Cheers for the Story David48atTD,
as a rural countryside boy from Germany I was living from 2005 -2011 in a small Village between Kalasin and Mahasarakham and it was for me the Point to come back after I will stop my offshore carrier in the next 2 years.
Momentary Pattaya has just the better infrastructure regarding calls from customers who wants to have you on the carpet max 24 hrs after notice.
I just hang off at home with my small backyard Aquaponics, my Wife, Nephews and two dogs in Pattaya and just getting more and more an antipathy for this growing City. No trust, no real smile, no real laughing just hunting the coin is here what's all about.
I remember these years at father's house and miss it so much. The morning speech from the monk over the loudspeakers at 5am that giving the same relaxing and laid back feeling like the Sunday morning church bells in my Parents Village.
The Birds that start singing, no screaming Motorbikes and humming traffic noise, just silence you can see hear and feel..
That morning yek yek of the passing by old woman with her Buffaloes at 5am when she goes to the feeding grounds..
Even my Tinnitus is gone when I sit with my coffee on the terrace wall and father sits opposite, has a smoke and staring along the empty road..
And when we started we started into the cane field, no clock told us that it was just us getting started.
Lucky me, the Mossies don't like me much and its only a few times I got bitten but it seems the Thai Food is the recipe behind it.
I am more than looking forward to return to me beloved countryside..