Once in a while I sit outdoors where I can listen to all people - and it scares me. I do not have my nose in the air but - do they have no interests at all except what's been on TV? They seemed to have the coming TV program memorized and the daily routine according to that. For the rest, some know about sports sigh..... Probably healthy to participate, but to look at sweaty guys with empty eyes???
I remember when I was in a cheap ($5/night) hotel in Phnom Penh, the only good thing with it was the good pirate decoder to the TV (but the cabling was scary....) - they seemed to have the cable TV broadcasts from most Asian countries around, plus the main Western ones. Sometimes I even looked at sports - like a Japanese channel that regularly sent progs from female mud wrestling, kinda cute.
A friend of mine goes down to Pattaya in mid-November, a month before me, so he will check for suitable apartments. He just called another Swedish guy there, who talked about furnished apartments 5500-15000 Baht/month. I am comparing with those 8000B I paid on Koh Samui, the general prices are lower in Pattaya. I do not need any luxury, no TV, stereo, swimming pool.... I just need accessibility for me, not lots of stairs and high jumps to make, one of the problems with my last place on Samui. I would appreciate a WiFi in the room of course, to get cheaper internet.I asked my friend, so he will investigate. Otherwise I use the mobile phone - Yui did like that in her home village, rather cheap and reasonably fast, 0.5 Mbits/sec or so.
I definitely enjoy the thought of being able to sit and read/write on the laptop with a view out over the Chinese Sea!
Heard again from my friend - he meant that according to his experience lots of places where he has stayed has WiFi.
Sneaking around, I came in on some Swedish tourist sites about Pattaya, talking so much about everything you can do, that you can do as well at home, about all the Western restaurants???? Heck, I try to avoid them! I remember last time in Pattaya I walked around a number of blocks searching for a genuine cheapie Thai restaurant before I found one!
OK, at those places the food and a big Chang is the same price, but so what.
I also came in on some sites about retiring in Pattaya - telling the obvious things like you had to look at a dozen places or two before deciding where to stay, but especially the fact that it is so horribly boring to be a pensioner with nothing to do and nothing to think about until you die....... I am happy I will never have THAT problem, until the first stroke. Always interesting stuff to read and write and contemplate.
