Stocky Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 14 minutes ago, Number 6 said: My least favorite province. With all the money racing to the islands and back it's always struck me as very scammy. The Muslims are indifferent and cliquish. I'll admit I've not spent a great deal of time there not really explored the place. I like camping on islands to getaway but there are often huge daytripper numbers of farang these past years. But they leave at day's end I think you're confusing your provinces. There's just a few rocks off the coast of Songkhla province, certainly nothing that attracts money or huge numbers of farang, day tripper or otherwise. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yogavnture Posted February 9, 2020 Author Share Posted February 9, 2020 8 minutes ago, Stocky said: I think you're confusing your provinces. There's just a few rocks off the coast of Songkhla province, certainly nothing that attracts money or huge numbers of farang, day tripper or otherwise. i think he means surat thani. ive never been impressed with surat thani. very busy and hectic area. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Number 6 Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 11 minutes ago, Stocky said: I think you're confusing your provinces. There's just a few rocks off the coast of Songkhla province, certainly nothing that attracts money or huge numbers of farang, day tripper or otherwise. I was talking about nakon si thammart. Songkla is ok. Boring, no beach. My wife has a good friend who's a housing developer there. Hat Yai is ok for passing through 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vacuum Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 On 2/7/2020 at 2:14 PM, Stocky said: Most of the tourists visiting Hat Yai come by bus from Malaysia, there for the weekend. And we all know why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yogavnture Posted February 9, 2020 Author Share Posted February 9, 2020 4 minutes ago, Number 6 said: I was talking about nakon si thammart. yes nakon si Songkla is ok. Boring, no beach. My wife has a good friend who's a housing developer there. Hat Yai is ok for passing through yes nakon si thammarat is a terrible place . dont go their . farang not welcome at all,,,,,,,,if you google map songkla it shows a long beach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bender92 Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 Thailand no, Cambodia yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ54 Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 Up here about 20 km out of Kumphawapi don’t see Farangs very often ... in town is a few. Best guess 20 in town... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordblackader Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 On 2/8/2020 at 1:23 PM, CGW said: Yes! seems to depend on who is counting, its bigger than I thought though. ???? you need to consider the metro area - Chiang Mai has nearly 1 million according to official stats, other estimates have it at 1.2 million+. Ignoring the metro area would be like saying the city of Sydney only has 208,000 people based on the boundaries of the local government area when the entire city is 5.2m. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gweiloman Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 4 hours ago, Vacuum said: And we all know why. Pretty much same reason a lot of farangs come to Thailand. Difference is that the Malaysians return home. Smart people, them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGW Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 1 hour ago, lordblackader said: you need to consider the metro area - Chiang Mai has nearly 1 million according to official stats, other estimates have it at 1.2 million+. Yes, look at my post #46 1.655 plus for CM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stocky Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 (edited) 5 minutes ago, CGW said: Yes, look at my post #46 1.655 plus for CM Yeah, but those numbers are for the whole province, not everyone lives in or around the provincial capital. The issue with Thai population/census numbers is they are given for mueang bearing the name not the metropolitan area. Edited February 9, 2020 by Stocky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGW Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 18 minutes ago, Stocky said: Yeah, but those numbers are for the whole province, not everyone lives in or around the provincial capital. Does "Metro" area here, not mean the whole province? most of the cities are packed then become a lot densely populated quite quickly unlike a lot of western cities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allenberg Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 On 2/8/2020 at 12:35 PM, yogavnture said: this is why i want to go to south and just hang with nice thais Bye Bye.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimn Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 6 hours ago, Vacuum said: And we all know why. Do we? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveAustin Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 (edited) 11 hours ago, Number 6 said: I was talking about nakon si thammart. Songkla is ok. Boring, no beach. My wife has a good friend who's a housing developer there. Hat Yai is ok for passing through Chalatat Beach is 3-4kms long. Town is boring nowadays though (if you're after 'attention'); not what it was. Edited February 9, 2020 by daveAustin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post billsmart Posted February 10, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted February 10, 2020 21 hours ago, Gweiloman said: What do you have against farangs? I've lived in Thailand for over 15 years. I didn't come here to schmooze with Farangs. I do play golf, and do socialize for a few hours with other Farangs at the golf course a couple days a week. That's enough for me. Farangs visiting Thailand, especially tourists, are, of course, a mixed lot, but I have found too many of them do not share the same values as I have. Because of that, I tend to avoid them, or at least approach them with caution. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phuketsub Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 It's a balance thing, I think. When I lived in Phuket, I enjoyed the social life of being on a truly mixed dart team, working in a multi-national environment and all that. But a few incidents put me off. One time as I was walking to work past Bangkok Hospital in Samkong, I noticed a Caucasian couple with a baby in front of Bangkok Hospital. I saw them trying to talk to a tuk-tuk driver, who was literally holding the map that had given him upside down. At the time, I knew all about the public transport options in Phuket Town, so I offered my help. But not only did they reject my offer, but they were quite rude about it. I guess maybe they thought I was calling their coping/negotiation skills into question. After that I sort of gave up trying to help tourists in Phuket, unless they approached me. Now that I live in Ranode, where the only other expats are a Finnish couple and a Kansas City Chief's fan, I will walk right up to any foreigner I meet here and introduce myself. And they are almost always friendly back to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastbaybob Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 I always wonder what the guy eventually did when I read a post like this. The thread was six pages long and then ended back in February. Personally, I'd recommend Yala City for an interesting break. I've met a couple philipino teachers there, and have seen an African gentleman, who I assumed was a teacher, so those three in maybe 10 visits to the city. No airport but the train station is in the center of the city. I'd reythe Park View Hotel as it's in the security controlled section of the city. The people are friendly an never see white tourists so you still might feel special. Nothing much to do other than hang out and and just see a quiet Thai city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovethai123 Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 TBH, no never. i am not a farang man (brown to be precise). when i am in thailand, i feel safer if there are some foreigners in that city. because i expect them to answer any questions i have regarding the city.i remember i flew to knon kaen once after an argument with the thai gf. had no idea what to do there. was nt feeling safe to walk around the city as i didnt think people would speak english. next day met a farang man in the hotel. we went to a nice bar with some foreigners. met some nice local bar girls. one of them was laotian too. i cant ask a local where is a bar with hot girls. ???????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stocky Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 17 hours ago, eastbaybob said: The thread was six pages long and then ended back in February. Covid probably crushed his dreams. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yogavnture Posted December 30, 2020 Author Share Posted December 30, 2020 On 12/26/2020 at 6:15 AM, eastbaybob said: I always wonder what the guy eventually did when I read a post like this. The thread was six pages long and then ended back in February. Personally, I'd recommend Yala City for an interesting break. I've met a couple philipino teachers there, and have seen an African gentleman, who I assumed was a teacher, so those three in maybe 10 visits to the city. No airport but the train station is in the center of the city. I'd reythe Park View Hotel as it's in the security controlled section of the city. The people are friendly an never see white tourists so you still might feel special. Nothing much to do other than hang out and and just see a quiet Thai city. i went to thammarat . just south of surat thani. no nasty foriegners their just a few teachers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yogavnture Posted December 30, 2020 Author Share Posted December 30, 2020 On 12/26/2020 at 11:39 PM, Stocky said: Covid probably crushed his dreams. how would you know? i am a world traveler. thailand the locals wont speak english. but i still visit time to time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poohy Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 On 2/7/2020 at 9:29 PM, yogavnture said: I posted this thread because i go to nakorn si thammarat. and really like it thier. no veggie restaurants i really like but all the veggies are in the market and i found a nice quiet hotel that will cook for me. decent massage their and good gyms . thats all i need to keep me happy................the thais in thammarat have to be the freindliest in thailand...........so now im thinking of going farther afoot......i saw the lakes on google maps of songkhla and the city looks like its in a interesting geological spot........no airport though?? I thought people only went to NST to hire contract killers (from my Thai friends this is what it seems to be famous for) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stocky Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, yogavnture said: how would you know? I didn't, it was an assumption because there had been no follow-up since February ~ just before Covid-19 became an issue. It's rather nice when people looking for help and advice return to the topic they started to give an update. Glad to know you found what you were looking for. . Edited December 30, 2020 by Stocky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr mr Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 hat yai is the bees knees. used to do border runs every month back in 2003. scooter down to sadao or padang (sp) quick in and out and that was it. back then it was not a great city for foreigners but has come a long way. loads of great places to eat now and even a central lol. songkhla (samila ?) beach is not far from the city and now i hear is quite developed. really nice waterfall out kuang luang way. tong na cha ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patong2021 Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 1 hour ago, yogavnture said: i went to thammarat . just south of surat thani. no nasty foriegners their just a few teachers How did you find it? I found nice and quiet, but the locals not as friendly as some other regions. The beaches have so much potential, but very dirty with garbage. So much plastic, broken wood, fishing net, sharp cans, broken glass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr mr Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 4 minutes ago, Patong2021 said: 1 hour ago, yogavnture said: i went to thammarat . just south of surat thani. no nasty foriegners their just a few teachers How did you find it? I found nice and quiet, but the locals not as friendly as some other regions. The beaches have so much potential, but very dirty with garbage. So much plastic, broken wood, fishing net, sharp cans, broken glass. trang. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandyf Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 On 2/8/2020 at 3:30 PM, CGW said: Seems to be near impossible to come up with accurate numbers, this was the best I could find. Some more recent figures here. https://www.citypopulation.de/en/thailand/prov/admin/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChipButty Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Quiet a lot of place in the south where there are not many Farang, Trang, Phattalung, go right down to the boarder to a place called Su-ngai Kolok I didn't see one farang and the drove all along the boarder to Satun saw a couple there. Good fun when get of the beaten track and you stop in the little villages to get something to eat and you start speaking Thai to them one place I could hear the lady on the phone to her friends telling them hansum farang stop to eat in her shop 555 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stocky Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, sandyf said: Some more recent figures here. https://www.citypopulation.de/en/thailand/prov/admin/ This 'city' data has the same problem as all the others, when it gives a figure for Hat Yai, that is for tambon Hat Yai only. You can see the figure for Bangkok is equally spurious. Hat Yai city itself comprises more than the tambon that bears its name. When you add all the districts that comprise the municipal area the population is around 400k. . Edited December 30, 2020 by Stocky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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