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Thailand, pure and simple is overpriced. I sell things online and can buy things in India 30% cheaper than Thailand. Why???
Was in Cowboy the other day and got quoted 440 Baht (1 Lady drink and 1 Beer) Why??
The reality is the USD should be 1 to 40 THB and GBP should be 1 to 60 THB. If this dosen't happen Thailand as a 2nd world country is simply over priced and will eventually destroy what export and tourists it has left (Albetit for the Low End China Tourists and sex Tourists like me ) :-)
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I note that these proposals do not apply to UK resident bringing their spouse to the UK.
The requirements of this are draconian already, my last enquiry (last year) revealed that to return to the UK with my spouse I would be required to have £63,000 in the bank or an annual income of in excess of £19,000. Despite owning my own home in the UK valued in excess of £600,000 which is mortgage free, on the income or capital requirements I can not qualify. I wonder how many retirees can. Surely being unable to live with my wife in my country of origin is a Breach of my Human rights to a family life.
This is something being used all the time for criminals to avoid being deported from the UK, yet I am precluded from living out my life in my country of birth with my chosen partner
Sell your house...Problem solved :-)
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To add a 20K salary in the UK stretches very far when there are no school fees or the after school lessons.
20k you'll be living a life of poverty in the UK...lol
And is he doing better in Thailand where he cannot afford to educate his children?
FYI, l left Thailand cos I couldn't stand the place or the everyday people not because of my kids education
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Hi Yermanee,
Thanks for the reply :-)
Actually the credit card is my dads (hence the hassle getting another one) and we have used it in the past to book flights to the UK. Etihad have never asked to see the card but I do always have a colour photocopy of the front and back of it in my bag just in case :-)
I have heard about some airlines wanting to see the actual card on check in but that only happened to me once with Thai airways and I had used my own card to pay anyway :-)
Good to be alert though just in case so thanks again :-)
FYI, Emirates refused me to board a flight from Bangkok to UK without the credit card that was used to book the flight. Was forced to cancel trip and re-book next day by paying cash
Red flags must have been all over your booking. How long before hand did you book the ticket? Was it a one way? Was paid for by somebody else with a foreign credit card? Say you are in the UK but the other person who paid had a Spanish credit card? Bells must have been ringing for them to cancel your booking and ask for cash.
I fly with emirates 6 times per year normally Uk to BKK for party time :-). The Emirates manager said its company policy to check passengers physical credit cards against there bookings for any flights from Thailand because of a high level of fraud in the past
Note normally I fly Uk to Bangkok but never get asked in the UK but on this occasion whilst on holiday I had to fly back to the UK for a week from BKK.
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To add a 20K salary in the UK stretches very far when there are no school fees or the after school lessons.
20k you'll be living a life of poverty in the UK...lYou have lived in the Uk recently then.
You haven't lived in the UK recently then have you. Don't forget in the UK no hospital bills, no school fees. No expensive eating out. No dcoters or dentists ripping you off!!!
Take these 4 big hitters out of your monthly bill and 20K take home pay stretches a long way in the UK
Example
3 bedroom Bungalow = £700 per month
Brand New For Focus = £200 per month
Utilities = £300 per month
My costs are down 50% in comparision to living a western style life in Thailand...
Depends on where in the UK and lifestyle...
I've a tenant who montlhy pays me GBP2,000...
I remember about dentists. When I compare implants prices in the UK 8 years ago against Thailand 2 years ago, UK prices were 4 times more...
I guess to get decent education in the UK you'll have to pay, a lot...
Food shopping is, as well, more expensive in the UK...
Restaurants are much more expensive in the UK as well...
OK, I can say that I just paid GBP500 monthly for my 911... because I put a big deposit upfront!!!
When single in the UK, a decent salary was GBP150K, before tax, minimum.
I can't imagine living in the UK with saying monthly GBP1,000 after taxes.
£2000 a month, where do you live Buckingham Palace.
In the northwest you can get a 3 Bedroom detached house for £700 a month which includes no idiot neighbours, no barking dogs, no chickens...you get the picture...In Thailand regardless how much you pay you cant escape noise.
Why are your so agressive? With respect you could go far...
Not Buckingham P. just a 2-bedroom + study detached house in SE England.
And GBP20K before or after tax is low, very low... wherever in the UK...
Get real.
The 20K is is not my only income have several business as well which take my monies into 60K plus a year.
The point i'm trying to make is with a family you can lead a much better lifestyle in the UK with 20K take home pay that you can in Thailand on an Expat salary. For reference was earning 200K thb a month in Thailand and we managed to spend most of that on Western life style and western schooling
That is my point
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Hi Yermanee,
Thanks for the reply :-)
Actually the credit card is my dads (hence the hassle getting another one) and we have used it in the past to book flights to the UK. Etihad have never asked to see the card but I do always have a colour photocopy of the front and back of it in my bag just in case :-)
I have heard about some airlines wanting to see the actual card on check in but that only happened to me once with Thai airways and I had used my own card to pay anyway :-)
Good to be alert though just in case so thanks again :-)
FYI, Emirates refused me to board a flight from Bangkok to UK without the credit card that was used to book the flight. Was forced to cancel trip and re-book next day by paying cash
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To add a 20K salary in the UK stretches very far when there are no school fees or the after school lessons.
20k you'll be living a life of poverty in the UK...lYou have lived in the Uk recently then.
You haven't lived in the UK recently then have you. Don't forget in the UK no hospital bills, no school fees. No expensive eating out. No dcoters or dentists ripping you off!!!
Take these 4 big hitters out of your monthly bill and 20K take home pay stretches a long way in the UK
Example
3 bedroom Bungalow = £700 per month
Brand New For Focus = £200 per month
Utilities = £300 per month
My costs are down 50% in comparision to living a western style life in Thailand...
Depends on where in the UK and lifestyle...
I've a tenant who montlhy pays me GBP2,000...
I remember about dentists. When I compare implants prices in the UK 8 years ago against Thailand 2 years ago, UK prices were 4 times more...
I guess to get decent education in the UK you'll have to pay, a lot...
Food shopping is, as well, more expensive in the UK...
Restaurants are much more expensive in the UK as well...
OK, I can say that I just paid GBP500 monthly for my 911... because I put a big deposit upfront!!!
When single in the UK, a decent salary was GBP150K, before tax, minimum.
I can't imagine living in the UK with saying monthly GBP1,000 after taxes.
£2000 a month, where do you live Buckingham Palace.
In the northwest you can get a 3 Bedroom detached house for £700 a month which includes no idiot neighbours, no barking dogs, no chickens...you get the picture...In Thailand regardless how much you pay you cant escape noise.
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To add a 20K salary in the UK stretches very far when there are no school fees or the after school lessons.
20k you'll be living a life of poverty in the UK...lYou have lived in the Uk recently then.
You haven't lived in the UK recently then have you. Don't forget in the UK no hospital bills, no school fees. No expensive eating out. No dcoters or dentists ripping you off!!!
Take these 4 big hitters out of your monthly bill and 20K take home pay stretches a long way in the UK
Example
3 bedroom Bungalow = £700 per month
Brand New For Focus = £200 per month
Utilities = £300 per month
My costs are down 50% in comparision to living a western style life in Thailand...
A 20k wage is 25% below the national average and 45% below the London average wage. After the UK government has extracted every single penny of tax possible from you to pay for your "free" hospitals and schools your take home pay would be £1391
Minus 3 bedroom Bungalow = £700 per month
Minus Brand New For Focus = £200 per month
Minus Utilities = £300 per month
Leaves you with £191 for fuel and food for the entire family. Think I'll give it a miss and stay here.
Gross Wage £20,000 Taxable Wage £9,400 Tax Paid £1,880 Tax Free Allowance £10,600 National Insurance £1,433 Take-home pay £16,687I said Take home pay not gross!!!!
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Everything here regarding personal relationships is a business arrangement. If you think otherwise you are a fool. Once you realise and accept this its fine, just arrange things to your satisfaction. If marriage is part of the arrangement then fine, but if you have kids then realise they are going to swing the balance over to your wife in a big way.
What do you get out of marriage here? Lock yourself into one woman and her family that makes it a nightmare to get out of if and when it goes sour? Think your living in paradise? Its only a paradise because its cheap. Admit it. Your happy you have a maid, nanny and sex partner all rolled into one? You can have a live in maid for, less than 10,000 a month. What does your wife milk you for a month?
Sums it up exactly. Why else would any woman want an old man as a partner...Unless money.
Could you imagine rolls reversed. You being a 20 year old stud marrying a 60 year old wrinkly woman with sagggy ti**...Enough said !!!!!
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I met what I thought was a decent Thai girl. Her family were presses us to marry. She had a kid with her ex Thai bf. They had only lived together ..... I just kept saying no. The girl was very pretty. Turns ouf it was all about money. She told me one day she would leave unless I would marry her. I drove her to the van twenty min later.
I can still see the look on her face. I bought a new sim on. the way home.
Great balls of fire
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Why should they speak a foreign language? Speak to the doctor in Thai, its Thailand
While in the mean time 100 000 doctors working in Thailand can not speak a word of English and prescribe antibiotic for muscle pain.My wife's niece went to the state school in Chonburi. She is now studying clinical medicine on an international English speaking course at a university in China and she was awarded a scholarship on her first year results. She did fairly well at school but was not at the top of the class. It is not all bad.
Because they are charging western prices, International hospitals and dont speak English...Many examples of this. What a joke....
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To add a 20K salary in the UK stretches very far when there are no school fees or the after school lessons.
20k you'll be living a life of poverty in the UK...lYou have lived in the Uk recently then.
You haven't lived in the UK recently then have you. Don't forget in the UK no hospital bills, no school fees. No expensive eating out. No dcoters or dentists ripping you off!!!
Take these 4 big hitters out of your monthly bill and 20K take home pay stretches a long way in the UK
Example
3 bedroom Bungalow = £700 per month
Brand New For Focus = £200 per month
Utilities = £300 per month
My costs are down 50% in comparision to living a western style life in Thailand...
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Hello its a simple as this
Go back to the UK, once there like myself with 1 kid you will think how easy is the UK in comparison to jumping hurdles in Thailand.
To add a 20K salary in the UK stretches very far when there are no school fees or the after school lessons.
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We go to a lot of weddings in Bkk. We put 1000 baht per person in the envelope.
For our wedding we revived monies ranging from 200 baht to 80,000 baht... In total about 1 million baht which pretty much covered the cost of the wedding.
Dress code: always a suit and tie - the venue is usually a 5 star hotel.
80,000 THB, who are you Barack Obama
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as my salary in Thailand is around the equivalent of 15,000 pounds a year that means the savings I need is an astronomical 25,000pounds... unbelievable that the government thinks someone on a 15,000 salary could of somehow saved that amount. However a close family member has just been made redundant from a long term job and has had a hefty pay out... keeping that in my UK account or possibly an ISA for 6 month could solve my problems... but it's a lot to ask of my family and maybe more than I'm willing to do.
Remember that if you do this, then not only must the money be in your complete possession and control for at least 6 months prior to your wife applying, it must also be a gift, not a loan.
Remember, too, that if using cash savings to reduce the level of income required then you will still need to have a confirmed offer of employment in the UK with a salary at the appropriate level.
Also, income from self employment cannot be combined with cash savings; for reasons no sane person can understand!.
Of course, if your relative is prepared to give you the full £62,500 you will be able to meet the requirement via cash savings alone.
For more details, see Appendix FM Section 1.7 Financial Requirement.
The financial requirement as it stands is an ill thought out, illogical piece of legislation. For example, what does it matter whether or not you were working in Thailand before moving to the UK, and if you were what your salary was, as long as you have a job once you are in the UK with an income sufficient to support you and your family without the use of public funds?
You may be interested in the report of the Parliamentary inquiry into new family migration rules; to which several members here submitted evidence at the time.
Key findings
1. Some British citizens and permanent residents in the UK, including people in full-time employment, have been separated from a non-EEA partner and in some cases their children as a result of the income requirement
2. Some British citizens and permanent residents have been prevented from returning to the UK with their non-EEA partner and any children as a result of the income requirement
3. Some children, including British children, have been indefinitely separated from a nonEEA parent as a result of the income requirement
4. The current permitted sources in order to meet the income requirement may not fully reflect the resources available to some families
5. The adult dependent relative visa category appears in effect to have been closed
Key findings spot on.
I lived apart from Thai wife and 2nd child for last 12 months whilst gaining employment in the Uk and awaiting 6 salary slips :-(
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Hi OP
If it helps any I returned to the UK in similar situation to yourself. Already been here a year, got new house, new car, new job etc. Its not nice being apart from my Thai partner of 6 years but needs must.
I will apply for the first visa during the next few months after I have got 6 pay slips and my bank accounts are nice and clean.Forgot to add got me newborn Uk passport without any issues in June of this year in Bangkok
thx
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Now tell us about your (7by7) PERSONAL experience with a situation of this type which qualifies you to call my comment rubbish !
"rubbish " !
Does living in the UK with my Thai wife for over 15 years, during which she has not run up any debts and also supported me during periods of unemployment and sickness, count?
I guess your of the same age, I always think these horror stories are the 60 year old men with 20 year old wives/GF who get conned :-)
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No doubt Blatter is in Deep but somebody hold their hand over him - He has been dirty for years for sure ...
btw IOC is same same as FIFA
I always remember the stunned silence of the Audience when Russia and Quater where awarded their world cups. What a farce lets hold a world cup in Quater where the locals probably dont even know what a football is used for...
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Always amazing - how people who grew up when the communist threat was at it's height - when the Cuban Missile Crisis threatened human extinction - who rejoiced when the Berlin Wall came down - forget.
The EU is all about peace in Europe - there's not been a single bullet fired in anger between member states since it's inception. And here we have grown British men posting links saying that the EU contribution has cost the UK £85 billion over 32 years - less than £3 billion a year - and calling it expensive.
Unbelievable.
Expensive is the Somme, expensive is Dunkirk - expensive is the UK state being left with a national debt that was 273% of the GDP. £2.65 billion a year to prevent war and starvation in Europe is cheap.
As a living UK citizen in the north west of England I think its a fair point when everyday UK anglo saxan folk dont want to be out numbered by EU Immigrants. Simple as that.
I for one dont want my children going to school with shed load of European speaking or Muslim folk. Period and for that Im voting EU out
The irony of posting this on a Thai expat forum must be lost on you and all who liked your racist dribble.
Oh well.
Edit: Just to point out its Anglo Saxon....for when you next want to expose yourself as a racist.
There we go again the old racism card, wondered how long it would take for you lot to crawl from the woodwork. A racist is someone who discriminates on color of skin, I dont.. I just want England to have people who speak English and English values at heart. Not people who come here to fleece our public services
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Always amazing - how people who grew up when the communist threat was at it's height - when the Cuban Missile Crisis threatened human extinction - who rejoiced when the Berlin Wall came down - forget.
The EU is all about peace in Europe - there's not been a single bullet fired in anger between member states since it's inception. And here we have grown British men posting links saying that the EU contribution has cost the UK £85 billion over 32 years - less than £3 billion a year - and calling it expensive.
Unbelievable.
Expensive is the Somme, expensive is Dunkirk - expensive is the UK state being left with a national debt that was 273% of the GDP. £2.65 billion a year to prevent war and starvation in Europe is cheap.
As a living UK citizen in the north west of England I think its a fair point when everyday UK anglo saxan folk dont want to be out numbered by EU Immigrants. Simple as that.
I for one dont want my children going to school with shed load of European speaking or Muslim folk. Period and for that Im voting EU out
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Cameron is quite right. Immigrants from other EU countries would naturally vote to stay in the EU, since they profit hugely from over-generous benefits and the right of free movement. The vast majority of immigrants are in low paid jobs and whatever small amount of tax they pay is vastly outweighed by the subsidised housing, education and health care funded by the rest of us. Unfortunately I have to get a new passport before the referendum, it took me hours sat in planes to scratch "European Union" from my current one, and now I shall have to do it all over again.
Here, Here.....Well said. One thing that's always overlooked on the immigration issue is immigrants paying small tax in comparison to what they take out via public services. Not to mention most of the money they make is sent via envelopes out of the Uk economy
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Find a place with a Smith Machine. You can move more weight with this apparatus.
Not with squats, this will create havoc on knees and make the lifter become quad dominent
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By the sound of the places the OP visited, it appears that sex tourism in Thailand may be on the decline. This is called "progress." What's the problem?
What possible reason would anyone come to Thailand with a family for a holiday, you would have to be brain dead to be a quality tourist and spend your money in Thailand. So many quality places to visit for high spending tourist that speak English and are not polluted and corrupt. Thailand is simply not value for money for a western family tourist
you have been
I'm not a family tourist i'm a sexpat who just made big bux in Thailand and got the hell out of there....
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By the sound of the places the OP visited, it appears that sex tourism in Thailand may be on the decline. This is called "progress." What's the problem?
What possible reason would anyone come to Thailand with a family for a holiday, you would have to be brain dead to be a quality tourist and spend your money in Thailand. So many quality places to visit for high spending tourist that speak English and are not polluted and corrupt. Thailand is simply not value for money for a western family tourist
Thai govt to speed up budget spending to boost growth
in Thailand News
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5,000 is pushing it especially if you like to get smashed in the process. Myself I need about 8,000 but point taken. In my opinion the nightlife is the only thing I think Thailand is value for money everything else very 2 and 3rd rate.