Comments on: Thailand vs Philippines (Why I will not go back to the Philippines) https://www.keyframe5.com/thailand-vs-philippines/ Living in Thailand Blog Mon, 04 Apr 2022 12:45:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: thatdude https://www.keyframe5.com/thailand-vs-philippines/#comment-77774 Mon, 19 Oct 2020 05:42:29 +0000 http://keyframe5.com/?p=15034#comment-77774 I will tell you the short version of this:

Philippines:
3rd world country, 2nd world monkeys
(VERY nice people, and nice beaches. I can tell you with certainty that after having spent 7+ years of my life in the Philippines those six words are the best definition you’ll ever get to describe that country. The Philippines is kinda like K-Mart…..it just never could get it’s stuff together.)

Thailand:
2nd world country, 1st world monkeys.
(Basically the same as the Philippines but imagine a culture with an average IQ 10-20 points higher than the average Filipino. That IQ disparity determines if you have clean water, clean streets, stores with stock in them, and common sense flowing through the society. Not to mention Thailand is connected to the mainland with means better distribution for ALL THINGS )

]]> By: David T Pike https://www.keyframe5.com/thailand-vs-philippines/#comment-75424 Fri, 14 Aug 2020 04:06:41 +0000 http://keyframe5.com/?p=15034#comment-75424 I have lived in Baguio, PI for a year and a half with my lovely college educated Thai wife. I am 64, she is 50. It’s awesome to have your own private interpreter! 😉 We moved to Baguio for the weather. Nice and cool here. But I lived in Chiang Mai for a month and loved it. I have horror stories about the Hospitals here. They punctured my colon during a routine appendectomy and nearly killed me. I am immune suppressed by anti-rejection drugs for a 2013 liver transplant. We are trying our hardest to get back to Thailand but the pandemic has put that on hold. My two gripes about Thailand is the yearly Visa requirements. As a spouse I can get one but must have 400,000 thb in a untouchable Thai savings account. And now I am required to have medical insurance. I found out I can get a fairly cheap one that minimally meets the Gov requirements even with my pre-existing conditions. The people are great in both countries and elders and disabled are highly respected. More so in the PI then Thailand. I can go to the front of any line in the PI without grumblings. There are separate checkouts for senior and disabled here. But the Thai infrastructure and medical care is light years ahead of the PI. You get what you pay for and luckily I have a pension that is 8x the local wage and can live like a King and Queen there… 🙂

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