JC's Trip to Nakhon Sawan, Thailand Part One -- A Good Place to Retire? 

@scrm1, the hardest part is being able to 1) remove english tonality from your speech - eg, rising inflection to indicate a question - a big no no; 2) correctly speak/hear the 5 tones; 3) correctly speak/hear short and long vowels; 4) correctly speak/hear those consonants and vowels that don't have an english equivalent. Master these critical skills, and the rest isn't all that hard.

@nocturnalserpent WOW!! really. Very nice. I am glad she can see her home on You Tube!

Great video! And I like the concept of trying to research info in a new city.

JC! I liked this very much! I am a newbee on your member site. I am putting my plan together.You have inspired me, thanks again,jef

Hi JC in Khon Kaen near the housing developments on the lake they have outdoor fitness centers, when I was there a couple months ago my wife and I made use of them everyday and they were always busy in the early morning and evenings

Excellent video J.C, these are the sort of places I like to visit while in Thailand more than the Islands and the usual spots, well done on another superb video.

Looks like a nice,quiet friendly place.

my gf is from nakhon sawan very happy to see you make a video of her city, ive always imagined going there.

@MrIrishpete Thanks. But I need the sea air so I will be heading to a beach somewhere soon!

@scrm1 I think they say it is the second most difficult. But just be a parrot a mimic the sounds and you can get by.

Visited there for a week. Some of the best Thai food ever!

Thanks JC!

when in Nakhon Sawan spend time there it is EXCELLENT.Next to the bat mountain is a monkey mountain with thousands of very cute monkeys.You can buy food to feed them and watch monkey shows.Good picnic area with LOTS of nice Thai food.Mountains next to each other.Big crocodile farm can be visited in Nakhon Sawan also.Many pictureesque flower fields,sugar plants and excellent shopping centre - BIG C.Baby elephants also!!!!e a house in Nakhon Sawan.An excellent place with LOTS to do.

@Cerebus9 I think these will be useful for a number of reasons

@TudorWines Really? Cool. What was your favorite?

@kosamui You are welcome

Nice to know that Thais are getting into fitness now.

cool video i liked your new friends JC, u appeared to be the only farang and attracted a lot of attention

JC , I can not believe they built a Golf Course on our air base ! This being Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base...I was stationed there April 1969 to April 1970 , during the Vietnam War.........saw the golf course on one of your Google Maps......just east of the base where a very nice mountain used to be .....

I love your videos. been a great help towards my 2nd trip to Thailand. my 1st trip was very restricted and ignorant

@WeberJ101 Wow. Thanks for being a member. You help me to do this kind of thing through your membership support. We will chat inside the member site. Jef, make sure to tell me you are Weber101 when we chat.

Thanks... that would be cool! :)

@TheWelcome90 There are so many great cities and lots of space. Except for expats living here or bird watchers there isn't much of a tourist or foreigner draw here. So not to worry.

jc needs his own t.v. show. he's got the catch phrase down :)

Dreamers

i love that you can talk to anyone without them treating you like a freak or a pervert (ie the young women you asked about a room)

@quizmasterdave That's for sure!

...People....sorry about that.

70 bath is the right price i think.For some place it can even cost up to 100 bath.45 is too cheap tho even for a Thai like me.

Did you go to Takhli village ?

Incidentally, so far as I can see none of these open air bits of gym equipment work. Okay, that's an exaggeration - there was quite a clever little pull down machine in Udon Thani where you lifted your bodyweight through a system of cams and levers, and you could do pull ups, but by and large the equipment could never work. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed - basic physics. So if you are churning out power it has to go somewhere. That, after all, is why exercise bikes, elliptical trainers and the like have dirty big flywheels with friction devices attached to them, or magnets spinning in magnetic fields, or fans....Thailand is covered with aerobic exercise devices with no resistance. So there are "elliptical" trainers, but your legs just fly back and forward pointlessly. The only energy loss is the air resistance on your legs. I suppose loon pants from the 1970's would help things a bit, but basically you'd be better off walking.

Im thinking, if you have a motor bike, can you just place it on the street when you dont use it? Will peole try to steal it? Is the risk very small that someone would steal your bike OR other stuff? Are you a easy victim when you live alone? JC, why do you live alone, cause you are a handsome man? (No! im not gay since im asking that way). Do you wanna marry a Thai or do you prefer to marry a woman from U.S. Do you want to go home when you are very old?

The woman at 6:00 looks like Kim Jong-il.