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Originally Posted by MRWOOHOO
That is what is great about living among the locals. You can get allot of residence for $300 a month in many places in the interior. Since the bus service in the country is so regular it is fairly easy to get around the country on very little money.
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For me, living among the locals is the best part of being an expat. When I bought my own house by the beach, I found out about it after living in an area for almost 2 years .. and a local approached me asking if I was interested. I eventually bought the place, then for a couple of reasons I sold it .. at a substantial profit.
When I would go to the local market, the women would always ask about my wife .. no wife .. "that woman who sells roast pork, she needs a husband and she's a hard worker."
The woman, flushed in embarrassment get a lot of teasing from the stalls nearby. I tell woman #1 she's naughty. Everyone laughs. I never pay the "out of town" price at the market. I'm not Thai, but I "live here".
The woman who sells fried chicken always gives me one or two extra drumsticks. I also got a good deal from the woman selling roast pork.
I would often walk along the beach, and would usually stop and talk with fishermen working on their boats. They were always extremely polite .. pretending to understand what I said in Thai .. and pretending that they knew I really did understand what they said to me in return.
I eventually did figure out the flags on the fish traps were color coded depending on what the trap was designed to catch. Black was for crab.
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