Give me a home where the buffalo roam

[PeteC]

A good story, but a very sad story. I post the link only as many photos and a good video at the link. Pete

http://www.bangkokpost.com/feature/cult ... ffalo-roam

[Spitfire]

Yeah, we have mentioned the content of that report on the forum before, the rural lifestyle as it has been for a long time is under threat. The report is quite right about nobody wanting to be farmers any more. The villages are full of the very young, the very old and those that simply can't leave, everyone that can pretty much does.

The small holding farms and family land is being tilled by the 50 and over age group, kids aren't interested in it, they want degrees/Honda Civics/malls and Facebook etc.

Give it 20 years and many of these villages will be surprisingly quiet. The parents of these kids in the rural area see a college education as the only way for their children to escape the same fate as them, put the land in the bank/keep on borrowing to pay the fees to give them a different future.

Of course not all do this, but way more than there ever has been before. Education here in Thailand seems to have proven itself a recession proof industry.

It's amazing how much land in Thailand is in the bank and has had money borrowed against it for this sort of end.