why i was unhappy living in Thailand [As-KGkkAH5M]

I was living in Thailand for nearly 2

years, maybe a year and a half, so just

round it up to 2 years. And I recently

came back to the UK and I was trying to

explain to myself and try and understand

why I'm not really in a desperate rush to

get back to Thailand anytime soon. And I

think the reason why was because I just

wasn't very happy in Thailand. And I'm

trying to think, why wasn't I very happy

in Thailand? Well, there were a few

reasons. There were several bodily reasons

and then several environmental reasons. I

had some massive body malfunctions when I

was in Thailand, and I've never had these

problems ever before in my entire life.

And I only had them in Thailand, and they

only went away after I left Thailand. The

first problem I had started about a month

after arriving in Thailand. I had these

really horrible itchy hand rashes that

covered my entire inner hand. My palm, my

inner fingers were covered in this kind of

weird, itchy, flaky rash that was just

really disgusting, and it took ages to

find out how to get rid of them. So it

would start off as kind of like small

little bubbles forming under my skin, and

then they'd get very itchy, and then they

would start to burst, and then they would

dry and get all flaky. And then my

fingers, the insides of my fingers became

all sore and red, inflamed, flaky, and

itchy. And it was so disgusting, and it

was so difficult trying to resist

scratching them because they were so

itchy. And once you start scratching them,

you can't stop scratching because it feels

so good. It took a lot of willpower to

stop scratching mid-scratch. And sometimes

I would wake up in the middle of the night

and I'm just scratching without even

realizing what I'm doing. I'll wake up in

the morning and I'm just scratching my

hands like this. One time it got so bad,

I just lost all self-control and I

interlocked my fingers like this and I

just, I rubbed it frantically like that

and it felt so good. But then I scratched

up all of the skin and then my fingers all

swelled up like sausages because of the

infection and it was just really horrible.

And I suffered with this itchy hand rash

problem for weeks, nearly months before I

finally found out how to get rid of them.

I tried loads of different types of

creams: moisturising cream, antifungal

cream, antiseptic, antihistamine,

anti-insect bite creams. Nothing worked

until I discovered topical corticosteroid

creams, which was the only thing that

would get rid of the rash. It nearly got

rid of all of the rashes in just a few

days, and it was like a miracle cream. I

was so happy when I discovered this cream

could solve my rash problem, but the rash

kept trying to come back. Every time I

stopped using the cream, I would start

noticing little bubbles starting to appear

on my hand again, and then I had to

reapply the cream to make sure it goes

away. And it wasn't until I left Thailand

and went to Japan that the skin problems

fully went away and I didn't have to apply

the cream anymore. Now I'm back in the UK,

my hands are completely perfect. So

there's no rashes or weird things on the

skin of my hands at all. It's completely

flawless. I've never seen my hands looking

so great after leaving Thailand because

they looked disgusting for such a long

time when I was in Thailand. I have no

idea what caused it. Maybe it was the heat

or it was the water. When I had a shower,

I had to use water that came out of the

pipes to wash my hands and have a shower.

I drank bottled water, but I couldn't wash

myself in bottled water. And the next

problem I had was I kind of got fat. Now

I'm a pretty skinny guy. Look at my arms,

they're like twigs. And people do make fun

of me for being very skinny and they think

that I can't get fat and I can eat

whatever I want. But unfortunately,

that's not true. I do get fat. And I got

kind of fat in Thailand. My face was

bloating up and I got beer belly. My belly

was like bloated and I looked kind of

weird because I had these skinny legs and

skinny arms, but I had this big fat beer

belly which looked kind of ugly. And I

think the reason why is because it's so

hot there and I think when you're cold,

your body burns calories to keep yourself

warm. But because it's never cold in

Thailand, it's always hot, you never burn

any calories trying to keep yourself warm.

You do the opposite where your body

doesn't want to move so you don't generate

unnecessary heat. So you don't do any

exercise because you're just sitting

around in the condo all the time and it's

too damn hot outside to do any exercise.

You can't really go outside to do some

cycling because the roads of Bangkok are

so dangerous and chaotic. And it's just

not very nice outside to go outside for a

walk to burn some calories, get some

exercise, maybe an evening stroll. I

didn't really like doing that because

outside was always so hot and it was

always really busy and noisy with all the

traffic. The traffic was non-stop 24/7.

It never stopped. It was always non-stop

taxis, tuk-tuks, motorbikes all over the

place. Couldn't find anywhere nice and

peaceful to have a walk and have a nice

conversation. To have a conversation, you

would have to be yelling over the sound of

traffic all the time. There's a few big

parks in Bangkok. There's Lumpini Park,

Benjakitti Park, and Chatuchak Park. So

you would have to try and put effort into

making your way towards one of these parks

if you want a big open nice area to walk

around and it's not too noisy, but I

didn't really live very close to any of

these parks, so it would have taken extra

effort to get to one of these parks. And I

felt like I shouldn't have to put effort

into finding a place to walk. I should be

able to just exit my building and walk

around the neighborhood, and it should be

fun and nice like it is in Japan. But

Thailand is just not like that,

unfortunately. Again, as soon as I left

Thailand, I went to Japan, and I became

more active. I did more walking, I went

outside more, did cycling, I did

long-distance walking as well, and I just

lost all of beer belly, my face became

less bloated, and I just felt much better

physically. In Thailand, just feel drained

and tired all the time. And you go

outside, you notice nearly 80% of the men,

probably 90% of the men outside, all have

beer bellies and look kind of bloated. I

think it's just because of the weather.

And then the next problem I had is kind of

gross, and I'm not going to go into too

much detail so I don't gross people out,

but it involves toilet stuff. So

basically, I had very, very bad number 2s

every single And I don't know why. I

didn't eat street food. I didn't eat Thai

food. I didn't eat spicy food. I didn't

eat much fast food. I mostly cooked my own

food. I had sandwiches, steak and chips,

fried stuff, pizza, burgers, that kind of

stuff, very casual stuff. But for some

reason, I had diarrhea every single day.

Not even one day went by without diarrhea.

And I had no idea how to fix it. I tried

eating more fruits, more nuts. I tried

taking vitamin supplements. I tried eating

cereal because I thought that would bulk

up my stomach. Nothing would fix it, and I

tried everything. And the only thing that

fixed it was by leaving Thailand. And then

as soon as I left Thailand, I had no more

diarrhea. The only thing I can think of is

maybe the water, the tap water. But again,

I wasn't drinking the tap water. I was

drinking bottled water, but I would wash

my vegetables in the tap water. You might

be thinking that my diet's really bad,

and I agree, I do eat a lot of junk food.

But I'm back home in the UK now, and I've

been eating pot noodles, microwave

burgers, fish and chips, crisps, every

single day, and I haven't had a single day

of diarrhea since I got back in the UK.

And my number 2s look amazing. Even my

sister, when she came to Thailand to

visit, she got food poisoning and she was

vomiting in the back of a taxi after she

went to a food market. So I don't know

what is wrong with Thailand when it comes

to food. So I ended up just having

diarrhea every single day because I just

couldn't figure out how to fix it.

Changing what I ate didn't make any

difference either. And because of these

body problems I had in Thailand, I just

felt kind of unhappy, a bit miserable on a

daily basis. The other thing I didn't

really quite like about living in Thailand

had to be the food. I never really liked

Thai food. I couldn't find anything in the

Thai cuisine menus that I really enjoyed.

It was all too spicy, too fishy, too

tangy. And it really is a country of

people who love seafood like crabs and

lobster, shrimp. And I hate seafood. I

don't like any of that stuff. I think it

looks weird and disgusting and it grosses

me out. And I don't know why anyone would

want to eat the insects of the ocean. So

it made looking for food outside kind of

frustrating. It was very limiting when you

can't eat the Thai food because I don't

like it. So I had to look for either

Western food or Japanese food or even

Indian food. When you're in Bangkok, it's

okay because there's lots of international

food places and big shopping centers where

they've got all the international food

brands and food chains. But when you go

outside of Bangkok into rural Thailand,

you realize that you are now in real

Thailand. None of that international big

city stuff exists anymore. And outside of

Bangkok, all the food is nearly all Thai

food. Everything is covered in chili.

Even if you get spaghetti, like carbonara

spaghetti with bacon, it's covered in

chili. The main national dish, which is

pad kapow, is covered in chili. And if I

have chili, I get even worse diarrhea. So

traveling outside of Bangkok was a real

hassle because it was so difficult to find

food I could eat. Had to go to 7-Eleven

and just get a sandwich. So with that all

being said, would I ever go to Thailand

again? And the answer is yes, I would like

to go to Thailand again sometime in the

future, maybe not this year, but

eventually I do see myself back in

Thailand at some point in my life, mainly

because it's really cheap there. I found

Bangkok to be a very nice, modern,

interesting city, and I found the Thai

people to be very respectful, very

friendly, and very nice, unlike Japanese

people, which you might find hard to

believe, but I found in Japan there's a

lot of rude disrespectful, not very nice

people, a lot of old men spitting on the

ground in Japan that I didn't really

notice in Thailand. I noticed in Bangkok

the people were just much nicer and the

atmosphere is much warmer and friendlier

and nicer than in Japan. So I would

actually, if I had to choose between Japan

and Thailand as countries to live in, I

would actually pick Thailand.