Thread: We'd like to move to Thailand eventually

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Yes, this may happen.
'suppose I'm lucky, I have become part of the village inventory and not subject to unusual curiousity any longer.
Darn, the first half year was tough, yet enjoyable. People were coming round early mornings to watch the farang eat strange stuff like cheese on toast, before they went to work, and my abilities to eat local food was tested (I passed).

I got incredibly drunk almost every night, being called to join 'sessions' throughout the neighbourhood. Then we had work on the house done, and of course you gotta entertain the workers after hours...

Now I just occasionally join a party or village festival.

OTA, How much time have you spent in Thailand ?

Your best course of action would be to have an extended holiday over here to look around and see where you would like to live. You would be able to price all your living needs and estimate yourself how much money you will need each month. No-one here knows enough about your life style to give you a price.
Do you have any family who could look after your kids for a while or maybe come during the school holidays.

Originally Posted by Thetyim

When you throw a party, half the village joins in and will get drunk at your home, singing karaoke and carrying on until late at night, sometimes for days on end. It can be fun but also quite exhausting.

This reminds me the blessing of our house in the moobaan with all the people coming to eat and then the dozen left drinking the usual SangSom in the sala till nearly midnight and not yet complitely drunk to go back home.

At this time I began to serve them some scotch whisky, not thai style (1/8 whisky/soda), but as I drink myself fifty-fifty. I don't had to wait long time to see them disappearing one by one, though I don't know where. Those thai people don't last long time if you really make them drink.

To be back on topic, I live in a moobaan and no people is allowed to bypass my door, and nobody is allowed freely except two people as I and my wife have established the limits of our privacy. Oh, I forgot to say that my wife is a chinese dragon.

^ MODS. I object. I never,never,never said that

Originally Posted by Thetyim

Oh, I forgot to say that my wife is a chinese dragon.

MODS I object!! I didn't think we were allowed to brag on this forum

Originally Posted by William

I admit guilt for libelous misquoting of Thetyim and accept liability for unlimited financial compensation

Thank you William

Originally Posted by Thetyim

I think your biggest problem will be education.
Your kids are 2 & 5. Do they speak thai ?

What sort of education are you expecting to provide for them?
International schools are only in the big cities

The 5 year old has no interest in speaking Thai but saw wa dee kups anyone looking Asian. THe 2 year old understands everything Mom says to him in Tha but currently is a bit slow in talking as he speaks in both languages and mixes them up. My wife will spend a few weeks in Thailand with the 2 year old in July and says he will not hear English over that period. I don't know much about education for kids nowadays. In Kindergarten my son brings home more homework then I had in 9th grade.

[quote=Thetyim;279588]OTA, How much time have you spent in Thailand ?

Your best course of action would be to have an extended holiday over here to look around and see where you would like to live. You would be able to price all your living needs and estimate yourself how much money you will need each month. No-one here knows enough about your life style to give you a price.
Do you have any family who could look after your kids for a while or maybe come during the school holidays.[/quote

I wonder if I could ever get used to being so communal. It sounds like I couldn't find what I like in the sticks in Thailand. I have had a taste of it here with the 50-100 Thais that we know just in our area and the list keeps growing expotenially if we let it. What I am uncomfortable with is the amount of gossip the Thais here create. It's very competive and alliances keep shifting. But I thought Thais in the US are a select group that are more ambitious the most and constantly need to compare what they have to what you have. I find myself being protective of my wife as Thais married to Thais look at our interratial marriage in a negative light. I also notice that Thai women here never tire of worrying about other Thai women stealing their man. I think my wife has not only become an American citizen but has actually changed into someone who is not seeing things as a 100% Thai would but thankfully has not embraced being an American women either. I think it is difficult for us to be comfortable in many places here in the states and I th ink it will be the same in Thailand.

So what about Bangkok. Can we find a place where I can be left alone by the neighbors or had I better learn to go native if I want to live there?

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

I wouldn't send my kids to any of the international schools in ChiangMai.
I couldn't afford to for starters, but the education that they are getting is iffy at best.There is only one Thai school here that I would consider too.

Which one is that?

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Pingkarrat.... small class sizes, a level of English at least 2 years ahead of the other schools and a general knowledge and interest that most Thai kids don't have.
Whatever they are doing at that school, they are doing it right.