Ex pat pensioners return home

Without beating about the bush i have tried to simplify the pros n cons of life for a UK pensioner here in Thailand (UDON) or in Scunthorpe.

When i see an expat penioner 60-70 plus years of age accompanied by a nice 20-50 year old Thai lady and that are obviously happy with each others companionship and whatever goes with it ,,,,,, I THINK ITS BRILLIANT !! lifes too short and this is not a rehearsal .

The stark option is living in a Scunthorpe council flat with an old trout of a missus bedecked in rollers ,wrinked tights and stinking of piss watching Pebble Mill and Richard and Judy , when the weathers ok go down the WMC or even a day trip to Skegness by bus of course as its too expensive to run a car .

So UK pensioners the choice is yours ???? regardless of athe exchange rate at all cost your/WE are better off here IMO .

Mash ..... philosofical but accurate

Agree with every thing Pienmash says - Where's Nora Batty? Mmmmmmm - Lovely!

arjay wrote:We're drifting off topic on this one.

Despite the reduced exchange rate and buying power of the £ over here in LOS, I still can't muster any enthusiasm to return home to the UK. It would be just in time to face exceptionally cold weather, increased power/heating bills, government austerity measures, increase in VAT to 20%, increased petrol prices. Yes, I think I'll stay put.

One thing for sure if you can't make it here on your money here your not going to in the States

POM that's cool

Well I need to get back out there the sky didn't fall yet. I'm sure it will and I don't want to miss it

Pienmash wrote:You forgot the total lack of decent "eye candy" Arjay ..... my mates still living in the UK tell me all the birds in Scunny are over weight troggs and given the chance of some nookie with one these beauties (after copious amounts of stella and a curry) you need a compass to find ur way around the lard arses

...... Yes, to put it in Pie'n Mash speak, the meat is a lot leaner over here and there are more "spring chickens" about, many of them free range.

I live in South London but work in Charing Cross, as central as you could get really, next to Trafalgar Square. I work in the London Underground, and passing the ops room is PLENTY of eye candy! Being London, every part of the world has pretty girls travelling around. English girls can certainly get noticed, the posh not the chafs I mean yesterday there were 100's of students dressed as Father Christmas, and many of the fmale ones, very sexy things i must say. But there are Italian, Spanish, French girls, beautiful black girls, Asian girls from the Indian Premier League, and of course, an ever increasing number of oriental/Thai girls.

However, being near, well close to, sort of, okay just turned sixty, i have as much chance of getting my hands on these girls as quasimodo. Western worlds are ageist, end of. Thailand isn't.

Also, NHS is ageist. I nearly got trapped in a piss smelling ward in the local virus ridden hospital after an asthma attack recently. If i had, no food, no drink, free cdif and mrsa, to hospital dimentia, to a 'care' home, drugged and sedated, and to death. In Udon you have AEK which is affordable and what i've seen of the place, well okay.

Any Thai expats wanting or having to return here, well, there'd be mad, or if no choice, it'd be really really sad. I will be in Thailand next year you can bet on it, yes sir, but if not, well if not, then, at least there is Scunthorpe!