What Hua hin REALLY needs is....

Post by **Big Boy** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 1:10 am

bunthom,

You don't want much do you?

Its all readily available in the UK

(most of the time)

Seriously, although some of your needs are desirable, and maybe in time they will be achievable - if you got them all at once, Hua Hin would lose its character.

Post by **Norseman** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 2:07 am

Agree with BB.
This is Thailand - and not "glossy" Europe.
You better get used to the rugged ground as soon as possible or it will drive you nuts.
Hopefully we'll see some improvements within the next 5 decades.

Post by **BaaBaa.** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:50 pm

TAXI METERS.

Post by **essbee** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:12 pm

People that don't complain!!

Post by **richard** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 2:22 pm

Bungtom

Dream on

TIT!

Post by **bendix** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 8:26 pm

I like someone's suggestion of a good english language HH newspaper. If Pattaya can have one, why not Hua Hin? Even though Pattaya may have more farangs than Hua Hin, I'd hazard a guess that Hua Hin has more than can actually read . . .

Good business idea that. I'll add it to my list for when I arrive in a couple of month's time.

Post by **DawnHRD** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 9:51 pm

bendix wrote:I like someone's suggestion of a good english language HH newspaper. If Pattaya can have one, why not Hua Hin? Even though Pattaya may have more farangs than Hua Hin, I'd hazard a guess that Hua Hin has more than can actually read . . .

Good business idea that. I'll add it to my list for when I arrive in a couple of month's time.

The problem is, that if you write the wrong things about the wrong people you don't have a paper anymore...

Post by **buksida** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 10:05 pm

DawnHHDRC wrote: The problem is, that if you write the wrong things about the wrong people you don't have a paper anymore...

And if you're a farang you might not have a visa either.

This has been tried a number of times and has failed all of them. Some things just "cannot" be reported on here, its a small town and there are too many powerful people with too many vested interests in it.

Post by **gooze** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 9:25 am

1. Enforced traffic regulations relating to motorcyles (No enforcement for cars is OK then)
2. Completion of the road beside the railway track (currently blocked by squaters) (They are not squatters they have been living on that land donkeys years)
3. Guranteed supply of clean water (drill your own well)
4. Drainage for floods (if you have a few hundred million $ this could be done)
5. Obvious road works completed (Obvious maybe to you)
6. New, properly equipped schools( beleive this problem is being addressed)
7. Sufficient telephone lines (would be nice a new digital exchange has been planned)
8. A thoughtful town plan (including zoning) with political nerve to implement without filling their own pockets (There is zonning all be it a little crude)
9. Honest police (ha bloody ha)
10 A good local English newspaper (say, weekly).(maybe the lads from Hua Hin today would like to comment on that one)

Derrr, if your requirements are so westernised Bunthom why do you choose to live in Asia?.

Next thing you will be requiring a democratically elected government and a law change that prohibits working girls!.Lord forbid that you ever get your wishes.

Not to mention smoking free bars as well. Is that a further requirement of yours?.

We could MOT cars and ban people having fun.

Part of the fun of living here is that it is not like the west.

TIT

Post by **Wanderlust** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 9:48 am

Well said, gooze!

Post by **redzonerocker** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:42 pm

100%.

Post by **STEVE G** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 3:26 pm

Just do as I do and spend a couple of weeks in Issan every now and again, then when you get back to Hua Hin you can marvel at how advanced it is. Youâ€™ve got roads, water and even telephones and you donâ€™t spend half your day in traffic jams caused by herds of Kwai wandering all over your mud track or trying to stop the neighbours cow from eating your garden. Iâ€™m not joking about that either, the day after we had some turf laid last year one of the farmers decided to graze his cows on it.

Post by **usual suspect** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 8:19 pm

Thanks Steve G.
I've juss been to Isaan for a 'family' visit, and after a few days there
it was good to be driving back here to HH.
So I guess my original post was out of order and I should accept the
little glitches that HH life chucks at me.....still, some good points have been raised...cheers you lot.

Post by **richard** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 10:49 pm

Hear Hear

A couple of weeks in Isaan will make you think

I've been doing it for 5 years now

Why change Thai culture and accelerate westernisation?

Post by **GLCQuantum** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 12:15 am

Is it possible that in trying to adapt to a country and improve certain aspects of the country we are NOT talking about complete "Westernisation"!!!!

I for one have no intention of staying here if "Amazing Thailand" becomes "Amazing Thailand (run by farang laws.....now)"

I love Thailand for what it is, for the diversity of personalities and nationalities that you will meet and for the suprise sights you are given every day.

Yet there are many circumstances where you can either accept a "Mai pen rai" or actually try to contribute (GOD FORBID!!) to a better living environment within Hua Hin, yet, without trying to turn it into the place where we were all in a hurry to get away from some time ago.

It seems there are quite a few members whose responses on these topics achieve as far as " if you don't like it, piss off" ( Yes, that is you Mr R******)

There is not one of us who could change anything dramatically here, or want to, but there are some smaller problems which some improvement could be possible, and in particular, cause less deaths on the road.

Hear Hear..... Why try to change the flow of Hua Hin and reduce road deaths?

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