We are from Thailand and looking forward to relocate ourselves to Australia while many Australians relocating to Thailand for retirement. ï?Å

We do not have so strict rules, regulations for living here in Thailand. For example, if we want to eat while driving, we can do so, although the law says that it is not allowed. If we want to go to a public park, we can freely go, sit, drink, eat and have fun. Many things like that. We have lot of freedom in doing things.

I have heard in Australia, you get lots of restrictions strict laws etc. Seems like living in an artificial world. Anyone found this difficult to adjust or found it boring.

Hello Bru

I think you have been given the wrong impression of what Australia is like!
It certainly isnt a good idea to drive a car whilst eating as the risk of crashng the car and killing someone is far greater.
You will have a very free life here. Probably more so than Thailand!

I don't think there are any laws here for not eating whilst driving, however you can't use a mobile phone while driving

Parks are there so we can freely go and sit, drink, eat and have fun.

I can't compare to Thailand, but I don't think it's that bad here, unless you are a smoker, in which case you have to keep your smoke to yourself, and not share it with others.

Also, in many parks, dogs cannot be let free, this is intended so that others can, "freely go and sit" wherever they want

But are the dogs allowed to eat while driving???

what strict laws are you referring to in Australia? As I can't think of any real strict laws here.

. For example, if we want to eat while driving, we can do so, although the law says that it is not allowed."

Reading the above; do you mean that eating and driving is not really allowed by the laws there in Thailand, but people do it anyway and the law is never enforced by the police etc?
That's how I read the above quote anyway . Or do you mean here in Aus?


Alcohol laws here, no you are not supposed to drink in a public place , soft drinks and food yes( beaches, parks etc), unless it is a designated "wet ( alcohol allowed) area" - you're actually breaking the law here in Brisbane by drinking alcohol on a beach, park etc, NSW the same I believe - but they don't tend to enforce this law ( the courts would be full of people if they did ) , except in the gold coast at times it seems they do enforce this no alcohol drinking in public place laws they do have here.

Aus Boring? I don't want to personally comment on this ( as it will start the usual riot by some), I much prefer Asia to here in Australia ,and I do find Aus pretty bland in many ways.

I have never lived in Thailand ( I used to be based in Singapore), but used to do jobs up in Thailand quite often, and spent many a month there.

cheers

Another pet peeve of mine. You are not allowed to eat or drink on trains!!! And we are not talking alcohol drinks, any drink .

I used to love the morning commute in the UK when I could sit on the train eat my ham and cheese and mushroom crepe and wash it down with a bottle of water or OJ.

Not allowed here.

'tis common for the common to eat in public; 'tis common for the common to leave sticky drinks and chewing gum on railway seats and toss Makkas wrappers on common floors to the uncommon sounds ghetto blasters.

Maybe a 'No Littering' rule would be more appropriate then

And a 'Turn your f-ing iPod down the whole carriage doesn't want to listen to it, are you deaf or something?' rule would be good too.

Whilst what you are eating might not stink so badly, theres nothing worse than than the rank second hand odour of someone else's Big Mac or KFC.

Yeah, but you have to have a job for that .

Loads of people eat on my train....go on, live a little and eat your ham sarnie on the train

job hmmmm

let me just look that up

Job :scared:

No, No, No, I'm talking about the commute to and from Gilhooleys

Actually I don't know why I bother, theres a perfectly good Irish bar just up the road, Dicey Rileys that I've never been to. Or Ricey Dicies as Mrs JTL thinks its called

It's a good job we're allowed to eat in the parks, otherwise all those free barbies would be a waste of time.

London buses used to have signs saying no food or drink to be consumed on the bus, but that never stopped anyone. I got a feeling you weren't supposed to eat on the tube, but I'm not 100% sure on that one.

A

I hope the Dicey Reillys in Aus is better than the one in Neasden, London :scared:

I have a real problem with needing to keep drinking in dry weather (like now) and have actually been told on a Brisbane City train that I had to stop taking sips from my WATER bottle!!! (and yes, it did contain water, I don't just drink alcohol )
Ceazy - I asked him what he would do when I fell over from dehydration (yes, I suffer that badly) and he just shrugged and said "you can't drink on here!" and walked off.