Thread: Time to move on?

Originally Posted by sabang

Originally Posted by cyrille

sabang's set on Cambo...hard to see how Southern Europe can compete with that.

It can't. I've looked at Portugal & Malta though. Thing is, I'll be quite portable- I will no longer put serious money into any tinpot Asian (or European) country. So of it disappoints, &/or goes tits up like Thailand, hasta la vista baby. Like I said, the only thing that is really keeping me here is a fairly expensive villa down south- and financially speaking, that was the worst mistake I have ever made. One learns from experience.

You have Aussie and Brit citizenship don't you? So your options with no visa requirements in the civilised world are pretty endless. All depends what you want at the end of the day and we're all different but I thought the laid back life style somewhere on the Med would suit you. Got the climate and food and relatively cheap.

Originally Posted by chassamui

Cy will be having conniptions over that. How dare you criticize Thailand?

Don't get me wrong chas...I found living and working in bkk full of frustrations.

Anyway, you and I have frequently disagreed over the years, without just banging out basically one post like this vacuous cvnt buribore.

Ultimately though, you just stay or go...nothing in your posts suggests to me that you're unaware of how little that means in the grand scheme.

Sybil calling someone else boring, how many thousands of sleep inducing pointless one line posts did you make on sunzero again? Doing a grand job here aswell.

Originally Posted by cyrille

on't get me wrong chas...I found living and working in bkk full of frustrations.

You choose the north and I choose the south, for now anyway. At least we agree that Bkk is a shithole.

Originally Posted by sabang

I've looked at Portugal & Malta though.

great location to live long term, definitely places to go in Europe

^^I can't believe I spent a dozen years there now..half of them married ffs.

Time to move on from fabricated justifications.

What do you actually mean by that, tm?

I packed and left thailand four years ago after five years of it

Major factors, not least of all the opportunity to repatriate most if not all the money I'd invested, was that I'd developed an unhealthy contempt for the country.

Simply put, i came to realise they had absolutely nothing that I wanted or couldn't get elsewhere with less hassle.

The country works for many and I wish them well. 80% of my net worth is now invested in the UK and requires minimal input from me to provide an income that allows 6 monthscin Europe (mostly S Med), 3-4 months in the UK and a couple of months in Malaysia, Cambo or other parts of Asia.

I'm tapping this sat in a bar near Rimini, Italy after a long bike ride and beach afternoon. As a bonus I'll be able to sleep without needing the ac tonight

If you can make Thailand work for you then great. Personally it left me feels ng a bit hollow.

Originally Posted by cyrille

What do you actually mean by that, tm?

He doesn't know

Originally Posted by cyrille

What do you actually mean by that, tm?

Big words, two consecutive words with more than ten letters in them
This guy is highly intellectual

Originally Posted by Fluke

Originally Posted by cyrille

What do you actually mean by that, tm?

Big words, two consecutive words with more than ten letters in them
This guy is highly intellectual

Which two consecutive words in his post have more than ten letters in each of them?

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Originally Posted by Fluke

Originally Posted by cyrille

What do you actually mean by that, tm?

Big words, two consecutive words with more than ten letters in them
This guy is highly intellectual

Which two consecutive words in his post have more than ten letters in each of them?

Just having a recount DR, it was exactly ten letters and not a letter more , do excuse my mistake, These thing are important . well done to you for counting the letters

Originally Posted by Fluke

it was exactly ten letters and not a letter more

Yes.

Originally Posted by Fluke

do excuse my mistake

No.

Originally Posted by cyrille

What do you actually mean by that,

Think he's saying that living under military rule is not the real reason the op wishes to depart Thailand.

Originally Posted by chassamui

[at]Time to move on?
I need to ask the question; Is Thailand changing for the better?

Since the coup, the military government has instituted a number of changes affecting the Thai people and also impacting the lives of expats

Originally Posted by thaimeme

Time to move on from fabricated justifications.

Originally Posted by Lostandfound

Major factors, not least of all the opportunity to repatriate most if not all the money I'd invested, was that I'd developed an unhealthy contempt for the country.

Simply put, i came to realise they had absolutely nothing that I wanted or couldn't get elsewhere with less hassle.

Im right there too. On both counts.

We were lucky enough to sell 2 homes we built & made over 20% each. Wife was a bit pissed each time, but we are young enough, it makes zero financial sense to pass up a 20% profit for an investment that took a year each. Now I rent a nice, brand new 3 bed 2 bath home for 8k a month, cars & motorbike are paid for. Costs me just about nothing to stay here, and thats why I'm doing it now. Saving up more "disposable" income to move home.

Ive got a bit of "unhealthy contempt" myself, and feel the same way about "they have absolutely nothing I want or couldn't get elsewhere with less hassle".

^^Jeff posts are better understood in the abstract.

Originally Posted by Farangrakthai

Think he's saying that living under military rule is not the real reason the op wishes to depart Thailand.

I can tell ya its not THE reason I'm gearing up to go, but it certainly plays a part. If it changed to a democracy overnight I would still be going though.

Yes, better to move to a country where the leader is elected by a majority of the vote... Oh.

I need to ask the question; Is Thailand changing for the better?

No, obviously not.

Since the coup, the military government has instituted a number of changes affecting the Thai people and also impacting the lives of expats.

There have been virtually no changes which have directly affected me, other than an improvement in immigration with the opening of more regional offices. As for my wife, as she is a government employee, on an entirely personal/selfish level we've benefited from the coup.

Occasionally my wife talks about leaving Thailand when she retires (mostly driven by the political situation); until recently her brother was working in Cambodia, and a few times she has muttered about moving there. Like my escaping the awfulness of life in Britain (a country which is dramatically less appealing than Thailand, and getting less appealing by the day), it's a lot easier to deal with other people's shit than with your own so I understand the attraction but I suspect living in Cambodia would be a monumental headache....so no, unless something entirely unprecedented happens, I won't be moving anywhere.

Originally Posted by Passing Through

Like my escaping the awfulness of life in Britain (a country which is dramatically less appealing than Thailand, and getting less appealing by the day),

I never understand stuff like this.

You chose to leave a democratic country, out of some perceived injustice & downfall, yet choose to move to a country with zero democracy, chock full of racism & corruption, violence & gun deaths on par with Chicago, political assassinations, road rage something fierce, drug trafficking that puts Columbia to shame, an insane religious institution from the top down that infiltrates every Thai on every level that complicates almost every aspect of daily life....

Because the UK.... ??

I dunno, it just doesn't make sense. Seems like theres a deeper issue there.

^^ One reason is that

it's a lot easier to deal with other people's shit than with your own

Interacting with, for example, Brexit supporters drives me round the fucking bend and more generally, the tabloid-reading British drive me insane with anger in a way that nothing in Thailand ever does. But I think that's just because it's my birth country and so the awfulness of Britain means something to me which the awfulness of Thailand (such as it is) never will. In the same way, my wife can think about moving to Cambodia to escape the repression and fuckwittery in Thailand, which in one way is absurd because she would be moving to a situation of more repression and fuckwittery but at the same time, she's not Cambodian so it's not her problem and so it's never going to get under her skin in the same way.

Originally Posted by Slick

I dunno, it just doesn't make sense. Seems like theres a deeper issue there.

Boredom with the tedious dull existence of a place like Britain, combined with a significant reduction in cost of living are two issues alone that I can see driving many people to flee to a place like Thailand

If the color Grey could be physically manifested as a place, my hunch is that it would look something like Britain.

Boredom with the tedious dull existence of a place like Britain,

Sadly, life is equally tedious everywhere.

a significant reduction in cost of living

That's obviously a major factor. I'm terminally work-shy so living in Thailand gives me and my wife (who is similarly work-shy, so found the ideal employer in the Thai state) a quality of life which we couldn't begin to achieve in Britain.