Why?...Because my photo's collection....

I keep actual pictures of all my ex wives and ex girl friends in America....

Every time I feel unhappy and sick about something here....I look at their pictures...and to my 23 years old younger Thai wife..and her single friends.

Instant cure

-The weather is better here

-There is a wider variety of delicious food, local and international

-The cost of living is so low I only work 2-3 days a week

-The police show mercy and can be negotiated with

-I am treated with respect

-I receive excellent health care

-The people are easy going

-The city is constantly changing with new things to do and places to explore

-The beach is 2 hours away by drive

-My huge family lives here

-I speak the language and know the culture

-And the list goes on...

Not even a seven nation army could drag me back.

Not even a seven nation army could drag me back.

Well, that's Stan's tombstone inscription sorted then.

This view has something to do with me being happy in Thailand, among many other things.

Nice photo, but it's not always green.... dry and hot most times of the year... I hope there's more that keeps you here.

-The weather is better here

-There is a wider variety of delicious food, local and international

-The cost of living is so low I only work 2-3 days a week

-The police show mercy and can be negotiated with

-I am treated with respect

-I receive excellent health care

-The people are easy going

-The city is constantly changing with new things to do and places to explore

-The beach is 2 hours away by drive

-My huge family lives here

-I speak the language and know the culture

-And the list goes on...

Not even a seven nation army could drag me back.

Sounds like you are describing Perth, Australia, except, the cost of living is a bit higher and the beaches are only a few minutes away and are far superior to ANY in Thailand.

Where else can you hang out the back of a mint condition 18 year old when your 50+ for the price of a new dress and pair of shoes?

Thai Guys are cute....

Why?...Because my photo's collection....

I keep actual pictures of all my ex wives and ex girl friends in America....

Every time I feel unhappy and sick about something here....I look at their pictures...and to my 23 years old younger Thai wife..and her single friends.

Instant cure

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Correction..Not 23 years old........23 years younger. I am 62. The one, first in line beauty is 22, her farang boy friend is 47. He also is very happy in Thailand, already working with his future, and very rich in laws. Thank you Bob for let me post this picture, I know you are very proud of her and her family in Songhla....Do you know if the baby will be boy or girl?

Where else can you hang out the back of a mint condition 18 year old when your 50+ for the price of a new dress and pair of shoes?

Gross.

This view has something to do with me being happy in Thailand, among many other things.

Nice photo, but it's not always green.... dry and hot most times of the year... I hope there's more that keeps you here.

Yes, there are many other things which keep me here and I think my 38 years of living here can attest to that. For some of us Thailand has afforded us a wonderful life.

Loose women and cheap living

It is not boring like the US is.

This view has something to do with me being happy in Thailand, among many other things.

Nice photo, but it's not always green.... dry and hot most times of the year... I hope there's more that keeps you here.

Yes, there are many other things which keep me here and I think my 38 years of living here can attest to that. For some of us Thailand has afforded us a wonderful life.

Wow, you must have been a rich young fella when you moved here... for me I accept my mortality, so am moving wife, and daughter, back to Australia, where they will have a far better life, even after I kick the bucket. Something others should be considering, instead of ONLY their lives.

This view has something to do with me being happy in Thailand, among many other things.

Nice photo, but it's not always green.... dry and hot most times of the year... I hope there's more that keeps you here.

Yes, there are many other things which keep me here and I think my 38 years of living here can attest to that. For some of us Thailand has afforded us a wonderful life.

Wow, you must have been a rich young fella when you moved here... for me I accept my mortality, so am moving wife, and daughter, back to Australia, where they will have a far better life, even after I kick the bucket. Something others should be considering, instead of ONLY their lives.

I started off teaching English when I was 23, so I wasn’t rich. I did remain single with no debts and lived within my means, which helped a lot. If I had married in my twenties instead of in my forties, had children and gone into debt, my life would have been very different.

Instead I was free to do all kinds of interesting things which I never would have had the opportunity to do in my own country. Now at 60, I am more comfortable than I could have imagined when I first moved here.

I think being able to smile at a girl without risking arrest is a good enough reason.

At less they don't have a go at you like all the di?k heads did to me .

Yes I am happy here for sure and so what if I have a young lady friend to take care of me , makes most of the man very jealous of me when I walk around and yes you out there will say he will do his money , well know I will not because I have to much money and will never ever lose it to a thai lady and if I do it is my money to lose .

I am not that stupid do all my money and what I lose here to a thai is my money and no one else.

Yes it cost f??k all to live here and no I don't go for bar lady's at all I don't need to I am a very good sweet talk .

I'm happy here because georgemandm is not my neighbour...

Loose women and cheap living

Shouldn't that be "tight" women?

I like living here because --after almost 40 years of always owning a car in the USA -- I maybe never have to own a car again ... and I also enjoy not having a wife because, even in Thailand, you can only marry one.

You can really have more than one if you know how to go about it. Many girls will be more than happy to accept a "temple" marriage a Baht or so of gold and a monthly stipend and be glad to by your little wife.

This view has something to do with me being happy in Thailand, among many other things.

Nice photo, but it's not always green.... dry and hot most times of the year... I hope there's more that keeps you here.

Yes, there are many other things which keep me here and I think my 38 years of living here can attest to that. For some of us Thailand has afforded us a wonderful life.

Wow, you must have been a rich young fella when you moved here... for me I accept my mortality, so am moving wife, and daughter, back to Australia, where they will have a far better life, even after I kick the bucket. Something others should be considering, instead of ONLY their lives.

I love the way so many people assume situations without knowing fact. Just because someone spends most of his life in Thailand does not necessarily mean they were a rich young fellow when they came. I know several farangs who have made a comfortable living here and none of them were rich when they came--two were just young GIs who stayed-on after the Vietnam war, two more were software engineers and used their skills to survive, three more are only English teachers, but they are happy here and live fairly well within their means.

There are so many accessible girls here....

You can look at a girl and give her a compliment without being charged with sexual harassment, the possibility of loss of employment and or a lawsuit like in the states. The more laws the more stress and everyone knows high stress levels can kill. When "Sabai Sabai" is lost then Thailand will no longer be my paradise.

I came to Thailand in 1996 I have done everything the bars the go gos I have enjoyed my life here now at 81 years of age I take every day as it comes and I enjoy using the computer which is a great source of entertainment but I think Thailand is the right place to retire to .

Happy because I choose to be.

Same, back in my home country.

Because we are allowed to be men without being made to feel guilty about it.

I love the weather (cant be too hot), food and my wife. Oh yeah and its always exiting to see we get home alive from a trip to Makro or just down to 7/11

Its a cheap hot corrupt shithole what is there to not kike?

It sounds like it is past time for you to pull up your stakes and go home. And here I was enjoying all the positive comments (up until yours).

I like living here because --after almost 40 years of always owning a car in the USA -- I maybe never have to own a car again ... and I also enjoy not having a wife because, even in Thailand, you can only marry one.

you can have mia nois and giks

true...true. only if you have the funds !!

Here, my vices cost me $7 per day.

Back home, $40.

Here, I can live ok off the rent of my house back home.

There, I'd have to work.

Back "home", Wifey gets homesick, and no way to make gaeng som fish stomach curry.

Here, she gets NZ-longings but there's fish stomach curry just around the corner to compensate.

No brainer.

Have to agree wholeheartedly. No way known could I live on the Age Pension in Oz. It wouldn't even cover the weekly rent, let alone anything else. Moved her last September, and it's the best decision I've ever made. No ex to annoy me, no petty bi***ing family members to make life miserable. I have a fantastic Thai lady as my fiancé. I've been accepted by her family. Basically I'm as happy as a pig in mud, for the first time in my life. LOVE THIS COUNTRY despite all it's flaws. It still leaves Oz for dead.

I like living here because --after almost 40 years of always owning a car in the USA -- I maybe never have to own a car again ... and I also enjoy not having a wife because, even in Thailand, you can only marry one.

you can have mia nois and giks

sounds like an asian virus...lol.