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  • #46
    Were way off topic here now, but....

    Before moving to Thailand I lived for 26 years on Saipan (Northern Mariana Islands) where I was awash with friends. So many places to meet people: yacht club, running club, Hash House Harriers, scuba diving, cycling, scads of great bars, work. My 50th birthday party had hundreds of guests and a live band.

    And, yet, here I am, thirteen years in Korat and totally alone.
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    • #47
      Originally posted by Buadhai View Post
      Were way off topic here now, but....

      Before moving to Thailand I lived for 26 years on Saipan (Northern Mariana Islands) where I was awash with friends. So many places to meet people: yacht club, running club, Hash House Harriers, scuba diving, cycling, scads of great bars, work. My 50th birthday party had hundreds of guests and a live band.
      Working for the US Government in the Marianas Islands is slightly different than being retired in central Thailand.

      You want to be around Farang, check out Krabi or Surat Thani. Much different than Korat with better weather too.
      God, the panic within the Dems, MSM, and left must be horrifying...realizing that Joe is really the best they've got.

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      • #48
        What's Guam like as a place to retire?

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        • #49
          Originally posted by Exexpat View Post
          What's Guam like as a place to retire?
          Really nice beach down at the southern end with great coral diving. Very colorful reefs.

          The Guamanian men are rather 'difficult' though and their women are not too comely. Hope I'm not stepping on any toes here with Buadhai.

          Moi spent some 6 months or so - a month at a time though back during the little fracas we had going with those Commies in North Vietnam.
          Last edited by Boon Mee; 06-12-2018, 08:53 AM.
          God, the panic within the Dems, MSM, and left must be horrifying...realizing that Joe is really the best they've got.

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          • #50
            I've been meaning to visit Hawaii for a while but have never got around to it. Should have all the time in the world from 2021 onwards. Might spend a year in each of 10 different countries/islands, with June to August back in the UK each year.

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            • #51
              Originally posted by Dan View Post
              In theory, they are awful (why would I be interested in someone simply because s/he comes from a white-majority country?) and in practice they are eyeball-stabbingly grim (listening to the racist bleatings of some educationally-subnormal alcoholic 70-year-old is, surprisingly enough, not that tempting a prospect). But as luck would have it, there are 60+ million Thais in this country, and some of them are quite nice.
              True to a great degree. When I had to have dinners with expat business men they all complained about the weather, how they hate Thai food, think Thai folks are all peasants etc etc. I just don't have the patience to sit through it and sure would not want to have a few westerner friends that bitch all the time. I have way better things I can go do.

              What I have found really odd as well is how the expat seems to eye your GF/Wife up and down wondering where you met her and instantly expect that your GF/Wife will automatically connect and be friends with their GF/Wife. Its idiotic. It would be like my wife having a Thai gal friend married to foreigner and because we are white we will become best friends.

              I am far more comfortable around Thai folks. To this day I have met only a couple of Thai people that I found to be buttheads.
              Last edited by CCBW; 06-12-2018, 09:30 AM.

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              • #52
                Originally posted by CCBW View Post

                I am far more comfortable around Thai folks
                I can't relate to that. My current main social activity in Thailand is tennis, which I play several times per week. I play with several westerners and a group of Thais. While playing with the Thais is fun the social interaction is fairly superficial compared to that with the westerners. It's all a matter of knowing how to meet people you like. Admittedly there is a high percentage of westerners in Thailand that are weird and creepy, but thankfully not all.

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                • #53
                  Originally posted by Exexpat View Post
                  I've been meaning to visit Hawaii for a while but have never got around to it. Should have all the time in the world from 2021 onwards. Might spend a year in each of 10 different countries/islands, with June to August back in the UK each year.
                  Oahu is tourist-central.
                  Get to one of the other islands - not the Big Island right now though!
                  God, the panic within the Dems, MSM, and left must be horrifying...realizing that Joe is really the best they've got.

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                  • #54
                    Originally posted by Exexpat View Post
                    It's all a matter of knowing how to meet people you like. Admittedly there is a high percentage of westerners in Thailand that are weird and creepy, but thankfully not all.
                    I agree. And its that filtering process that takes a ton of effort. I remember an after work business social get together in BKK at some beer garden and it was just pathetic. I was with another colleague who invited me and he knew a few people. I listened to these drunken schmucks talk and couldn't wait to leave. Honestly though I think its the home country diversity that has a lot to do with it. I heard Brits yappin at Americans, Few Scots talkin shit at some Aussies. Lots of people glaring at people probably wondering what their user name was on the various forums.

                    Of course the other option is go to some bar place packed with old foreigners groping bar girls. That's a real treat.....

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                    • #55
                      Originally posted by CCBW View Post
                      Of course the other option is go to some bar place packed with old foreigners groping bar girls. That's a real treat.....
                      Voice of experience?
                      God, the panic within the Dems, MSM, and left must be horrifying...realizing that Joe is really the best they've got.

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                      • #56
                        Originally posted by Boon Mee View Post
                        Voice of experience?
                        1 experience in Cha Am Booners. Got invited to a birthday party by an Aussie guy I met at the gym. Once was enough for me. Pretty pathetic sight. Whatever works I suppose. I'll pass

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                        • #57
                          Originally posted by CCBW View Post
                          1 experience in Cha Am Booners. Got invited to a birthday party by an Aussie guy I met at the gym. Once was enough for me. Pretty pathetic sight. Whatever works I suppose. I'll pass
                          That's cool.

                          Just wanted ask because you've referenced this kind of 'activity' before.
                          God, the panic within the Dems, MSM, and left must be horrifying...realizing that Joe is really the best they've got.

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                          • #58
                            Originally posted by CCBW View Post
                            Great post and I feel the same. If you have some hobbies it is much better and you seldom ever get bored. When I have ran out of things to do or need a break I tell the wife "ROAD TRIP!!!!" and off we go. Doing that this coming Saturday for 7 days. Heading south. Will stop by the Piak Off Road shop and check out their products for my truck. They have a new Front bumper design I like.

                            I refuse to go to or join Expat clubs. Something about them seems so....ummmm....odd. I am skeptical and really do not want to go sit in bars. Honestly I have way better booze at home so I can drink and mess around in my shop. I do have a set of golf clubs but have never golfed. I should go hit a bucket of balls. Usually I think about it, then go out and start welding, cutting or grinding something in the shop or fixing something for my FIL then I forget.
                            Road Trip !! I forgot about that - a great way to keep things exciting. I will never forget one trip we did to Chiang Rai - and I will never drive that road again. Clearly police never patrol that road (or many others) but that highway fromn Chianf Mai to Chianf Rai had more maniacs per mile than any road I have driven in Thailand. But having said that there are many great places to visit in Thailand anmd good accomodation is cheap. Definitely the OP should do a few more of those.

                            Golf. What can I say - the wife and I play at least twice a week - committed golf tragics. It is a great way to spend half a day - good exercise - and great fun in Thailand. If you do take it up, my advice is to get lessons and a local driving range for 3-6 months before even trying to play. The game is tough and takles patience and persistence - and anyone with a narcissistic ego need not apply. Other than Tiger (back then not now) most golfers are good blokes - some are a little 'strange' but the game eats angry aholes and snowflakes for breakfast. But be careful, it can be more addictive than heroin (and can cost more too)
                            If I dont respond it is because: A) Libtard; B) Blocked Libtard; C) Playing Golf

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                            • #59
                              Originally posted by Elvis View Post

                              Golf. What can I say - the wife and I play at least twice a week -
                              Golf. What can I say - [/QUOTE]
                              Me & the missus used to play golf almost every day back in the States and wherever we were stationed.

                              Here. No decent courses so we've transitioned to bike riding which is probably a better cardio workout than golf.
                              God, the panic within the Dems, MSM, and left must be horrifying...realizing that Joe is really the best they've got.

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                              • #60
                                Originally posted by Boon Mee View Post
                                Golf. What can I say -
                                Me & the missus used to play golf almost every day back in the States and wherever we were stationed.

                                Here. No decent courses so we've transitioned to bike riding which is probably a better cardio workout than golf. [/QUOTE]

                                We also found that once you are outside the tourist areas, there are not many good golf courses. That is the main reasons we do not want to live in a remote village - we love golf too much.

                                If you are living in such a place, there is something we found out from one of the local caddies we got to know. Most of the smaller 9 hole golf courses that the Thais play and are not targetting the Expats/Tourists, are not listed in google etc. She told us about two of them which were close to where we lived, with the usual vague Thai description of their locations. It took a bit of work but I found them on google earth. Took a bit of searching, but after a while I could recognise the outlines of a golf course, and then I would zero in. I then found them both on google maps and we checked them out. One was a shocker, but the other was quite good - and quite a few local Expats played there (including Koreans, Japanese). We ended up playing there once a week, as well as at many of the '4 star' courses in and around the Chiang Mai Region. I sure do miss that - but it is much much cheaper here to play golf in Aust. Our local club is great and it only costs $800 a year - for unlimited number of games - and cart or caddy not compulsory. The wife could not believe how little it costs to play here and how good the course is prepared and maintained. She will be amazed when we visit one of the real 5star golf courses on our next golfing holiday in Queensland.
                                If I dont respond it is because: A) Libtard; B) Blocked Libtard; C) Playing Golf

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