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**QxmFwtlam** · 09-22-2012, 05:33 AM

I’m feeling the pinch after a few years here. I have to adapt to the more simple ways of life. Simpler… as in work, eat, sleep as the major part of my life and to trim down on indulgence drastically.

Not all of us here are the lucky ones, working here on an expatriate pay I believe. In my former career, I could buy that iPhone, that Nikon or that Oakley without thinking twice. I drink up to 3 times a week. I could travel for that holiday as and when I wanted, easy on my pockets.

Now I live in Thailand and sacrificed my material desires. Drawing the Thai salary, I have to live the simple Thai way, drink the 100 Pipers instead of Chivas, travel on budget instead of splurging on luxurious holidays. I feel the pinch, ouch. My friends say I’m nuts, crazy old man come to suffer. But I am getting used to it, getting used to the pinch and weirdly, I’m Lovin It.

09-22-2012, 05:33 AM	#19
QxmFwtlam Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 527 Senior Member	I’m feeling the pinch after a few years here. I have to adapt to the more simple ways of life. Simpler… as in work, eat, sleep as the major part of my life and to trim down on indulgence drastically. Not all of us here are the lucky ones, working here on an expatriate pay I believe. In my former career, I could buy that iPhone, that Nikon or that Oakley without thinking twice. I drink up to 3 times a week. I could travel for that holiday as and when I wanted, easy on my pockets. Now I live in Thailand and sacrificed my material desires. Drawing the Thai salary, I have to live the simple Thai way, drink the 100 Pipers instead of Chivas, travel on budget instead of splurging on luxurious holidays. I feel the pinch, ouch. My friends say I’m nuts, crazy old man come to suffer. But I am getting used to it, getting used to the pinch and weirdly, I’m Lovin It.
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