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Originally Posted by frogblogger
I agree, it was one of the reasons why I wanted to leave France, it was getting too much like the UK and the US in the 'look after Number One" stakes.
And don't be too concerned with the comments about being ripped off, the alleged anti-farang attitude. Most people who complain about that have either had some bad experiences, or live in a part of LoS where tourists are considered fair game and a cynical attitude has crept in.
If you know what you are doing and are not naive enough to be taken for a ride, and avoid the more commercial parts of Thailand, then you're spot on about the flare - that's what I love about the place. I've had no problems since arriving, over two years to last December, that I couldn't either handle or easily see coming.
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I think then, that for those of us that have lived abroard there will be no great suprises. I just long to get back to some old values that all western goverments eem to think it so good to take away from the children, like repect for teachers and the police. I have 2 grandchijdren that took their mother to a social services committee for not letterg them have a menu for evening dinner, and they won, they then decided to live with their grandmother and that ***** (my ex) won the cout roder to look after them. Stupid children their mother is a very good mum and they are missing out. My G/F there still respects her [parents and traditions but tell me it is now changeing there.