GLCQuantum wrote:Ken. P wrote:because most of what you say seems to be thinking about your-self
Don't really get what you mean here. The way I read it is most of what I am saying is thinking about the Thai people.
Of course it's about you, this minor hang up you have with a certain type of 'farang-village' dweller has got you making all kinds of incorrect (imo) generalizations about the type of people that live there and nonsense about not being able to integrate with Thais as a result. Sure many of them don't want to 'integrate' bar a chit-chat with their favourite waitress at the local restaurant, but I see zero to get bothered about with these types, they are no trouble to anyone and are of benefit to Thais with their spending, to me this is far better than trying to integrate, hitting that wall and spending the rest of your days on message boards whining about how the nasty Thais won't change their ways to suit you. You get younger non-family farangs on these estates, those with Thai/farang families, older retirees with farang wife and they're probably doing more integrating 'neighborhood-wise' when one of the wives has them over for dinner than you or me will living outside an estate. I never talk to the neighbours bar a 'hello', the Thais I do 'integrate' with when at home are wife's family/friends that come over. And no doubt this would be no different if I was on a village, or at least not aware that any of them have any prejudices against gates and sleeping security guards
My guess is your 'thing' is with the 4x4 driving, obnoxious & up-emselves crowd you've had to deal with at work, and there we'd be on the same wavelength, I've seen them all at Yam-saard the maniacs
Most live on these estates as they feel comfortable and safe with familiar surroundings, plus that is where maybe 90% of the 'Western standard' houses are located, that could play a role!! And re: "
living and thinking like they did in the country they came from which is criminal when you become a guest in someone elses country" ... so if living outside one makes us feel more a part of the Thai community then why on earth would we want to join a British-style pool league hanging out in farang bars and over karaoke the minute we arrive here?... personally speaking it was the familiar surroundings of my fellow countrymen plus the cheese & pickle sandwiches. You?
GLCQuantum wrote:Ken. P wrote:Farang villages (as you put it) offer one form or another of security for ladies living alone.
Possibly the worst place you could stick a woman living alone IMHO for various reason which should be obvious.
As with integrating it's nothing to do with location but attitude imho, if the wife still has the flash car, the same expensive electrical contents (laptops, phones, camera, rabbits etc) in the house and same gold around her neck then she'd still be targetted, and more chance of getting noticed by the local thieves. Thai thieves aren't prejudiced either, it's not some fad that came in 8 years ago with farang estates. This thing about how
'I've gone all native and get down with the locals' maybe be cool and all that but when someone's saying it in a farang bar with a face full of bintaburger it's just code for
'yeah I'd like me own house but I didn't stay working long enough for one at home'. Those that are actually happy and content renting as that's what best suits their lifestyle, plans etc don't feel the need to rant, their quite content.
I totally agree with you though that many of the estates are too cramped, with too many houses, using cack materials like blue roof tiles (so buy a larger property on a luxury estate then), but I think you'd be struggling to explain how a typical Thai house is any less crap
I'd also agree that a staggering disproportianate number of farangs here have quite worrying personality disorders that must border class A retardation, but surely that's more the personality than the property!? I don't know whether random generalizations are an early symptom of the above or not, but if you do home-tutoring for a 4 year old under 400B/hr, please pm me.
SJ
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