Originally Posted by
Seekingasylum
Are you a total fucking idiot now or what?
Pattaya's entire raison d'être is a resort city which also happens to be the choice residential spot by those who work in Laem Chabang and the industrial zones within th hinterland.
The dark side is a dreary collection of suburban ghettos that are as dull as they are increasingly unsaleable in the current market unless they are given away.
God, those estates are just sooooo awful - prison compounds of concrete sois separating ranks of poured concrete shells , row after row, with scrubby gardens no one sits in because it's too fucking hot, bounded by a nine foot perimeter wall adjacent to acres of scrubland waiting to be developed, connected by dangerous single carriageway roads to the city, subjected to annual floods, overflowing sewers, festooned with dogshit and feral chickenheead youths on the rob. And for social gatherings away from these ghastly, stinking hot blockhouses there are ilittle islands of transport caff style restaurants selling shite food and bottles of warm beer amid flying bugs and mosquitos. But in the end, what kills the soul is the flat landscape and dull deadliness of a long night in a tropical suburban dystopia which falls silent and lifeless except for the soundtrack of the howls of distant dogs and the occasional cries of domestic squabbling born out of rampant alcoholism.
Travelling all that way to exotic Thailand to end up in some fucking suburb built in the middle of nowhere in a tropical scrubby wasteland. Yeah, sure Cyril, you certainly were fucking living the life.....a walk on the wild side.........the dark side.
I expect you were on a small budget but all the foreign senior management of the ranking corporations from Japan, Korea, the US, and Europe live in our neighbourhood here in Wongamat with direct sea views and private access to a nice beach of silvered sands, bounded by swaying files of palm trees and lapped by the languid waves of a cerulean sea under a Titian sky painted by the setting sun in a crimson chirascuro before giving way to an inky darkness pinpointed by spots of distant green and white as the fishing boats turn on their bait lights luring that night's catch of squid.
That's my view Cyril.