Surat Thani crowned Thailand's happiest province, Phuket the most miserable

By Coconuts Bangkok

 

Photo: Thomas Sauzedde/ Flickr

 

Surat Thani, the province that hosts the wildest parties in Thailand, unsurprisingly defeated Bangkok as Thailand's happiest province, according to a survey released by Super Poll.

 

In the latest Gross Domestic Happiness survey, which indexed more than 30,000 participants in 77 provinces, Thailand's average happiness score is 6.09 out of 10 points while Surat Thani scored 7.29 for the win.

 

Meanwhile, Bangkokians are a little sadder than the average Thai. The capital was pushed to 30th place with a happiness score of just 5.87.

 

Full story: http://bangkok.coconuts.co/2016/09/05/surat-thani-crowned-thailands-happiest-province-phuket-most-miserable

 

-- © Copyright Coconuts Bangkok 2016-09-05

LOL. I would sort of agree. 

As a fully certified curmudgeon I can think that nothing could be less calculated to make me happy than being on a vomit puddled beach surrounded by a crowd of sweaty western tourists, wearing silly pork pie hats, neon face paint, and gulping fake "vodka" from plastic buckets whilst some creature who feels the need to wear sunglasses at night plays "music" which sounds like the destruction testing department of a pneumatic drill development facility.

 

 Bah humbug I say....

7 minutes ago, JAG said:

As a fully certified curmudgeon I can think that nothing could be less calculated to make me happy than being on a vomit puddled beach surrounded by a crowd of sweaty western tourists, wearing silly pork pie hats, neon face paint, and gulping fake "vodka" from plastic buckets whilst some creature who feels the need to wear sunglasses at night plays "music" which sounds like the destruction testing department of a pneumatic drill development facility.

 

 Bah humbug I say....

 

You sound just like my father 50 years ago :))

Edited September 5, 20169 yr by ChrisY1

I have been in Thailand 14 years and I have no desire to visit Phuket, so I agree it's the Most Misearable or least desired place to visit in Thailand.

19 minutes ago, ChrisY1 said:

 

You sound just like my father 50 years ago :))

He sounds like an eminently sensible chap.

34 minutes ago, JAG said:

As a fully certified curmudgeon I can think that nothing could be less calculated to make me happy than being on a vomit puddled beach surrounded by a crowd of sweaty western tourists, wearing silly pork pie hats, neon face paint, and gulping fake "vodka" from plastic buckets whilst some creature who feels the need to wear sunglasses at night plays "music" which sounds like the destruction testing department of a pneumatic drill development facility.

 

 Bah humbug I say....

 

Look at the pic, nobody has black hair........And why are they so happy? From the full moon parties maybe?

 

But i agree that Surat Thani has a great atmosphere and kind people who don't try to cheat you all the time and even have some manners, unlike phuket or bangkok. They even showed all their prices on the markets in Suratthani last time i was there.

The happiest man in Thailand owns large swathes of it. Aka Suthep Toesowbang.

They don't look thai in that photo, who did they survey tourists or local indigenous population.  If it was the locals how about a photo showing them as happy as the tourists

1 hour ago, Thechook said:

They don't look thai in that photo, who did they survey tourists or local indigenous population.  If it was the locals how about a photo showing them as happy as the tourists

 

Of course the locals are happy and smiling, they are in the background selling.

Sad, happy???.....totally subjective at best.

Another BS post. While living on Samui for nearly ten years, I rarely ran into local folks that were happy with their lot in life. Most were transplants as the locals have left Samui years ago. The ones that were there were there to make money, and they did not have much of a life. Little in the way of local pride. Everything was overpriced. Not much to be happy about. If there are going to include the tourists who are visiting the full moon parties (which are under siege from the army as of late, who are administering drug tests are the revelers are leaving the party!) not sure what kind of result they are going to get.

 

But, regardless this is a ridiculous survey, that means nothing to anybody, except the TAT. 

Pray tell us the methodology for this "survey" (not "poll").... reference to "index", whatever that is supposed to mean... seems throwing darts at map of Thailand could give equally legit results.

12 hours ago, JAG said:

He sounds like an eminently sensible chap.

And you seem to be quite impressed by your own cleverness...

13 hours ago, JAG said:

As a fully certified curmudgeon I can think that nothing could be less calculated to make me happy than being on a vomit puddled beach surrounded by a crowd of sweaty western tourists, wearing silly pork pie hats, neon face paint, and gulping fake "vodka" from plastic buckets whilst some creature who feels the need to wear sunglasses at night plays "music" which sounds like the destruction testing department of a pneumatic drill development facility.

 

 Bah humbug I say....

News flash - attendance is NOT mandatory.

13 hours ago, JAG said:

As a fully certified curmudgeon I can think that nothing could be less calculated to make me happy than being on a vomit puddled beach surrounded by a crowd of sweaty western tourists, wearing silly pork pie hats, neon face paint, and gulping fake "vodka" from plastic buckets whilst some creature who feels the need to wear sunglasses at night plays "music" which sounds like the destruction testing department of a pneumatic drill development facility.

 

 Bah humbug I say....

Fortunately, these parties are held in a very small part of Surat Thani which you can't be exposed to accidentally.  

we all clicked on and read this garbage.

1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

Another BS post. While living on Samui for nearly ten years, I rarely ran into local folks that were happy with their lot in life. Most were transplants as the locals have left Samui years ago. The ones that were there were there to make money, and they did not have much of a life. Little in the way of local pride. Everything was overpriced. Not much to be happy about. If there are going to include the tourists who are visiting the full moon parties (which are under siege from the army as of late, who are administering drug tests are the revelers are leaving the party!) not sure what kind of result they are going to get.

 

But, regardless this is a ridiculous survey, that means nothing to anybody, except the TAT. 

But Koh Samui is in Surat Thani, the happiest province. Perhaps they forgot to poll off the mainland.

1 hour ago, does said:

And you seem to be quite impressed by your own cleverness...

 

Perhaps so - why do you feel the need to tell me?

I don't know, I have many fond memories of the Phuket Departure Lounge...

5 hours ago, PatOngo said:

Of course the locals are happy and smiling, they are in the background selling.

 

Don't they sell a lot in Phuket as well, at 5x the price? 

Crap

Surat Thani, the province that hosts the wildest parties in Thailand - what a blast!

As I often travel down the AH2 road through Surat I can confidently say it is the worst surface I encounter on my monthly 945 km drive down to Trang province