LOL how do you know about the cockroaches part lol, I called my private pension providers that yesterday to my solicitor, he repeated it, but they are no better, ticks/tiks is more like it, sucking the life out of us.
Has it changed that much? I did witness Pattaya change rapidly, I liked it more the way it was, bars in dirt, side of the road, then everything went bigger, supposedly better, concrete this, concrete that, high rise, investment, not my cup of tea, like Singapore, not my idea of fun, simple is better, I offered the wife a month in Bali, she said no, so guess this next trip will be solo, and then I will get the guilt trip after, even though I offered, such is life hey.
Haven't been in ages - from photos looks like Hua Hin now. One reason I stayed here was the vague incompetence, amusing corruption - felt very much like Sicily - but when it started getting serious started to feel like almost-Burma. If I was making the same decisions then, as now, I wouldn't have stayed. Prob to Chile or Argentina - language much easier too.
The analogy was purely animal farmesque ;-)
yeah, have a small plot, but really in the wrong area - am looking elsewhere now - takes time to just drive around and investigate stuff - real estate here is slow, unless one doesn't care much about paying over the odds.
So much land still without any real deed - pathetic.
Maybe it needed to go through a cycle like it has, I left when I did not like it anymore, the police were corrupt, every authority figure was, like I said about Kenny Reese and his 1.5 million Baht fine for daring to sell on eBay. That did me, I was off then, if they do not want me, I do not want them, Bali it is then.
Especially if u have any kinda biz! Then it's hell. I still have almost nothing in my name.
The comparison with Sicily was not frivolous - been there, great place, but living there!! I asked some profs I got to know - they said was not fun - pay govscum then pay mafiascum too (same people, sometimes), nothing works without some extra kickback... sound familiar!?
What was funny, we met the mayor of Palermo, at one of his residences - maybe he chose it for effect - riddled with bullet holes - he must have had a dozen fully armed guards - don't think we looked all that dangerous! Mind you, even the univ campus had armed guards patrolling.
"pay govscum then pay mafiascum too (same people, sometimes), nothing works without some extra kickback... sound familiar!?" Yes, and even when I lived in Spain 8 years ago, Spain worked like that, so did Thailand, Bali and to some extent here, but on a micro-scale here.
Bali rocks, you just make it up there by the day, it is like Pattaya used to be, minus whores, it rocks man, but if needed they have a cafe where girls sit and drink your drink, scantily clad, but you can only look, not touch, their rules not mine.
I spent 2 months there, back in ....er.....2000 -ish...no...96 ish ...Was ok, but not my fave place to chill (few weeks in kuta then traveled to ...wherever...I can't remember now)....Indonesia food not my fave.
lol. "Falang infects local cockroaches with omfg-variant!"
LOL how do you know about the cockroaches part lol, I called my private pension providers that yesterday to my solicitor, he repeated it, but they are no better, ticks/tiks is more like it, sucking the life out of us.
You'd be welcome here but... not sure you'll like the place now.
Pension - what's that? lmao.
Has it changed that much? I did witness Pattaya change rapidly, I liked it more the way it was, bars in dirt, side of the road, then everything went bigger, supposedly better, concrete this, concrete that, high rise, investment, not my cup of tea, like Singapore, not my idea of fun, simple is better, I offered the wife a month in Bali, she said no, so guess this next trip will be solo, and then I will get the guilt trip after, even though I offered, such is life hey.
Haven't been in ages - from photos looks like Hua Hin now. One reason I stayed here was the vague incompetence, amusing corruption - felt very much like Sicily - but when it started getting serious started to feel like almost-Burma. If I was making the same decisions then, as now, I wouldn't have stayed. Prob to Chile or Argentina - language much easier too.
Like, I can accept living in a sheep farm, but it really sucks when the shepherd turns up.
Nout wrong with a farm bro, if you own it :-)
The analogy was purely animal farmesque ;-)
yeah, have a small plot, but really in the wrong area - am looking elsewhere now - takes time to just drive around and investigate stuff - real estate here is slow, unless one doesn't care much about paying over the odds.
So much land still without any real deed - pathetic.
Maybe it needed to go through a cycle like it has, I left when I did not like it anymore, the police were corrupt, every authority figure was, like I said about Kenny Reese and his 1.5 million Baht fine for daring to sell on eBay. That did me, I was off then, if they do not want me, I do not want them, Bali it is then.
Especially if u have any kinda biz! Then it's hell. I still have almost nothing in my name.
The comparison with Sicily was not frivolous - been there, great place, but living there!! I asked some profs I got to know - they said was not fun - pay govscum then pay mafiascum too (same people, sometimes), nothing works without some extra kickback... sound familiar!?
What was funny, we met the mayor of Palermo, at one of his residences - maybe he chose it for effect - riddled with bullet holes - he must have had a dozen fully armed guards - don't think we looked all that dangerous! Mind you, even the univ campus had armed guards patrolling.
"pay govscum then pay mafiascum too (same people, sometimes), nothing works without some extra kickback... sound familiar!?" Yes, and even when I lived in Spain 8 years ago, Spain worked like that, so did Thailand, Bali and to some extent here, but on a micro-scale here.
"Falang tries to open a 2 stroke engine, fetish club...."
"2 stroke" does sound like an entertainment club.
You best get your best dancing shoes on buddy, we got a month or partying to do, even if it is in Bali, Asiaair is cheap so is Bali :-)
Ah, by that, I take it you mean.... " best get out your rolling tackle buddy, we got a month of sitting around and doing fuck all, to do..."
Me no speaky english very good......
Bali rocks, you just make it up there by the day, it is like Pattaya used to be, minus whores, it rocks man, but if needed they have a cafe where girls sit and drink your drink, scantily clad, but you can only look, not touch, their rules not mine.
I spent 2 months there, back in ....er.....2000 -ish...no...96 ish ...Was ok, but not my fave place to chill (few weeks in kuta then traveled to ...wherever...I can't remember now)....Indonesia food not my fave.
Well that counts you out then, looks like a solo trip, yippee, my fav.
I'm a boring fucker, I know...