We had ‘some’ trouble up here which caused just about everything to close down for 5 or 6 days but, beyond that, all has been a-okay.
I dread to think what it must have been like for a lot of people in Bangers. And for a lot longer than a measly week!
I agree with most of the above comments, if my wife didn’t have a well paid job here then I would be looking to live somewhere else. I am currently looking for work and all the jobs are around the 30k mark, three years of hard study for nothing, anyone with a degree would have to be dumb to work for this sort of money. I have even seen jobs advertised for Cambodia that pay more than this.
We don’t have the problems down in this direction. Had a minor problem in Surat region. But the local boys in blue solved the issue very fast. As for teaching in Thailand.. I’d rather relax on the beach until mid Aug when myself and 2 other boys fly to China. Thailand is becoming pathetic even for a holiday. I’ve been reading the Bangkok post lately. It seems the Thai government is giving travel insurance to tourists. What does that imply ? And I wonder if the check will bounce ? ha ha ha
I’m in ‘the war zone’ I’ve seen lots of smoke, heard explosions, been stopped by the Army and demonstrators at check points, I saw a mans head disappear, one minute it was there the next it was gone and his body was on the floor. Its all very sad, killing, destruction, division etc. I wish people would stop being so dumb and realise this is not something that started a couple of months ago with the arrival of ‘the Red Shirts’ in Bangkok. This was started by the Military in 2006 when a treasonous soldier interfered in politics!
once again our collective reputations are down the toilet thanks to a couple of red shirted foreigners ,one who calls himself a teacher !!!
this smacks of the guy who claimed to kill the ramsey girl…he was also a teacher and soon after that incident things got very difficult here….i wonder what will be the flow on affect of the most recent example ??
By robin leadley, bangkok on 2010-05-31