101 reasons to love living in Hua Hin

[wenshidi]

I saw someone start a similar list for another location on another forum and they had reached 101 in no time.

I wonder if GZ has so much to offer that we can achieve the same results here.

Let me start the ball rolling with a few of my favourites.

1. Cheap public transport. Sonthaews around town, mini buses up to BKK and the train to the other provinces.

2. Fabulous seafood all year round.

3. Polite schoolchildren, a seemingly extinct species back in the west.

4. Exotic fresh fruit at cheap prices, from longan to snakefruit, from sapadillos to breadfruit, I love the healthy lifestyle.

5. Thai smiles, making my day, every day of the year.

6. New Makro in Bor Fai, great choice and great prices, and no I am not a stock holder

OK, so that is six from me, now over to you and lets see how long it takes to get to 101......

[jingjoe]

7. been able to smile at a girl/woman in a shopping centre,without being thought of as a pervert or dirty old man
8. cheap fresh seafood,especially around khao kalok
9. paying 300bht($10) for a massage wow
10. listening to my thai wife asking me for some penis,when she actually means peanuts,makes me laugh

[Bristolian]

11. Good Choice of restaurants
12. Clean air (after living in Bangkok)
13. Great weather for most of the year
14. Easy commuting distance to Bangkok (if needed)
15. Listening to my Thai wife talk of "Queen A Little Bit" (Elizabeth) and her confusion when I reply “No ......Queen A Lot”

[bonnielass]

16. Warm rain
17. Beautiful trees and flowers
18. Happy, smiling Thai people.

BL

[bonnielass]

19.cheap beer
20. Fantastic Thai food

[Big Boy]

21. It's where my grand children live.

[lomuamart]

22. It's where I've lived for a long time.
With it's ups and downs, it's still a reasonable place to live.

[sandemb]

23. Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott don't live there!!

[Big Boy]

24. No mortgage
25. No work, even better, not allowed to work.

[sandemb]

26. If you want a beer with your breakfast, you can get! Not going to be told "we can't serve alcohol until 10am"!
PS, it does make your cornflakes a bit soggy!!

[MrPlum]

27. Street food. Small moms and pops can start up without having to jump through legal and administrative hoops
28. Fantastic enthusiasm of schoolchildren when they have sports days and cheer-leading events. Very colourful.
29. Cheap Thai Massage
31. Incredible range of useful herbs
32. Decent healthcare facilities
33. Cheap fuel
34. Lack of government repression, despite the number of uniforms.
35. Cheap fines for motoring offences

[sandemb]

36. If you don't want to clean your house - you don't have to.

[Big Boy]

[quote="MrPlum"]
33. Cheap fuel

definitely - I forgot that one

[T.I.G.R.]

Cheap Fuel?? Not at $5.95 U.S. a gallon!

[T.I.G.R.]

I'll include Cha Am since the commercial world seems to think Cha Am and Hua Hin are the same place anyway:

37 - Best looking women anywhere
38 - Lots of great golf - Every day all year, even when it's raining.
39 - Wet markets
40 - Night Markets
41 - Lots of beaches with easy access
42 - Thai Dancers at celebrations
43 - Fireworks all year long
44 - Best Pineapple in the world
45 - Beautiful Thai music (not the live kind)
46 - No police on your tail every time you look, virtually no traffic laws or speed limits
47 - No earthquakes, no volcanoes, no floods or Tsunamis, no forest fires, no cyclones or hurricanes
48 - No fog, no snow, no sleet, no blizzards, no hail
49 - Very inexpensive labor available any time for anything
50 - No property taxes