Golf Training School In Thailand

Swinkey Golf Training Aid $99.95 Swinkey Golf Training Aid The Swinkey is always serving a purpose, giving you value for your money and improving your game. Its not a gimmicky golf training aid, its a well built tool designed to monitor and improve all of your golf fundamentals. $f “player”, {src: “videosflowplayerflowplayer.commercial-3.1.5.swf”, cachebusting: true}, { key: ‘#$450d1f2cfdf440be091′, clip: { url: “http:www.intheholegolf.comvideosswinkey-golf-training-aidswinkey-golf-training-aid.flv”, autoPlay: false, autoBuffering: true } } ; The Swinkey golf swing trainer is convenient, economical, and efficient. The Swinkey is the most complete golf training aid on the market. The Swinkey can be used as a: * Adjustable Weight Swing Club * Fitness BarStretching Pole * Setup SystemAlignment * Putting SetupPlane Guide * Driver Protector The Swinkey is always serving a purpose, giving you value for your money and improving your game. Its not a gimmicky golf training aid, its a well built tool designed to monitor and improve all of your golf fundamentals. The Swinkey golf training aid replaces many common training tools by combining them into one package that you’ll use every day. The Swinkey is legal to carry in your bag during a tournament, so it can always stay in your bag.

FIT for Golf Training Ball $39.95 FIT for Golf Training Ball Medicine Balls have long been used by top golf fitness experts for their ability to actively engage the right muscles when correctly simulating the movement patterns of a golf swing. With FIT for Golf, these patterns are illustrated directly on the ball, taking all the guesswork out of the process and ultimately making it simple to complete standard golf stretching exercises while developing these muscles properly. Our trainers have been using these time-tested techniques with their Pro clients for years. With the FIT for Golf Training Ball all that knowledge has been clearly summarized into 8 precision golf fitness exercises*, each engaging the many golf-specific muscles but mainly focusing on the back, legs and core. Developing these muscles will reduce fatigue and aches experienced during and after your round, as well as increase your flexibility, strength and balance allowing you to produce better, more consistent golf shots. All FIT for Golf products feature Fitness Illustrated Training technology. The objective is to make all of our golf training aids so intuitive that you’ll never need another manual, fitness DVD or expensive gym membership to get the adequate golf fitness workout necessary to meet your goals. Whether you use it for a workout or to warm-up, be it daily or weekly, at home or at the course, the FIT for Golf Training Ball makes it fast and easy.? The FIT for Golf Training Ball is a 6lb 3kg medicine ball that is approximately the size of a volleyball with a textured premium rubber finish for easy grip. It features the FIT for Golf trademark: Clearly illustrated golf specific exercises printed directly on the ball. It comes in a green cinch tote to make transport and storage easy. Whether you decide to keep it in your car, your office or your home gym, you’ll find that it’s the ideal way to keep up with your golf fitness and develop your game.? -6 lbs 3kg -8 Step-By-Step Exercises in 1 Simple Training Aid* -Made of Textured Premium Rubber for Easy Grip -Cinch Carry Bag Included Testimonials Regardless of whether it’s been used by a Pro warming up for the PGA Tour or a first-time golfer, the FIT for Golf Training Ball is a golf training aid that’s made a difference in the game of golfers of every age and skill level. Check out the following feedback we’ve received from people who have put the FIT for Golf Training Ball to work in their golf fitness regime, both on and off the course: There’s truly no other golf fitness training aid like this on the market. I have used medicine balls with my clients for over 15 years because it is THE tried and true tool to effectively develop your core golf muscles. Now, FIT for Golf has taken all the most essential exercises in my program and printed them right on the ball! It’s so intuitive and simple to use that all my clients find it to be an incredibly easy and effective

Explanar Golf Training System $990 Explanar Golf Training System The Explanar Home Training System is a revolutionary development in golf instruction designed by Luther Blacklock. It is the complete golf training system based around the fundamental principles of the swing plane and the biomechanics of the body. The Explanar swing trainer teaches the golf swing by turning your swing thoughts into feelings, in the same way that training wheels on a bicycle offer guidance during the process of learning to ride. $f “player”, {src: “videosflowplayerflowplayer.commercial-3.1.5.swf”, cachebusting: true}, { key: ‘#$450d1f2cfdf440be091′, clip: { url: “http:www.intheholegolf.comvideosexplanarexplanar-golf-training-system.flv”, autoPlay: false, autoBuffering: true } } ; Click Here to watch a video with Luther Blacklock, the inventor of the Explanar Golf Training System. Click Here to watch a video with PGA Professional Brad Brewer discussing the Explanar Golf Training System. Included with The Explanar Home Training System The Multi-Adjustable Explanar Hoop Explanar Long Power Roller Additional Power Rollers, and the Short Power Roller Are Available Here The Plane Fin Radial Stance Mat 75 Minute Explanar Training DVD March 9, 2009 Explanar Golf delighted as YE Yang Wins the Honda Classic Explanar user YE Yang won his first PGA Tour title at PGA National when he secured the Honda Classic. In just the past two years Explanar has come to the attention of Tour Players on all the main Tours and already Explanar can proudly claim a share of a PGA title. The Explanar hoop is used in conjunction with a weighted Power Roller. You step inside the Explanar rest the Power Roller on the hoop and take your grip and stance in the centre of the Explanar with the Power Roller in the central ball position. The Explanar is then adjusted to the correct angle in order that you can swing the Power Roller on your optimum biomechanical swing plane. Benefits of using The Explanar Home System Improved Understanding Any golfer knows that taking your swing from the practice ground to the golf course is rarely easy. This is because knowledge, however well imparted, often leads to mental confusion which in turn restricts the body from performing effectively. After viewing t

Nuun Golf Hydration Tablets – Grape $6.5 Nuun Golf Hydration Tablets – Grape A blend of white table grape varietals creates a crisp mouthfeel and a sweet finish that will leave you wanting more. 1 tube= 12 electrolyte enhanced 16oz drinks! $f “player”, {src: “videosflowplayerflowplayer.commercial-3.1.5.swf”, cachebusting: true}, { key: ‘#$450d1f2cfdf440be091′, clip: { url: “http:www.intheholegolf.comvideosnuunnuun-golf-hydration-tablets.flv”, autoPlay: false, autoBuffering: true } } ; Why is hydration important? YOUR MIND AND BODY WILL WORK BETTER WHEN HYDRATED! We all know hydration is important for athletic performance, but what about daily life, health and fitness? Whether you are running a marathon, or running a middle school soccer carpool, keeping your body hydrated is key for concentration and attention to detail. Hydration can boost your life performance! __________ Why does dehydration happen? DEHYDRATION HAPPENS FOR LOTS OF REASONS. MOST PEOPLE DONT RECOGNIZE THAT AND ONLY DRINK WHEN THEY FEEL THIRSTY. The most common causes of dehydration are simply not drinking enough regularly and not drinking enough during or after activity. By the time you feel thirsty you are already dehydrated and are probably being affected in more ways than you realize.?Training or participating in activities at altitude or in extreme weather conditions increases your fluid losses and therefore your fluid needs. Optimal hydration is key to health and high performance. _________ How NUUN helps: ONE UP YOUR WATER WITH NUUN, AN ELECTROLYTE ENHANCED DRINK TABLET FORMULATED TO DISSOLVE IN WATER AND DESIGNED TO KEEP YOU OPTIMALLY HYDRATED WHEREVER YOU ARE. Nuuns special formulation of electrolytes helps increase the amount of water thats absorbed into the blood stream. That means more of the water you drink is actually used to hydrate you instead of being eliminated because the electrolyte balance wasnt right. Nuun is not energy. We designed Nuun just for hydration. It’s what we do best! NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION INGREDIENTS NUUN The following is the nutritional information for a serving of Nuun based on one tablet dissolved in 16oz 500ml of water. There are under 8 calories per Nuun tab. Active Ingredients level mg Sodium carbonates 360.0 Potassium bicarbonate ? 100.0 Calcium carbonate ? 12.5 Magnesium sulfate ? 25.0 Vitamin C 37.5 Vitamin B2 500 mcg Other Ingredients: citric acid, sorbitol, sodium carbonate, natural colors flavors, sodium bicarbonate, potassium bicarbonate, polyethylene glycol, magnesium sulfate, sodium benzoate, calcium carbonate, acesulfame potassium, riboflavin-5-phosphate. **Lemon Tea and?Kona Cola each contain 20mg of caffeine per 8 oz. serving 40mg per tablet . That’s about a t

8 Board Golf Swing Trainer $119.95 8 Board — Includes Instructional DVD In a sport where the swing is everything, there is little room for error or improper form and the 8board is the lion in the swing kingdom. As the pros themselves have told us, the 8board teaches proper stance, proper rotation, and proper balance in relation to the complete swing: backswing to follow-through. Your stroke can become smoother as the 8board trains you to use your entire body properly to complete the swing. Not only does the device give you the feeling of being grounded, but it incites muscle memory and protects the back and trunk from the strain of improper rotation when pivoting. When you are grounded or rooted for the swing and you are coiling properly from your center, you lessen the chances of enervating your own power. With practice, this type of calculated movement becomes automatic and perfunctory to your swing, guaranteeing precision at each attempt. With the 8board program an athlete can train their entire body to move symmetrically with pristine balance. This way, the club is not a separate fixture to your swing, but acts instead as an appendage that moves in a natural order when your center hips and trunk are generating power at their best. You can take strokes off your game with such symmetry in movement as it translates into your swing. Now and forever, the 8 way is the only way to play. “The 8Board is the only training device that can teach you how to properly use your hips and legs in five minutes. It really works!” John Mason Director of Instruction, J.C. Golf School at Encinitas Ranch, Encinitas, CA Named: 2002 “Player of the Year” Southern California PGA, San Diego Chapter Included with every 8 Board: * Instructional DVD * Carrying Case * 30 Day Money Back Guarantee * Lifetime Guarantee

BenderStik Golf Training Aid $99.95 BenderStik Golf Training Aid The BenderStik golf training aid is uniquely designed to help you build a consistent golf swing that will last for a lifetime. To improve at golf you must use either positive or negative feedback while training your swing. With the BenderStik golf swing trainer, it doesn?t matter where or when you practice, the Benderstik provide this all-important feedback, which is imperative for improvement. No one picks up a club for the first time and swings it with a naturally proper and efficient motion. The reason we all have the different golf swings we do is because we repeated the motion over and over until it built a motor program in our brain. With this repetition comes familiarity and comfort. In order to change and improve your current motor program you must use feedback to disrupt the old familiar movement and to guarantee the new desired swing motion is actually occurring. This type of practice produces correct new feelings, which ultimately transfer to the course during play after enough correct repetitions. The more you practice with feedback, the more ingrained the new motion becomes and the more reliable the new swing. Practice does not make perfect, but perfect practice makes perfect and if you are not using feedback in your practice you are wasting your time.

Orange Peel Golf Training Aid $209.95 Orange Peel Golf Training Aid The Orange Peel training aid helps the player to manipulate their center of gravity. By altering the center of gravity, the user is able to naturally change their tilt, spine angle and swing plane. The ability to easily change and explore different positions while swinging a golf club or Orange Whip is extremely valuable. This type of training can help address swing faults, recreate slope conditions, and experiment with different swing planes. $f “player”, {src: “videosflowplayerflowplayer.commercial-3.1.5.swf”, cachebusting: true}, { key: ‘#$450d1f2cfdf440be091′, clip: { url: “http:www.intheholegolf.comvideosorange-peel-golf-training-aidorange-peel-golf-training-aid.flv”, autoPlay: false, autoBuffering: true } } ;

PivotPro Golf Training Aid $79.95 PivotPro Golf Training Aid PivotPro is the first pivot training aid for golfers of all caliber and ages. With its easy to use and versatile design, PivotPro is a revolutionary golf training aid that is specifically designed to promote correct pivoting in your golf swing. Learn to Pivot Like The Pros, with the PivotPro – Load Properly Stop Swaying. $f “player”, {src: “videosflowplayerflowplayer.commercial-3.1.5.swf”, cachebusting: true}, { key: ‘#$450d1f2cfdf440be091′, clip: { url: “http:www.intheholegolf.comvideospivot-propivotpro-main.flv”, autoPlay: false, autoBuffering: true } } ; The secret to PivotPro success is that it forces you to pivot correctly ingraining correct fundamentals resulting in proper coiling of the upper torso against the rig ht leg, creating maximum resistance that leads to more power, consistency, proper weight distribution, and footwork, its like having your own professional instructor. PivotPro Will Fix Your Golf Swing * Excessive Sway – swaying hips result in a poor weight shift, and power loss * Over the Top Move – It prevents casting of the club and over the top move * ReversePivot- If you suffer from reverse pivoting, lack of club head speed or a balanced finish. * Master to stay centered over the ball. * Master to swing the club on the correct plain. * Master a powerful coil. * Master your spine angle. * Master proper footwork and balance. Jim McLean Sees The Benefits of Using the PivotPro Swing Trainer Jim McLean Endorses PivotPro Jim McLean is the 1994 PGA National Teacher of the Year, owner of the Jim McLean Golf Schools. Jim is probably best known for his research on the golf swing and his work on The X-Factor, which describes in detail, body motions, body angles and body positions. The X-Factor and Y-Factor are just a few terms Jim has coined over the last 3 decades of golf research. Click Here to to watch Jim McLean discuss more benefits of the PivotPro swing trainer. The Pivot Pro Golf Training: Many golfers don’t even realize that they are swaying during their golf swing. What is a sway and how can it affect your golf swing? A sway is the sideways movement of your hips during the golf swing or the lateral movement of center of your balance. In other words, your center of gravity shifts outside your right foot or it can be a combination where your right hip moves laterally outside you right foot and your upper body leans back towards the target. Swaying in a golf swing – Number One Mistake Golfers make Most golfers, who sway, also lock t

Jim McLean: Golf School $29.95 Golf School is the must have instructional for the tens of thousands of McLean?s graduates and an irresistible and affordable golf bible for all those who dream of one day breaking eighty. Golf School is for every level of play. High handicappers and beg

Fingerloop Golf Training Aid $5.9 Fingerloop Golf Training Aid A good golf swing starts with the proper grip of the club. The Fingerloop Golf Training Aid positions the club closer to the fingers, which increases control and wrist movement. The Fingerloop Training Aid can be worn with or without a glove on any preferred finger. The Fingerloop is a golf training aid that helps golfers keep the club up by the fingers and out of their palms – improving their swing! Reduces slicing – making the game of golf more enjoyable! Small, Affordable, Beneficial! Product Images Testimonials I was pleasantly surprised how well I struck the ball while wearing the Fingerloop Training Aid. GC – Silver Spring, MD I would recommend this product because it performs exactly the way it’s advertised. DY – Madison Heights, VA This product makes a huge difference in my grip and control of the club. WC – Charles Town, WV I have easily improved my game by 7 or 8 strokes. A great product that I would recommend to anybody. TB – Mesa, AZ This is a good aid for the beginner… Also good to refresh the player with some experience that may have gotten into a rut. MB – Clevland, TN An excellent -yet easy to use- product that ensures your grip stays where it should be. A simple solution to an historic problem. TPH – Sumas, WA Comfortable to wear; easy to use. DC – Elkins, WV I was a little skeptical on how this product could help, but man was I wrong. What a wonderful tool you have. Keep up the good work. KJ – Sheldon, IA

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Early Retirement in Thailand – Brilliant move or a Blunder?

Retire at 54 years of age and be happier?

Well aged 54 and separated from my wife and seeing my friends gain weight and have health problems made me think. I was gaining weight also, I was not happy with the direction my life was headed, so what can I do? I starting thinking of the alternatives.

Retirement? No one wants to talk about it or even think about. Perhaps it makes us feel older if we do that. So years go by and things do not change. We do the same things, eat the same foods until the doctor tells us to make some changes, and we carry on like we will live forever. Unfortunately we won’t live forever and we should be thinking of retirement before we kick the bucket. After all what did you work all those years for anyways?

Well to cut to the chase I was thinking of going to the Dominican Republic to live. But after going there twice I found that the power was unreliable, there were safety concerns, doctors and dentists were not easily accessible and it was pricey.

With time on my hands I sat in front of my computer and did some research. and discovered that Thailand was a popular retirement destination. In fact I read that Chiang Mai was the most popular retirement destination in all of South East Asia.

Hundreds of hours of research later by methodical, planner George and he has come up with the best retirement country and also the best retirement city in all of South East Asia and perhaps the world. Chiang Mai, a city of several hundred thousand inhabitants. Located about 420 miles north of Bangkok and less polluted, less expensive, and with less traffic than Bangkok and also cooler than Bangkok. Chiang Mai, unknown to most of North Americans yet visited by hundreds of thousands of tourists yearly, and home to thousands of foreigners who have visited there, found it to their liking and decided to make this their new home.

I arrived in Bangkok on Nov. 23, 2004 and that is where we will start our real life experiences, adventures and misadventures.

After the tiring trip I decided to stay over a few nights in Bangkok. Then well rested I was ready to continue onwards to Chiang Mai.

A quick one hour plane flight or a relaxing 13 hours train ride which one was it to be? With the extra luggage I was bringing including computer and golf clubs I decided on the train. The bumpy ride in a very comfortable reclining seat (2nd class A/C) set me back all of $15 dollar U.S. and this included two meals, a refreshment and a pastry. It was a bumpy ride with little to see but the forest. But I had all my luggage aboard, no extra charge, and the bumpy ride was just what my legs needed for their circulation.

My research enabled me to be well prepared for my journey and I am not one to leave things to chance. Things went as planned and I arrived at Chiang Mai train station and had reserved a room for 21 days at the Bossotel Inn which was directly across the road from the train station.

Like a normal tourist eh? Yes, I am Canadian how did you know?

I think in total I spent something in the neighborhood of 600 hours of research on the internet and I learned what I could but there was more, much more to learn.

I lived like a tourist at first living in a hotel, eating my meals there. I played pool before breakfast at a snooker establishment behind the hotel. After breakfast TV was the norm and then later in the day I would walk to the Night Bazaar shopping and tourist district about 30 minutes away. The walk there was good exercise, it gave me a chance to see the people and businesses along the way and get familiar with the city. Walk, look around, pop into O’Malley’s pub for a cool drink and to meet Scot, a fellow Canadian, and the owner.

The hotel rate was $16U.S. a night with taxes and breakfast included. I wanted to stay in a serviced apartment later but did not want to book it until I had seen it first. I was favorably impressed when I visited the apartment and proceeded to book it. So three weeks at the hotel and then on to the serviced apartment which would run about $250 a month with utilities and water included, and breakfast extra. The apartment had internet available in the rooms at an extra fee, or internet on site, massage spa on site, rooftop pool, motorcycle rental, beauty salon and restaurant which had entertainment in the evenings. The TV has a large selection of channels by way of satellite, there was free parking on site, and a great location near the Central Mall. So it had it all

Other retirees recommend staying in a condo or serviced apartment for 6 months or more to get familiar with the city before proceeding with any sort of long term rental arrangements.

I met a lovely lady name Nichaya. She was a hairdresser during the day and my tour guide, companion, means of transportation during the evenings. Although I weigh more than twice her weight we rode around town on her motorbike. Her driving the motorbike and me on back. This may seem odd but it is not uncommon. Unless you know the city and really know how to drive a motorcycle you shouldn’t. These motorcycles are 100 and 110 cc engines which means they are not powerful but they are very economical in terms of fuel. We could drive around all week all over town for only $2 U.S. in diesel fuel.

To learn more about living in Chiang Mai one has to live with the people. Find out what they eat, where they shop, what they do daily.

By this time Nichaya or Wan her nickname which everyone has here and I were becoming very close and fond of each other. I invited here to Patong a beach resort for a weeks holiday. She refused but each day I would ask again. Finally she relented and agreed. Have any of you heard of the December, 2004 tsuanmi? Well guess where I was at the time? Right. Right there.

The tsunami hit a few days before we were scheduled to return to Chiang Mai. We lost a camera, some clothing, some pictures but found each other. She handled the situation calmly and we were unharmed. In case you are interested this is what happened.

Tremor about 3 a.m. Woke me up and I wondered whether it was an earthquake. Around 4:30 a.m. another tremor. Awakened me again. At around 7 a.m. a large boom sounded like a shotgun blast and then a minute later another such loud boom.

I thought it may be terrorists out by the pool area and I recommended staying in the room. Nichaya told me to get out of the room. We grabbed a few valuables, passport and ran out of the hotel. Our hotel room was on the lower level facing the pool area which is about 6 feet lower than the lobby area of the hotel. We ran by the pool, up the stairs to the lobby and out the front entrance. Just as we crossed the road water gushed out from the hotel and on to the street. So the water level needed to be at least 6 feet high just to reach the lobby area. Motorcycles, vehicles were being carried down the streets in all directions by the sudden gush of water. We were on higher ground across the street and took off our shoes and I rolled up my pants.

After an hour or so the water level began to recede. It was about this time when a motorcycle policeman drove by and alerted everyone that there would be another wave coming shortly. He was right. Another similar wave went through the lobby and on to the streets again. Now the water level was back to where it was before and we could do nothing but wait.

The day before the tsunami hit we were on a boat cruise to Phi Phi Islands. Two days before the tsunami hit we rented motor boats at the beach. If this had happened a day earlier or at a different time then you would not be reading this article.

When the water level receded and it deemed safe we re-entered our hotel lobby to find a young boy who was in the pool when the tsunami hit lying of the floor with someone trying to resuscitate him. Unfortunately the boy did not make it. The hotel staff were totally unprepared. Nice people as they are they did not have a clue what to do. Guests were yelling out, Call a Doctor, Have you called a Doctor? The hotel staff smiled politely but either did not understand or were unable to reach anyone.

When we approached our room we found it was devastated. The outside window smashed by the water, the door broken, mattress and furniture upside down and the room inaccessible.

Hotel guests were taken to higher ground by buses and trucks. We sat by the roadside on higher ground waiting. The hotels found alternate accommodations in nearby Phuket which was about one half drive away from Patong. We left the others who sat by the roadside and went to some hillside shacks where Wan was able to greet the people, speak their language and explain the situation. They offered us refreshments and a place to lay down and wait.

Only when we reached the airport a day later did we realize the true extent of the devastation. There were tourists at the airport with cuts, bandages, broken bones but worse yet there were many people unaccounted for.

Wan and I were unhurt but learned something about each other through the experience. We showed how we react in emergencies and also we learned something about hotels and Thai people. After writing to hotel management at the Patong Merlin hotel on at least 6 occasions to that location and to their sister Phuket hotel which was undamaged by the tsunami we received one reply after 5 weeks. They did not try to clean any of the clothes left behind, did not try to return any of the contents, did not even try to contact us with a letter or e-mail saying sorry about this experience. We stayed there for a week at $100 U.S. a night and will never stay in a Merlin hotel again.

Would it have been handled differently or better in North America?

Well a one hour flight back to Bangkok for some shopping and then the short one hour flight back to Chiang Mai, my new home.

Now life is different. Wan and I live in her townhouse with her daughter and mother. Her husband passed away and she has been the one they rely on. Wan has a beauty salon downstairs in her townhouse.

What is different now?

Well I have learned how to live here on less. There are accommodations to be had here from $80 a MONTH and excellent accommodations can be had for $200 U.S. a month. By excellent I mean similar to a hotel room, TV with cable or satellite, pool, restaurant on site and in a good location with twice weekly or weekly cleaning.

I eat Thai food now with chicken wings, French fries, and some homemade potato soap several times a week. I read that Thai’s can make anything taste delicious. That is TRUE.

They use fresh ingredients in their cooking. There are many farms nearby and the produce from fruits, to vegetables is abundant year around and very cheap. There is also a fantastic selection of seafood’s to pick from. You can buy the seafood from the market or from a large grocery store where the selection is varied and fresh. If you want you can pick out a live fish, continue with your shopping and when you are checking out pick up your cooked fish to take home for dinner or lunch.

I recently bought pineapples at the large grocery store. Large, fresh, mouth watering pineapples. Ten baht each or .25 cents U.S. each. They will cut if for you and put it on styrofoam with cellophane wrapping for free.

Back to the cooking. The reason Thai food is so delicious is partly the freshness of the ingredients but mainly the sauces. Simple cooked rice with fried vegetables becomes a delicious meal with the right sauce added. Something to watch out for if you do visit here. Two small bowls are presented with many of the meals. One has a green paste/sauce and the other a red colored paste/sauce. These are added to fish or meat by way of dipping or by placing a small amount on a tablespoon from the bowl and then on to your food. WATCH OUT!!!! The red is spicy hot and should be added in measured quantities. The green should not be added at all unless you are Thai or Mexican in my opinion. The green one is the hottest of the two and can make you perspire, reach quickly for a glass of water and visit the washroom in the middle of the night and not to brush your teeth.

Fantastic food and bargain prices.

Great accommodations and bargain prices.

Friendly people who go out of their way to make you feel at home.

So many things to do that I can not even list them all.

Cable TV with 54 channels for $8.25 U.S. a month. Installation cost of cable was around $7 U.S. and $2.50 extra for the second TV. Internet and telephone for about $20 U.S. a month total .

People work hard. Many have their own businesses and work 16 hour days 7 days a week.
The business may consist of setting up a table and a few chairs and selling noodles, cooked meat, fruits or a small convenience store with home cooked foods on the side.

I see the parents take their children to school which is expensive here. About 80,000 baht or $2,000 U.S. per year for schooling, clothing and textbooks for a 7 year old. They teach the children English even at this age. The parents have to work damm hard to pay for the schooling but they are doing this in hopes of their children obtaining good jobs and having a better life with more to look forward to.

Cats and dogs here are numerous. Just about everyone in our neighborhood has either a cat or dog or both. Our neighbor has 6 cats plus 2 kittens and he does not have a fulltime job. It is difficult for him but I know he loves the cats. He has offered to give us a few but we do not have the space.

So to sum things up. It isn’t perfect here. You can find something to complain about if you look hard enough but for me it is as close to perfection as I will find.

I can tell you about one or two things that I do not like and I could tell you about the hundred things I like. I am a picky person so if I like it here and have very little or nothing to complain about then I am sure others will love it here also.

So enamored by Chiang Mai am I that I have created a website to help other retire here. First to come here on vacation and then to retire here.

If you want you can retire here on less than that, but to live a comfortable life here that is all that it takes.

Visit our website for Thai foods and recipes, to learn more about living here, and to see pictures of Chiang Mai.

So from a healthier, happier George who is living here on less and enjoying it
Khop Khun Khrap or thank you in Thai for reading the article. If you come here on vacation or to stay long term give me a call and we can go to a buffet and watch them make sushi, where you can select the ingredients of a soup they call Suki, where you can eat an unlimited amount of fresh salad with a choice of dressings and shredded chicken on the side, pick from an assortment of cooked meats, noodles, or fish, and then top it off with a variety of desserts and the best cup of coffee I have had in years for $2.50 U.S. after taxes and tip. The best selection of freshly prepared food and lowest priced all you can eat buffet restaurant in Chiang Mai in my opinion.