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Discussion 32 : 01/02/2012 at 11:44 PM32
Is Thailand really getting worse or are we getting older? Not moving with the times?
If any other brits here are reading this, just think in the Uk now that its cold. The department of health expects approimately 1,500 elderly people to die in a week and each week during the cold spell.
Thats because of the government, increased prices both in food and utilities, but what do they do with pensions? Perhaps the Uk government should be charged with murder? genocide?
Even if it is getting worse count yourselves lucky that you do not live in the UK.Discussion 31 : 01/02/2012 at 07:10 PM31
Johninbkk #27 wrote: “the government is one big mess” I never thought I would read anything like that from YOU. I will keep this in mind and quote you in the future – thanks!
Discussion 30 : 01/02/2012 at 12:26 PM30
SIRRON D25: Allowing for some humor I would say every home has five or six cell phones too many....
Discussion 29 : 01/02/2012 at 12:19 PM29
The results speak for themselves .
Discussion 28 : 01/02/2012 at 11:48 AM28
D21:
There was no traffic jam in BKK up until the early '60s, not too many could afford a car then.
I was staying in a house right off Sukhumvit road near soi 77, surrounded by rice fields !
My host was working for the Dept of Mineral & Natural Resources at the time and I was privileged to have been taken around Thailand and enjoyed this little paradise before there was much of anything modern.
"Progress" allowed me to sit on a hilltop sandbag bunker at 20° 7'59.06"N - 99° 9'35.19"E and trade US securities on my iPhone while looking over a Shan State outpost.
But I would rather trade all that for the old Pattaya beach any day.Discussion 27 : 01/02/2012 at 11:46 AM27
The survey might just reflect the complaining nature of us farang who love to live here, and not the actual conditions of Thailand . . . the 3rd world charm of Thailand has given away to modern development - something bad for those who came here to avoid modern life. Sure, the government is one big mess, but with a coup every 4 years and military massacres every 10 since 1932 . . . when has it not been a mess?
Discussion 26 : 01/02/2012 at 09:02 AM26
BETTER
Better if you are an ordinary Thai, worse if you are one of the better off who enjoyed a privileged lifestyle base upon the exploitation of ordinary workers.
The democratic process has bested the military and the pressure to allow freedom of speech is growing. It will take some time and maybe some more deaths, but in the foreseeable future democracy will win.Discussion 25 : 01/02/2012 at 12:16 AM25
Some better some worse after two decades in the village where I live. Only two Yais still spin Thai silk from the worms they feed and gather. That's a minor thing but has always been very faciniating for me to behold and admire. Progress, as Khun drake says, has paved some of the dirt roads, provided piped Klong water to most homes and now every home has at least one cell phone. No one's come to use my phone in years. People still know how and do live off farming and gathering from the fields, forests and klongs, however.
Discussion 24 : 31/01/2012 at 10:44 PM24
Disc 17 - You missed one. He cut the military budget 5 years in a row.
Discussion 23 : 31/01/2012 at 05:12 PM23
Khun morgo #17 - Precisely, I agreed with u.
