Thread: Where to live in Thailand? I'm so indecisive! (or am I?)

Originally Posted by Simon43

I take good advice onboard. Katie seems the sort of person who gives good advice. Perhaps others don't give good advice...

What about Nonkai? it has a "beach" on the river. A train station to wherever. Not far from Udon airport or the mountains. Houses and restaurants with riverviews to Laos. A quick trip to Vientienne and back to restock with duty free booze. A few bars with crusty old expats like the meeting place (if it's still there) if some company required.

Originally Posted by Mendip

If I was single, didn't have young daughter settled in a decent school, didn't work offshore therefore require someone to look after my daughter when I'm away, didn't have a gardener and seven dogs reliant on me (plus a further fifteen or so 'outside' dogs), I would already be driving down the hill from Korat for the last time and heading to Samui before someone else snapped up that house sitting offer. I wouldn't even take a final glance at Isaan in the rear view mirror.

just take the dogs Mendy.

Originally Posted by Simon43

Pattaya - 2 months (but only because it was intended as short term while I received some Lazada parcels)

That knee-slapper is up there with Mendip's Bangkok business trips to get passports renewed

As for where you should live, the only person that can answer that is you. Seems like you're in the perfect position of being able to live anywhere you want (inside or out of Thailand) due to being able to work from anywhere, so what remains is thinking about what you can and can't live with in your life. There must be surely be somewhere in Thailand that suits your individual pararemeters, but the only one who can decide where that will be be is you.

Tried to post a screen capture of HS 5AY but not clever enough to figure it out. Google Maps

They already have the antenna erected. Sadly rental properties are at a premium.

After 3 months in Mukda, he might even end up back in Pattaya. That's simon!

Originally Posted by Simon43

I'm not aware of a water park near to NP

Fortune River View Hotel Nakhon Phanom | Official Website

Originally Posted by Norton

Fortune River View Hotel Nakhon Phanom | Official Website

What has that website got to do with a water park? That is a hotel with a swimming pool

Simon, I doubt you'll be getting that same speed on 4G in a village.

Checking ourt nperf.com....thanks

Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai

A lot of good advice above, just let me take the opportunity to offer some advice gained from experience.
If you are considering moving to the country , confider that it nis populated by country people, often of low education , for the most part very nice, but have ways of doing things for a very long time.
Some of these ways are very noisy, (Roosters, Dogs, Village head man speakers etc.), so if you like quiet..............

Spot on plus of course unmuffled nongs tractors motorcycles, speaker vans, I think rural Thai villages are some of the noisiest places know, luckily I live in nice niche with neighbours who nod off for siestas and really only steam on Saturdays.

As to low education I fit in perfectly these farmers are litle differet to tha Basque shepherds and bogmen of of my ilk so wiley ways, yule seldom short chenge them , sure they know little of Endogeous growth Wittgenstein, Critical Date Theory or post structuralism, but understand women, fish dogs and homebrew , my kinda khvnts, them. AnalProgs, Interior Designers, directors of Education and proffs much use fixing a pump or cylinder head gasket or painless nong disposal.

THEIR VADE MECUM

SLACK WiVES MATTER while many locals loaf n hammocks or Yadongaterias you seldom see frisky young women without a handful.

Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai

A lot of good advice above, just let me take the opportunity to offer some advice gained from experience.
If you are considering moving to the country , confider that it nis populated by country people, often of low education , for the most part very nice, but have ways of doing things for a very long time.
Some of these ways are very noisy, (Roosters, Dogs, Village head man speakers etc.), so if you like quiet..............

Thanks - but don't forget that I have previously lived in rural locations in Isaan >> Bueng Kan, Nong Khai etc. Thanks to my mad ex#2 dysfunctional family, I am well-used to the ways of rural Thai folk (That also means that this is a factor for me to consider when making my decision - positive and negative).

Anyway, as others have commented, I'll probably move again after a few months

Wrong thread.

Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai

I would say " resourceful"

Agree.

Originally Posted by Storekeeper

Think I’m gonna live in the area of Don Mueang airport. Got a house picked out already. Some old geezer is living there right now with his wife. Thinking if I take him for walks once in a while his wife will let me live there for free. His daughters are already grown and moved out so for sure there’s a spare bedroom or two. Rumor has it all I have to do is tell him the 49ers or Warriors are great a couple times a day and I’ll even get free internet.

The latest news is that apparently my room will come with a bong and some home grown …

Roong Rote Pet-Tong-Chai / Rung Roj Pet-Tong-Chai / รุ่งโรจน์ เพชรธงชัย

Well done Nev! Just ask TD- I never got anywhere repetitively asking Thai folk. Thoroughly greened.

I am temporarily located in a rural part of Chachoengsao, in the back of beyond, while I look after my Thai niece. I've been to this region quite a few times over the past 15 years or so, but not a lot happens here, and it certainly wouldn't be on my list of places to settle down in. Thai niece is hanging on by a very thin thread, so my life is sort of on hold for the moment. These events have made me realise that one should get the most out of life when you can, since you never know what might come along unforeseen in the future. Definitely a quiet place by the sea appeals to me

Originally Posted by Simon43

Thai niece is hanging on by a very thin thread,

Sorry to hear this.

Nice place by the sea, that doesn't sound like you are Mekong bound any more.

Originally Posted by sabang

Nice place by the sea, that doesn't sound like you are Mekong bound any more.

I like Issan and the Mekong a lot. But I also like sandy beaches It's difficult to have both. (The Mekong beaches are somewhat muddy!).

Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai

I don't make the mistake to equate education with intelligence and or smarts. I just thought I would put the "low education" comment out there as a fact for the OP to use as he might.. I am sure most of them ar intelligent and some are smart. .

The problem is that they are, by and large, ignorant. That is something that can be independent of intelligence, but most often real intelligence can overcome ignorance. Ignorance also says nothing about their kindness, generosity or many other attributes.

My missus has said when I am past working age, we will retire back to her house in the village in Nakhon Bumfuck. Dunno what I did to upset her that much.