Bazoo wrote:As a tourist I find some of comments in here totally unacceptable, firstly I am here with my wife and whilst some of you behave in a particular way does not mean all of our morals are equal. we are not sex tourists, we are here for the 5th time and enjoy everything the area has to offer.
As for the comment regarding the volume of tourists and wanting to move - maybe you should do just that. This is a tourist town. We spend copious amount of money here willingly and I would hope that the way we freely spend our cash is appreciated.
I really had to edit myself there because one day I will move here
Interesting comments, not because they're being heard for the first time, but because they come from a new member and an infrequent poster who both feel strongly enough to get quite cross.eatuae wrote:I find it amazing that some of the people who post on here actually live in Hua Hin
They seem to moan about everything Thai
If they don't like it get out this is their country their rules that we should live by
Go back to your home countries if you don't lime it
Sorry but needed to be said
"we are not sex tourists"
Of course not, though there are plenty about. Plenty of ordinary tourists who indulge in an occasional naughty massage, I dare say. There are quite a few 'sexpats' too, I imagine.
As advised by others, ignore pretty much anything GLCQ posts, as do most of us who've been around for a while. If this forum was a medieval village (and there are times when it feels like it!), he'd spend most of his time in the stocks. I'm reliably informed he has a brain, but unfortunately he hasn't figured out the instructions yet.
"we are here for the 5th time and enjoy everything the area has to offer"
Presumably not quite everything...
The moaners... <sigh>
This is such an old chestnut.
There are quite a few people who enjoy living here full-time or part-time for one reason or another. Most are retired and live in what are almost expat compounds ("gated communities"). A surprising number of them seem to expect 1st-world standards and infrastructure in a (slowly) developing country and can get quite irritable when things go wrong, which they often do.
Moans include driving standards, the state of the roads, the price of beer, being charged for ice, poor service, power cuts, internet connection, dual pricing, Indian tailors, ladyboys, schools... I could go on, but I think I've offended quite enough forum members as it is!
The usual suspects are quite regularly seen to be complaining about one thing or another - I've even been known to indulge in a little moan myself, though mine are of course always justified, moderate and perfectly reasonable.
Quite a few members have been around for 20 years or so and like to reminisce fondly about the days when HH was a quiet little village with no farang tourists, lots of fishing boats and the occasional monkey. What they overlook (aside from the fact that memory can be deceiving) is that since half of them opened bars, they helped to start the tourist trend. Nor, I'm sure, would most of them now survive a week without access to the internet and decent sausages...
The simple fact is that complaining is human nature. I don't suppose HH is any different in that respect from any other expat community in any country of the world.
And there is, of course, a certain irony in moaning about moaners!
One of the things you need to spend any length of time in Thailand is tolerance, and that seems to be a dwindling quality amongst both farang and Thai.
It seems to me that someone is just as entitled to express their opinion that there are too many tourists and they are thinking of moving (as quite a few have), as the next person is to say that he enjoys the benefits that tourists bring (restaurants, shopping facilities, rising prices, double parking, idiots on motorcys, a plethora of floating markets... ).
[Mods, I realise this is off topic, but there's really only so much that can be said about bar closures which happen 2-3 times every year. Feel free to move it if necessary.]