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2 hours ago, brianthainess said:

Or when your dead.

I think that this is general perception of all western embassies. The staff are just cocktail party people.

9 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

Yes, and some are more healthy than a 30 year old.

This is so true! There are so many obese people aged around 30 or younger just waiting for the usual (deadly) illnesses to start. I haven't flown for several years, but my biggest fear on a plane is being seated next to an obese passenger. You get squashed by them. If you're in a window seat, they pin you to the wall for the flight's duration.

Isn't it just sheer laziness not to renew your visa? 

I assume that you've saved up enough money to try to treat the various illnesses (some potentially fatal) that the Group 1 carcinogen, alcohol, causes. Remember that you'll need 800,000 Baht left for your Retirement Visa.

I was in hospital for an unrelated matter recently. In the same ward I saw several men waiting to die from smoking. It's an extremely unpleasant way to leave this world.

I doubt if the "Thai people" care the slightest, but the Elites who own most of the land will be upset by the plan. Who in their right mind would invest 100 million Baht with the rest of those terms just to get a tiny piece of land, which could be taken away from you one day? Not even money launderers would be interested. These folks must think that foreigners have no choices or that foreigners are rich & stupid.

3 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

I can’t believe we haven’t yet read the inevitable responses of....   "deport him, he gives all us Farangs a bad name”... 

 

 

The passenger was reported as saying...  “First time I’ve seen the meter used” !!! 

 

 

Nowadays, you can't trust anyone regardless of their origin.

I'll bet she's unhappy about going back to Russia as winter approaches and the economy is starting to be in a frightful mess.

I assume that these foreigners were keen to spend a decade or more in a crowded Thai prison cell. How long did they think they could get away with it?

Ladyboy street robberies are so common now in Pattaya that any ladyboys walking along the Beach Road and Walking Street can be assumed to be thieves. Announce that thieving ladyboys will be executed if caught. Illegal, but it might scare them away.

I wouldn't buy a Chinese car because it will have a chip in it that sends information to the CCP about me.

Of course, the man shouldn't have done it. But, lady, you were out walking on Thailand's seediest and most infamous street at 3 a.m..The street is known for prostitutes, thieves, con artists, drunks, people on drugs, and foreigners looking for sex. Of course, nothing could possibly go wrong.

12 hours ago, Lite Beer said:

90 days from the day you report.

Yes, this is correct. I have just reported online a week earlier than I needed to and I lost a week so to speak. The new starting date was 18th August instead of 25th August.

14 hours ago, 2baht said:

No, they are for controlling student demonstrators and perpetrating future military coups. 

I don't think that the Military will dare to carry out another coup. The public reaction would not be like in the past. The Opposition would be huge, I think.

9 hours ago, The Hammer2021 said:

Someone who has never been to Thailand least of all Issan is starting a thread of dubious  merit or use. I find such threads and their  creators

potentially vicarious  Is it just me or do other people who actually  live here find such threads vaguely voyeuristic- experiencing Thailand, the people and their culture through  the eyes of others? There are two other similar posters generating endless threads non of which  are important or merit serious attention.  I query their motives but do  should they? BTW The answer  to the OP's question is Nong Khai not Burriram as most people believe.

The question / thread is important to the poster, so it deserves to be posted.

26 minutes ago, keystonecoppers2 said:

    Hummin!    In the garden. They won`t find it even is they engage

                       the whole school that sometimes clean the beach,

                       to do some digging. Deviation and deception are the words!

Just make sure that your will states where the gold is buried.

His house design is unsuitable for keeping cash and valuables. You see, if you're going to keep lots of cash and expensive watches in your home, when you design your house you should create bends and corners and even a second floor or basement so that you can build a secret room. A staircase leading down under the main sofa to a basement where there is a secret room leading off the main underground room would be one way to do this. The thieves wouldn't be clever enough to realise what the bookcase or mirror was hiding. You have to have bends and corners if you're going to make one on the ground floor. His house design is too simple to do this.

My Thai wife says that she just needs to get the Death Certificate and Marriage Certificate and to take them to the bank. It's the same for land as well.

It sounds like they came up with this idea after 10 or more drinks each after Friday afternoon golf. Since the land can't be sold or bequeethed to someone who isn't Thai, If the foreigner dies, his foreign wife has to leave the house and land and she has to sell it no doubt for a loss. I think that the only people who'll agree to this will be desperate money launderers. Maybe the Military want Thailand to become the Hub of Money Laundering.

City life and countryside life do seem to be very different regarding food expenses when you can grow your own food, apart from rice, which is probably cheaper where we live than in a city. 3,700 Baht per week for food seems a lot to me. Most of that is processed food and chemical vegetables and fruit, I expect. If you have some land you can be self-sufficient regarding (chemical-free) fruit and vegetables, and water, which you can structure and store in large clay "ongs". We're adding chickens soon and later on a fish pond as we have 19 cats to look after. I couldn't live in a city again.