I'm seeing less Borises, Dmitris, and Annas about all the time.

Oh good. Yet another pithy and thought provoking post from one of our newest arrivals.

 

Welcome to the forum anyway.

Just wait till December when the baht buses from jomtien to Pattaya are jam packed with them. I wish they would shower more, hotel water is free

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If you are going to start a  topic please be good enough to use the correct term for our friends from the Eastern Bloc. Thank  you.

 

I have now edited the topic title

 

Plenty of Russian Families at my Condo Block in Jomtien. Same at the night markets down at the beach.

They've tapered off in the last few years due to political, economic, and exchange rate issues.

I wouldn't expect a huge wave of them this year compared to their peak some year's back but of course a number are still around.

From my POV, when any one national group dominates here (excepting Thais of course) that's not desirable. I'm enjoying the more diverse BALANCE of nationalities we're seeing now. 

51 minutes ago, mcfish said:

Just wait till December when the baht buses from jomtien to Pattaya are jam packed with them. I wish they would shower more, hotel water is free

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Even last year it was way down from previous year's peak, so I would say don't really expect it to be so much this year either. 

1 hour ago, mcfish said:

Just wait till December when the baht buses from jomtien to Pattaya are jam packed with them. I wish they would shower more, hotel water is free

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No chance,    they love to smell like there at home. 

 

Oh come on now. The young ones are hotski!

2 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Oh come on now. The young ones are hotski!

 

Yes some of the ladies are.

Sihanoukville (Little Russia)

"I'm seeing less Borises, Dmitris, and Annas about all the time."

 

then you haven't seen the Sergei's, Pjotrs and Andrej's........

Hopefully they've gone back to Russia where they should stay. I've never met a Russian with a winning personality.

14 hours ago, piersbeckett said:

Sihanoukville (Little Russia)

 

Unfortunately. The Khmers hate them.

Count your blessings!

As for the Russians, I have been told that they have started to return to Patts and to the other nasty place known as Phuket, where a gang of them had a violent fight with some taxi drivers last week. 

 

IMHO there are fewer farangs about generally. Friends of 20 years are leaving. There are now more condos asking for tenants in Asoke and Sukh for 14,000b instead of 20,000.

 

Eddy

An off topic post about Phuket has been removed as this is the Pattaya Forum and we are discussing Pattaya

lol......who cares?....... the important thing is they gone.

Still see a fair number of them around Pattaya but I agree it's nice when one tourist group does not dominate.

57 minutes ago, freebyrd said:

Hopefully they've gone back to Russia where they should stay. I've never met a Russian with a winning personality.

Many Russian marine engineers in Canada that I've met were wonderful fellows. Maybe you are just meeting the wrong ones?

10 minutes ago, whaleboneman said:

Many Russian marine engineers in Canada that I've met were wonderful fellows. Maybe you are just meeting the wrong ones?

 

Fair point of course, there are good and bad in almost every race. I worked in a hotel where Russian aircrew stayed, the GM couldn't wait for the contracdt to expire.

 

I had an altercation at work with a Russian yesterday, another one with a bloody awful bedside manner. I don't suppose I will ever meet the wonderful one's you did.

Russians are not a race.

They all went to Turkey and Syria........

Where do the ones still here get all the US$ from I wonder.?.


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1 hour ago, freebyrd said:

Hopefully they've gone back to Russia where they should stay. I've never met a Russian with a winning personality.

If that's the case, and given your comment, are you sure you're not one of them?

A lot have probably gone back to Moscow to book some room in one of the fall-out shelters being constructed to house 12 million Muscovites or join 40 million compatriots currently performing civil defence exercises in preparation for an expected nuclear attack by the US and NATO.

 

We'd all better start praying that the American electorate gives warmonger Hillary the elbow.

 

 

 

 

16 hours ago, piersbeckett said:

Sihanoukville (Little Russia)

Thanks for the Warning

On 11/2/2016 at 8:48 AM, Jingthing said:

They've tapered off in the last few years due to political, economic, and exchange rate issues.

I wouldn't expect a huge wave of them this year compared to their peak some year's back but of course a number are still around.

From my POV, when any one national group dominates here (excepting Thais of course) that's not desirable. I'm enjoying the more diverse BALANCE of nationalities we're seeing now. 

My issue is that they insist on all the shops and restaurants having all their signage in Russian and cyrillic  - but surely they can see that a restaurant is a restaurant  and a tailor a tailor.  Thai is the language of Thailand and English the Language of the world but if even if for political reasons they do not wish to speak English must they insist that the Thai  food in the restaurants they visit  be so tasteless and anodyne? In many restaurants around Wongamat and Cozy beach the spicy Thai soups now taste like irish stew or Borscht.  The restaurant owners do not even both to put out the the little set of four condiments and spices! Last year when I asked for  phrik pom (chile powder), phrik dong (chile slices in vinegar) -They had none and gave me some kind of international, generic american tabasco or some such crap. Now I won't go in any Thai restaurants with Russian signage or menu. Some of the places round cozy beach have no English translations at all and have employed girls from Cambodia who speak Russian but not Thai or English.  I find the Russians with their unsmiling grim visages, small wallets and tasteless clothes a depressing bunch. Really depressing.

They left Murmansk traveled through the north sea down the English channel and into the med heading twds Syria.  so don't worry Pattaya is safe.

11 minutes ago, The manic said:

My issue is that they insist on all the shops and restaurants having all their signage in Russian and cyrillic  - but surely they can see that a restaurant is a restaurant  and a tailor a tailor.  Thai is the language of Thailand and English the Language of the world but if even if for political reasons they do not wish to speak English must they insist that the Thai  food in the restaurants they visit  be so tasteless and anodyne? In many restaurants around Wongamat and Cozy beach the spicy Thai soups now taste like irish stew or Borscht.  The restaurant owners do not even both to put out the the little set of four condiments and spices! Last year when I asked for  phrik pom (chile powder), phrik dong (chile slices in vinegar) -They had none and gave me some kind of international, generic american tabasco or some such crap. Now I won't go in any Thai restaurants with Russian signage or menu. Some of the places round cozy beach have no English translations at all and have employed girls from Cambodia who speak Russian but not Thai or English.  I find the Russians with their unsmiling grim visages, small wallets and tasteless clothes a depressing bunch. Really depressing.

 

I find the Russians with their unsmiling grim visages, small wallets and tasteless clothes a depressing bunch. Really depressing.

 

Amen to that.