Quote Originally Posted by thaiguzzi View Post
Mendip's great posts and pics #157 & #158,
told ya so.....
the word "depressing" kept popping up...
Not just WSM, pretty much SOP for the vast majority of the UK's towns, with a few rare exceptions.
The place is fucked, i would not want to bring my kids up there, "better education" - not neccessarily so, and lifestyle? Get fucked.
Fine if you can find the right town and village in some nice countryside and are wedged up, but otherwise, no way.
It's the open space and land i live on that i would miss, not counting healthier weather and the complete freedom from The Nanny State not intruding on my life.
Expats say they are leaving Thailand because of once a year Immigration hassles - i think they are stark raving mad.
HNY Mendip.

ps, WSM - went there only once on a M/C club run day out in the late 90's.
Northampton down to WSM at 100 mph in a tight pack, all traffic rules ignored, several bevvies on the seafront, and a ride back via South Wales getting split up, and getting lost on the way and taking several hours more.
Great day out (but, er families and family stuff was not involved...).
Yeah, I'm finding myself using that word 'depressing' all too often.

There are some lovely villages and towns in rural Somerset - would be OK for me to live here as all I want to do is sit in the garden with the dogs - but not so great living in a small nosy village with a wife and kid who want a social life.

Also, to get the amount of land I'd like would cost an arm and a leg here... I'd have to sell up everything else and moving down to south Somerset - but again, would be very isolated for the family.

I don't think Korat is the final answer for me, but I certainly don't feel I would like to be living permanently back here in the UK. For now my daughter is getting a great education and life style/childhood in Thailand and that's what's important for me. The dogs are being cared for, and the wife has her family! I'm away half time anyway.

And re Weston-Super-Mare and bikers... through the 80s there used to be huge problems on Bank Holidays when the mods and rockers congregated on Weston for a big scrap. Nothing much else of note springs to mind about the place to be honest.