I am with Tarzan here....
Very simple critisism.......
First not every country is perfect...But Scandanavia is a role - model for many things!
Just saw a documentary last week. Yes things are expensive, but I did see much more nature then in Belgium...... Also people earn much more, so it is possible to pay for many things too! And am I mistaken, do you not get a very good social security.....?
When in Europe, Scandinavia we see Thailand we think that it is great!
Just as Thai people dream to go to "Farang country", where everybody is rich have a car and a beautiful home. For us Thailand is cheap, but you must have a damn good position to earn money there to pay what we got over here! And if you are Thai, the buffolo dies, worse you got injured yourself, no operation is possible if you don't got the tunes to pay the hospital-bills!
Many limbs have been remove from Thai bodies, because there was no money to treat the injured part! But hey, we with our money earned in our country, everything is soooo cheap in Los.
As you know I had a Thai restaurant in Antwerp, so I moved around Thais who lived in a foreign country. Now I have to be honnest on this, there iS a small Thai community in Antwerp, so people can have a bit interaction.
Generally all the Thais I met were doing fine. Of course a woman married to a "bad farang", would have more trouble then being married to a good one!
They keep the same attitude sometimes as in Thailand. "Live the day". That IS sometimes difficult when you are employing them, because they have no worries to loose their job!
It is indeed more difficult in towns with no other Thai people, especially when the weather is bad! But then again it also depends on the partner what he is willing to do to make feel the Thai person better!
If I would have plans to marry a Thai girl, I would see where I wanted to live too. I would have liked the adventure to go to Thailand, but if you have no financial meanings to start with, maybe this is even more difficult as at home...
And again EG, when you get a bit critisized here, just be relax and answer a humouristic way! You cannot demand that all this lads agree with you!