OneMoreFarang

1 minute ago, bkk6060 said:

The new world attitude is careless about others.  Do what you want when you want and F everyone else. Besides living environments, look at the phone situation.  Just have ongoing loud conversation where ever you want who cares about others.  Noise and rudeness way of the world now it seems

Not really.

It depends a lot on where you are and the people who are in those locations.

I am regularly in multiple restaurants without these problems.

And where I live mostly it is civilized in the floors, the lifts, and the corridors in between.

1 hour ago, BangkokReady said:

 

Everyone knows that from 18-24 Thai girls only talk about toys and cartoons. Then they hit 25 and start talking about politics and philosophising on the meaning of life.

I just thought: What do I or did I talk about with girls in bars? 

I don't really know, we just talk.

And then there is the thing with the chemistry - for no better word for that. With some people we can just talk and talk and talk, it doesn't really matter about what, we just talk. And with others there is nothing, or almost nothing to talk about.

Obviously, that can be a question of education, culture, intelligence and all that. But sometimes it just is. Why? I don't know.

4 minutes ago, BangkokReady said:

What issues will there be with an 18 year old adult?

Some people just don't like it.

You can't do that! Good people don't do that. And other BS like that.

In another tread members talk about buying property in Thailand and noisy neighbors.

Did you ever have noisy neighbors in Thailand?

Could you solve this by yourself with the neighbor?

Did you let the security people or management handle this?

Was it so bad that you moved out?

Personally, I had a long time ago a noisy neighbor. I let it slide a few times and then I just called the security of the building, every time he started noise again in the middle of the night.

I don't remember how long it took, but maybe max one month later the problem was solved.

How about you?

3 minutes ago, NorthernRyland said:

noise and disruptions. Maybe I shouldn't be talking because I just don't want to live that close to people anyways but I have lived in condos and the problems are even worse than houses. Having said that burning is a problem for me in Thailand and condos don't have this problem. Otherwise all the noise problems I have with Thai people are worse the more dense things get.

Do you have an impression if this happens mostly in cheap condominiums or maybe also in HiSo places where some HiSo people think they can get away with that?

I live in a condominium with about 500 units in Bangkok and it seems that we have problems like that only very seldom. Rent range roughly about 10k to 30k per month, in the middle of lower Sukhumvit. 

10 hours ago, webfact said:

Many see cannabis as a cornerstone of a progressive, modern Thailand.

Really?

3 minutes ago, NorthernRyland said:

I would never dream.There's a million condos everywhere and you can move whenever you get bad neighbors. In floating sky boxes you have zero control over your surroundings and so many things can go wrong.

I wonder how often those bad neighbors happen. They are mentioned again and again, but is it really a problem?

And about other things which can go wrong: Personally, I wouldn't want to look out of my window into someone else window a couple of meters away. But it seems for many Thais that is no issue.

I think a good view is important. But looking at pictures on property sites, it seems almost all pictures are from the inside, often with window curtains closed. I guess there would be more pictures of the views if more buyers would care.

Just now, kinyara said:

I'd recommend saving yourself some time and just search and read the 100's of other threads on the same subject, inevitably you'll end up reading the same arguments for and against from the same people that inevitably will appear on here over the next couple of days, you'll just get there quicker. 

 

In short it's a personal decision based on your finances and preferred style of living - permanence or transient, I think other peoples experiences are irrelevant and will cloud your decision making.

Imagine if this forum would have a good search function...

And imagine it would have a summary of 10-page threads.

But maybe, now that AN publishes AI generated news, maybe they could have AI generated summaries. So instead of reading 10 pages with at least half the posts irrelevant maybe there could be a short summary. Now that would be nice. 

28 minutes ago, topt said:

In the UK, for example, a lot of people have been chasing the best savings rates and will move money around online to different banks depending on that. If you had to keep updating your will every time it would not only be a chore but also you may die between changing and updating......

 

I agree you need to have details about the assets accessible to at least your executor(s). In my case I have a a separate document which I update as necessary and which I send to the relevant trusted people. This contains all the details they should need.

 

I actually go further and have it encrypted and the password is available separately.

If you put the bank account numbers in the document, then I understand that you want to encrypt it.

But the bank account number is not really necessary. If "you" have documents that you inherited everything from one person, then it's good enough to know the name of the bank. Then contact the bank with the necessary documents and they will find out the details.

1 hour ago, daveAustin said:

would you talk about?

This seems to be a common question.

How about: What do you want to talk about?

I.e. I don't talk with my gf about politics, mathematics, rocket science and all those things.

And I am not looking for a gf to talk about things like that. If I want to do that, I have friends.

I talk with my gf about things in our daily life. Those are things everybody of any age can/does talk about.

52 minutes ago, topt said:

It seems to be something that the lawyers here in Thailand like to do - guess it potentially removes any ambiguity.

 

However I agree with you and made this same point to a foreign para legal (not sure what to call him) who works here and posted on previous will threads. he admitted that It definitely isn't something that has to be done but he was in favour of it. 

I think in general it helps in any country to have details about the assets. I.e. it is good to know someone has bank accounts with bank X and bank Y. Because otherwise maybe nobody knows that a person had a bank account with bank Z. In some countries there is no easy way to find out - I have no idea about this issue in Thailand.

17 hours ago, johng said:

Well it could also be said  

when will Thais learn....how to drive "properly"  but that might be construed as a bit racist ?

Maybe Thais will learn that in 50 or 100 years, maybe never.

Do you want to wait until they learned to drive properly? Or accept reality that they don't do this here and now. 

I guess it was mentioned already.

It might be difficult to sell for a reasonable price in a reasonable time frame.

I.e. in the building where I live are the same units for sale since many years, some of them for reasonable prices. It seems only few people are interested at all to buy. Probably there are just so many condominiums for sale and there are not enough buyers for all of them (maybe in general or maybe only in specific areas). 

I have not enough experience, but I would guess if you want to sell for a decent price, don't assume this will be done within a couple of months.

39 minutes ago, Peterw42 said:

The main thing to be aware of is there is no sales data in Thailand, often its hard to know what the realistic price is for a property. Asking price means nothing. You can see 1M baht condos for sale for 3M.

I think this and maybe other websites can give you a good idea about the prices.

https://www.fazwaz.com/

2 minutes ago, AhFarangJa said:

Run Forrest, Run......

To her or away from her?

2 hours ago, Lancelot01 said:

Not many in Thailand have their a/c serviced on a regular basis. It's a simple job and, if done regularly, inexpensive. 

I guess part of the question is how oversized the AC is.

In one apartment I had an AC which was just a little warmer than usual when it was time to clean it.

In another apartment the AC was just not able to cool down the room anymore. It needed cleaning every couple of months. 

About 10 interesting bars in Nana, maybe 7 more in Cowboy, then a trip to the beach and Soi 6, I guess after a couple of days 72 is achievable.