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  • #16
    Originally posted by crazy dog View Post
    Have to agree with Dan this country has gone down the shitter over the past few years and has lost a lot of it's old charm. Anyone thinking of selling up and retiring here should come for 6 months first to get a feel for it, it's not like a few weeks holiday after a few years. Look at all the brainwashing crap over the past couple of weeks, the endless corruption, the stupidity and the slaughter on the roads, sickening.
    Perhaps you have a different perspective to a new arrival. I know peeps that have lived there for only a short while who enjoy it - as did I for the first year or two. They don't know of this "old charm" you speak of so don't miss what they never had.

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    • #17
      Ignore the naysayers. Thailand is a great place despite having many issues. No more than the UK that is a fact. You'll do fine so long as you don't hook up with a cheap bar girl and stick to the ground floor on any condominium you might end up in!

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      • #18
        Originally posted by Jesus Jones View Post
        Thailand is a great place despite having many issues. No more than the UK that is a fact.
        I wouldn't go that far. I rate life in the UK as a steady 8/10 year after year. If it had a Gibraltar climate that would change to 9/10.

        My first year in Thailand scored about the same, then it went down by one point for each of the five years I lived there. I stayed a couple of years too long.

        If someone rates their native country lower then they'll probably find Thailand to be pleasant for several years longer than I did. And those that stay longer than a decade often seem to never leave, possibly because they lose the will (because it's the only place that feels like home) or ability to.

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        • #19
          I'm not talking about retirees there BTW. I can see good reasons for retiring there - although I'd probably choose Penang.

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          • #20
            Originally posted by Palace View Post
            Thanks.

            I feel like I might be missing an obvious joke, but why "Buffalo Board"?
            Well, actually, to me, it's the New Buffalo Board because, after being on TeakDoor for some time, I started using the greeting, "Welcome to the Buffalo Board" for that forum...

            When I first started here, I just wanted to continue the "tradition," but I added the New part since the forum was new to me...And it's a different forum...

            Someone asked me the same question on TD, so I started a thread on the subject and it yielded some good discussion...

            Some actually thought it was demeaning because a falang can be seen as a buffalo in Thailand and that may not be a good thing...Hence they interpreted the Buffalo Board as a forum for foreign fools, perhaps...

            But it's not meant that way...Firstly, I really like buffalo, especially the North American descendants of the Asian version...We luckily still have the majestic beasts around in spite of their decimating slaughter many years ago...

            The vision of the shaggy behemoths on a dark early morning standing still, smoking in their own steam at temperatures below minus 40, like some ancient apparitions, is still in my mind...

            Anything connected to the buffalo intrigues me...One might think of the Indians of yore who relied fairly heavily on the beast for a myriad of purposes...Everything from food and shelter to using the tail as a fly swatter...

            It's a neutral greeting of welcome...And synonymous with Thailand, in a way...If I were to choose a name for a forum, you know what it would be...The Buffalo Board, of course...You heard it here first, as they say...

            There is a Thai saying: "Playing the violin for the buffalo to listen to"...

            Loosely translated, it means you're talking to a fool and you may as well be wasting good music on the buffalo...Heh...

            But I also see it as "soothing conversation" for the beast...And if I played the violin I'd give it a try...It wouldn't surprise me if they were a better audience...

            Anyway, cheers...

            And again, welcome...

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            • #21
              Originally posted by Palace View Post
              I plan to spend the first 6 months to a year in either Krabi or Phuket. Then move to another location (Chiang Mai?) to get a feel for what it's like to live there.
              Nice.

              I'd spent a month in a monthly rental apartment, rent a bike etc. Get to know the place, etc, and look at places for a 12 month contract.

              Once you have that sorted and you're all moved in, I'd look at Air Asia, Nok Air etc, and look at their promotions and book a few weeks away in various places, a week in CM one month, a week in wherever the next. Check out Vietnam, Bali, the Philippines for a week each at least.

              nice little breaks from Phuket and Thailand, whilst slowly going over your next move.

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              • #22
                Your Christian name wouldn't be Crystal by any chance ?

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                • #23
                  A PM seems more appropriate for that question.

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by Exexpat View Post
                    I wouldn't go that far. I rate life in the UK as a steady 8/10 year after year. If it had a Gibraltar climate that would change to 9/10.

                    My first year in Thailand scored about the same, then it went down by one point for each of the five years I lived there. I stayed a couple of years too long.

                    If someone rates their native country lower then they'll probably find Thailand to be pleasant for several years longer than I did. And those that stay longer than a decade often seem to never leave, possibly because they lose the will (because it's the only place that feels like home) or ability to.

                    Everyone has a different story and really depends on the life you expect and make of it.

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by Exexpat View Post
                      A PM seems more appropriate for that question.
                      Someone missed the joke.

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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by Jesus Jones View Post
                        Everyone has a different story and really depends on the life you expect and make of it.
                        What do you mean? I didn't go to Thailand looking for a permanent new home country, and didn't expect it to be or try to make it be.

                        As time went on and I got to know the place, I liked it less and less as somewhere to call home. I stick to winter visits for a couple of months max these days.

                        I've always thought that the only working age westerners that would settle there for decades are those for whom things didn't work out in the west and/or have little reason to return to the west.

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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by Jose View Post
                          Someone missed the joke.
                          Clearly not a football fan

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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by Exexpat View Post
                            What do you mean?
                            I guess he means: Everyone has a different story and really depends on the life you expect and make of it.

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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by Dan View Post
                              To what? Log in to this forum and so see what you've been posting, you moon-faced cvnt? Yes, a little.
                              Mmm 🎎 I can see 🔬 why you don't 💣 want to be 🏩 associated ⏰

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