Thinking of moving to Samui

[robertthebruce]

As mentioned thinking of moving to Samui....

 

any my info positive or,negative is appreciated.

 

 

thanks

 

[KhunBENQ]

I move this to the Samui forum and leave a link here in the General forum.

 

[kannot]

wasnt too bad 10 years ago but went back 1  month ago and didnt like it, overdeveloped.

[Searat7]

Look at the flooding there recently.....also I think there is a trash problem on the island

[oMega69]

Easy!........... DONT . . .  , what a dump.

[goonnerone]

My advice is DONT, the place has become a shit hole rubbish everywhere always flooding, noisy  lived there 12 years glad to rid of it.

 

Edited December 10, 2016 by goonnerone

[khunPer]

Just come down and look for yourself, for example a week or two and move around in different areas, that's much better than asking...

[ronaldo0]

2 hours ago, kannot said:

wasnt too bad 10 years ago but went back 1  month ago and didnt like it, overdeveloped.

Yip !! Have been here 9 years and now want to leave. Overdeveloped everywhere with ugly buildings, not enough water , electric etc for them, garbage problems , traffic now a nightmare in certain areas during most of the day , people trying to rip you off for just about everything even if you can speak Thai to discuss prices , restaurant prices more than Michelin star restaurants in Europe for average food , people who think they own the place and every street and those who actually do and not forgetting criminals here hiding from the police !!

Im heading to the middle of nowhere as soon as i sell my properties in a flooded property market !!

[elgordo38]

2 hours ago, Searat7 said:

Look at the flooding there recently.....also I think there is a trash problem on the island

Post 3 and 4 pretty well cover it. I would get street fishing is popular there. Is the trash problem due to the incinerator breaking down??

 

8 minutes ago, ronaldo0 said:

i sell my properties in a flooded property market !!

Do you mean literally flooded or a over supply? Both I would presume are putting pressure on selling

[ronaldo0]

14 minutes ago, elgordo38 said:

Post 3 and 4 pretty well cover it. I would get street fishing is popular there. Is the trash problem due to the incinerator breaking down??

 

Do you mean literally flooded or a over supply? Both I would presume are putting pressure on selling

Over supply. There has been a few large companies came in and started building 10-20 houses at a time and selling them out cheap before one even completed.It is far cheaper and easier to get materials now than 10 years ago , hence 3 bedrooms villas for 6m bht instead of 10-12m bht. all have service charges and some are insanely high just in first year alone.But buyers dont really think about them as much to start until they go up every year !

People are knocking 10-20 million off the prices of some places and others are selling 3-4m under what it cost them to buy a 10m bht villa just to get out of here.

[elgordo38]

1 minute ago, ronaldo0 said:

Over supply. There has been a few large companies came in and started building 10-20 houses at a time and selling them out cheap before one even completed.It is far cheaper and easier to get materials now than 10 years ago , hence 3 bedrooms villas for 6m bht instead of 10-12m bht. all have service charges and some are insanely high just in first year alone.But buyers dont really think about them as much to start until they go up every year !

People are knocking 10-20 million off the prices of some places and others are selling 3-4m under what it cost them to buy a 10m bht villa just to get out of here.

Sounds like the breaking point has been reached. 

[ronaldo0]

6 minutes ago, elgordo38 said:

Sounds like the breaking point has been reached. 

Me or the property market ??

Building still going on like crazy, condos everywhere. Think they have a time limit to complete the builds once the permit has been given !

[elgordo38]

1 minute ago, ronaldo0 said:

Me or the property market ??

Building still going on like crazy, condos everywhere. Think they have a time limit to complete the builds once the permit has been given !

Both I would say. We seem to be living in a world of useful idiots. Marching on to oblivion. 

[robertthebruce]

 

 

I think i''Ve got the message.....

 

shall avoid for sure...

 

thanks again

 

 

[4evermaat]

2 hours ago, khunPer said:

Just come down and look for yourself, for example a week or two and move around in different areas, that's much better than asking...

 

14 minutes ago, robertthebruce said:

 

 

I think i''Ve got the message.....

 

shall avoid for sure...

 

thanks again

 

 

 

Why not go and look around for a week or so?   You can do it on the way to visiting other nearby spots in the southern region.

Edited December 10, 2016 by 4evermaat

[Birdman]

it absolutely depends what you want. There are more farangs living on Samui than ever. More and more young farang families as well as more and more old farangs added to the usual.

There must be a reason for that. Maybe because Samui is the most comfortable tropical island in Thailand. There is everything.  Also that old tropical island feeling on many places.

 

People, who complain, know Koh Samui only from their very small angle of narrow perspective. Best thing to come here and look for yourself.

[robertthebruce]

1 hour ago, Birdman said:

it absolutely depends what you want. There are more farangs living on Samui than ever. More and more young farang families as well as more and more old farangs added to the usual.

There must be a reason for that. Maybe because Samui is the most comfortable tropical island in Thailand. There is everything.  Also that old tropical island feeling on many places.

 

People, who complain, know Koh Samui only from their very small angle of narrow perspective. Best thing to come here and look for yourself.

 

1 hour ago, Birdman said:

it absolutely depends what you want. There are more farangs living on Samui than ever. More and more young farang families as well as more and more old farangs added to the usual.

There must be a reason for that. Maybe because Samui is the most comfortable tropical island in Thailand. There is everything.  Also that old tropical island feeling on many places.

 

People, who complain, know Koh Samui only from their very small angle of narrow perspective. Best thing to come here and look for yourself.

 

1 hour ago, Birdman said:

it absolutely depends what you want. There are more farangs living on Samui than ever. More and more young farang families as well as more and more old farangs added to the usual.

There must be a reason for that. Maybe because Samui is the most comfortable tropical island in Thailand. There is everything.  Also that old tropical island feeling on many places.

 

People, who complain, know Koh Samui only from their very small angle of narrow perspective. Best thing to come here and look for yourself.

 

 

I hear what you are saying, but what I have read and and heard it won't be for me, that's for sure.....

 

 

[khunPer]

1 hour ago, robertthebruce said:

 

 

I think i''Ve got the message.....

 

shall avoid for sure...

 

thanks again

 

 

And those of us who feel it's the closest one can come to Paradise in this life, we don't advertise, we just say, come on and check it our for yourself – perhaps there is a reason for ranters, perhaps not...

 

When I came here first time some 15-years ago, some folks talked about leaving, because Samui was no longer what in once were – sure, when taking a long-tail boat with some chicks to a desert-beach on a neighboring island to see the full moon rise over the water, make bonfires and play guitars. and get eaten by sand-flies – that happy hippie-days had long gone.

 

Five years later, when I settled at Samui, folks talked about moving out, because Samui was not what it once were – too many concrete roads, even the road over the lake to Raggae Pub now concrete, and not the usual mud, so too many people coming – and so on; however, these folks arrived after the happy hippies.

 

And now folks says, Samui is not what it was 9 years ago – no it has changed, also while I've been here – but it's depending what you expect; in my horizon it has changed to the better, much better when one is living here.

 

What about flooding in Hua Hin, and traffic in Pattaya, or smog in Chiang Mai, and so on. How did I find out..? I checked it myself, Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Hua Hin, Isaan and even Pattaya, before I decided to settle here, in "Paradise", which was last choice, and I only came because my friends "dragged" me down to this insignificant island. Others love the places I finally decided that were not the right ones for me, we can find bad things about all destinations if we so wish, we all have different preferences. Therefore, only you can judge, what is right for you, so just come down here a week or two, and check out yourself if you are missing something or not – at least, then you know for sure...

[sekmet]

Don't buy a French restaurant 

[robertthebruce]

8 minutes ago, sekmet said:

Don't buy a French restaurant 

 

 

Little chance of that , I don't like French Food....

 

 

[renevanb7]

Come over for a couple of weeks and look for your self.  I live here now for 8 years and still like it. Enough quietly beaches for example Maenam and Ban Por. When I go for a walk on the beaches from Chaweng or Lamai (the busy part) in the low season they are also quiet. About always flooded, in 8 years maybe 3 times. The heavy rain started on Friday evening and stopped Tuesday evening. On wednesday almost all streets where free of water. Garbage problem, where their is no problem with Garbage in Thailand.  We live 1 km from the main road in Maenam when  I go out for a ride on my by bicycle I see hardly anybody. High-rise buildings are not allowed on Samui, so the beaches look like beaches. But for some people  Pattaya or Huahin is much better.  

[pattayahenry]

almost every tourist place in thailand has been named a dump, especially pattaya, but tenthousands of expats have chosen it to live exactly there, and they love it. i love 2 weeks holidays at  deserted beaches, ko kut for example, with thousands of palmtrees, no traffic, wonderful waterfalls and nothing else, but i would never want to live there all the time. experience samui for yourself, at least 6 months, before you finally move there, everybody has different interests.

 

[patrick1968]

am thinking too move out of this this shit hole , 

[off road pat]

10 hours ago, Searat7 said:

Look at the flooding there recently.....also I think there is a trash problem on the island

there is a huge trash problem on Samui and sins the people in charge avoid taking any responsibility and take action it will explode in a near future....you have been warned !!!...

TIT Thai system, = avoid any responsibility and look the other way.....

[robertthebruce]

 

 

Definetly not interested in moving there now....

 

Thailand does have a trash  problem, and it seems more evident there...

 

why dont Thais keep there country clean ??? Sad but true....Rubbish strewn everywhere..., hate that part....

 

 

 

 

[kannot]

13 hours ago, Searat7 said:

Look at the flooding there recently.....also I think there is a trash problem on the island

There is a severe  water problem for sure.......lack of

[kannot]

10 hours ago, 4evermaat said:

 

 

Why not go and look around for a week or so?   You can do it on the way to visiting other nearby spots in the southern region.

correct. whats suits  me doesnt suit everyone, he  may not be  bothered at  all by some of  the negative points  raised..........Id  also feel trapped  having to stay on the island and waiting for the next ferry outta  there which in peak time must be horrendous

[Samui Bodoh]

Respectfully, if you are making life-changing decisions based on an Internet comments section, then stay away.

Cheers

[robertthebruce]

13 minutes ago, Samui Bodoh said:

Respectfully, if you are making life-changing decisions based on an Internet comments section, then stay away.

Cheers

 

 

I've gathered by most of the comments it ain't "Hawaii'....

 

and don't worry I WILL STAY AWAY.....

 

 

 

 

[Tropicalevo]

5 hours ago, robertthebruce said:

 

 

Definetly not interested in moving there now....

 

Thailand does have a trash  problem, and it seems more evident there...

 

why dont Thais keep there country clean ??? Sad but true....Rubbish strewn everywhere..., hate that part....

 

 

 

 

 

Not only Thailand.....

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/enormous-18000-ton-waste-mountain-9180746

 

Do not listen to a couple of wingers - look for yourself and I suggest that you do not live in or near Chaweng. That is not Samui.

 

16 years here so far and still a smile on my face every day.

 

A bad day on Samui is still better than a good day in the UK.