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15 minutes ago, BritScot said:

One day your rose coloured glasses will clear and by then it will most likely be to late for you and like many become trapped. In your eyes I probably know nothing but with only first landing in Thailand in 2002, living island life on Kow Tow which then was a paradise (not anymore), living the Bangkok life and also rural southern Thailand and things are not rosey  at all. TAT are a joke, Thailand should be a holiday wonderland and not far off perfect but greed and theft of funds it regressed instead of progressed. Roads and infrastructure are non existent (being disabled and holidaying in Thailand is a no no then there is the Mafia in the form of police, taxi military and the risk of being attacked or bitten by rabid dogs or thai men oh and the deadly roads. If I did not have family there I would never set foot in the place but hay I know nothing.

Kho Tow has many more tourists than 2002. How is that not success from Thailand's point of view?

Are you seriously saying you believe Thailand's tourist numbers will be lower in 2030 than 2019? 

Ask yourself...how did you attract this girl? If you used money at the start that's what she'll constantly want thru out your relationship.

23 minutes ago, stoner said:

is this some of that rich and deep culture i was told i had to respect the other day ? 

 

i could not even begin to imagine this happening at home. look at the stark difference on how ambulances are treated here vs back home. 

 

as i said before the road of cars splits like the red sea back home and is expected when ambulances approach. here you got to worry about getting jacked while you are laying on the road dying. 

 

shame to all persons involved with this. 

If you feel this way about Thailand and how can those type of thoughts not lower your well-being? Why wouldn't you move to a more comfortable country?

49 minutes ago, cardinalblue said:

The objective is if he is ready for travel and the family has lined up medical travel, then should go asap….

 

He should not be held hostage for bill payment…that is not medical care…

So who ultimately should pay for his treatment? Don't say the government.....that's a proxy. If you want to say government then describe the actual tax payer that should pay. 

2 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

There’s nothing wrong with the hospital wanting payment. But, IF the hospital operates dual-charing (double pricing) and is charing this boy more because he is a foreigner then I see something very wrong while the family struggle to make ends meet to cover the cost of treatment. 

 

The hospital has done a wonderful job of keeping him alive. 

 

I hope Thailand resolves its ‘insurance’ issues for tourists... there are very clear and obvious solutions but Thailand doesn’t seem to want to take firm steps towards those resolutions. 

 

I’ve repeated the following on this forum before: 

The Tourist Medical Burden on Thailand in cost terms is 0.04% of the income from tourism. 

It wouldn’t take a lot for Thailand to ‘write off’ these emergency cases.

 

Thailand is proposing a 1000 Baht departure tax - it wouldn’t take a lot for the funds from this to go towards ’tourists insurance’ to cover emergency medical treatment (note - emergency medical treatment, not elective treatment). 

 

Thailand ‘could’ do more to place itself in a more welcoming position, present better optics and further work towards improving tourism rather than the repeated articles where we witness the underlying attitudes that Thailand considers tourists a burden rather than the financial benefit they bring to the country. 

 

 

Thailand covers medical bills as you suggest then the unintended consequence of this is nobody bothering with medical insurance when visiting Thailand.

9 hours ago, bignok said:

I don't know why you make up lies about what others have seen.

 

Had relatives in old people's homes. There were people over 90yo. At least 40% were fat.

Could it be that they weren't fat until the very last month's of their life? In a home means lack of mobility and once you're in a home and probably the 6 months prior to it piling on the pounds would be fairly common I think.

19 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

Sounding a wee bit shallow to me.   

 

So if you met a person who made you laugh, and held an intelligent conversation, a best friend, you're saying you'd pass on her/him/it, if not meeting the 'trophy wife/partner' requirement.

 

hmm ... 

Would you have picked your current if you weren't a single dad?

I accept that being in love with your daughter makes a rational choice of partner more acceptable.

13 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

Sounding a wee bit shallow to me.   

 

So if you met a person who made you laugh, and held an intelligent conversation, a best friend, you're saying you'd pass on her/him/it, if not meeting the 'trophy wife/partner' requirement.

 

hmm ... 

Yes. They'd be a great friend. 

Wish it was different but I require physical attraction.

On 5/12/2023 at 10:32 AM, KhunLA said:

Really depends and as always ...

... Choose wisely

 

Yes, companionship does cost, unless you are the one being supported financially.

 

Take sex & emotional attachment out of the equation, and as a single parent, courting, living with, and marrying #4 ???? on paper, damn good investment:

... tutor for daughter

... maid/housekeeper

... gardener/groundskeeper

... translator

... personal shopper

... cook

... tailor

... hotel reservationist/negotiator 

... handy person, she can; solder, weld, plumb, operate hand tools

 

All for the price of providing a roof over head, bed to share & transport...

... all of which I had anyway.  Additional cost, feed & clothe, which she makes hers own and my clothing anyway.

 

Best added plus, now I can invest in land & RE, results...

... living in TH 'rent free' for over 20 yrs

 

OK, I'm at her beckon call as her sex toy ...

... the things I have to put up with, it's degrading.

All means nothing if she isn't attractive. Not saying yours isn't but I've met guys describing situations like this and I wouldn't do it.

1 hour ago, Pink Mist said:

The OP poster is asking about obtaining a WISE card not any other types. Nor sure if this helps @Neeranam

 

https://wise.com/us/travel-money/thai-baht-card

Using this card with an ATM in Thailand are you charged 220bht fee?

As the fertility falls ever more the number of wealthy older people who have no one to leave their wealth to will increase. Amazes me that they seem to think leaving it to the temple will bring them merit and also do the most good.

Billions of bht earned ....20 years in prison....I bet many Thai would accept that renumeration.

The government looking for solutions!!!!

The irony, considering that in my experience it's the lure of loans that get many Thais into a government clerical position.

And the government has always charged 7% even when base rate was 1%!!!! 

Seems the government is on the side of the problem not the solution to me.

12 hours ago, fittobethaied said:

Happy, you sound like my wife.....assuming and guessing about everything. Of course, you are certainly entitled to your own opinion, but it is unwise for you to state your opinion as fact. Consider this....of all the knowledge in the world, let's modestly say that you are aware of .00000000000001% of it. Have you considered that the true knowledge of God is hidden somewhere in the balance of that, and you just haven't discovered it as yet? Keep searching my friend! Take it from a former "rich gone broke" alcoholic and drug addict, God the Father, Holy Spirit and Jesus are all real and can change your life dramatically when they come into your life. All you have to do is receive Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior, and you will never have to worry about losing your life. You will find eternal life!

 

But using your exact same arguement, isn't there a chance that in that 0.99999999% that you don't know about fittobethaied is the error of your thinking that you do think there is a God?

Has the money for first class, but doesn't have the wherewithal to use a search site like Skyscanner! (Flight search engines only been around 20 years) 

Guess the op made his fortune as a male model ????

On 4/30/2023 at 12:49 PM, LaosLover said:

I'm on #3.

 

#1: young death.

 

#2: became a secret heroin addict from an inheritance that she didn't tell me about.

 

#3: still excited when I enter a room

 

#4? Prob won't be that excited when I pop into the room. This really is the last gasps of my hey day.

What age do you think the tail ceases to wag when the guy enters the room? 

Asking for a friend ????

Think about this every day. I'm 55. I answered 3. But that's "likely" to be 10% of my remaining years. That's quite a tax.

Thailand's great. We all know the air isn't. If we accept that on average polluted air reduces life span then how much lifespan are you willing to exchange?