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Way off track but attracting attention......Yes, the Thais expect to be served in a restaurant, just like I do. Even at the Fox and Hounds in Melbourne, I bet the excellent fish and chips were brought to you...with a knife and fork! That is the difference, dining, or just eating. A restaurant or a fast food outlet. I have no idea when you will get upgraded....... 50 or 100 posts perhaps.

Well I could hardly eat them with a knife could I? And you don't eat with cutlery because you can't.

Just the facts BiGC, I got into a banter with Joe over it and Pattaya got the City status (Thesaban nakhon, เทศบาลนคร) while Chonburi, despite being provincial capital, is Thesaban mueang (เทศบาลเมือง). Where do you go for visa issues/ immigration?

Oh come on.....Quesadillas and Nachos are a great snack with the beer in a sports bar.... But for dinner, I don't want to be walking back to a table carrying a tray, eating with my fingers and having the stuff spill out all over the table.... did you grow up in a trailer?

I will not extol British food, it isn't that great, but good fish and chips can be had there.Other than that, as the French like to say, to eat well you would need to take breakfast 3 times a day. But everything fried in oil.... no, that is the Scots and Mars bars, pies and savouries figure more, a lot of baking and roasting. A Hush puppy, (not the shoe brand), is simply deep fried left over salty batter, comfort food and filler, like Yorkshire pudding. The sad thing to me is that Americans are quite content and know no better than to eat at places like LJS, Taco Bell, KFC, McDs etc. You stand in line and go eat at a formica table, eat with your fingers, and are meant to clear your own table after. Even in the USA you can do much better.

You aren't there now though are you? Anyhow, you were working there and the OP is really discussing being retired and living in Pattaya, more time on one's hands. And by the way, Chonburi is a town not a city, (ref Joekicker), the CITY is PATTAYA! Do you think you would be content living with your wife, near to her parents, one neighbour (is it Brad?) if you didn't escape to work most of the day?

You know shit Stinky.... left-over cornmeal batter deep fried, used to be fed to the dog!I have never eaten well at Long John Silvers...

But you used to come to Pattaya quite often didn't you?And are we talking of Laem Chabang or Chonburi here? (I forget) Same province Big Chief....and not the boonies.

Is it the shoes you eat or the Basset Hounds?

Perhaps Big Cities is a better definition. The crowds do it to you.... those New Yorkers maintain a sweet disposition though!

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No it isn't. Not for me anyhow.Cleared cache.... and F5 too, still the OP adverts this morning. Someone seems to have taken over the site and the DNS is going along with it. I am begining to wonder if Pattaya Today are posting the page while they sort out their website...

What do you mean..... generally one buys a return ticket? Certainly they are more expensive over that season, supply and demand, book early.

There is no problem buying it in Pattaya, it is in BigC and the beer distributors. It is more 'reliable' than Chang and less of a 'loopy juice'.....As mentioned a bit crisper and less sweet than say Leo..... Heinekin, Singha and San Mig Light are just silly prices these days. Tiger can be had quite cheap but for some reason not in the nightlife venues.

A collection of factors... above when I mentioned nightlife your comment was Beer bars have little impact on my life, but I like the odd GO-GO. Live music at say 'The Blues Factory', or a night infront of a big screen watching world cup football in AC comfort with beer being brought to me. We just had a 3 day music festival complete with big name bands and shootings! Soon we will have a 7 day songkran ended with a day of locked traffic and drunken maddness! Shit, Tom, I am going to come live down there... As to the question... the availability of tarts might be a deal maker on top of the other factors. I have seen enough of rural Thai lifestyle to know that isn't for me, and why settle for something in-between when I can have the best... warts and all. Tonight I will be in an airconditioned GO-GO with some cute little knickerless thing bouncing in my lap..... In Nakhon nowhere, it's bedtime at 8pm, after 3 hours of sitting in the dirt being bitten by bugs drinking warm beer. Sea fishing in a few days....

So you agree with me, for good fish and chips you have to go British... all the others are crap! I tried Long John Silvers once... if that is the USA's idea then better have some pre-chewed meat on a bun eh?

That is good to hear, staff at LHR looking out for you.

Guantanamo.....

Any chance of posting your hours of business? I sometimes go around there but generally in the evenings and would like to take a look around.

Perhaps it would be better just to return to the UK for the summer..... what day will it be this year?

Shit... I just thought I would read Nightmarch and tried my link and that damned advert page is back again.

I am of the impression that in the UK, the Muslim ghettos were not created by others as places to keep them in, rather they created them and desire to keep the others out!

Or on welfare and legal services for illegal immigrants who in a few years will be planning how to get bombs on those subsidised aircraft!

Well it isn't just a Tesco Tom... we got a Macro too!And the Tesco stocks shoes beyond size 42! I have the expats club which is a wealth of support and knowledge... English pubs if I need to...... English friends around with similar lifestyles. A few very good international schools for those that have kids. Immigration and vehicle registration services on the doorstep. A motorway nearby..... Great nightlife and restaurants abound. And lots of tarts... An airport just 1.5 hours away that goes to everywhere... Great medical facilities nearby and superior Bangkok ones not too far away. Wonderful tourist police to help us when we have problems..... and assistants who speak our language. I most certainly wouldn't want to live in a condo on 3rd Rd using public transport..... And the idea of living in big city like Bangkok or Nakhon Ratchasima repulses me... But the place is changing and heading in a direction that likely will force me to move on... I do hope my house increases in value in the meantime.

I live a little out of town and have been retired in Thailand for nearly 6 years. I travelled around Thailand for a year and ultimately decided on the Pattaya area. I didn't want to feel so Isolated from my Farang origins, language and everyday comforts, it's also nice to live near the sea. Later I moved out of town a little as the constant noise and hustle bustle didn't suit me. Permanent, well never say for-ever eh?