[Misiotoagodia]

In the Nation the other day there was a little story with some statistics about Thais living abroad who voted in the last election. I am not sure if this shows correctly where most Thais live. Does anyone know?

Germany - 4,348 votes
US - 4,244 votes
China - 3,122 votes

Out of the 123,913 Thais living abroad (in 88 countries) that registered to vote only 33,977 cast their ballots.

So, where do most Thais live? And why?

[verybigf]

In southern Calif most Thais live spread out rather than within community unlike Vietnameses they are able to build their own "TOWN" called Little Saigon it is beautiful town population near 100.000 in Westminster full of super markets and all kind of services offer to their own and some Americans on the weeken population is almost double come for shopping. The reason they are able to build their own town in short time because most of Vietnam refugees did not have high education or skill so they stay close togather do business within their community with the smart leaders they're able to get GOV. grants and investors help build their town.

It is different from Thais most of them come here by choices and have skill like Docs,nurses and skilled labors so they pick and choose where to live, so Thailand town is very small only one super market and few small grocery stores, not much activities but temple (Wat) is the place where Thais gather than most places.

Los Angeles is the city of many nationalities Chinese,Japanese, Korean,Latino, Thai and many,many more some have no choices they will hang around working within the communities that speak same languages.

[AnypecekceS]

The highest concentration in the US is in California. Yes, Thai Town is just a tiny speck compared to Little Saigon in Westminster. I was just at SongKran in Hollywood this past weekend and it had a good showing. A lot of the Thai living here in SoCal are scattered throughout the area. Not all in the Hollywood area where Thai Town is. The population is still quite small, the community has a small town feel to it where most of the people know each other.

I have heard that Maryland has a good Thai population as well as New York.

[boltondd]

Las Vegas also seems to have a fair number of Thai's living there. As I sat down to breakfast at the Denny's by the Stratosphere the first thing I noticed was a Thai market across the way. Unfortunately it had moved to a location on the north strip so I didn't have chance to visit.

The restaraunt Lotus of Siam in a shopping mall on Sahara has the reputation as being one of the best, if not the best, Thai restaurant in the US and it certainly lived up to it's reputation when we had lunch there last week. The staff, all Thai's, lived up to the reputation of the mother country, and provided a very pleasurable eating experience.

Not many Thai's in my part of the US. The only one I have met has a restaurant called the Sweet Basil in Chattanooga. The young lady came to the area as a student and then stayed on to start her business. Can recommend this one to.

[Caursedus]

There does not seem to be any Thai town in Sydney, unlike other ethnic groups, Thai's seem to be spread out, because I think many of the Thai woman in Sydney are married to none Thai husbands, and they generally live in any area, that is not overly affluent.

[kylsq0Ln]

Paul has a good point there. This is the case here in New Zealand, at least in my city. While there are a number of "normal" immigrants, there are many where there is a farang somewhere in the extended family.

At our recent Temple ceremonies http://www.thailandqa.com/forum/showthread.php?p=59518 it was interesting to meet the husbands/boyfriends (dragged along for the occasion) of some of the women who I had got to know by attending over the past few months

As I commented over there, this doesn't mean that there isn't a strong Thai community, but since there are only a few hundred families in my city they are hardly going to form a "Thai town". In fact, other communities here (Chinese, Korean, etc) don't form geographical communities either. It's just not a big enough city for that.

[AnypecekceS]

Here are some pictures I took over the weekend at the Songkran festivities in Thai Town.

Link to Songkran Pictures

Enjoy

[verybigf]

To answer Richard why there are so low number voters turn out, because we are such a small community and scattered throughtout news paper we have here is weekly news by the time we get to read the news about the car ran over the chicken, the chicken was already long time rotten .

[Misiotoagodia]

My question was actually where do most Thai live outside of Thailand. The paper today gave some more indications as Thai people living abroad just voted in the senate election:

the most advance ballots were cast in the United States (4,867), Germany (4,712) and Taiwan (4,703)

[denwerdinoss]

Seems to be a fairly large community in the DC metro area (USA), esp. around the "Wat Thai DC" in Silver Spring, Maryland. Brooklyn also has a Thai block or two.

-mike

[Byxtysaaqwuz]

Does anyone know if there is a larger poulation of Thai in Moscow?

[boltondd]

There also appears to be a fairly large community in the greater Atlanta metro area. Down there yesterday visiting Wat Buddha Bucha in the suburb of Decatur. I counted upwards of 55 local Thai restaraunts advertising in the calendar we were given there.

[milfovoxapl]

In the Nation the other day there was a little story with some statistics about Thais living abroad who voted in the last election. I am not sure if this shows correctly where most Thais live. Does anyone know?

Germany - 4,348 votes
US - 4,244 votes
China - 3,122 votes

Out of the 123,913 Thais living abroad (in 88 countries) that registered to vote only 33,977 cast their ballots.

So, where do most Thais live? And why?

I don`t realy know but I would say that most of them must be going out for economic reassonse, the one that come to australia open a restaurant usuly but they don`t pariculy look happy any more like the one I meet in thailand aldo that in generale the people are poor there it look less stresful to them.

[DownloadMan]

There is a long history of Thai students at the university, with approximately 700 UW-Madison Thai
graduates.

The UW-Madison has one of the largest Thai student populations of any U.S. college or university.

UW-Madison Thai graduates are prominent civic and business leaders in Thailand


Areas of greatest concentration
Los Angeles, California has the largest Thai population outside of Thailand. Roughly 66% percent of all Thai Americans live in Los Angeles. It is also home to the world's first and only Thai Town. In 2002 there was an estimated 80,000+ Thai immigrants living in Los Angeles. Thai Chinese are also included in the population. Because of this, Los Angeles is sometimes referred to as Thailand's 77th province.

Note that both Bangkok and Los Angeles are known as the City of Angels.

However, there are Thai communities spread throughout the US. Other cities with sizable Thai populations include Houston, Texas and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

But it says LA has the largest concentration outside of Thailand,,so maybe thats it then..

[Jeaxatoem]

I understand there are approximately 5,000 Thai nationals living in New Zealand. To put that into perspective, our total pop is only about 4 million. The "Thai Village" restaurant in Hamilton city is fantastic!

[qp0yfHOf]

According to the Swiss statistics, we had 8036 Thai living legally in Switzerland (total pop: 7 Mios) on December 31, 2004 (1672 men and 6364 women; statistically speaking the average in Switzerland is 50%men/50% women...Quiet a big difference for the Thai population).

This statistic does not include the people staying for a temporary reason (tourists, gogo dancers) or illegally as well as all Thai with a Swiss citizenship.

FYI: until 1991 a thai lady would automatically and immediatly get a Swiss passport when marying a Swiss citizen. Now both, man and woman, will get a Swiss passport but only after 5 years (if they are still living together...The policie comes to your home to check!).

Here the source: http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/f...tmp/T1104F.xls

Hope this helps!

[kylsq0Ln]

I understand there are approximately 5,000 Thai nationals living in New Zealand. To put that into perspective, our total pop is only about 4 million.

Yes, but the Thai numbers pale into insignificance against the Chinese and Korean numbers (at least down here in the South). Though that would presumably be true in California as wel...

[DownloadMan]

Los Angeles has the largest Thai population outside of Thailand. Roughly 66% percent of all Thai Americans live in Los Angeles. It is also home to the world's first and only Thai Town. In 2002 there was an estimated 80,000+ Thai immigrants living in Los Angeles. In 2002 there were 80,000 Thai living in LA, and that number is 66% of all Thai living in America, and the numbers have surely increased dramatically since that time, so it would seem that California and the USA have the worlds most Thai living outside of Thailand.