Hua Hin Forum

In a place like HH, for long term foreigners the terms Ex-pat and Immigrant may be interchangeable. But in cities where most foreigners are there for work, the terms are quite different. The typical ex-pat is there on a company contract, recruited and brought out by them, often with a BIG benefits ...

Speaking from the viewpoint of a retiree I feel the biggest benefit is to experience a new and exciting chapter in my life. The weather also is a huge plus. The cost of living also helps but I suppose the government will catch on eventually and bump up the taxes. Healthcare I find here is excellent...

The biggest benefit in being an expat ( I despise that term) is that I can leave. Expat is a term that a lot of other immigrants feel is caucasians giving themselves airs. Indians I know snigger at it or find it annoying. TBH I feel 'what's in a name'; Indians, Pakistanis, anyone can call themselve...

RIP

Life is not really held sacred (except in name only) in so many countries, not just here. The amount of money spend on safety in a lot of Western countries is huge, companies are forced by law to do it. Not sure that could ever happen here?

BB please don't take offence I wasn't calling you in particular a nazi! I was just referring to the very vigilant roles that admins take in keeping threads on topic. Just tongue in cheek. Yes it was a jest, really. :) And 'farang'? No issue with it, as said above it's just descriptive unless said wi...

Thanks, I'll take a look too. You may notice VM is usually pretty empty compared to other supermarkets. They have an excellent range of imported goods but it's the prices...

It'll be a few years before the pound/dollar recovers properly after the dust settles from what's going on atm in both places but it's certainly true about how good the lifestyle was back in the day here. This was one of the best things about being an expat here back then as to live a comparable li...

Seems a bit harsh to allocate so much of it to long distance travel?

...crowing about how cheap everything is. :) Hm, thats why there are no expats from my country... it is not cheap at all for my countrymen... But weather is better maybe! Thailand is so much cheaper than the places I lived before, I can't get over it yet. I wish I'd been here a few years ago when r...

And are there places along the Prachuap coast where you can view live coral just by walking out into the sea with a facemask (not swimming/snorkelling over them)? Sorry if I'm ignorant, but would like to spend a bit more time doing that sort of thing. Yes, there is a bay in Bangsaphan called Bo Tho...

Where did all the water go? http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30321841 Breaking News July 26, 2017 11:52 By The Nation In a phenomenon seen only once every 18 years, the tide level dropped dramatically along the Prachuap Khiri Khan shore on Tuesday afternoon, revealing the sea bed...

Making everyone back home sick with my tax-free idle life in the sun, and crowing about how cheap everything is.

Oops, sorry BB

My mistake on the geography, yes Uruguay/Argentine border.
Your other points are all trolling nonsense. And please get back to 'Pies of Hua Hin' before the thread nazis start in on you.

forgive if I am wrong but I though this topic was about UK pies, are Fray Bentos products not of Uruguay decent. also you would not want to know what goes in these pies, they used to corn beef pies during WW2 , made of a cows head only What a lot of bull (see what I did there people?..). You are wr...