Thailand isnt important to me but it is for my wife, so I accept it.

It's important to me because a couple of my best friends have moved there to be with their families, and i hope they are safe.

Also, to have a cheap room when i visit!!! With choccies and cheese.

Na Patsy, you always have a soft pillow at the Farm for you.

I hope you like Fish.

To the extent it matters to my wife it matters to me. Otherwise it's just another place I enjoy visiting. Can't say I feel any special bond with the place and would never live there.

My gf says I like Thailand mak mak. Yes, dear.

Thailand is very important to me, it saves me from living in the UK, surely that's important enough.

Ok: So I can assume the priorities are:

Gecko: Screw old lady-> Thailand.

Chris : Clothes -> Thailand.

Transam: Music -> Thailand.

JingThing: Nothing -> Mexicans -> Avocados -> Thailand.

Costas: JingThing -> POTY -> Avocados -> Thailand.

What about me?

Ok: So I can assume the priorities are:

Gecko: Screw old lady-> Thailand.

Chris : Clothes -> Thailand.

Transam: Music -> Thailand.

JingThing: Nothing -> Mexicans -> Avocados -> Thailand.

Costas: JingThing -> POTY -> Avocados -> Thailand.

What about me?

Not all that bothered.

Sunny most of the year, so I can cycle, run, hike all the time.

And decent internet

So anywhere with that will do.

Not too dry, don't like desert and scrubland.

Edited January 14, 201511 yr by AnotherOneAmerican

its the place that makes me very happy,,, so its very importent to me,

when i sit and watch my children playing and being happy,

playing how i used to play years ago in the uk without a care

the kids run about our farm with the dogs laughing, its great to see,,,

so yes thailand is very importent to me and long may it not change,

yes i know thailand will change,,

but please keep the change out of the villages, let them stay as they are,,

Home is where the heart is-and my heart is in Thailand. It is the only place I am truly happy.

Where does Thailand stand on your priority list?

It is purely co-incidental that I have close ties with Thailand. I wandered through as a back-packer in the early '80s, then forgot about the place for nearly 20 odd years.

As fate would have it, I met the right lady who just happened to be Thai; and started a whole renewed journey with Thailand. If I had met the right person from Grenada, then Thailand would probably be one of the last things on my mind.

Even now, with a house, wife, son etc here, Thailand is just another interest; albeit obviously a close one.

Thailand has been my home for 35 years so as far as places go, there is no other country as important to me as this one.