Can you live longer in Thailand?

[Master Bator]

Interesting to see what stage expats or flits are in.
I prefer to use the word flit (foreigner living in Thailand) for people like myself.
Expats are more those who are working for multinationals, have fat salaries, expense accounts, maids,drivers etc.
For them life is wonderful out here.

Now for the stages:

A) You think everything is wonderful in Thailand

B) You start to realise that not all is as it seems in the Land Behind the Smiles

C) Everything is crap in Thailand! Complaining, whining,writing letters to the editor.

D) You learn to live with all that crap ( and to accept your financial losses...)

E) You actually start to enjoy life in Thailand again

[Master Bator]

of course you will only reach the final stage if you survived the third stage ( were not shot by a hitman or committed suicide)...

[manarak]

hmmm... Boss Hogg the pimp complains about a lack of respect by Thais...
I wonder why they don't respect him?
Do you know?

Expats are more those who are working for multinationals, have fat salaries, expense accounts, maids,drivers etc.
For them life is wonderful out here.

The point is, in Thailand you can live like a king on the same money than you would need in Europe for living the life of the lower middle class.

If you find a way to earn the same money from Thailand instead of being bound to your home country, congratulations, you've won a ticket to paradise.

[indianajones]

(Master Bator @ Jun. 16 2009,16:36) Interesting to see what stage expats or flits are in.
I prefer to use the word flit (foreigner living in Thailand) for people like myself.
Expats are more those who are working for multinationals, have fat salaries, expense accounts, maids,drivers etc.
For them life is wonderful out here.

Now for the stages:

A) You think everything is wonderful in Thailand

B) You start to realise that not all is as it seems in the Land Behind the Smiles

C) Everything is crap in Thailand! Complaining, whining,writing letters to the editor.

D) You learn to live with all that crap ( and to accept your financial losses...)

E) You actually start to enjoy life in Thailand again

100% absolutely correct


But a good old moan over a few beers in a British pub with some bloke you have never met before is all part of the fun about living in a foreign country!

[indianajones]

(manarak @ Jun. 16 2009,16:52) hmmm... Boss Hogg the pimp complains about a lack of respect by Thais...
I wonder why they don't respect him?
Do you know?

Expats are more those who are working for multinationals, have fat salaries, expense accounts, maids,drivers etc.
For them life is wonderful out here.

The point is, in Thailand you can live like a king on the same money than you would need in Europe for living the life of the lower middle class.

If you find a way to earn the same money from Thailand instead of being bound to your home country, congratulations, you've won a ticket to paradise.

Either i am blind (or blind drunk) but i cant see anywhere in the interview that he complains about a lack of respect for him....


The lack of respect that many Thais have for their surroundings is hard to argue with.


For example the kids in my area all sit on people's cars in the carpark, leaving shit everywhere and smoking Yaabaa.


Im dying to tell one of them to "get off my fucking car and get a fucking job" but a smile will have to do for now.


mai pen rai, i will pay for the scratches, dont worry, mai pen rai...

Also, and this is a small thing i know, but i had a TV delivered the other day and the delivery guy burst (well slowly burst, if you can do such a thing) in through my door without knocking, said hello, put the TV down and went straight to the fridge to get a drink.


"sawadee krap" i said as he drank coke straight from the bottle.



none of this bothers me too much, in fact i find it very, very funny.

[manarak]

Either i am blind (or blind drunk) but i cant see anywhere in the interview that he complains about a lack of respect for him....

Sorry... I must have misunderstood then, English isn't my first language, sorry again!!

Also, and this is a small thing i know, but i had a TV delivered the other day and the delivery guy burst (well slowly burst, if you can do such a thing) in through my door without knocking, said hello, put the TV down and went straight to the fridge to get a drink.

"sawadee krap" i said as he drank coke straight from the bottle.

That's absolutely hilarious!

[Lefty]

(manarak @ Jun. 15 2009,16:48) Blah blah blah...

    Very good post sir!!  

[Lefty]

(indianajones @ Jun. 16 2009,03:10)

(Master Bator @ Jun. 16 2009,16:36) Interesting to see what stage expats or flits are in.
I prefer to use the word flit (foreigner living in Thailand) for people like myself.
Expats are more those who are working for multinationals, have fat salaries, expense accounts, maids,drivers etc.
For them life is wonderful out here.

Now for the stages:

A) You think everything is wonderful in Thailand

B) You start to realise that not all is as it seems in the Land Behind the Smiles

C) Everything is crap in Thailand! Complaining, whining,writing letters to the editor.

D) You learn to live with all that crap ( and to accept your financial losses...)

E) You actually start to enjoy life in Thailand again

100% absolutely correct


But a good old moan over a few beers in a British pub with some bloke you have never met before is all part of the fun about living in a foreign country!

So, the various posts make more sense when I realize you are in stage C and Master Bator is in stage E.

[manarak]

(Lefty @ Jun. 17 2009,02:04)     Very good post sir!!  

Thanks!

Did I make up for my tasteless posts about Carradine (RIP)?

* I replace the coke on your shrine with a fresh one *

[indianajones]

(Lefty @ Jun. 17 2009,02:04) Blah blah blah...

yes, excellent, i glad you agree with someone on something, you, nor he, know nothing whatsoever about.

[Lefty]

Nothing whatsoever? So you are saying a Swiss citizen knows nothing about life in Switzerland? If you read his post young fella, you would see info about Switzerland made up a good part of it. Unless you are also Swiss, I would consider it foolish to disparage his comparison of life in Switzerland to life in Thailand.

I'm just glad we have you here to wise us up. Thanks for that.  

Let's not make plans to meet, ok? I think it may be very depressing if you are the same in person.  

[manarak]

My post was almost 100% about Switzerland, I didn't even compare Switzerland with Thailand.

The few things I wrote about Thailand are 100% verifiable facts.

I just expect Thailand to be different in many ways, and that's exactly what I want it to be.
But maybe I won't like it and move away again... who knows?

[Lefty]

You can't know any 100% verifiable facts on Thailand, unless you are some whiny beer slurping expat sitting around complaining about part timers or tourists having any opinion on the place.

[indianajones]

(Lefty @ Jun. 17 2009,05:07) You can't know any 100% verifiable facts on Thailand, unless you are some whiny beer slurping expat sitting around complaining about part timers or tourists having any opinion on the place.

No, you are quite right.


Tourists 1, people who actually fucking live in the fuckin country you are fucking talking about fucking living in, 0.





so tell me please, what is it really like to live here?



Is it really like a buddhist Disneyland where we can learn so much about life from taxi drivers on Sukhumvit Rd?





I could say You can't know any 100% verifiable facts on Thailand, unless you are some sex tourist sitting around Guess Bar complaining about people who live here having any opinion on the place.




but that would be too easy

[pacman]

(manarak @ Jun. 16 2009,06:48) Some ten years ago, a foreign colleague drove a swiss colleague to work and briefly stopped the car where is was not allowed to get out and buy cigarettes and the paper. when he came back, the swiss colleague had called the traffic police so that they could write a ticket...

I enjoyed your observations about Switzerland very much. As a sometime visitor, I always found it odd trying to match the reality of the place with the rhetoric, you know what I mean... Switzerland - the best place to live, where there is so little crime, the place is so clean, the villages & the mountains are so picturesque...  yet, I wouldn't live there for all the chocolate in Geneva. (hmmm, maybe I could be persuaded)

One visit, I had to pick up tickets for the opening night of the Bern Ballet (don't ask) & as there was nowhere to park near the Stadt Theatre, I parked in a safe spot out of harms way, opposite the stage door where I had to go. I left my father in the car to explain that I would only be a minute in case a parking inspector chanced along.

10 minutes later, I ran back to the car with the tickets. As I arrived 2, not 1, but 2 cars drove up to me so the driver could berate my choice of parking place. These fellows were visibly angry. I replied in English that I was sorry, they switched to English & carried on like pork chops. God knows what they would have done if I had been a terrorist.

I got in the car & saw the look on my father's face. "They haven't stopped" he said, "from the moment you left, they have been blowing their horn, shaking their fist, yelling at me to move." He was totally bemused by something that wouldn't warrant a second look at home.

Go to LOS manarak, you will be better off out of a place that has traded its humanity for such stifling obedience. They may make accurate clocks, they don't make good citizens. Unless your definition of a good citizen is some manic slave to orderliness.