OneMoreFarang

I think for some guy it's something like this: I will spend anyhow most of my time in bars and spend money. So why don't I open my own bar and drink in my own bar. Make it look like I want, play the music which I want, hire only girls which I like, etc. And if they do that for fun, fine. The problem is if guys think they open a bar to make a lot of money...

You sound like you expect they think about what they are doing. Think again.

How many Thai women did you ever see reading a book? qed

He will probably send her a picture like this to get her attention:

It is not racist to be attracted to this or that shade of skin color. It is racist if we don't want to work or socialize with people from certain skin colors. That is very different from attraction.

Mostly Thais have a different taste then most of us. A long time ago I thought I will check out Thai soapy massage and other places where Thai guys look for girls. I didn't see many attractive girls in those places - attractive for my mind of course. Many farangs, including me, like petite and dusky. And most Thai guys don't like that at all. So, no competition.

It sounds like you would have (possibly) married her if you would not have been in a relationship at that time. Many girls know which story to tell which (kind of) guy. She had a story ready for you. I think many of us who live here for a long time and go to the bars regularly heard many of the stories. And we don't care anymore. And we don't believe the stories. And at least some girls know that. And because they know that we know they don't even try to tell us BS stories anymore. At least I didn't hear any of those stories anymore since a long time.

There are cm and kg... My gf is almost 150cm "high". I like that. And she was <40kg when I met her. I also liked that. And no, she was/is not anorexic - just petite and cute. No, the one in the picture is not my gf. But she is about the same size.

But there are some common characteristics. Back home it was difficult to find any female over 18 with less than 50kg. Here, there are plenty of them and even enough in the 40kg range. And look at a picture of a couple of women and it is not too difficult to guess where they come from. Not same, different!

Obviously not. Bob told us already he wants all that, but he doesn't get it. So sad. 😉

From all the Asians I have only experience with Thai girls. I would be surprised if all Asians are the same. Many Thai girls and women and feminine. Many don't care about feminism - probably many don't have a clue what it is. Most of them try to look pretty and if you tell them they look good they like that. And it's not difficult to find one who likes the traditional role model. He works, she takes care of the home and him. All in all, I think there are still a few pretty farang females. But are there still any farang girls out there who are not influenced by feminism? I have my doubts.

One of those non-binaries? 😉

Just in case you want to use that picture again. I suggest turn it around so that it is not upside down.

Good luck I have no kids. Imagine you have kids, and they constantly get bombarded with this woke nonsense. There are XX and XY chromosomes. That's it. It's not really that difficult.

I am not an American but over the years I read about business in Thailand, visa regulations and many other things. And from time to time I read about some special conditions for Americans. As far as I know there is also a law in the USA that Americans have to report their income from all over the world to America - or something like that. So it is not difficult to imagine that there are also some special banking rules. But apart from that different (Thai) Banks have different regulations and there are lots of bankers who don't know their own rules. It's not easy.

I am sure an easy way to find those agents are in the places where you need them. I.e. if you need an agent for immigration, go there and look at the guys who are first in the row and who advice their clients what to do. They are normally easy to spot.

I don't think there is much point of paying attention. In the official meeting there will be the official rules. But who in Thailand cares about official rules. I.e. no smoking laws in bars are all the time ignored. And obviously they can be ignored because the venues pay the police for not enforcing them. The only rules which count is what was negotiated in private. And those things can be renegotiated when necessary. TiT.

Here are some: https://thailandexplained.com/start-business-in-thailand/

As far as I know you can't buy EN only keyboards officially in Thailand. I guess that matters for warranty, etc. - just in case you care.

It's a Dual 1019. Google it and you will find links in Bangkok and maybe also up country.

Obviously the current POTUS is far away from perfect. But I think he and his team think about their decisions and policies. There are many policies which I don't like. But all in all, I prefer people who think and make decisions compared to others who talk BS all the time and shoot from the hip.

There is a difference between most and a majority. I wouldn't call the 70,000,000 a minority which can be ignored.

And then there are people who believe in the old man in the sky, they call him god. And it is not difficult to convince them to part with money for a verbal promise.

I show the following so that you have a sample how it looks like when old tiles were removed. This is a picture or part of my floor at the start of my renovation. The floor in the front of the picture had parquet. After that was removed that part of the floor is relative smooth and tiles could easily be installed on that floor. The part on the right had tiles installed in a kitchen and you can clearly see the uneven surface. And the left top was a bathroom with tiles, in between was a wall. The second picture shows basically the same location after a wall was added and not long before the new floor tiles were installed. You see that the part where you see the old kitchen tile cement in the first picture was "cleaned up" to have a relatively even surface. I don't know how necessary all this is. I had professionals do the job and install the tiles and IMHO they did a good job, and I am happy with the installation of the tiles. I didn't have any problems with the tiles until now - but I live there only since a couple of months.