You know you live in Thailand when...

- Splashing out $3 for a meal is extravagant. In fact, you can get a big bowl of hot noodle soup for $1.
- A weekend on a tropical island is only a few hours away.
- $20 per night is a reasonable price for a double room with en-suite bathroom (basic as it may be).
- Everyone you know owns at least one yellow shirt.
- In the morning, you don't need to stick your head outside to decide what to wear. You don't even need look out the window to decide what to wear. In fact, you don't need to wake up to decide what to wear.
- You're beginning to understand the notion of “Thai time”, meaning don't expect anything to be done by the time you expect it.
- You have fried rice for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and there's nothing odd about that.
- You debate whether $10 is too much to pay for hair cut.
- Playing “spot the ladyboy” is a fun way to pass time in school.
- When you see other farangs (white forigners) in your neighbourhood you assume they're either teachers or lost (applies particularly when your neighbourhood is Nonthaburi).
- You feel superior to backpackers.
- You catch yourself saying “My birthday five December, same-same like King”. And in fact generally speaking in a Thai accent.
- Seeing a family of four and their dog all piled on a motorbike doesn't surprise you.
- You do your shopping in a market (Ta-Lad), not Market Mall or Marks & Spencer.
- You have seriously adjusted your notion of what constitutes "really good English"
- You understand why 555 is the new LOL.