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Originally Posted by M & M
You are so right Nicke...there's really no such thing as paradise...but LOS is about as close to it as we're going to get...and much better than our boring lives at home!
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Boring???? I don't know what you do with you life Marcia but mine isn't boring at all.
I like to go fishing, ride my motorbike, go sailing, go into the city, have lunch with my friends (who all speak very good English) work in my garden, take road trips, walk on beaches that aren't visually polluted with umbrellas and beach chairs, go snow skiing, know that I pay the same price as everyone else for entry to parks, museums, etc.
When I go to Thailand I stay in Kamala. For sure I don't have any problems walking around day or night. However, once I went to visit my g/f's family in some sh*t hole a couple of hours outside of Bangkok. There wasn't a lot of happy people living there and I was told not to walk around by myself at night.
I guess if I was from a cold European country Thailand would seem like paradise to me but I prefer a place where I know the government is stable, the is an opportunity to earn a decent living, the beaches, rain forest, jungles are as good as any, people are valued and have safety nets if life dishes them a tough hand, corruption, although it exists, is not rampant, the garbage gets collected and the sewers don't stink.
I like Thailand and enjoy what it has got to offer but it's the country that I live in (inlcuding the state of New Zealand just joking) that has given me the opportunity to do this and, after many visits to LOS it is, to me, a great place to visit but I wouldn't like to live there permanently.
Steve.