), I saw a picture of her, and then he said she had two daughters..........he then said, and she "WAS" a bar girl, but he is in love, completely smitten and knows he is in for trouble, but he is going for it, full on. I said nothing, after all, what was the point The other forum website (wooden door) has a PI forum, it's pretty good, check it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggt Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Liked it better than PI. Thought the women were, for the most part, better proportioned. Oh, and the temples. Yeah, right. PI? PI...is used to denote the Philippine Islands...short hop from BKK (Bangkok) to the PI...more of the same...some people think the girls are more attractive in the PI...plus they generally speak much better English... I have heard it is another place w nightlife and bar girls, but do they use US dollars and is the exchange rate as good? and, what about their immigration laws for US citizens, is it easier than the hoops jumping of thailand? They use the PI peso...can lookup exchange rate...changes frequently...and immigration laws by using Google to do the searching for you...best to visit...and talk to the local expats living there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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