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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2016 9:31:19 GMT 7
So there I was, traveling along a remote road, when our car passed through a hamlet. Sitting outside a smart looking bungalow was a farang guy, looking at two older people. I coudn't see the fourth person in the company, I'll assume it was his wife.
The farang was sitting with his shirt off, showing off his sixty-plus year old body and fading tattoos. Living in a village of nothing, surrounded by nothing, I hope he likes nothingness.
But maybe he's not isolated? Maybe he's fluent in Thai and Isaan - and loving life in the backwaters. To me, the ability to communicate with the locals would be paramount if I chose to live in an Isaan village, ( which will never happen ).
The key is language skill - and there are way too many farangs out there that have lived in Thailand for years who have made zero effort to learn the language. I think that's shameful. Then again, these are the same types who will hit online forums and rail about immigration to their ex-countries. The idea, for example, that a foreigner could live in the UK without learning English would have them spluttering with rage.
So - Mister-Shirtless-Man- Sitting-Outside-Your-Smart-Bungalow-Showing-Off-Your-Fading Tattoos.
I hope you are loving life, and can at least communicate to a certain extent with the locals. And I hope you never feel the sense of isolation that haunts so many farang expatriates in Thailand.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2016 15:04:35 GMT 7
Would he have moved out there if he didn't enjoy the country life you think?
I know a Norwegian guy who lives in a remote area. Can't speak much Thai and minimal English. I asked does he enjoy living so rural? He says it's nowhere near as quiet as the village in Norway.
For me I go nuts after 1 week max. I'm a city slicker.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2016 17:26:05 GMT 7
Would he have moved out there if he didn't enjoy the country life you think? I know a Norwegian guy who lives in a remote area. Can't speak much Thai and minimal English. I asked does he enjoy living so rural? He says it's nowhere near as quiet as the village in Norway. For me I go nuts after 1 week max. I'm a city slicker. Norwegians are nuts. Used to be the poorest country in Western Europe until they found oil, and now they retire at twenty-five and go hanging around weird places for the rest of their lives. The only people I know who are more nuts than Norwegians are the Finnish. Mad, they are, mad. Yes, I get it that some folk enjoy the quiet life. Pottering about in the garden, in God's Waiting Room - good on them, and I hope the subject of this OP is happy.
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Post by Mérovingien on Feb 3, 2016 21:08:09 GMT 7
Perhaps we could release Frank there under the witness protection programme if he ever gets out for good behaviour.
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Post by onionluke on Feb 3, 2016 21:31:58 GMT 7
A life in a moment.
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Post by rgs2001uk on Feb 3, 2016 23:12:55 GMT 7
Would he have moved out there if he didn't enjoy the country life you think? I know a Norwegian guy who lives in a remote area. Can't speak much Thai and minimal English. I asked does he enjoy living so rural? He says it's nowhere near as quiet as the village in Norway. For me I go nuts after 1 week max. I'm a city slicker. Norwegians are nuts. Used to be the poorest country in Western Europe until they found oil, and now they retire at twenty-five and go hanging around weird places for the rest of their lives. The only people I know who are more nuts than Norwegians are the Finnish. Mad, they are, mad. Yes, I get it that some folk enjoy the quiet life. Pottering about in the garden, in God's Waiting Room - good on them, and I hope the subject of this OP is happy. The highlight of the week, getting on the boozer cruiser from Kristiansand to Finland for a weekend on the p**s. One of the most expensive places I have ever visited. 25 years ago I was given 80 quid per day per diem, that was hotel paid for, pint of beer 5 quid, big mac fries and coke 10 quid. Beuatiful country, check out Bodo for those Northern lights, no wonder they smoke dope and brew up at home.
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Post by bowie on Feb 4, 2016 14:20:18 GMT 7
He was happier on his old age pension in Glasgow worthless scum.
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Post by me on Feb 4, 2016 14:28:41 GMT 7
Perhaps we could release Frank there under the witness protection programme if he ever gets out for good behaviour. frank could never get out based on good behavior....but then the sam could be said for many here
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Post by smokie36 on Feb 4, 2016 17:25:09 GMT 7
Is it better to spend each day as though it were your last or tend your small piece of the world and live in a little magical spot? Different for all of us...to have options I think is the key to real happiness.
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Post by wildoats on Feb 4, 2016 17:42:46 GMT 7
Is it better to spend each day as though it were your last or tend your small piece of the world and live in a little magical spot? Different for all of us...to have options I think is the key to real happiness. I'd like to spend each day knowing that I have a bright and substantive future. Also knowing that, no matter how many I drink, there is always one last coldie (beer) in the fridge of my dreams.
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Post by wildoats on Feb 4, 2016 17:55:15 GMT 7
BTW, money doesn't make you happy. But better to have some, then little, or worse ... none.
The right amount seems to be more then you need, but a bit less then you want.
As smokie alludes to above, money just simply gives you options.
I don't want to be a billionaire so friggin' bad.
Having that much (a billion anything) would just skew my priorities and I'm happy the course my compass has set.
We had little as kids, no-one owned a car till my older sister bought one when she was 18.
I used to mow lawns to earn a crust when I was at school.
A touch of humility is a good thing. .
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Post by onionluke on Feb 4, 2016 20:46:36 GMT 7
Is it better to spend each day as though it were your last or tend your small piece of the world and live in a little magical spot? Different for all of us...to have options I think is the key to real happiness. I still don't know the answer to that question although I encapsulste both life choices. As a man who's life is often tied together with magic string I firmly beleive one maketh one's own luck. Having built into the issan village myself i know there are bountiful times and hard droughts ahead as there were in the past.
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Post by onionluke on Feb 4, 2016 21:46:42 GMT 7
It's happening in the city.
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Post by rgs2001uk on Feb 4, 2016 22:57:39 GMT 7
Hooky on bass, utterly brilliant.
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Post by onionluke on Feb 4, 2016 23:01:13 GMT 7
oh yes
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