PeaceBlondie

A 4-week decent TEFL course, earned recently in the UK.should be fine,

Somewhere in 1,700 words of the OP, I missed the emphases on lack of respect and discrimination. That's easy to explain. We're not Thai, and not in charge.

No problem at Sripat - I get 100 Rubifen at a time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_count..._fertility_rate

#143 - Fertility rate well below replacement rate, 1.83 live births per mother.

Going kindly about Thai women - fewer workers, and neither they nor their menfolk seem likely to become more industrious.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Thailand-Fac...ml#entry3292355

We allow native and non-native speakers of English to post here, even to post informally. We actively discourage pedants who act as spelling and grammar police, and we hoist them on their own petard as they make their own errors.

Not to say "I told you so" but...

From 1975 to 2000, if I recall, Thailand had one of the world's sharpest declines in birth rates. Still declining, already below replacement rate. This has been obvious since 1990. Thailand will do nothing about this. They won't open doors for Burmese, Laos, and Khmers to come here legally.

Some posters exaggerate a trillion times per nanosecond. There are far more straight men here.

1. Always find ways to mention how long you've been in Thailand for, the more the better.

7 years keeps me humble

2. Actively seek white skin chicks to impress the Thais. Equally, regard all dark skin chicks as ugly, scoff at them and call them whores.

Shacked up with a dark-skinned guy

3. Take great pride in that fact that your wife is not an ex-prostitute.

Ex hotel manager

4. Prance around like a big shot because you have a normal / semi-decent job / business in Thailand by western standards.

I don't prance well at all

5. Make sure to play down your Thai language skills in a way that comes across as humble but fluent, even if you can't speak shit compared to time spent.

Illiterate in Thai

6. Be sure to use your most impressive memorized Thai phrases as often as possible with complete disregard for context.

Mai bpen rai is always in context.

7. Make as many chicks as uncomfortable as possible with your poorly pronounced pidgin Thai that is only understood by other up standing expats that you smugly speak (bad) Thai with. Combine this with your overbearing body language that you still thinks flys here after all this time.

When you're illiterate and not trying to impress chicks - my pen writes.

8. Apply the Thai sadika system to the expat / tourist community - look down on all who backpack, TELF etc. whilst prostrating before your wealthier, longer in Thailand expat mates.

You misspelt TEFL and I misspelt misspelt

9. Whenever someone informs you of a purchase, be sure to tell them that they could have got a better deal if they had your expertise.

Yes, they could have bargained in batsi-kop.

10. Most important, be condescending, cynical and patronizingly accepting of Thailand and the Thais. Like you understand everything but are way above it all.

Mai kojai. My pen writes.

ryukn, unlike a lot of Americans, I sympathize about your predicament. Your only 'crime' is that you overstayed a tourist visa at age 6. I stole a piece of chocolate at age 11. We never killed anybody.

Don't get your dreams up about immigration reform for the next ten years.

earl, there are no decent medical services in Hua Hin. I wouldn't trust a stray cat to care there.

They need us native speakers to teach English, to an embarrassing degree. But most Thai teachers of English can't improve. Our best students might soon speak better than the Thai teachers of English. Loss of face.

I've never left home for under 280 per hour in CMai.

Agreed, fundamentalist Christians are fundamentally Christians, so that it reflects on everything they do. As for the cost of buying land legally, and starting a 13-year campus, it might cost far more than US$5 million. How much did Prem and APIS cost? Former students at Lanna complained of leaking roofs.

There is a 'Pun-pun' vegetarian-only resto across town.

Canada. My friend was an illegal US resident from South China over five years illegally. Moved to Canada without sponsor; citizen 5 years later.

My daughter is a public school teacher and she'll send me an email about her typical day. However, the life of a Thai teacher is totally irrelevant to how farang teachers do it, here or in Aberdeen.

For what it's worth' I'll ask

The recorded teachings of Jesus and the Buddha - socialist or capitalist?

I know a good trilingual stylist who charges no more than 50 baht, way out where the Buddha lost his sandals in the rice field.

Ir's a bit early. The schools want you in the area for interviews. Not many schools in HH

Please learn how to quote posts. Thank you.

I see hatred against anything spiritual in this thread...

I am all for spiritual connections and enlightenment if we can find it, but what that has to do with Bible-thumpers is beyond me. Red-neck values do not strike me as spiritual in any way. In their own religion, Jesus said the meek will inherit the earth. A little true humility and caring for the real poor would go a long way. The Koreans are at every international school in Chiang Mai because it is a much cheaper alternative to the price such an education would cost in South Korea -- so that's basically meaningless in ministering to the needy.

My post was not directed at yours, ferd. Not all 'Bible-thumpers' are red-necks; many have doctorates. Yes, Jesus was an outspoken champion of the poor, hookers, half-breeds, etc. His opening sermon about jubilee for the oppressed nearly got Him stoned. I helped a student transfer to Grace; her father ministered to Hill Tribes. Another lived in Koolpunt, barely able to pay reduced tuition. Another 's father ran an orphanage. Many students aren't missionary kids; one's father ran a diamond mine. Have a good day.

Start positive topics and posts.

World Club is a huge place filled with everything from mansions to modest rented two-bedrooms. I see hatred against anything spiritual in this thread, so I won't moderate. I sat beside Grace staff recently - at a Mike's burger bar. Nice folks, doing education for Americans, Koreans on scholarships, poor missionary families ministering to hill tribes, etc. Bright students, well trained staff, etc.

Routine, normal everyday blood tests? Less than 1000 baht, any half-decent hospital. Solid gold MD-PhD specialist to cure advanced, rare form of cancer? Fly to Houston, $300,000.