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13-12-2023, 12:56 PM
Shutree

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Originally Posted by Mendip

You forgot 9. Go to Korat.

Indeed! The Udon Thani traffic is a challenge, Korat is worse. KK I have only visited a few times, it is a mixed bag of superhighway down the middle and tiny little sois with no pavements in the town. I'll be in KK again this weekend, the gf has an appointment at the hospital. We'll not stay overnight.
Hospitals aside, I cannot think of any good reason to relocate to Udon, just more traffic and more bars which don't much appeal. If I were to relocate in Isan I think I'd head for the riverside towns in the quadrant from Nong Khai to That Phanom.
13-12-2023, 01:02 PM
helge

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Originally Posted by Shutree

If I were to relocate in Isan I think I'd head for the riverside towns in the quadrant from Nong Khai to That Phanom.

Loei has some nice places too

Have you been down to Ubolrat much ?
13-12-2023, 01:10 PM
Shutree

Quote:

Originally Posted by helge

Loei has some nice places too

Have you been down to Ubolrat much ?

Loei does have some nice places and I have visited a few times. The city itself has famously poor drivers, even by Thai standards. The mountains are noticeably cooler and it is close enough to Nongbua that we talked about getting a tiny weekend retreat up there. Still a possibility.
Ubol, a friend of mine lived there for a year and declared it the worst shithole he has ever had the misfortune to live in. This discouraged me. You can just about see it from one of the mountain parks south of Mukdahan, that's as close as I have been.
13-12-2023, 01:15 PM
helge

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shutree

Ubol, a friend of mine lived there for a year and declared it the worst shithole he has ever had the misfortune to live in. This discouraged me. You can just about see it from one of the mountain parks south of Mukdahan, that's as close as I have been.

Mukdahan ?

Yeah, we have been there a few times, but I'm talking about the reservoir in southern Nong Bua and western KK.

Been there many times.

Our nearest "beach"
13-12-2023, 01:20 PM
Shutree

Quote:

Originally Posted by helge

Yeah, we have been there a few times, but I'm talking about the reservoir in southern Nong Bua and western KK.

The Ubol Rat Dam? We often stop on the way to or from KK. If we finish early at the hospital this weekend we hope to visit the new skywalk.
13-12-2023, 01:30 PM
helge

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shutree

The Ubol Rat Dam?

Yeah, Baby !

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shutree

We often stop on the way to or from KK.

You were going to the hospital in KK.

Srinagarin ?

My kids were born there.

You could go south from KK to Ban Phai, do a left turn and visit Norton; not far.

Or straight ahead to Korat, which has some of the most infamous ....bus terminal toilets in the world, and also some Isaan Pond or such.

Bon vojage, lei lei ihlee der.
13-12-2023, 08:23 PM
klong toey

Terrible flatulence this evening
14-12-2023, 01:00 PM
Mendip

I had to get three documents notarised at a lawyer in Korat this morning and it cost 3000 Baht, which I thought was pretty good.

I took them to FedEx to send to the UK and they wanted over 2000 Baht, which kind of counterbalanced my bargain at the lawyers.

The lady at FedEx asked if I had a DTAC phone number, which I do, and that gave me 20% / 400 Baht off.

I'll never understand this country.
14-12-2023, 01:41 PM
Edmond

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Originally Posted by Mendip

notarised at a lawyer in Korat

It wasn't the Canadian one that killed his own mother by stabbing her 40+ times then cutting her throat, was it? :)
14-12-2023, 01:44 PM
helge

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Originally Posted by Edmond

It wasn't the Canadian one that killed his own mother with an axe, was it?

You have a good memory, Edmond
14-12-2023, 01:46 PM
Edmond

^ Not that good, looking back to the 2006 report he stabbed her 40 times, and didn't use an axe to killer her. :)
14-12-2023, 01:47 PM
cyrille

^^TD Rain Man when it comes to wind ups and strife.
14-12-2023, 02:02 PM
malmomike77

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Originally Posted by Stumpy

Lampang is MK. Totally agree. But 10 miles in any direction and you quickly become rural. I ride my motorcycle up around the area and its dark country roads pretty fast. Since I picked up my ATV I have been trekking back into the mountains and I see some homes that are basically off the grid. Some are really nice places with huge beautiful lakes surrounding their homes, crops growing etc. Most of the roads I am mapping are dirt roads that during rainy season turn into mud so getting back and forth in a vehicle is not an ideal life (at least for me) but clearly a way of life for those folks. I pass Kubota trackers on these old dirt roads towing rice plow equipment or a trailer behind it with 10 cows. I will work on getting my YT acct set up and post some vids of me up in the hills nearby our place. Its another side of the North I really like.

You can take the mercan out of the west but you can't take the settler out of the mercan. What JPPR really means is he bought the ATV to break trail. :)
14-12-2023, 02:09 PM
malmomike77

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shutree

we hope to visit the new skywalk.

Shutree was great poster.....
14-12-2023, 03:05 PM
Stumpy

Quote:

Originally Posted by malmomike77

You can take the mercan out of the west but you can't take the settler out of the mercan. What JPPR really means is he bought the ATV to break trail. :)

Some truth in it but once a country guy, always a country guy. :) and us "Mercans" love our country toys. ATV's, Tractors, 4x4 off road trucks etc.
14-12-2023, 04:00 PM
cyrille

Yup, all part of the pollutin pardee. :D
14-12-2023, 04:27 PM
BLD

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mendip

^ You forgot 9. Go to Korat.

I once told the wife that my favourite part of Korat was the west-bound carriageway of Highway 2.

She said that I was being negative.

I sympathise with Shutree as I'm sure that Nong Bua Nowhere makes Korat seem like a metropolis, and while I may complain from time to time, this is a bit tongue in cheek as I am in fact living on the outskirts of Thailand's second biggest city (or third, depending on who you ask). To me, Korat feels like a small town but with big city traffic.

It does in fact suit me OK living here... I couldn't live on a sterile modern housing estate and enjoy having some land with few restrictions on what I do. I have a friend who lives on a new Supalai housing estate and to me it feels like living in a goldfish bowl. You'd have to put proper clothes on just to walk around your own garden.

Regular work trips give me the Western socialising I need and when at home I rarely leave the property, apart from school runs and stuff. I'm happy with that. If I'm here longer term I try to combine the occasional Bangkok business trip with some leisure time and the upcoming fast bullet train linking Bangkok should make these trips easier.

In fact, if Korat wasn't so God awfully hot and humid during the hot season, wasn't so terribly congested with traffic, had a civilian airport and was was around four hours closer to the coast, it would be quite nice.

But in saying all that, while it is OK for the time being the Covid lockdowns gave me an insight of what actually retiring here would be like... and it terrified me.

Can't you fly out of ubon ? To bangers?
14-12-2023, 04:29 PM
BLD

Ubon/ korat has indeed become a large city, likewise khon kean has expanded rapidly and maybe even udon thani to? I will find out in a few days but last trip a few years back it seemed to be going off.
14-12-2023, 04:33 PM
BLD

I hear ya. If you want some beach and seafood time why not do a roadie into Vietnam? That's what I used to do. First day vientiane to ubon second day on the beach . A bit of driving but fun.
14-12-2023, 04:44 PM
BLD

Cambo I meant. Vietnam's doable as well though..but I've heard Thai registration cars. Are problematic
14-12-2023, 04:56 PM
Mendip

Quote:

Originally Posted by BLD

Can't you fly out of ubon ? To bangers?

Ubon is around 5 hours from ys, in the opposite direction. Khon Kaen is probably our closest airport, but that's 2 and a half hours... and then I think flights are to DMK so I'd have to transfer to BKK if I had an onward international flight. I can usually get to Bangkok in around 4 hours so it makes no sense to fly from other airports.

Korat has a civilian airport but no flights at the moment. Airlines try setting up flights but they always fail... I think that we're just too close to Bangkok for flights to be viable.
14-12-2023, 05:16 PM
Stumpy

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Originally Posted by cyrille

Yup, all part of the pollutin parde

Shhhhhhhhh. You will get ol Spamdreth all spun up. To offset that, all my yard tools are rechargeable and I do not have cows farting and eat as much beef as I can. Someday I will get to throw all the lithium batteries out in landfill so they can leach down to the local water table, but that's a different story.

But all kidding aside, I do recycle constantly albeit my wife doesn't understand why I take the time to separate Glass from plastic and do not accept bags at Lotus, Big C and 7/11 and take my own coffee cup to the local coffee shop. :)
14-12-2023, 06:24 PM
BLD

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mendip

Ubon is around 5 hours from ys, in the opposite direction. Khon Kaen is probably our closest airport, but that's 2 and a half hours... and then I think flights are to DMK so I'd have to transfer to BKK if I had an onward international flight. I can usually get to Bangkok in around 4 hours so it makes no sense to fly from other airports.

Korat has a civilian airport but no flights at the moment. Airlines try setting up flights but they always fail... I think that we're just too close to Bangkok for flights to be viable.

Bugger
14-12-2023, 06:27 PM
BLD

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stumpy

Shhhhhhhhh. You will get ol Spamdreth all spun up. To offset that, all my yard tools are rechargeable and I do not have cows farting and eat as much beef as I can. Someday I will get to throw all the lithium batteries out in landfill so they can leach down to the local water table, but that's a different story.

But all kidding aside, I do recycle constantly albeit my wife doesn't understand why I take the time to separate Glass from plastic and do not accept bags at Lotus, Big C and 7/11 and take my own coffee cup to the local coffee shop. :)

Spam death has got his cut n paste agenda going on. It seems to amuse him
15-12-2023, 10:43 AM
Salsa dancer

Sick today....it seems that a cheap iceblock I had yesterday had chemicals my body didn't like at all. I know it was that as I had the same sort of nausea 2 weeks ago but thought it was from something different, but the iceblock was the only common denominator.